MICHIGAN THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 79

Suzanne Mallare Acton, a genre-defying conductor whose exacting musical standards and knack for experimentation transformed Rackham Choir, is stepping down as the choir's artistic director after 25 years.

Circle Theatre will continue their 69th season with Always.

Farmers Alley Theatre is bringing the show to your home this Summer with BACKYARD BROADWAY – a  45-minute musical revue starring Kalamazoo Favorites like The Koch Family, Whitney Weiner, Este'Fan  Kizer, Mary Teutsch, and more! 

Interlochen Arts Academy's end-of-year multidisciplinary showcase of student performances and presentations will be livestreamed from the Interlochen website Wednesday, May 26, through Friday, May 28.

Lake Superior Theater has announced its upcoming Summer 2021 lineup including The Last Five Years, Stage & Screen Cabaret, An Evening at the Lake, and more!

Tibbits Summer Theatre will open its 58th consecutive season of professional performances on June 16 with a fun and elegant musical theatre revue, 'The Best of Broadway' at The Ponds of Coldwater.

The Chamber Music Society of Detroit will present the Verona Quartet, winner of the Cleveland Quartet Award, in concert live on Saturday, May 15 for one performance only, at 5:00 PM.

Theatre NOVA, in collaboration with The Ringwald Theatre, will release their filmed version of 'A New Brain' by William Finn and James Lapine via Broadway on Demand during June of 2021.

Circle Theatre will present The Gin Game as the kickoff to their 2021 season.

As Puck says in A Midsummer Night's Dream 'I am sent with broom before, to sweep the dust behind the door,' so Shakespeare Royal Oak prepares to sweep the dust of 2020 behind them and return to stellar live performances with the show that launched the theatre company 21 years ago.

Interlochen Center for the Arts announced today that jazz trumpeter Josh Lawrence has been named Director of Jazz Studies.

In 2020, a group of improvisers, lead by the Yes And Yogi Girl, Natalie Roxas, joined together in support of Go Comedy! Improv Theater with the first ever Virtual Run For Laughs, a virtual run to support the improv community and the award-winning theatre.

Circle Theatre will present The Gin Game as the kickoff to their 2021 season.

The Barn Theatre School is looking ahead to the 75th Anniversary season! With the assistance of many incredible organizations and supporters, the Barn was able to survive the difficulties that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the country, and the world of theatre.

The Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance, a program within the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts at Wayne State University will present “Anon(ymous)” by Naomi Iizuka as a virtual streaming event in collaboration with Broadway on Demand.

This summer, Cranbrook Art Museum is pleased to debut With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932, the first book and largest exhibition to expansively chronicle the school's nearly 90-year history as a radical experiment in the education of artists.

Broadway is coming back to Grand Rapids and it is worth the wait!  After a long intermission, the new season will open in January of 2022.

The Toledo Repertoire Theatre & Actors Collaborative Toledo present LONELY PLANET by Steven Dietz, directed by Benjamin Jameson.

The Grammy Award-winning Broadway performer and film and television star Sydney James Harcourt will address graduating students at the 2021 Interlochen Arts Academy Commencement.

Michigan Opera Theatre has announced the postponement of their upcoming performance of Cavalleria Rusticana.

Nora Modern has announced a spring student exhibition featuring undergraduate and graduate students from Center for Creative Studies (CCS), Cranbrook, Lawrence Technological Institute, University of Michigan, and Wayne State University.

A special Flint School of Performing Arts program has provided unique lullabies to 64 families in the Flint area.

Interlochen Center for the Arts announced today that Enrique Márquez has been named Director of Music.

Farmers Alley Theatre continues to innovate online with Spotlight Sessions Vol.

University of Michigan alumnus and longtime UMMA supporter William Weese has given a gift of art and endowment with a combined value of about $5 million that will expand the U-M Museum of Art's Chinese ceramics collection.