Nancy Cooper

Farmington Players Barn has released a first look at their production of Lend Me a Tenor. The play opens Friday February 9th and runs through Saturday the 24th in Farmington Hills. Check out photos from the production here!

Odd couple roommates at a retirement home make a bet to win the bed by the window, and shenanigans ensue. That's the gist of David Lindsay-Abaire's play a?oeRipcord,a?? a comedy with a heart, opening Friday October 4th at the Farmington Players Barn in Farmington Hills. Tickets are available at the box office (248) 553-2955 or at www.farmingtonplayers.org

Five thousand dollars are at stake in the largest audience-judged theater competition in the country, PianoFight's ShortLived VII. Forty-eight plays from Bay Area writers, theater companies, sketch groups, and indy artists vie for the audience's affection over the nine week competition to crown the Bay Area's best and win $5,000. The regular season of ShortLived VII runs June 14 through August 4, with performances Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm on PianoFight's Main Stage.

New Jersey Repertory Company (NJ Rep) will present a week-long arts event, the 'ALL ABOUT EVE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS' from October 1st to October 8th.The festival will be inaugurating their new West End Arts Center at 132 West End Avenue and will feature Theatre Brut with 28 short plays. Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry's play, 'Pittsburgh' will be a part of the festival.

Middle-aged women are on a mission to bare all for a good cause, in the heartwarming and hilarious comedy Calendar Girls by Tim Firth. The Farmington Players will open the season Friday September 22nd with this popular play adapted from the hit British film. The show runs through October 14th, with tickets now available at www.farmingtonplayers.org or at the box office 248-553-2955.

New Jersey Repertory Company presents a week long extravaganza of the arts, October 1- October 8, inaugurating its new West End Arts Center at 132 West End Avenue.

The senior women of Knapeley Village, England bring new meaning to Girls' Night Out when they decide to pose nude for a calendar to raise money for a new settee for the local hospital waiting room.  Anarchy ensues when the "Calendar Girls" defy their church's conservative fundraising protocol and spice it up with the amateur photographic help from the hospital porter.

The Farmington Players are proud to perform the classic drama 'The Diary Of Anne Frank,' February 12 - March 5 in Farmington Hills.

ACCIDENTS & OTHER NEW WORK includes: Jeff Carter's comic Pigeons in Lovewhere living together is hard especially with Pigeons in the mix; Margery Kreitman's Cat Tales that takes a close look at cats and their devoted people; 'Why can't death feel more like life?' is a question Lee Brady poses and answers in afteryougo.com; Dramaphobia by Nancy Cooper Frank takes on why some people fear theatre! And could there be another 'accidental' Kennedy, son of the 'most beauteous dead president'? Find out in Red Sky at Dawn by Linda Ayres-Frederick.

The 23rd Annual San Francisco Fringe Festival closed on a high note with the selection of thirteen shows as "Best of the San Francisco Fringe." This year's festival featured a total of 35 shows and included a wide variety of subjects and styles, from sketch comedy to Russian-style Vaudeville.

Yes, you CAN have your fruitcake and eat it too. Two Muses Theatre, a nonprofit, professional theatre based in West Bloomfield, Michigan, will produce two holiday shows in repertory this December. Matinees are for families, with a staging of 'Twas The Night Before Christmas written by popular Broadway playwright, Ken Ludwig, in which the famous poem is a springboard to tell the story of a Jewish elf, a mouse, and a little girl who join forces to save Christmas. Evening performances will be family-friendly as well (suitable for the non-believers-and-older crowd), with Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!) by Michael Carleton, Jim FitzGerald and John K. Alvarez - a madcap romp covering the usual holiday stories (such as Frosty, Rudolf, Charlie Brown, The Grinch, etc.) in very unusual ways. Act Two of this funny play finds three incredibly energetic actors playing all the characters in an irreverent mash-up of It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol. Scroll down for a look at the cast in action!

Yes, you CAN have your fruitcake and eat it too. Two Muses Theatre, a nonprofit, professional theatre based in West Bloomfield, Michigan, will produce two holiday shows in repertory this December.

Yes, you CAN have your fruitcake and eat it too. Two Muses Theatre, a nonprofit, professional theatre based in West Bloomfield, Michigan, will produce two holiday shows in repertory this December.

Two Muses Theatre presents the family theatre production: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf by Tom McCabe from tonight, February 9 through February 24. The show is a clever combination of The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood, with the big bad wolf stuck between the two stories. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production in the photos below!

Two Muses Theatre presents the family theatre production: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf by Tom McCabe from February 9 through February 24. The show is a clever combination of The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood, with the big bad wolf stuck between the two stories. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production in the photos below!

Two Muses Theatre presents the world premiere of A Little Work by best selling authors Anita Diamant and Stephen McCauley. The show will be performed on Friday and Saturday evenings from September 7 through September 30, as well as Sunday matinees. Two Muses Theatre performs in the intimate 160-seat theatre inside Barnes & Noble Booksellers, located at 6800 Orchard Lake Road in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Get a first look at the production in the photos below!

Two Muses Theatre, West Bloomfield's newest non-profit professional theatre is partnering with the Michigan Humane Society to raise funds for providing medical care for animals. SYLVIA by A.R. Gurney, a modern romantic comedy about a marriage and dog, will be presented at the Two Muses Theatre in conjunction with the event. Check out photos from the show below!