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The University Musical Society of the University of Michigan (UMS) and the New York Philharmonic, in conjunction with the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD), announce full details for the New York Philharmonic's 2017 residency in Ann Arbor, taking place November 16-19, 20

Mid-Michigan's award winning professional theatre company, Williamston Theatre, located at 122 S.

Over the past several years, Giving Tuesday has evolved into a national effort to raise money for worthy causes in communities across the country.

High school students across the state are invited to submit a one-act play to be juried in the 22nd Annual Young Playwrights Festival (YPF), a collaboration between Wharton Center Institute for Arts & Creativity and MSU Department of Theatre.

Michael Kirk Lane returns to Fenton Village Players with a benefit concert titled 'A Christmas Wish' on December 22, 2017 at 7:00pm.

Stagecrafters Youth Theatre presents Elf the Musical, Jr.

The most awarded show of the 2015 Broadway theatre season, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, performs in Wharton Center's Cobb Great Hall tonight, November 14, through November 19, 2017, and is part of the MSU Federal Credit Union Broadway at Wharton Center Series.

Go Comedy! Improv Theater is opening the holiday season this week with its ninth original holiday show, Episode 8: The Last Magi.

The London Handel Players, one of the world's premier Baroque ensembles, makes its metropolitan Detroit debut on the Chamber Music Society of Detroit's Signature Series Saturday, December 2 at 8:00 PM.

Ebenezer Scrooge returns to the Bonstelle Theatre with his humbug ways from December 1 to December 17.

Racially motivated criminal injustice is the topic of a powerful drama by University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumna Dominique Morisseau, to be presented by the Department of Theatre & Drama this month.

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Stagecrafters' Main Stage is currently presently the American classic, A Raisin in the Sun, until November 18th in Royal Oak.

John Sartor stars as Atticus Finch in Livonia Community Theatre's upcoming production of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, a play based on the award-winning novel by Harper Lee that explores the timely subject of race relations through the eyes of a young girl growing up in a small southern town in the 1950's.

This season, Planet Ant Theatre will present the holiday-themed, action spoof Christmas Impossible, an adaptation of its 2003 original comedy 25, November 24 - December 16.

The Color Purple, the 2016 Tony Award-winning musical adaptation from Alice Walker's best-selling novel, is currently appearing at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit.

When the New York Philharmonic comes to Ann Arbor this year for their second major orchestral residency with the University of Michigan's University Musical Society, two U-M students will take center stage with them at Hill Auditorium Nov.

Pontiac Theatre IV will open its 2017/2018 season on November 10th with the musical Pippin, the classic song and dance-filled tale of a young man in search of his 'corner of the sky.

Broadway In Detroit announced today that tickets will go on sale Sunday, November 26, for five, Broadway blockbusters that will all be appearing at Detroit's Fisher Theatre.

The Wayne State University department of dance is excited to announce its annual December Dance Concert, taking place at the spectacular Detroit Music Hall, December 8 and 9, 2017.

The Theatre Department of the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at Oakland University will present 'Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet,' the final installment of Tarell Alvin McCraney's brilliant trilogy 'The Brother/Sister Plays,' from Nov.

Over the past several years, Giving Tuesday has evolved into a national effort to raise money for worthy causes in communities across the country.

LIVE IN CENTRAL PARK Revisited : SIMON & GARFUNKEL starring Lee Lessack & Johnny Rodgers comes to Kalamazoo's Miller Auditorium on Friday, November 17 at 8 p.

Producers announced today the first North American tour and full casting of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of THE COLOR PURPLE.

Grand Rapids embraced the debut engagement of the smash hit Wicked with record-breaking enthusiasm.