MICHIGAN THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 243

Innovation Arts & Entertainment today announced the company is presenting 10 live multi-media events with astrophysicist Dr.

Royal Oak's own Water Works Theatre Company will be recognized by the Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce with its distinguished Community Spirit Award on Tuesday, October 20.

Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, is returning to East Lansing this fall.

Detroit - Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts is kicking off our 2015-16 Dance Series with some Broadway chops meets Hollywood glitz in the ultra contemporary Shaping Sound - dance reimagined, on Saturday, November 7th at 8:00 PM.

This Halloween, travel back in time to experience the all new musical version of the Washington Irving original with a modern day twist.

In November, Two Muses Theatre will present the wondrous musical: The Light in the Piazza.

Comedian, best-selling author, talk show host, and political commentator BILL MAHER is coming to Wharton Center for a one-night-only, tonight, October 10, 2015.

The World Premiere production of HERB THE GREEN KNIGHT, a comedy about a common man moved to action when he learns Global Warming is destroying maple trees, and thus his beloved maple syrup, will open at the Detroit Repertory Theatre on Thursday November 05, 2015 at 8:30 PM.

The new Detroit Public Theatre will welcome audiences to its premiere production, American Hero, with a grand opening event October 30.

Bay City Players will present Suite Surrender, by Michael McKeever, November 13 - 15 & 20 - 22, 2015 at Bay City Players, 1214 Columbus Avenue, in Bay City.

Nominations have now opened for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 2014 and September 2015.

The Oakland University Student Life Lecture Board and Gender & Sexuality Center will soon welcome well-known actress and LGBT advocate Laverne Cox as the first speaker in its annual educational lecture series for the campus community.

A key part of Wharton Center's and the MSU Department of Theatre's mission is focused on creative collaboration.

The Open Table Series at Performance Network Theatre begins its second year on October 21, 2015 with a reading of THE OTHELLO PRINCIPLE, an adaptation by James Bowen and John Manfredi that will run March 10­-April 10 as part of the Network's season.

Kickshaw Theatre is pleased to kick off its inaugural season with a staged reading of THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE by Madeleine George.

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? by Edward Albee runs now through November 1, 2015 at Performance Network Theatre, directed by Suzi Regan.

TWYLA THARP DANCE returns to Wharton Center to celebrate their 50th anniversary.

The Explorers Club, a Michigan Premiere by Legally Blonde The Musical Composer & Lyricist, Nell Benjamin, plays at Meadow Brook Theatre on the campus of Oakland University from tonight, October 7, through November 1.

Hip-hop artist and rapper Future is ready to dominate the charts and the Fox Theatre stage when he brings "The New Street Kings" to Detroit with special guests Yo Gotti, Migos and Young Dro on Sunday, December 13 at 7 p.

Meadow Brook Theatre, Michigan's largest producing non-profit professional theatre, hosted a special ribbon cutting ceremony on October 5, 2015.

Comedian, best-selling author, talk show host, and political commentator BILL MAHER is coming to Wharton Center for a one-night-only, Saturday, October 10, 2015.

Aristophanes' classic comedy has been reimagined into Lysistrata: A Woman's Translation by Drue Robinson.

The Pinckney Players have just announced their fall production, "Mary Poppins", to be performed in October of 2015 at the Jane Tasch Performing Arts Theatre in Pinckney.

Open Book Theatre Company will open its second season with an American classic, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer.

The Purple Rose Theatre Company is proud to announce its 25th Anniversary Documentary, Purple Rose 25 Years, coming to your local Detroit Public Television (PBS) station on October 26, 2015 at 7:30pm as well as a 25th Anniversary commemorative coffee table book, The Purple Rose of Chelsea by Cynthia