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Review: Deos Contemporary Ballet Captures the Power of Dance as Art

Deos Contemporary Ballet’s 2024-2025 season finale, Awaken 25, reflected the mood of our times, offered a balm via movement, and showed the small but mighty company’s artistic and stylistic range in the wonderfully intimate space of Gezon Auditorium at Calvin University.

Revue Arts 20 May 2025
  • dance
  • Ballet
  • Deos Contemporary Ballet
  • theatre reviews
  • Dance reviews
  • Calvin University
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Review: 'The Prom' Brings Big Laughs and Big Heart to Circle Theatre

The next best thing to being a good person is appearing to be one, which is why four Broadway stars—well, two Broadway stars, one chorus member, and one actor-turned waiter—decide to find a cause to take on. Poverty’s too big, so they nix that idea. But reforming a small Indiana town that canceled prom rather than let a lesbian attend with her girlfriend? Easy as Hoosier pie. So they think, anyway, in The Prom, onstage at Circle Theatre, May 15-31. The musical takes a warm-hearted, funny look at the trouble we can get into when trying to do good, and the good that can result from it anyway. 

Revue Arts 16 May 2025
  • theatre
  • Circle Theatre
  • theatre reviews
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Moving With Purpose: West Michigan Dance Companies

As a haven for the arts, it’s no surprise West Michigan is home to a vibrant and diverse dance scene. We have a number of companies providing both classical ballet and contemporary dance at the highest level, constantly pushing dance to new spaces and new heights.

Revue Arts 12 May 2025
  • dance
  • Ballet
  • Deos Contemporary Ballet
  • Grand Rapids Ballet
  • CPR Dance
  • Wellspring
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Review: 'Pretty Woman: The Musical' Trades the Film's Chemistry for Crooning

"I want the fairytale” reads a T-shirt for sale at DeVos during the run of Pretty Woman: The Musical. It echoes the iconic line from the 1990 film starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. Much of the musical, in fact, is an echo of that celebrated rom-com and takes the fantasy of the film’s story to the next level by putting it to music. 

Revue Arts 30 April 2025
  • DeVos Performance Hall
  • theatre
  • Broadway Grand Rapids
  • theatre reviews
  • Musical
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Review: 'Be Here Now' is a Glorious, Stunning Representation of the 60s

Grand Rapids Ballet’s 2024-2025 season finale “Be Here Now” promised to capture the spirit of the 1960s but in ways far more nuanced and complex than the audience members who show up wearing giant round pink-tinted glasses, mod floral print mini dresses, and white go-go boots expect. 

Revue Arts 29 April 2025
  • dance
  • Ballet
  • Grand Rapids Ballet
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A Voice in Every Note: Daniela Liebman at The Gilmore

Daniela Liebman was 11, maybe 12, when it began to make sense. She had moved to Texas, where she was studying piano with Tamás Ungár. She was practicing the opening of a Mendelssohn piece on a little upright piano, trying to understand what a festival teacher was explaining, when suddenly she did. 

Revue Arts 29 April 2025
  • Daniela Liebman
  • The Gilmore
  • Wellspring Theater
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May 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 29 April 2025
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Review: 'Jukebox for the Algonquin' Exquisitely Captures the Paradox of Aging

The core group of residents at Placid Pines Senior Care Center in the Adirondacks may identify with the fish in an aquarium swimming around and around, nothing much new of any given day, except a compatriot going belly up only to be soon forgotten. However, they actually are a gang of wits not unlike the members of the Algonquin Round Table—Dorothy Parker, Harpo Marx, Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, Tallulah Bankhead, among other literati luminaries of the 1920s who met regularly for lunch at the famed New York hotel.

Revue Arts 08 April 2025
  • theatre
  • Farmers Alley Theatre
  • theatre reviews
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Review: Neil Diamond's Music Dazzles in 'A Beautiful Noise'

The appeal of a jukebox musical is simple: audiences are drawn to music they know and love, to see a concert of hits, often part of the soundtrack of their lives, while also being told a story through those songs. It hardly matters in terms of popular opinion that the stories are often formulaic, the plots thin; it’s still a value-added experience to take in a live performance with singing, dancing, and storytelling that also takes you back to gently revisit poignant moments of your own life through familiar tunes. “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical” fits the bill quite beautifully, indeed. 

Revue Arts 02 April 2025
  • DeVos Performance Hall
  • Broadway Grand Rapids
  • Broadway
  • theatre reviews
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Goosebumps Guaranteed: Why You Need to Hear 'Carmina Burana'

Whether or not you know the name, you know the music. Monumental in its power, Carmina Burana has been used to score hundreds of commercials, television shows, films, campaign events, and Olympic contests.

Revue Arts 01 April 2025
  • DeVos Performance Hall
  • Grand Rapids Symphony
  • Classical Music
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Divine Intervention: Counseling the Creator in 'Oh, My God'

Imagine you’re a therapist. Your newest patient? God: creator of Heaven and Earth, currently depressed.

Revue Arts 01 April 2025
  • Dog Story Theater
  • theatre
  • Jewish Theatre GR
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No Need for Hollywood: Making Michigan Movies

For Matt Everitt, watching movies isn’t enough—he has to make them. His latest short film, You Can Go Home Whenever You Want, has earned acclaim at film festivals from Ohio to Italy. 

Revue Arts 01 April 2025
  • film
  • Grand Rapids Film Society
  • Grand Rapids Community Media Center
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April 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 with symphonies with, dancers taking to the stage, and powerful art exhibitions. Here's our guide to arts events for the month!

Revue Arts 01 April 2025
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Review: Jumpstart 2025 Once Again Showcases Phenomenal Talent of Grand Rapids Ballet

Every March, the Grand Rapids Ballet presents Jumpstart, a performance of dances created by and for the company members, and it’s a hotly anticipated fan favorite every season—for good reason. This year, the two-hour performance offered 14 different world premiere works made by 14 different choreographers.

Revue Arts 24 March 2025
  • dance
  • Ballet
  • Grand Rapids Ballet
  • theatre reviews
  • Dance reviews
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Review: Deos Contemporary Ballet Captures the Power of Dance as Art

Review: Deos Contemporary Ballet Captures the Power of Dance as Art

Deos Contemporary Ballet’s 2024-2025 season finale, Awaken 25, reflected the mood of our times, offe...
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Review: 'The Prom' Brings Big Laughs and Big Heart to Circle Theatre

Review: 'The Prom' Brings Big Laughs and Big Heart to Circle Theatre

The next best thing to being a good person is appearing to be one, which is why four Broadway stars—...
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Moving With Purpose: West Michigan Dance Companies

Moving With Purpose: West Michigan Dance Companies

As a haven for the arts, it’s no surprise West Michigan is home to a vibrant and diverse dance scene...
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