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Its 1927 in a Chicago recording studio, where legendary blues singer Ma Rainey arrives ready to lay down tracks on her own terms. As tensions rise between Ma, her band, and the white producers controlling the session, ambition, pride, and exploitation collide in a room thick...
Samuel Beckett, best known for his plays Waiting for Godot and Endgame, was a leader in the Theatre of the Absurd movement. His works remain the best-known and most-performed absurdist plays, which are known for their tragicomic tone and the notion that life has no meaning. In...
Vanessa Lynn’s Prince of the Pulpit is a powerful gospel musical where faith, family, legacy, and divine calling collide, splitting a church and revealing secrets.
Everyone’s favorite holiday classic captivates audiences for the 44th year with the tale of a mean-spirited miser and the ghosts that haunt him.
Adapted from Stephen King's novel, Misery is a gripping thriller about obsession, control, and survival. The story follows a novelist held captive by his self-proclaimed biggest fan. Produced by Center Stage Theatre at Midland Center for the Arts, the production contains strong...
Accomplice is a comedy-thriller by Tony Award-winner Rupert Holmes, described as a deliciously witty cocktail of a whodunit. What begins as a classic murder plot at a remote British cabin spirals into a meta-theatrical roller coaster of twists that blur the lines between fiction...
Seventy-two miles doesn't sound far until the people you love are on that far away. After their mother is deported to Mexico, one family spends the next decade navigating distance, growing up, and holding onto one another across a border that keeps shifting beneath their feet...
Love, laughter, and a whole lot of mistaken identity! The story of two groups of lovers: sharp-tongued Beatrice and witty Benedick who swear they’ll never fall in love, and the head-over-heels young lovers Hero and Claudio. But when all seems fair and well, a villain’s deceit...
Author Jacob McNeal has finally achieved his dream: The Nobel Prize for Literature, and all the trappings that come with it. But the spiraling McNeal has little space to enjoy the honor, as his health, personal relationships, and professional reputation all teeter on the edge of...
Department of Musical Theatre students demonstrate their acting skills in this studio production of the play Much Ado About Nothing, one of William Shakespeare’s most beloved and oft-performed comedies. When the soldiers of Don Pedro’s army return to Messina, Italy, romance is...
Robert O'Hara's Barbecue is a sharp and darkly funny play presented by Center Stage Theatre at Midland Center for the Arts. The story follows a family intervention that goes sideways, unraveling into a bold satire about race, class, addiction, and family dynamics. The production...
The Fences We Build August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Fences is a powerful and timeless exploration of family, ambition, and the fences we build—both seen and unseen. You can catch it in the Civic Auditorium, March 5-14, 2027. Set in 1957 Pittsburgh...
What happens when a dot-com billionaire pays an esteemed American theatre company to translate Shakespeare into English (Wait. What?).
The family of a Civil Rights icon grapples with their role in his legacy
From Detroit-born, Tony Award–nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau, this gripping drama examines the aftermath of a high school fight that exposes deep racial inequities. Inspired by real events, the story follows students whose lives are shaped by unequal treatment and...
One of the most acclaimed plays in the American theatrical canon, this exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem is a gripping and timely parable of contemporary society, as well as a studied historical tale. The story focuses upon a young farmer, his...
Lost in Yonkers is Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in 1942 New York, in which two young brothers are left on the doorstep of their stern Grandma Kurnitz. As they navigate their new world, the boys encounter their eccentric Aunt Bella, her secret romance, and a...
Find Your Way Back to Family The Kalamazoo Civic Reader’s Theatre presents On Golden Pond , a touching and funny story about a spirited and lovable elderly couple facing their twilight years, in the Carver Studio, April 2-11, 2027. This charming play is the love story of Ethel...
The Cornley Drama Society has never staged anything ambitious before. Tonight they're finding out why as Peter Pan Goes Wrong falls hysterically apart before your eyes in some of the funniest theatre you'll see all year. If you've ever wondered what happens backstage when...
The action-packed adventures of Robin Hood come to life on stage. The Kalamazoo Civic Youth Theatre presents the action-packed tale of Robin Hood in the Parish Theatre April 16-25, 2027. Robin Hood, the outlaw of Sherwood Forest, leads a merry life with his followers. Anyone who...
A young, Black man from Detroit looks for a new lease on life by giving rodeo clown school a try
Thurgood is a solo tour de force by George Stevens Jr. telling the inspiring true story of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Set at Howard University, the play traces Marshall's life from his childhood in Baltimore to arguing the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of...
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August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom FIM Flint Repertory Theatre (9/18-10/04) |
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Come From Away Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre (10/08-10/18) |
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Time Passes: 8 Short Plays by Samuel Beckett Arthur Miller Theatre (10/01-10/11) |
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Anything Goes Kalamazoo Civic Auditorium (9/18-9/27) |
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Les Miserables Grosse Pointe Theatre (9/18-10/11) |
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Prince of the Pulpit Ford Community and Performing Arts Center (9/19-9/20) |
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Beetlejuice Cobb Great Hall (9/18-9/20) |
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Alicia Keys' Hell's Kitchen Cobb Great Hall (1/19-1/24) |
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Meadow Brook Theatre (10/07-11/01) |
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The Book of Mormon Flint Institute of Music (3/22-3/22) |
