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Masters of Voice and Piano at The Gilmore

On Saturday, May 27, Kalamazoo’s Chenery Auditorium will welcome to its stage two world-renowned musicians: soprano Renée Fleming and pianist Evgeny Kissin. Audience members will experience some of the best music ever written, including pieces by Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Duparc, performed by musicians who have demonstrated mastery of the art form for decades.

Revue Arts 15 May 2023
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Review: The Tale of 'Hadestown' Deserves to be Told Again and Again

As long as humans exist to share stories, we will undoubtedly reimagine and retell those tales that originated as classic mythology.

Revue Arts 11 May 2023
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Review: Junior High Rears its Hilarious Head in 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'

Middle school is its own world, one populated by awkward creatures and overhung with threatening skies. If you live there, you’re still discovering who you are, and deciding how much of yourself you want to reveal. Or maybe not; maybe you’re openly yourself, in all your bonkers glory.

Revue Arts 08 May 2023
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Becoming Hadestown's Hermes

The central conceit of Hadestown easily numbers among the best of any Broadway musical ever: the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in a post-apocalyptic New Orleans, soaked in that near-mythic city’s distinctive music. 

Revue Arts 08 May 2023
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Review: 'Something Rotten!' is Fresh, Fun and Very Funny

2023 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, the first-ever collection of William Shakespeare’s plays. A copy sold at auction in October of 2020 for $9,978,000, which is a lot, but not so bad when you factor in the free shipping.

Revue Arts 01 May 2023
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Review: Ballet + Broadway is a Marvelous Showcase of Versatility

If there’s one thing Grand Rapids Ballet has proven in its 50-plus years, it is the company’s terrific versatility. This isn’t simply the only professional ballet company in Michigan; Grand Rapids Ballet continuously stretches the boundaries of what’s possible for magnificently classically-trained dancers to create on stage, from the lexicon of classical ballet, yes—but also beyond.

Revue Arts 25 April 2023
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Review: Farmers Alley Theatre's 'Chicken & Biscuits' is Well-Crafted Comfort Food

“Lord, bless me with the patience to deal with my family, for they know not what they do. . . .” says Jenkins family matriarch Baneatta at the start of Douglas Lyons’ comedic play Chicken and Biscuits, currently in production at Farmers Alley Theatre in Kalamazoo.

Revue Arts 22 April 2023
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Something Not So Rotten at GR Civic

After other such entertaining productions as School of Rock, Mary Poppins, and Once On This Island, the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre is finishing out their mainstage season with yet another musical: “Something Rotten!”

Revue Arts 17 April 2023
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Review: Face Off Theatre's New Show is an Immensely Powerful, Necessary Experience

To say that What to Send Up When It Goes Down by Alesha Harris is a powerful piece of theatre—or even that it is theatre unlike anything you’ve likely seen before—is an understatement. 

Revue Arts 15 April 2023
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Review: 'My Fair Lady' is a Grand, Transformative Experience

As a culture, we love transformation. We clamor for stories that involve improvement, of transition to a better place, makeovers of one variety or another.

Revue Arts 14 April 2023
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Getting Indecent with Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids

One hundred years ago, a play called God of Vengeance made its Broadway debut. Written by Sholem Asch, it told the story of a Jewish brothel owner looking to join respectable society.

Revue Arts 10 April 2023
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Review: The New Vic Theatre Returns with Utterly Delightful 'Boston Marriage'

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and celebrated screenwriter David Mamet is known for distinctive, brilliantly-crafted, fast-paced dialogue that more often than not characterizes contemporary men and their circumstances in a satirical way and doesn’t shy away from filth and other variations of real talk as audiences generally know it.

Revue Arts 04 April 2023
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Cultivate: Building Community with Arts and Education

Before Cultivate was a space, it was merely an idea. One that had been budding in the mind of its Director and Founder, Mallory Shotwell, for about eight years.

Revue Arts 20 March 2023
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Opera GR Gets Lit

Last words tend to go unrecorded and, in time, forgotten. Those that long outlive their speakers often surprise through their wit or profundity, and Opera Grand Rapids understands this.

Revue Arts 13 March 2023
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Review: 'Seussical' is an All-Ages Delight Full of Sensory Wonders

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 ...
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Review: 'Measure for Measure' at Interlochen Shows Why Shakespeare Endures

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

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 ...
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