MICHIGAN THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 332

Mid-Michigan's award winning professional theatre company, Williamston Theatre, presents the World Premiere of The Usual: A Musical Love Story, Book and Lyrics by Alan Gordon and Music by Mark Sutton-Smith.

Pop sensations One Direction will be hitting the road for their first-ever headlining North American tour and returning to Detroit's historic Fox Theatre on Friday, June 1 at 7:30 p.

Grammy-nominated DJ and producer AVICII is ready to bring his club anthems on the road with the "AVICII - LE7ELS Tour" to Joe Louis Arena on Tuesday, May 22 at 8 p.

Go Comedy! Improv Theater announces the return of the BITS Tournament.

Connecting Creativity: A Trans-Atlantic Co-production will feature several monologues written by Irish playwrights for American actors as well as recorded performance of the Irish company performing monologues written just for them by company members of The New Theatre Project in Michigan.

The New Theatre Project will host A PLAYWRIGHT'S ROUNDTABLE: PLAYWRIGHT'S AND THE COLLABORATIVE PROCESS at the Mix Studio Theater on Sunday, March 18 at 8 pm.

FABLISCIOUS, presented by Performance Network Theatre's educational outreach program, the Children's Theatre Network, will play at 1pm on Saturday, March 17, 2012 and will be followed by a complimentary milk and cookies reception.

Due to high demand, the all-new, live show "MythBusters: Behind the Myths," starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series 'MythBusters," has added an extra performance; now there are two shows at Detroit's Fox Theatre on Friday, March 16 at 4:30 p.

As part of Performance Network's mission to promote new plays and the works of local playwrights, the theatre will premiere Joseph Zettelmaier's "Dead Man's Shoes," a darkly comedic Western tale of friendship and vengeance.

The seven shows scheduled this season at Performance Network are just the last in a long line of plays and musicals staged at Ann Arbor's professional theatre, now celebrating its 30th Anniversary Season.

When Performance Network Theatre decided to engage in two co-productions for their 30th Anniversary season, an opportunity arose to revive their second stage offerings.

The New Theatre Project will host A PLAYWRIGHT'S ROUNDTABLE: PLAYWRIGHT'S AND THE COLLABORATIVE PROCESS at the Mix Studio Theater on Sunday, March 18 at 8 pm.

The Madonna Dance party keeps getting bigger.

Ian Anderson, known as the flute, voice and composer of the legendary Jethro Tull, will perform Thick As A Brick in its entirety for the first time since 1972 and his new album, Thick As A Brick 2, during his world tour performance at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, November 3 at 8 p.

As part of its mission "to reestablish and expand Detroit's theatre district," Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company has chosen plays by Michigan natives and current Michigan residents to stage as part of a festival to take place March 31 and April 1, 2012, at the Abreact Performance Space (1301 W.

Due to popular, Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award-winning singer-songwriter, Barry Manilow, has added a second performance at Detroit's Fox Theatre on Saturday, March 10 at 7:30 p.

The Purple Rose Theatre Company continues its 2011/12 Season with A Stone Carver, a heartfelt story about the rekindling of a father-son relationship by William Mastrosimone.

Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award-winning singer-songwriter, Barry Manilow, will perform at Detroit's Fox Theatre on Friday, March 9 at 7:30 p.

As part of Performance Network's mission to promote new plays and the works of local playwrights, the theatre will premiere Joseph Zettelmaier's "Dead Man's Shoes," a darkly comedic Western tale of friendship and vengeance.

Two Muses Theatre, the new professional theatre in West Bloomfield, Michigan, announces "Auditioning for the Musical Theatre Workshop" series every Saturday in April from 1:00-3:00 pm.

For the third year in a row, Go Comedy! is joining the Ferndale Library to celebrate Ferndale Reads with an original improvised production based on the library's selected book, 'The Local News' by Miriam Gershow.

Cast members of the NETworks touring production of "Shrek The Musical" (coming to Detroit February 28 - March 11 at the Fisher Theatre) will perform in a very special concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the John F.

TRACES, the show by the Montreal-based troupe 7 Fingers, performs at Segerstrom Center for the Arts for a limited one-week engagement through March 4.

Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron's LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE, an intimate collection of stories covering some of life's most poignant moments and their corresponding wardrobe, will appear at Detroit's historic Gem Theatre through March 4.

Bay City Players will present the drama; All My Sons by Arthur Miller on March 2-4 and 8-11, 2012 at the Bay City Players, 1214 Columbus Avenue, in Bay City.