Discovering the Artist in You at Ox-Bow School of Art

It starts with a tour. James Brandess, smiling under a baseball cap, serves as guide for you and the dozen or so people who’ve enrolled in his landscape class. The Oxbow Lagoon: gorgeous.

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Review: Barn Theatre Serves Up a Playful, Nostalgic Evening with 'Mystic Pizza'

Screen-to-stage adaptations and jukebox musicals abound in contemporary theatre, and the new musical “Mystic Pizza”, is both. 

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Beer City Winds Returns Lifelong Musicians to the Stage

In the 2022 film Tár, Cate Blanchett plays a formidable and intimidating conductor. She suffers no fools. She demands of musicians that they sacrifice – even destroy – themselves. 

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Review: 'MJ' Takes the Jukebox Musical to New Heights

"It felt like catching the Holy Spirit in church,” Michael Jackson, the character created in “MJ” the musical, says describing the moment he felt he arrived, making music with his brothers and performing to huge applause at the Apollo Theatre. “It felt like love.”

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July 2024 Arts Calendar

It’s 2024 and arts organizations in West Michigan are thriving, with incredible, jam-packed seasons of art, conversations, fun and community involvement. 

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Review: 'Big Fish' at Hope Repertory Theatre Takes Big Swings

“If you’re going to have a story, have a big story or none at all,” wrote Joseph Campbell, the writer responsible for popularizing the hero’s journey as central to myth making and storytelling as we know it, and it’s advice taken to heart by Edward Bloom, the tall-tale teller central to the fantastical musical “Big Fish”, currently in production at Hope Repertory Theatre.

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Review: Carole King's Life is Celebrated Magnificently in 'Beautiful'

“Sometimes when life doesn’t go the way you want, you find something beautiful,” declares Katie Fay Francis as Carole King, singer and songwriter extraordinaire, from behind a piano at the start of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” at Saugatuck Center for the Arts.

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Review: Barn Theatre Demonstrates With Talent and Passion Why 'Fiddler on the Roof' Endures

“Fiddler on the Roof” made its stage debut in 1964, during the heyday of the American musical, and it’s both timeless and a product of its time. 

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Review: Face Off Theatre's 'Ain't Misbehavin' is a Joyful Celebration of Black Artistry

“Ain’t Misbehavin’” is a joyous, riotous affair, a grand celebration of the innovative American jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller. 

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Review: Hope Repertory Elevates Experimental 'The Last Five Years'

The musical “The Last Five Years” is over before it really begins, much like an ill-fated relationship—particularly the five-year marriage at the center of this song cycle written and composed by Jason Robert Brown. 

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Review: Farmers Alley Theatre Reconnects With Our Inner Child in 'Putnam County Spelling Bee'

We may have a tendency to forget many of the lessons of childhood having survived them, but it’s amazing how they can come up again and again. 

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A Summer of Lighthearted Classics at Circle Theatre

Do you remember the first show you ever saw in a theatre? How old were you, what was it like? Were the actors dressed in costume, wielding props like fencing swords or brass musical instruments? When they sang, did you feel like dancing along?

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Review: 'The Play That Goes Wrong' Gets Everything Right

The Barn Theatre in Augusta is rightfully celebrated for their terrific productions of farces. The silliness and high hilarity that come from utterly absurd situations sprung to life with impeccable timing and brilliant ensemble work are a trademark for this long-standing summer stock theatre. 

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Weather The Storm at Muskegon Museum of Art

Muskegon Museum of Art’s John Steuart Curry Weathering The Storm brings together the work of an important and accomplished American regional painter, one whose work was iconic enough to appear in a Hollywood film and honest enough that it led to a backlash so severe, it’s believed, as to have caused his early death.

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