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Review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' Finds Clarity in Simplicity at Circle Theatre

On October 24, 1971, The New York Times published a review of Jesus Christ Superstar by Walter Kerr. Kerr had enjoyed the concept album, released a year before, but found the stage production bizarre and unappealing. 

Revue Arts 08 September 2025
  • Circle Theatre
  • theatre reviews
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Artist Profile: Chapel of Ghouls

When you see Nick Hartman’s work under the alias Chapel of Ghouls, the message is clear: Life is hard. Live it to the fullest. While always fascinated by art, especially music and film, he didn’t necessarily see himself as an artist. But a series of tragic deaths and visits to the hospital throughout his youth later bubbled up in the form of panic attacks, and also as an interest in the dark side of life—goth culture, horror movies, metal music and beyond.

Revue Arts 08 September 2025
  • Artist Profiles
  • Rock paper Scissors
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Artist Profile: Grace Close

Grace Close has been drawing ever since the moment her mom put a crayon in her hand and a paper in front of her, at around the age of 3.

Revue Arts 02 September 2025
  • visual art
  • Artist Profiles
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Review: Fun and Farce Abound in 'Girls' Weekend' at Circle Theatre

It’s been said that nearly 88% of private book clubs are all-female, a fact that likely wouldn’t surprise Dot, Meg, Carol, and Ellie, the four women who gather in a Minnesotan cabin in Karen Schaeffer’s play Girls’ Weekend (onstage at Circle Theatre through August 23rd). They’re there to discuss their latest read—well, that’s the plan, anyway. But this is a farce, and farces mean complications.

Revue Arts 12 August 2025
  • theatre
  • Circle Theatre
  • theatre reviews
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Review: Powerful and Full of Talent, 'Waitress' is Delightfully Bittersweet

“Sugar. Butter. Flour.” are the primary ingredients of any good pie, we’re reminded throughout Waitress: The Musical, as the words are the sung heartbeat of this marvelous show with exactly the right ingredients to make something far more creative and delicious than the mixture of its parts at Saugatuck Center for the Arts.

Revue Arts 12 August 2025
  • Mason Street Warehouse
  • theatre
  • Saugatuck Center for the Arts
  • theatre reviews
  • Web Exclusive
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Strings, Sculpture and Sold-Out Shows: A Meijer Gardens Summer

Since its public opening on April 20th, 1995, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park has drawn visitors not only from west Michigan but from all over the world. Its beautiful, varied gardens and world-class sculpture collection are enormously popular; USA Today named it the best sculpture park in the US. If that weren’t enough, Meijer Gardens curates a series of events throughout the year.

Revue Arts 11 August 2025
  • local music
  • Frederik Meijer Gardens
  • Touring Music
  • Frederik Meijer Gardens  & Sculpture Park
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August 2025 Arts Calendar

Arts exhibitions and performances have returned in full swing to West Michigan. This season, there’s absolutely no shortage of concerts, symphonies, plays, musicals, ballet, visual arts and beyond. We have big Broadway shows, intimate and progressive plays, live performances with symphonies, dancers taking to the stage, and powerful art exhibitions. Here’s our guide to arts events for the month.

Revue Arts 11 August 2025
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Review: Deos Ballet's Collide 2025 is a Beautiful Homage to the Legacy of Dance

Celebrated modern dance innovator Martha Graham wrote in her 1991 autobiography Blood Memory that a dancer’s “body says what words cannot” and that “movement never lies.”

Revue Arts 02 August 2025
  • dance
  • Ballet
  • Deos Contemporary Ballet
  • Reviews
  • Dance reviews
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Review: Terrific Talent Captures Life's Triumphs in 'Primary Trust'

To love is to experience loss; in fact, to live is to be changed by loss. To know these truths is to be human, whether we like it or not. But to to feel them anew, by moving through the time and space of another’s experience, can deepen our understanding of and appreciation for what it means to be human. This is the powerful effect of Primary Trust, Eboni Booth’s 2024 Pulitzer prize winning play, directed with grace by Chuma Gault at Hope Repertory Theatre.

Revue Arts 31 July 2025
  • theatre
  • theatre reviews
  • hope repertory theatre
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Review: 'Hamilton' On Tour is Magnificent as Ever

Michelle Obama called it the best piece of art in any form that she’d ever seen in her life. Its popularity is unprecedented, a cultural phenomenon that reinvigorated public interest in both musical theatre and American history.

Revue Arts 28 July 2025
  • theatre
  • Broadway Grand Rapids
  • theatre reviews
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Review: ‘Hamilton’ Remains a Feast for Theatre Lovers

In the ten years since Hamilton debuted, nothing in musical theater has emerged to challenge it; there has been nothing with as sweeping a scope, as grand an ambition, or as deep an impact. 

Revue Arts 24 July 2025
  • DeVos Performance Hall
  • theatre
  • Broadway Grand Rapids
  • theatre reviews
  • Hamilton
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Review: A World of Talent Makes ‘Dreamgirls’ Shine at Circle Theatre

On December 21st, 1981, a review of the new musical Dreamgirls appeared in The New York Times. “When Broadway history is being made,” wrote its author, Frank Rich, “you can feel it. What you feel is a seismic emotional jolt that sends the audience, as one, right out of its wit. While such moments are uncommonly rare these days, I'm here to report that one popped up at the Imperial last night.” He was referring to “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” the fierce and defiant song closing out the first act of Dreamgirls.

Revue Arts 16 July 2025
  • theatre
  • Circle Theatre
  • theatre reviews
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On Their Toes: Rehearsing with Deos Contemporary Ballet

“When do we add tension and stress?” The asker is serious: She’s wondering at what point she needs to perform a series of stiff, striking motions.

Revue Arts 14 July 2025
  • dance
  • St Cecilia Music Center
  • Ballet
  • Deos Contemporary Ballet
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Review: 'Seussical' is an All-Ages Delight Full of Sensory Wonders

“Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun/ But you have to know how,” declares the Cat in the Hat in Dr. Seuss’s original children’s book, and that playful spiritedness and imagination is what drives The Barn Theatre’s colorful production of Seussical the Musical. 

Revue Arts 09 July 2025
  • theatre
  • theatre reviews
  • barn theatre
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Review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' Finds Clarity in Simplicity at Circle Theatre

Review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' Finds Clarity in Simplicity at Circle Theatre

On October 24, 1971, The New York Times published a review of Jesus Christ Superstar by Walter Kerr....
Read More
Artist Profile: Chapel of Ghouls

Artist Profile: Chapel of Ghouls

When you see Nick Hartman’s work under the alias Chapel of Ghouls, the message is clear: Life is har...
Read More
Artist Profile: Grace Close

Artist Profile: Grace Close

Grace Close has been drawing ever since the moment her mom put a crayon in her hand and a paper in f...
Read More

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