The Seagull takes flight at the Hilberry Theatre TONIGHT, Dec. 4!

[ December 4, 2009 8:00 pm to February 11, 2010 8:00 pm. ]

December 4, 2009 – February 11, 2010
Performance Times:
Wednesday 2 p.m. Dec. 9
Thursday 8 p.m. Dec. 10, Feb. 4, 11
Friday 8 p.m. Dec. 4, 11, Jan. 22, Feb. 5
Saturday 2 p.m. Dec. 5, Jan. 23
Saturday 8 p.m. [...]

Detroit: Breeding Ground Exhibit Lives On In Print and Video

Michael McGillis, “Grommet”
Politely curious about why I have been redefining my base in Detroit, my son asked, “what are things like in Detroit?” After he has been living and working for ten years on a bucolic campus in Alexandria Virginia and now living on a boat in Seattle for three years I knew [...]

Nadir on Noel Night at Motor City Brewing Works

Holiday Funk in Midtown
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 6:00PM – 7:15 PM

Nadir Omowale and the band perform their kicking originals and a few funky holiday classics at the 37th Noel Night in Detroit’s Midtown on Saturday, December 5, 6pm at Motor City Brewing Works, 470 West Canfield.
37th Annual NOEL NIGHT
Saturday, December 5, 2009 5:00-9:30pm
Over 100 Performances [...]

The Moth StorySLAM: this month’s theme: CARS!

[ December 3, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Thursday, December 3, 2009
7pm Doors / 7.30pm Stories

Moth StorySLAMS have been rocking audiences in New York and Los Angeles since 2001. In October of this year, the Moth, a national organization based in New York, alighted in the midwest to launch StorySLAMs in Chicago and Detroit. The monthly StorySLAM is one of the many ways [...]

Focus: HOPE Star Studded Folk Music Festival

Sunday, December 6, 2009 – 3 PM
North Rosedale Park Community Center
Josh White Jr, Kitty Donohoe, Robert Jones and Matt
Watroba (above) will joined by many other folk favorites
The annual Holiday Music Festival featuring the Friends of Focus: HOPE will mark a new milestone this year — it is the 40th anniversary of this popular concert.
Folksingers [...]

Real Housewives of the North Pole at the Ringwald!

[ December 4, 2009 8:30 pm to December 20, 2009 4:30 pm. ] Fri, Dec. 4-Sun, Dec. 20, 2009
10:30 PM Fri & Sat; 4:30 PM Sun.
The Real Housewives Heat Up the North Pole
Sweet Love Productions, in association with Who Wants Cake?, are excited to announce the debut of The Real Housewives of the North Pole at The Ringwald Theatre this Friday, December 4 at 10:30 PM. The party [...]

WOMEN ONLY Auditions for [title of show] @ the Ringwald Theatre

[ December 4, 2009 6:00 pm to December 5, 2009 12:00 pm. ] Auditions for WOMEN, ages 25-35, for [title of show], a new musical
Fri, Dec 4, 6:00-8:00PM
Sat, Dec 5, 2009 10:00AM-12:00PM
The Ringwald Theatre, 22742 Woodward Ave., Ferndale

[title of show]
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Bowen
Book by Hunter Bell

[title of show] is a witty new musical written by two struggling writers about two struggling writers writing a witty new [...]

Books and Beats featuring Professor Griff of Public Enemy

[ December 9, 2009; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ]

Weds, Dec. 9, 2009, 6:00 PM
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History presents Books and Beats, featuring Public Enemy’s Professor Griff, who will be discussing his book Analytixz.

Class is in session with your favorite Prof.Also in the mix will be authors Jessica Care Moore to discuss her book God Is Not An American, [...]

Alia Malek: “A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories”

[ December 10, 2009; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Thursday, December 10, 2009 – 6:00 PM
Arab American Museum

Reading and discussion with Syrian American civil rights lawyer Alia Malek, author of A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories, to be recorded by C-SPAN2’s Book TV program for later national broadcast.

Alia Malek, photo by Jonathan BeckerWhat does American history look and feel like in [...]

THE “NEW” MCCREE THEATRE – CALL FOR AUDITIONS

[ December 21, 2009 7:00 pm to December 22, 2009 7:00 pm. ] Auditions for actors age 12 and up

Monday & Tuesday, December 21 & 22, 7:00 pm SHARP

The New McCree Theatre, 5005 Cloverlawn, Flint, MI

Play: “Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round,” a musical running Feb. 12-March 6, 2010

The New McCree Theatre has announced a casting call for its production, “Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round,” written and Directed by [...]