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The Open Table Series at Performance Network features a reading of Joseph Zettelmaier's Pulp today, May 27.

Following the Two Muses Theatre 2pm performance on June 7 of Clybourne Park, there will be a panel discussion/talkback session to discuss the parallels between the gentrification and racial issues explored in the play and similar issues experienced by Detroiters and Michiganders at large.

The Purple Rose Theatre Company will bring in the Spring with the comedic love story, Talley's Folly by Purple Rose benefactor, Lanford Wilson.

Performance Network of Ann Arbor will present O?ther Desert Cities?by Jon Robin Baitz June 11­July 12 completing a long delayed co­production with the Jewish Ensemble Theatre.

Avon Players closes its season with a love letter to community theatre, the sweet and stirring musical A Man of No Importance, based on the Albert Finney movie of the same name.

Dishing With The Divas: A Musical Comedy, Louise Roche's follow-up fun, fabulous and everything female Girls Night Musical experience, is bound to get the ladies on their feet and dancing in the aisles at the City Theatre starting this weekend, May 21 through Sunday, May 24.

In July and August, Bay City Players Stages of Discovery will hold a series of workshops designed to develop performance and technical skills.

The producers of BoxFest Detroit are pleased to announce "BoxFest Detroit 2015," an annual theater festival that showcases and creates opportunities for women directors.

Come laugh a lot on the campus of Jackson College with Spamalot, the musical lovingly ripped off from the internationally renowned comedy team's most popular film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Rockford High School student Maddy Mathias and Divine Child High School student Aleksander Papanastasopoulos competed in and won the second annual Ovation Awards at East Lansing's Wharton Center on Sunday, May 17, 2015.

Quick! Run out and grab your tickets to MUSIC MAN at the Downriver Actors' Guild in Wyandotte before the spectacle closes May 17.

Emergent Arts at The Mix Studio Theater is bringing back The UFO Show May 22 and 23, 8pm nightly, at The Mix Studio Theater, 8 N.

May 16 will be the second in a fun series at The Mix with an all star performance by the very best comics who have appeared at The Mix UNclub Sunday night standup show.

Opening Thursday, June 11, Matrix Theatre Company's final show of the Season, Precious Little, is written by Madeleine George and  tells the unique story of a woman confronting a personal crisis and the part a gorilla in the zoo and an elderly woman play in offering her comfort.

The Sounds of Story will fill The Mix Studio Theater as a group of well-known area storytellers, including La'Ron Williams, Steve Daut, Jane Fink, Laura Lee Hayes, Lyn Davidge, Jeff Doyle, Satori Shakoor, and Mark Sweetman, come together to perform two benefit concerts for Emergent Arts at The Mix S

This year, the Oakland University theatre program will present 'Pinkalicious the Musical,' as its annual children's production.

Hot on the heels of Josh Sheehan's groundbreaking world first triple backflip on a motorbike, Nitro Circus (www.

Vocalist Kate Brennan and pianist Harvey Reed present their newest jazz cabaret show 'LUVMusic' with Paul Keller on bass, tonight, May 15 at Matrix Theatre located at 2730 Bagley in the heart of southwest Detroit's Mexicantown.

Emergent Arts at The Mix Studio Theater has launched a Go Fund Me campaign to raise money to keep the theater open.

Mike Brand, executive director of Wharton Center for Performing Arts, was honored at this year's Broadway League Conference in New York City with the Samuel J.

On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 2:00 p.

The Open Table Series at Performance Network will feature readings of Stephen Cooper's Spiritual Bliss and Joseph Zettelmaier's Pulp tonight, May 13 and May 27, respectively.

MotorCity Casino Hotel will welcome Vanessa Williams Live in Concert at Sound Board on Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 7:30 p.

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Now on stage at The Players' Guild of Dearborn is the wonderful musical comedy SPAMALOT.