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This holiday weekend, hundreds of actors re-enact scenes from the Civil War at the amazing Greenfield Village Museum in Dearborn.

The Dio - Dining & Entertainment, Livingston County's professional dinner theatre company, is thrilled to invite you to their upcoming production, The Dixie Swim Club, a comedy that will have you and all of your closest friends, howling with laughter.

The Board of Directors of Performance Network Theatre has determined that the theatre is not currently financially viable and suspends all operations, effective immediately.

On June 5, 2014, Actors' Theatre Grand Rapids completes its 33rd season with the opening of Grey Gardens, the musical.

Meadow Brook Theatre's 2014-2015 season promises to please with hilarious comedy, toe-tapping musical theatre and powerful drama.

Meadow Brook Theatre was recently named a 2015 Rochester Junior Woman's Club grant recipient.

Emergent Arts will present The Improv Mixer, an evening of improvisational comedy, June 3 at 8pm, at The Mix Studio Theater at 8 N.

Airing next month on PBS is a unique documentary about sites beneath London, for example the secret bunkers used by Winston Churchill during WWII and silver vaults housing the world's most fascinating silverworks.

The Purple Rose Theatre Company has announced its 2014 / 2015 Season, which will feature a Midwest premiere of an Off-Broadway sensation, a Purple Rose take on a classic comedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by a PRTC benefactor, and a world premiere zombie thriller.

Tonight, May 16, Meadow Brook Theatre will welcome The SaveTheBomberPlant.

Based on the hit 1980 movie: 9 to 5 - The Musical comes to Grand Rapids Civic Theatre, May 30 - June 15, 2014.

A nominee for the Tony Award for Best Play in 2012 and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz, a co-production with the Jewish Ensemble Theatre, kicks off the summer at Performance Network Theatre from June 12 - July 20, 2014.

Circle Theatre has opened its 2014 season with a bold and beautiful production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, to remarkable success.

Although outside it still feels like winter in West Michigan, inside the Dog Story Theatre, it is midsummer! The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company has created a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream that is sparkling with vitality and physical energy.

Katy Olsen CFRE, was recently named Development Director of Meadow Brook Theatre.

The story is about a prince and princess from two different kingdoms who were wed at infancy.

Mark your calendar for a musical event like no other-monsters making music! Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird and all their Sesame Street friends are taking to Wharton Center's Cobb Great Hall to share their love of music in Sesame Street Live Elmo Makes Music today, May 14 at 10:30 a.

Ann Arbor's Penny Seats Theatre Company is set to begin rehearsals for its fourth summer residency at the West Park Band Shell.

The tour of the smash hit Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY is returning to Detroit! WEST SIDE STORY will appear at the Fisher Theatre, today, May 13- 18, 2014.

The Purple Rose Theatre Company presents the final production of the 2013 / 2014 season, The Last Romance by Joe DiPietro.

In July and August, Bay City Players Stages of Discovery will hold a series of workshops focusing on some of the performance and technical aspects of theatre.

Emergent Arts presents Appointment With a Highwire Lady by Russell Davis at the Mix Studio Theater, 8 North Washington Street, Ypsilanti, Michigan, May 21 through June 8.

Today, May 10, 2014 at 3:00 p.

On Friday May 16, Meadow Brook Theatre will welcome The SaveTheBomberPlant.

The Mix Studio Theater is set to present Horn Rim Productions' staging of two new plays by Will Eno: Thom Pain (based on nothing), with Peter Knox as Thom Pain, and Lady Grey (in ever lower light), with Kristin Beckett as Lady Grey.