Patrick O'Lear News

It's that time of year again. Logs on the fire, snow on the treetops, and families gathered 'round the feast. But for the Helmer family, this reunion will be a reckoning. 

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 fifth year. Four new full-length plays and five 10-minute plays, all by Michigan playwrights, will be given readings October 23-27, 2019.

Picture it. Miami. 1987. A successful television show ends after seven seasons, to everyone's chagrin. Dorothy, Blanche, Rose, and Sophia live on in all of our hearts as we watch reruns of The Golden Girls over a mound of cheesecake and a bottle of wine. But what if, through some strange bit of Hollywood magic, they were able to come back for a new season? And what if the first episode of that season included the girls doing Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor? The gay gasps would be deafening. Good news, Slipstream Theatre Initiative reimagines Shakespeare's comedy as just that - and invites you to a live filming of Season 8, episode 1: The Golden Girls do Merry Wives!

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor's professional theatre with an exclusive focus on new plays and playwrights, presents the world premiere of "Mrs. Fifty Bakes a Pie" by Linda Ramsay-Detherage.

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor's professional theatre with an exclusive focus on new plays and playwrights, presents the world premiere of 'Resisting' by David Wells. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor's professional theatre with an exclusive focus on new plays and playwrights, presents the world premiere of Resisting by David Wells.

Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor's professional theatre with an exclusive focus on new plays and playwrights, presents the world premiere of Resisting by David Wells.

The 20th Season of Broadway Onstage Live Theatre and the 33rd, and final, season of Dennis Wickline Productions ushers in 2014 with the World Premiere Comedy YOU JUST HAVE NO IDEA by Cecelia Reuter Lesner, opening on Friday, January 10 and running Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Select Sundays at 2pm through Saturday, February 8.

The Ringwald Theatre will present August: Osage County from tonight, May 10-June 3, 2013. Capping off a successful 'Season of Family', The Ringwald has indeed saved what is arguably the best for last; certainly the biggest for last. The Ringwald has had great success with the plays of Tracy Letts in the past, producing two of his works: Bug and Killer Joe. August: Osage County promises to be every bit as compelling as his past works.

The Ringwald Theatre will present August: Osage County from May 10-June 3, 2013. Capping off a successful 'Season of Family', The Ringwald has indeed saved what is arguably the best for last; certainly the biggest for last. The Ringwald has had great success with the plays of Tracy Letts in the past, producing two of his works: Bug and Killer Joe. August: Osage County promises to be every bit as compelling as his past works.

Water Works Theatre company's founder and Chairman, Edward Nahhat, announced today that the company has cast its 12th annual Shakespeare In The Park productions. Shakespeare in the Park is Michigan's biggest and best outdoor professional theatre event featuring two weeks of theatrical fun in the middle of the tree-filled 28 acre Starr Jaycee Park.

MURDER ME, MURDER ME, MY DARLING, MY DARLING!, an original Audience Participation Murder Mystery by Dennis Wickline, is the third offering of the season at Broadway Onstage Live Theatre when it opens on Friday, October 21. Running Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Select Sundays at 2pm through Saturday, November 19, this unique theatrical experience proves to be both extremely entertaining and thrilling.

MURDER ME, MURDER ME, MY DARLING, MY DARLING!, an original Audience Participation Murder Mystery by Dennis Wickline, is the third offering of the season at Broadway Onstage Live Theatre when it opens on Friday, October 21. Running Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Select Sundays at 2pm through Saturday, November 19, this unique theatrical experience proves to be both extremely entertaining and thrilling.

THE PROBLEM OF CELL 13, a world premiere mystery by John Arden McClure, continues the 30th Season of Dennis Wickline Productions, Inc. at Eastpointe's Broadway Onstage Live Theatre when it opens on Friday, January 7.

THE PROBLEM OF CELL 13, a world premiere mystery by John Arden McClure, continues the 30th Season of Dennis Wickline Productions, Inc. at Eastpointe's Broadway Onstage Live Theatre when it opens on Friday, January 7.

MURDERER, by Anthony Shaffer, is the fifth show of the season at Eastpointe's Broadway Onstage Live Theatre when it opens on Friday, January 8, 2010.

MURDERER, by Anthony Shaffer, is the fifth show of the season at Eastpointe's Broadway Onstage Live Theatre when it opens on Friday, January 8, 2010.