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Open Book Theatre Company is excited to present the fourth and final play in its Inaugural Season.

The Detroit Repertory Theatre Gilda Snowden Gallery is proud to announce the 'Meet The Artist Champagne Reception' for Marvalisa Coley on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm.

Tyler Perry will return to the Fox Theatre in his new and highly anticipated live stage production Madea On The Run for a limited five performances tonight, April 3 through Sunday, April 5.

The Dio - Dining & Entertainment, Livingston County's only professional dinner theatre, is very excited to produce the beautiful, and rarely produced musical, Violet.

After opening last week in Muskegon for several high school matinees and a one-night performance at the Beardsley Theater (in partnership with the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts and a grant from Target Stores in support of projects combining the arts and education), Pigeon Creek Shakespea

Two Muses Theatre, West Bloomfield's newest nonprofit professional theatre adds a theatre camp for 9th-12th graders this summer.

Rollie Tussing returns to The Mix Studio Theater with Connor Dodson and Todd Albright on April 11 at 8pm, to play and sing and have a generally great time.

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

Emergent Arts at The Mix Studio Theater presents a special evening of music, British Invasion: the Best of the Brits with hosts The Lady and the Champ (Ann Dahl and Brandon Scott), along with their special guests for the evening.

Cameron Mackintosh and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group are delighted to announce the casting for their spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA currently on sale for the premiere East Lansing engagement at Wharton Center's Cobb Great Hall tonight, April

Performance Network's Northern Writer's Project is a week­long playwriting intensive running August 31 to September 5, 2015 where four plays are workshopped with playwrights, directors, actors and audience.

The Bonstelle Theatre closes its 2014-15 Season at Wayne State's Midtown theatre with the Tony Award-winning Urinetown: The Musical, playing April 17 - 26.

Artistic Director James Ingagiola and Executive Director Isaac Ellis are pleased to announce The Brass Tacks Ensemble's 2015 season will begin with William Shakespeare's Henry V on Friday, May 1 at the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre Studio Space.

There have been many movies and documentaries produced about the war in Vietnam, but none as inspiring and heart-wrenching as Rory Kennedy's Oscar-nominated film, Last Days in Vietnam, airing on Detroit Public Television/Ch.

Olympia Entertainment is proud to announce that Ernie - A play by Mitch Albom, will return for a fifth unforgettable season at the City Theatre, located inside of Hockeytown Cafe.

Direct from London's West End comes America's Got Downton.

?The Grand Rapids Civic Theatre and School of Theatre Arts has launched a crowdfunding campaign to invite the people of West Michigan to come together as an artistic sponsor for the upcoming musical, 'Avenue Q.

Garth Fagan, Tony Award winner for 'Best Choreography' in The Lion King, founder and artistic director of Garth Fagan Dance, is receiving the Apple Award from Wayne State University's Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance.

There have been many movies and documentaries produced about the war in Vietnam, but none as inspiring and heart-wrenching as Rory Kennedy's Oscar-nominated film, Last Days in Vietnam, airing on Detroit Public Television/Ch.

LOVE SONGS PLAYAROUND SHAKESPEARE combines the lyrical and romantic songs from a new contemporary musical, LOVE SONGS-A Musical (Music & Lyrics by Steven Cagan, veteran composer/conductor, DREAMGIRLS Musical Director), with some of Shakespeare's most passionate, poetic love scenes, enhanced by moder

Doomsday comes to Hamtramck April 10 at Planet Ant when the original comedy See You Next Doomsday premieres for a four week run.

In 2011, The Ringwald Theatre produced Philip Ridley's disturbing, unshakeable, unlike-anything-you'd-ever-seen Mercury Fur to great acclaim.

The Gruffalo always said that no gruffalo should ever set foot in the deep dark wood.

There is no shortage of quality theatre companies in Southeast Michigan, but unlike other metro areas the success of 'arts collectives' - marrying the spontaneity of theatre, cabaret, and improv with the abstract joys of movement and dance as well as the crafts of design, fashion and visual arts - h

The Dio - Dining & Entertainment, Livingston County's only professional dinner theatre, is very excited to produce the beautiful, and rarely produced musical, Violet.