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Stories of Power: ATGR holds local playwriting festival

Actors’ Theatre’s Living on the Edge playwriting festival is wrapping up this month with a final showcase of the top five scripts, written by local playwrights here in West Michigan. Each play, once fully staged, will last 8-15 minutes and they’re all written under one theme: (un)breakable.

Revue Arts 29 May 2018
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Sitcom Onstage: 'Olive and the Bitter Herbs' is more than a rerun

Golden Girls, Mary Tyler Moore, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Cheers, The Jeffersons — if you’re suddenly feeling nostalgic, Olive and the Bitter Herbs is the show for you.

Revue Arts 29 May 2018
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More Than a Show: America’s Music Company provides a unique blend of theater, music and pop culture

A new performing arts company has manifested in Grand Rapids, with a mission to bring entertainment as well as empowerment to the people and performers of West Michigan.

Revue Arts 29 May 2018
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Reuse, Reuse, Reuse: 'Industrial Nature' saves common objects from a lifetime in the landfill

At first glance, the large-scale wall installations and sculptures look like succulents and flowers, multi-colored woven rugs, moths and butterflies.

Revue Arts 29 May 2018
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Glass From the Past: 'Global Glass' explores the art form over the years

Half a century later, the contemporary glass movement continues to gain momentum with competitions, exhibits and college programs. With Global Glass: A Survey of Form & Function, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts is diving into this unique art movement.

Revue Arts 29 May 2018
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All's Fair in Art and Crafts: Time to hit the lakeshore for fine art

Every summer, set along boardwalks, in waterfront parks and on closed-off city blocks, art fairs take over the lakeshore with handcrafted jewelry, paintings, pottery, photography, sculpture and much more.

Revue Arts 29 May 2018
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Musical Monument: 'Feast or Famine' remembers the victims of avarice

This month’s Kalamazoo Philharmonia and the Bach Festival Chorus performance is personal for Andrew Koehler.

Revue Arts 29 May 2018
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Review: Grand Rapids Symphony closed out the season with power and hope

In Western music canon, Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the first freelance composers. Unlike his predecessors — Bach, Mozart and Haydn — he had no royal patron to please. Beethoven wrote music for himself, and for greater humanity. “What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose,” he said. Knowing this makes the impassioned plea for universal fellowship and peace in his “Symphony No. 9” all the more powerful.

Revue Arts 20 May 2018
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Review: ‘Gay Deceivers’ is the start of something great, despite its flaws

If there is something inherently funny about women’s breasts and the seemingly endless quest for the sexual capital that comes from an augmented female form, then “Gay Deceivers” capitalizes on it — with a pseudo-feminist twist. The humor in this almost-farce also relies on the audience’s delight in seeing ostensibly straight men dressed (badly) as women.

Revue Arts 20 May 2018
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Review: ‘Off the Wall’ is easily unique, fun enough to be an annual event

It was a truly unique night at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts last night with the first ever Off the Wall fundraising event. As I was leaving the event, feeling inspired and blessed to have seen so much talent in just three hours, I hoped that the UICA makes this an annual event, and I can safely assume the happy audience around me felt the same.

Revue Arts 16 May 2018
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Review: ‘Radio Gals’ is a fast-paced, feel-good treat

If there’s one thing the New Vic Theatre in Kalamazoo does exceptionally well, it’s down-home folksy storytelling with music. And that’s exactly what they have with “Radio Gals,” by Mike Carver and Mark Hardwick, which takes us into a delightfully kooky sort of Americana by way of retired music teacher Hazel Hunt’s front parlor where the Hazelnuts, a motley crew of local Arkansans, put on a radio variety show for the fun of it with a Western Electric 100-watt radio transmitter on their very own WGAL.

Revue Arts 14 May 2018
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Review: Gilmore Festival Finale delights and uplifts with curiosity, contrasts, hope

2018 Gilmore Artist Igor Levit has said that “permanent curiosity is essential” for him. The pianist dives deep into a concept, and use his towering skill to express it. During the 2018 Gilmore Keyboard Festival Finale on Saturday night, Levit conveyed the curiosity and humanism that is core to his art. He performed together with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra (KSO) under the baton of Raymond Harvey, music director emeritus.

Revue Arts 14 May 2018
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Review: Snarky Puppy pumps up the jams with fun, funky fusion

Snarky Puppy, the multiple Grammy Award-winning funky jazz fusion jam band collective that defies definition, brought down the sold-out house of The State Theatre in Kalamazoo Friday night in a Gilmore Keyboard Festival performance that kicked off what promises to be a wildly successful summer tour.

Revue Arts 13 May 2018
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Review: Leon Fleisher put his legacy on full display

In a jubilant celebration honoring the extraordinary life and achievements of one of the finest pianists of the past century, Leon Fleisher and friends offered a rousing all-Mozart program Wednesday night at Chenery Auditorium as a grand highlight of this year’s Gilmore Festival.

Revue Arts 11 May 2018
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Review: 'Pretty Woman: The Musical' Trades the Film's Chemistry for Crooning

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...
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Review: 'Be Here Now' is a Glorious, Stunning Representation of the 60s

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 19...
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A Voice in Every Note: Daniela Liebman at The Gilmore

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...
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