Eisenhower Dance Ensemble Celebrates 20 Years of Visionary Dance with 20/20 Dance

[ December 10, 2010; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Eisenhower Dance Ensemble (EDE) will celebrate 20 years of visionary dance with the concert 20/20 Dance on Friday, December 10, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. at Seligman Performing Arts Center. The concert will present revivals of audience favorites and a new work by EDE Choreography Competition winner Daniel Gwirtzman.

Notes EDE Artistic Director Laurie Eisenhower, “I love [...]

Detroit Passport to the Arts Cultural Exchange Program

Join Detroit Passport to the Arts on this extracurricular adventure to Indianapolis, home of DP2A’s sister/mentor program IndyHub.  This cultural exchange program is the first of its kind for these two cultural exploratory programs and will give Detroit’s Passport holders a chance to meet and interact with IndyHub’s cultural enthusiasts as well as get a [...]

Review: La Bohème at the Detroit Opera House

La Vie Bohème!
Oops, wrong version.
Mark Stryker of the Detroit Free Press said of La Bohème that “there is no better starter opera for newcomers,” referencing the “across-the-board” appeal of Puccini’s emotionally nuanced compositions and the overall timelessness and universal accessibility of the opera’s core love story.  Both of these things are true, but I think [...]

DP2A Destination #1: Japan — The Mikado at the Detroit Opera House

For its 40th anniversary season, the Michigan Opera Theatre is once again presenting four full-scale operas (after scaling back to three last year — Nabucco; a very well-received Tosca, which I missed; and a lackluster, half-hearted Don Giovanni, which I almost regret to have seen), but surprisingly two of the four selections are slightly lighter [...]

Film Review: Inception

The term “auteur” has historically been thrown around a lot a bit haphazardly, preemptively. Auteur theory was popularized by the likes of Francois Truffaut (a film critic who made films that examined the constructedness of filmmaking) in his Cahiers du Cinema, with cinematic juggernauts like Hitchcock and Welles regarded worshipfully as the de facto examples. [...]

BravoBravo 2010: Destination Fashion Reflections

All things evolve over time. For 11 years, BravoBravo! has been the premiere social event of the summer, attracting thousands of the metro area’s young, sexy professionals and arts supporters, raising nearly a million dollars since its inception for the Detroit Opera House and Michigan Opera Theatre.
In that time, the buzz caught on. Now it [...]

BravoBravo! 2010: The Fashionable Way to Fundraise

It’s almost time for the 11th annual benefit for the Detroit Opera House, BravoBravo! On Friday June 4, 2010, from 7:30 p.m. – 12:30 a.m., the opulent Opera House will be transformed into a food and fashion wonderland for some 2,000 gorgeous revelers. For 11 years now, the young professionals group of the Michigan Opera [...]

CATS at the Fisher Theatre

CATS—it’s a musical about cats. Singing, dancing, pouncing, prancing cats. The idea in itself sounds ludicrous (and, truth be told, it kind of is ludicrous), but for 28 years Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony-award-winning CATS has delighted audiences, parents and children alike, with its whimsical look at the lives of Jellicle cats and their annual Jellicle [...]

Experience the Launch of 3D Tours with a Brew-Ha-Ha!

Sunday, February 21, 2010 beginning at 4:00pm
For the launch Discover Detroit Dining/3D Tours outing, it’s a “Brew-Ha-Ha!”  Michigan is home to some of the most top-rated craft breweries in the world, raking in medals from top competitions such as the World Beer Cup and the Great American Beer Festival.  There are currently over 70 craft [...]

Ohmigod, Legally Blonde the Musical

Never underestimate the power of blonde ambition. The charming Elle Woods from the 2001 cinematic confection Legally Blonde is back in her own imperturbably perky musical, fresh from a successful Tony Award-winning Broadway run and an unprecedented partnership with MTV (which aired the musical uncut last October to 12.5 million viewers as well as a [...]