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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
  • Web Exclusive
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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: 'Measure for Measure' at Interlochen Shows Why Shakespeare Endures

Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure raises important questions about justice and how some succeed as well as fail. “Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall,” is but one truism that speaks to political leadership today as much as it did in 1604, the year the play was first produced. 

Revue Arts 08 July 2025
  • theatre
  • theatre reviews
  • Interlochen
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Come From Away SC4A review

Review: 'Come From Away' at SC4A is a Truly Extraordinary Telling of an Unforgettable Story

We rely on stories to connect us, to share human experiences that may or may not be our own, and to teach us, again and again, what it means to be human. But rare and perhaps most lasting are the stories that remind us of what we all too often forget: that above all, humans are kind.

Revue Arts 07 July 2025
  • Mason Street Warehouse
  • theatre
  • Saugatuck Center for the Arts
  • theatre reviews
  • Come From Away
  • Musicals
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What A Looker: David Hockney at the GRAM

In 1990, David Hockney turned down a knighthood. His reason? He doesn’t “care for a fuss.” Offered the opportunity to paint Queen Elizabeth II, he demurred, citing a busy schedule.

Revue Arts 07 July 2025
  • visual art
  • Grand Rapids Art Museum
  • GRAM
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Review: Fun and Farce Abound in 'Girls' Weekend' at Circle Theatre

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 sur...
Read More
Review: Powerful and Full of Talent, 'Waitress' is Delightfully Bittersweet

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 Waitr...
Read More
Strings, Sculpture and Sold-Out Shows: A Meijer Gardens Summer

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...
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