Richard Newman News

The Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival's 33rd Season returns to Sen̓ákw/Vanier Park, and begins with the all-time favourite, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Theatre Bay Area, one of the largest regional performing arts service organizations in North America, has announced the finalists of the 2019 TBA Awards. The sixth-annual TBA Awards Celebration will take place on Monday, Nov. 4 at the Herbst Theatre (401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco).

Are our destinies determined for us? Fifteenth century life is a struggle for Isabelle Arc. France is massing for war with England, she works eighteen hours a day, and her willful teenage daughter Joan is seeing visions of Saint Catherine. As Joan grows into the Maid of Orleans and her family's world turns upside down, Isabelle struggles with what it means to parent a saint. Pacific Theatre's 2019-2020 season opens with the Canadian premiere of Mother of the Maid, Jane Anderson's retelling of Joan of Arc's journey to the battlefields of France and her mother Isabelle's quest to follow her.

What are the moments that define our lives? Joey, a successful divorce lawyer, is used to things going his way. When he suddenly decides he needs a Bar Mitzvah he doesn't expect to have to wait, or take classes. But when he meets Michael, an acerbic rabbi with to-do lists of her own, what began as a simple bureaucratic checkbox becomes a deep immersion in the meaning of ritual, maturing, and friendship. Making its world premiere on the Pacific Theatre stage, Bar Mitzvah Boy is a sharp-tongued comedy about growing up… at any age.

After two critically acclaimed, sold-out runs in 2016, The Hinterlands will once again present their original and explosive site-specific work The Radicalization Process for a limited three performance run in April.

After a critically acclaimed, sold-out run in the spring, The Hinterlands will once again present their original and explosive site-specific work The Radicalization Process for a limited run this fall. The Radicalization Process will be performed from Fri. Sept. 23-Sat. Oct. 1 (Wednesdays through Saturdays) at 8PM and Sundays Sept. 25 and Oct. 2 at 2PM at Play House (12657 Moran Street, Detroit). BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast onstage below!

After a critically acclaimed, sold-out run in the spring, The Hinterlands will once again present their original and explosive site-specific work The Radicalization Process for a limited run this fall. The Radicalization Process will be performed from Fri. Sept. 23-Sat. Oct. 1 (Wednesdays through Saturdays) at 8PM and Sundays Sept. 25 and Oct. 2 at 2PM at Play House (12657 Moran Street, Detroit). BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast onstage below!

Theater professionals from across Michigan will gather Aug. 29 when The 2016 Wilde Awards are presented at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield. Presented by EncoreMichigan.com, the most comprehensive resource for news and information about the state's professional theater industry, The Wilde Awards were established in 2002 to honor the excellent work produced by Michigan's professional theaters.

From the company that brought you Manifest Destiny!, The Circuit, and the Porous Borders Festival, comes a new original and explosive site-specific work: The The Radicalization Process. The Hinterlands will perform The Radicalization Process from April 21- May 7 (Thursdays through Saturdays) at 8:00 PM at Play House (12657 Moran Street, Detroit) at 8PM. Tickets are sliding scale $10-30. For reservations please call 313.454.1756 or email info@thehinterlandsensemble.org.

Are you between the ages of 6 and 106? Perfect. Dreamtigers is for you. Dreamtigers uses multiple shadow projection screens, human/puppet interaction, and object manipulation to adapt seminal tales in the Latin American magical realism cannon for family audiences. A live-mixed score enhances to the immersive style of puppetry, creating an eerie environment that keeps audiences on the edge of their seats.

?First Run Theatre once again presents it's highly successful festival of short 10 minute new plays by St. Louis playwrights. 8 new plays by 7 playwrights were selected from a special submission in March thru July 2013. This production will be at Southampton Presbyterian Church.

Heralded as possessing 'one of the few most beautiful [voices] in the world' (Washington Post), five-time Grammy© Award-winning opera starKathleen Battle performs music from the Underground Railroad inVerizon Hall tonight, October 24 at 7:30 p.m.

Are you between the ages of 6 and 106? Perfect. Dreamtigers is for you. Dreamtigers uses multiple shadow projection screens, human/puppet interaction, and object manipulation to adapt seminal tales in the Latin American magical realism cannon for family audiences. A live-mixed score enhances to the immersive style of puppetry, creating an eerie environment that keeps audiences on the edge of their seats.

Heralded as possessing 'one of the few most beautiful [voices] in the world' (Washington Post), five-time Grammy© Award-winning opera starKathleen Battle performs music from the Underground Railroad inVerizon Hall on Friday, October 24 at 7:30 p.m.

?First Run Theatre once again presents it's highly successful festival of short 10 minute new plays by St. Louis playwrights. 8 new plays by 7 playwrights were selected from a special submission in March thru July 2013. This production will be at Southampton Presbyterian Church.

Detroit-based physical theatre company The Hinterlands will present The Circuit, an ecstatic variety show for the outcasts of the Internet age, at Play House (preview) Thurs-Fri Sept 26-27 at 8PM and at Trinosophes, Thur-Fri October 3-4 at 8:00 PM. Tickets at both venues are $15. For reservations please call 313.454.1756 or email info@thehinterlandsensemble.org.

Detroit-based physical theatre company The Hinterlands will present The Circuit, an ecstatic variety show for the outcasts of the Internet age, at Play House (preview) Thurs-Fri Sept 26-27 at 8PM and at Trinosophes, Thur-Fri October 3-4 at 8:00 PM. Tickets at both venues are $15. For reservations please call 313.454.1756 or email info@thehinterlandsensemble.org.

Detroit-based physical theatre company, The Hinterlands, will present their original, site-specific, psychedelic Western, Manifest Destiny! (there was blood on the saddle), at the historic Jam Handy Film Studio August 4-6 and August 25-27 at 8:00 PM.