Dan Johnson News

Kickshaw Theatre is delighted to announce a special post-show talkback with playwright Brenda Withers following the 8pm performance of The Ding Dongs (or What Is The Penalty In Portugal?) on Saturday, April 6, 2019.

Kickshaw Theatre presents The Ding Dongs, or What Is The Penalty In Portugal? a comedy thriller by Brenda Withers, March 28 through April 14, 2019, at trustArt Studios in Ann Arbor.

Slipstream Theatre Initiative has become known for its gutsy adaptations of classics like Hamlet, A Doll's House, and Hedda Gabler. As season five approaches, the company is excited to explore new avenues. Starting in January, Slipstream will present cabaret nights, Mondays at 8:00 PM. Performers can come with sheet music, ready to sing, or they can just come hang out.

Slipstream Theatre Initiative has become known for its gutsy adaptations of classics like Hamlet, A Doll's House, and Hedda Gabler. As season five approaches, the company is excited to explore new avenues. Starting in January, Slipstream will present cabaret nights, Mondays at 8:00 PM. Performers can come with sheet music, ready to sing, or they can just come hang out.

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor's professional theatre with an exclusive focus on new plays and playwrights, presents their semi-annual Michigan Playwrights Festival, now in its third year. Five new plays by Michigan playwrights will be given readings July 25-29, 2018.

Extended improvisations arcing gracefully from contemporary jazz to the pianist's trademark spacious meditations, marked by the pianist/composer's identifiable sound-passion, strength, and power, flowing interchangeably with tender expressiveness.

Rock band Another Lost Year announced the Blazing into Spring Tour featuring No Resolve and special guest Locust Grove. The tour kicks off April 13th in Lombard, Illinois at Brauer House and will conclude on April 29th at The Looney Bin in Bradley, Illinois. The video for single, “Call It Like It Is”, from their upcoming album due out in 2018 originally premiered on Loudwire.comand can now be seen on Vevo.

Matrix Theatre Company continues its 2017 - 2018 Mainstage Season with the environmental drama, Kayak, opening April 6 and running through April 29. The production runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM and Sundays at 3PM. All performances are presented at Matrix Theatre Company, located at 2730 Bagley Avenue in the heart of Mexicantown. Tickets are $22 for adults and $17 for students, seniors, veterans, and active military personnel, and may be purchased in advance or, if available, at the door. Group rates are also available. For further information or to purchase tickets, visit www.matrixtheatre.org or call (313) 967-0599.

A very sly con-man with HUGE ideas convinces people that he can make them great again and suddenly everything runs amok. Sound familiar? Oh wait, were you thinking of politics? We would NEVER be political! We're, of course, talking about Moliere's esteemed classic Tartuffe! Silly you.

What is it that makes theater in Michigan unique? Dan and Luna don't know exactly, but they've only got one audition to figure something out. Exploring the same audition through several different lenses, Dan and Luna offer insight on the peaks and valleys of acting in the Mitten State - trading laughs, reflections, and perspective on everything from the driving force of imagination and the crippling effect of discrimination, to the curiously strong magic of tape ball in Pure Michigan. A tribute to the driving creative forces in our home state.

Rock band Another Lost Year premiered the video for single, Call It Like It Is , from their upcoming album due out in 2018 today on Loudwire.com! The single is already gaining radio attention leaving no question on if this will be a career defining single for the Charlotte, NC quartet. ALY is currently wrapping up the end of the year with their annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Traveling Party.

Four years ago, Slipstream Theatre Initiative came into view with a very sparse but hopeful production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale . Now, after 24 full scale productions, the company emerges for its fourth season. Pulling a new card from its deck, the young company ventures into original devised works, classics, and a musical or two.

Slipstream finally announces its 4th season! Slipstream decided to go back to their founding tenets and shake things up with some exciting changes.

The Encore Musical Theatre Company proudly presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, running September 28 - October 22, 2017, directed by Matthew Brennan and music directed by Tyler Driskill.

The Encore Musical Theatre Company proudly presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, running September 28 - October 22, 2017, directed by Matthew Brennan and music directed by Tyler Driskill. 

More than a century after the disaster, the story of the "unsinkable" Titanic continues to capture the public's imagination.  With lush music and gripping drama, Avon Players kicks off its 71st season with the musical depiction of the tragedy, Titanic running September 8-23.

Dan Johnson's new book, Understanding the Work of the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church ($15.99, paperback, 9781498466431; $7.99, eBook, 9781498466448) aims to set forth, in a nuts and bolts fashion, the biblical evidence that apart from believers being baptized by the Holy Spirit 'into Christ' at conversion, the justice of God cannot be maintained.

Kentucky Shakespeare has announced the fourth annual SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS tour.  Their 6-actor, 85-minute production of JULIUS CAESAR will tour to 23 area locations this spring, bringing free Shakespeare to local neighborhoods March 25-May 19, 2017. 

Open Book Theatre Company is excited to announce the first production of their third season: Peter and the Starcatcher.  The show will also be the first in their new space at 1621 West Road in Trenton.

Shakespeare Royal Oak announces the schedule and casts for its 16th annual outdoor summer theatre festival in Royal Oak's Starr Jaycee Park.