New Play Festival helps local playwrights examine their work
The New Play Festival January 25 and 26 features ten plays written by Kalamazoo playwrights.
View ArticleMusical based on playwright's relationship with maid during the Civil Rights...
The musical Caroline or Change by Tony Kushner is being staged in only one theatre in the country this year, the University Theatre at WMU. Caroline or Change is Kushner’s semi-autobiographical look...
View ArticleThe Whipping Man looks at life after the Civil War
It the end of the Civil War when the play “The Whipping Man” opens. A young Confederate soldier who is severely wounded has just made it back home only to find that life as he knew it is gone...
View Article'A Soldier's Tale': A musical look at what it means to be a soldier
For as long as there have been wars, there have been stories about the brave soldiers who fought in them. But what about the others? On Friday, Fontana Chamber Arts and the Western Michigan University...
View ArticleLocal theatre wants child sexual abuse survivors to tell their stories
Though it’s thought to be one of the most underreported crimes, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimate about 1 in 6 boys and 1 in 4 girls will face sexual assault before the age of 18. On Friday...
View ArticleWar correspondents try to lead a normal life in Civic play
Sarah and James have been a couple for about ten years. She is a photojournalist and he’s a foreign correspondent. They cover war, at times putting themselves in great danger to get the story. When a...
View ArticleCrawlspace hosts the Kalamazoo Improv Festival
“It really isn’t just people jumping on a stage and trying to make you laugh. It really isn’t," says Dann Sytsma of Crawlspace Theater Productions. "It’s people on stage working together to create a...
View ArticleInto the Woods: What happens after you get what you want?
Kalamazoo College’s Festival Playhouse is kicking off their 50th anniversary Thursday with the musical Into the Woods. Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine is about what happens to the...
View ArticleCould this be the end of Shakespeare in the Park?
If you haven’t been to Shakespeare in the Park in Portage before, this weekend may be your last chance. The Comedy of Errors will be performed at the Celery Flats Amphitheatre in Portage, Thursday...
View ArticleMime to minister at Gospel in the Park
Every year, Kalamazoo hosts Gospel in the Park as part of the Black Arts Festival. On Sunday, Bronson Park will be filled with gospel choirs, dancers, guest ministers, and a mime. That’s right—a mime....
View ArticleTheatre recreates original Little Rascals shorts
Our Gang also known as The Little Rascals started as a series of short silent comedies starring everyday kids in the 1920s. Though the original series ended twenty years later, the idea of The Little...
View ArticleTintypes: A turn-of-the-century musical revue
If you boiled turn-of-the-century America into one show, it might look something like Tintypes. The Marshall Civic Players will put on Tintypes starting Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Franke Center for the...
View ArticleWhat do lesbians and dog show fans have in common? Holly Hughes says more...
Twenty years ago, performance artist Holly Hughes never would have seen herself doing dog shows. Now they're the subject of her one-woman show called The Dog and Pony Show which she’ll perform at her...
View ArticleTheatre disasters showcased in 'Noises Off' at WMU
Behind the curtain, theatres are hotbeds for chaos and no play shows this better than Noises Off.
View ArticleStruggles of a modern African American family acted out in "Stick Fly"
Before long, the holidays will be upon us. And almost every young couple will have to make that tough decision: Do I take them home to meet the parents?
View ArticleA Dream Play: A surreal play on why humans suffer
This week, Kalamazoo College will attempt to stage what’s considered to be an un-stageable play. A Dream Play by August Strindberg is more than 100 years old and takes place almost entirely in a dream.
View ArticleOrphan Train: Play uncovers hidden part of American history
From the late 1800s to the 1920s, about two hundred and fifty thousand orphans were taken off the streets of New York City and shipped out west to be adopted. This Friday, What A Do Theatre in...
View ArticleFancy Pants becomes a 'homeless theater'
After almost four years at Studio 246 in Kalamazoo, Fancy Pants Theater moved out in November. Now the theater is looking for a new venue.
View ArticleSee the Iraq War Through the Eye of the Tiger
WMU Theatre will perform Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo through Sunday, February 16th. The play is based on a true story about a tiger shot during the Iraq war. It follows the ghostly tiger around as...
View ArticleNeighborhood Politics Span Generations in 'Clybourne Park
Is it true, as the saying suggests, that as much as things change they stay the same?The neighbors of the fictional neighborhood Clybourne Park seem to think so, as they demonstrate in the play of the...
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