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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: ‘Shakespeare (Abridged)’ is Lightning-Paced and Thunderously Funny

How dare they? This isn’t one of your regular bards we’re talking about. This is the bard, the immortal bard: the one and only William Shakespeare, The Greatest Writer In The English Language (™), the…the…the Shakespeare of his time. Well, dare they did. 

Revue Arts 16 June 2025
  • theatre
  • Circle Theatre
  • theatre reviews
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Review: Great Music and Terrific Cast Make GR Civic's 'Waitress' a Blast

Making your way through the world can be a frightening thing, which is one of many insights into the human heart driving Waitress, the 2015 musical based on Shelly’s final film. It’s small in scale but big in emotion, humor, and something far too rare in Broadway musicals: genuinely good songs (music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles). With strong direction by Allyson Paris and memorable singing and acting by, well, everyone onstage, Grand Rapids Civic Theatre’s production (June 6th-29th) traffics in both the sweet and savory, telling a story of people as flawed, and as good, as we ourselves are.

Revue Arts 09 June 2025
  • Grand Rapids Civic Theatre
  • theatre
  • theatre reviews
  • Waitress
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Jump Into Summer at SC4A: Music, Musicals and Masterful Art

Summer in West Michigan wouldn’t be complete without the events, exhibitions, and shows put on by Saugatuck Center for the Arts. It’s a time for celebration, for community, and for sharing experiences, all of which the center offers in spades.

Revue Arts 09 June 2025
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Legacy and Laughter: Circle Theatre's 2025 Season

Lynne Brown-Tepper was 10 or 11 years old when she saw her first Circle Theatre show.  It was Cabaret, the sex-drenched musical set during the rise of Nazism. 

Revue Arts 09 June 2025
  • theatre
  • Circle Theatre
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Review: '12 Angry Men' Opens Barn Theatre's Season with Gripping Tale of Hope

“It’s very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this,” says righteous Juror #8 in the stage production of 12 Angry Men that opened The Barn Theatre’s 79th season. “Wherever you find it, prejudice obscures the truth.”

It’s the hottest day of 1954 in New York City with no AC and a broken fan when a jury of 12 white men start peeling off their sport jackets and loosening their ties because one of them isn’t willing to send a 16-year-old to the electric chair so the jurors can quickly move on with their lives after the three-day trial and stop being inconvenienced. 

Revue Arts 05 June 2025
  • theatre
  • theatre reviews
  • barn theatre
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Review: 'Ride the Cyclone' Wonderfully Captures the Unpredictable Thrills of Life and Death

Dead teenagers in a macabre amusement park limbo making a pitch for why they should get to return to their lives is far more amusing than might be expected in “Ride the Cyclone”, a wildly charming musical currently in production at Farmers Alley Theatre in Kalamazoo.

Revue Arts 02 June 2025
  • theatre
  • Farmers Alley Theatre
  • theatre reviews
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Review: 'Hamilton' On Tour is Magnificent as Ever

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 pop...
Read More
Review: ‘Hamilton’ Remains a Feast for Theatre Lovers

Review: ‘Hamilton’ Remains a Feast for Theatre Lovers

In the ten years since Hamilton debuted, nothing in musical theater has emerged to challenge it; the...
Read More
Review: A World of Talent Makes ‘Dreamgirls’ Shine at Circle Theatre

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...
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