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Review: MOVEMEDIA pushes boundaries and has us clamoring for more
Written by Marin Heinritz | Monday, 11 February 2019 11:24 |In the final moments of Grand Rapids Ballet’s MOVEMEDIA: Handmade, dancers onstage transform into an underwater human merry go round. With linked arms, an outer circle moves clockwise, while an inner circle moves in the opposite direction in Nicolas Blanc’s world premiere “Aquatic Hypoxia.”
You Can Dance, You Can Jive: Mamma Mia! finally comes to Grand Rapids Civic Theatre
Written by Kayla Sosa | Thursday, 31 January 2019 21:17 |For 20 years, Mamma Mia! has been unavailable to local theater companies. But the time has come for troupes like Grand Rapids Civic Theatre to bring the hit musical to the stage with showstopping tunes, creative sets and lots of talent.
Burning Up: Actors' Theatre explores loss, labor and brotherhood
Written by Kayla Sosa | Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:24 |For Jake and Pete Twitchell, it’s the 10-year anniversary of their father’s tragic death in a 1952 mining accident. The Pickaway Coal Company’s South Mountain in rural West Virginia — locally nicknamed “The Burnt Part” — is where the death of those four miners occurred, three of whom left behind children.
Review: ‘Anastasia’ finds its proper home in a powerful, top-talent Broadway show
Written by Dana Casadei | Wednesday, 16 January 2019 15:34 |It’s four songs into Anastasia before audiences are really introduced to Anya (Lila Coogan) the show’s female lead. Up until that point, a lot of years go by, and quickly too, jumping from 1906 to 1917 to our final destination, 1927.
Review: ‘And Then There Were None’ is a thrilling, captivating mystery
Written by Kayla Tucker | Sunday, 13 January 2019 14:11 |A murder mystery took place at Grand Rapids Civic Theatre for the opening night of “And Then There Were None,” based on the novel and play written by Agatha Christie and locally directed by Bruce Tinker.
Designing Drama: How a costume designer brings Broadway plays to life
Written by Dana Casadei | Thursday, 27 December 2018 10:33 |It takes some of us more than 20 minutes just to pick out an outfit, let alone design one from scratch — not Linda Cho.
Stage to Stage: Shane German has spent a lifetime performing
Written by Kayla Sosa | Thursday, 27 December 2018 10:23 |Shane German, local WYCE music director and actor, moved to Grand Rapids three years ago. Since then, he has been in 14 shows, including Jewish Theatre’s Torch Song Trilogy Act III: Women and Children First, in which he just won the Grand Award this year for outstanding lead actor in a play. The play went on to win outstanding play, and other cast members took home awards as well. Coming off of the hype, German is both inspired and exhausted from the experience.
Long Story Short: Kalamazoo gives William Shakespeare a tight edit
Written by Jane Simons | Thursday, 27 December 2018 10:16 |In just 90 minutes, three actors will perform all 37 plays and sonnets written by William Shakespeare in The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged).
Review: ‘Adult Christmas’ is a delightful homegrown holiday show
Written by Kayla Sosa | Saturday, 15 December 2018 19:16 |The Grand Rapids all-women comedy group Funny Girls performed a sold-out show last night at Dog Story Theater, with their musical “Adult Christmas: Losing the Magic.” The comedy troupe took us on a journey at Halfway to Heaven Retirement home, through a variety of mediums and performances.
Review: Barn Theatre’s Christmas Cabaret brings you into the family gathering
Written by Marin Heinritz | Wednesday, 12 December 2018 11:03 |You may think you've heard all the Christmas songs. And you may regret how many times you’ve heard them. But you also are more than likely wrong. On both counts.
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