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Theatre NOVA will present the Michigan Premiere of “the ripple, the wave that carried me home” by Christina Anderson. Check out all new photos here!

One Sleepy Night - Detroit: Experience a Christmas musical with a Detroit vibe in this holiday production by Hart Entertainment.

Shakespeare Royal Oak returns to Starr Jaycee Park for its 22nd season Thursday night as Love's Labors Lost opens for two weekends of performances through Sunday, August 6.

Shakespeare Royal Oak is returning to Starr Jaycee Park for its 22nd season bringing the state's largest professional outdoor theatre event to Royal Oak July 27 - August 6. This year's festival will feature Love's Labors Lost, and two education programs: KidsAct! for students entering grades 1-8 and the SRO Teen Ensemble for students entering Grades 9-12. 

Detroit Repertory Theatre's 66th is closing out their season with the Michigan professional premier of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Sweat by multi-ward winning playwright Lynn Nottage. Sweat opens on May 5th at 8:30 P.M. with a champagne reception and the show closes Sunday, June 25th at 2:00 P.M.

Leading First Nations artist Jonathan Jones, Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi peoples, collaborated with Wiradjuri custodians Dr Uncle Stan Grant Snr AM, and Beatrice Murray to present the immersive sculpture untitled (walam-wunga.galang).

Planet Ant presents a remounted production of Armchair Dating, written by Planet Ant Home Team Co-Founder Margaret Edwartowski and directed by Kaitlyn Valor Bourque. Originally premiering in the former Planet Ant Black Box Theater in 2015, this current production has been updated for a modern audience and expanded to the stage at Ant Hall, just in time for Valentine Season!

The 38th Adelaide Festival, to be launched this Wednesday 9 November, at Adelaide Town Hall and via livestream offers a total of 52 events in theatre, music, opera, dance, media and visual arts, including major festivals-within-the-festival Adelaide Writers' Week, UKARIA Chamber Landscapes and WOMADelaide – over 17 days and nights from Friday 3 to Sunday 19 March.

Sydney Festival returns this January to give the city its sizzle with an exhilarating line-up of vibrant ideas, irrepressible creativity, remarkable talent and pure summertime revelry across 25 days from 5-29 January 2023. 

Carriageworks, one of Australia's most significant contemporary multi-arts organisations, has announced the launch of the First Nations Program which takes place throughout the rest of 2022, signalling an ambitious sea change for the organisation.

The Detroit Repertory Theatre is closing out its 65th season with the Michigan Professional Premiere of Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury - a ground-breaking, radical, Pulitzer prize-winning comedy. Opening night is June 3rd, 2022, and it runs until July 31st, 2022. Opening nights at the Detroit Repertory Theatre are always a celebration as guests are invited to stay after the play and join in a complimentary champagne toast to a new production on the Rep stage.

The Detroit Repertory Theatre is kicking off the 65th season with a hilarious ode to the performing arts, its artists, and the celebration of live theatre. Michigan's longest-running, nonprofit, professional, union theatre, located in the center - the heart - of the city of Detroit, is known for its diversity-centered approach to live theatre. 

CBS Sports is set to broadcast its 21st Super Bowl, the most of any Network, with its coverage from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. for Super Bowl LV on Sunday, Feb. 7. Super Bowl LV kicks off at 6:30 PM, ET with the pregame shows beginning at 11:30 AM, ET.

The action-packed CINEMAX drama series STRIKE BACK will return for its seventh and final season FRIDAY, FEB. 14 (10:00–11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on CINEMAX. 

John Wesley, actor known for parts in films such as 'Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot', 'Martin' and 'The Fresh Prince of Bel Air' and the recent award-winning short film 'Second Acts' has died. He was 72.

Slipstream Theater Initiative is thrilled to present their final show of the season, The Frogs - a merry thrill of a theatrical romp between Sondheim and the Classics! This loving homage to the Greek classical comedy by Aristophanes is given new life through the magic of Stephen Sondheim with lyrics by Bert Shevlove and Nathan Lane.

Slipstream Theater Initiative is thrilled to present their final show of the season, The Frogs - a merry thrill of a theatrical romp between Sondheim and the Classics!  This loving homage to the Greek classical comedy by Aristophanes is given new life through the magic of Stephen Sondheim with lyrics by Bert Shevlove and Nathan Lane.

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor's professional theatre with an exclusive focus on new plays and playwrights, presents the Michigan premiere of "Kill Move Paradise" by James Ijames.

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor's professional theatre with an exclusive focus on new plays and playwrights, presents the Michigan premiere of "Kill Move Paradise" by James Ijames.

The Detroit Repertory Theatre announces the world premiere production of The House on Poe Street by Fengar Gael, opening Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 8:30 pm. Opening Nights at the Detroit Repertory Theatre are always Champagne Celebrations. Patrons are invited to stay after the performance and enjoy a champagne afterglow with the playwright, composer, cast and crew.