Russ Schwartz News

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor's resident nonprofit professional theatre, has announced the Michigan Premiere of 'Fortune' by Deborah Zoe Laufer. 

Secondhand Rose Players has announces its first live-streamed production and 2022 fundraiser: the world premiere of 'Eyes to the Stars' by Metro Detroit-area writer Erin Osgood (Brighton).

The Brass Tacks Ensemble Theater announces the premiere of Season 2 of Our Regularly Scheduled Program, an original, theatrical, web series from the minds of James Ingagiola and Isaac Ellis. Season 2 will premiere June 3, 2021.

The Brass Tacks Ensemble Theater announces the premiere of Season 1 of Our Regularly Scheduled Program, an original, theatrical, web series from the minds of James Ingagiola and Isaac Ellis.

We all know Shakespeare as a playwright, but how much do we know about the man behind the quill?

The Brass Tacks Ensemble (Artistic Director James Ingagiola and Executive Director Isaac Ellis) is excited to announce the cast for Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward, directed by Aaron C. Wade.

The Brass Tacks Ensemble (Artistic Director James Ingagiola and Executive Director Isaac Ellis) is excited to announce the cast for Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward, directed by Aaron C. Wade.

The Brass Tacks Ensemble (Artistic Director James Ingagiola and Executive Director Isaac Ellis) is excited to present the third and final Shakespeare production of their 2017 season, Measure for Measure, running November 3 19 at the CCC.

The Brass Tacks Ensemble (Artistic Director James Ingagiola and Executive Director Isaac Ellis) is excited to present the second Shakespeare production of their 2017 season, a limited engagement of The Merchant of Venice, running August 3 - 5 at the Kerrytown Concert House.

The Brass Tacks Ensemble (Artistic Director James Ingagiola and Executive Director Isaac Ellis) is pleased to announce the 2017 season will feature three of William Shakespeare's best plays--Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, and Measure for Measure--comedies that all take a serious, nearly tragic, turn before the lights go down.  

The Brass Tacks Ensemble (Artistic Director James Ingagiola and Executive Director Isaac Ellis) is pleased to announce they have cast the Troupe of actors and assistant directors for the 2017 season, and will be entering the new year as a professional, membership-based, non-Equity theater company. 

Theatre Nova, an Ann Arbor company that focuses exclusively on new and recent plays, will premiere an original rock musical by Ann Arbor playwright and Ann Arbor composer David Wells and R. MacKenzie Lewis this April.

Ann Arbor's Penny Seats Theatre Company is set to begin rehearsals for its fourth summer residency at the West Park Band Shell. This year the group will present Sophocles' Elektra, translated by former University of Michigan professor Anne Carson and directed by Penny Seats co-founder Russ Schwartz. The Penny Seats encourage patrons to make an evening of coming to the show, which will perform Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings in July, starting today, July 10th.

These words rang in my ears the other week when I crashed a rehearsal of The Penny Seats' summer production Elektra (as adapted by Ann Arbor's own Anne Carson) for a sneak peek of the glorious mayhem that is sure to delight audiences at the West Park Band Shell July 10 - 26.

Ann Arbor's Penny Seats Theatre Company is set to begin rehearsals for its fourth summer residency at the West Park Band Shell. This year the group will present Sophocles' Elektra, translated by former University of Michigan professor Anne Carson and directed by Penny Seats co-founder Russ Schwartz.

It's been another incredible year for the Penny Seats Theatre Company.

Ann Arbor's Penny Seats theatre company will present Thorstein the Staff-Struck, an original work by local playwright, tonight, March 2.