Memorial For Arts Advocate E. Ray Scott at The Gem Theatre

Saturday, February 27th, 11am

E. Ray Scott
It was Saturday, Feb. 6, when the cheerful, tuxedoed members of Detroit’s Players Club gathered for their monthly show of plays at their historic Playhouse. The mood quickly sobered when they heard that Player E. Ray Scott had died at 86. As Executive Director of the Michigan Council for [...]

Kresge Artist Fellowships Deadline February 26th

Literary and performing artists can apply for one of 18 $25,000 fellowships
DEADLINE FEBRUARY 26, 2010
There is one month remaining for emerging and established metropolitan Detroit literary and performing artists to apply for one of 18 $25,000 Kresge Artist Fellowships. Applications are only available online at www.kresgeartsindetroit.org and must be completed by Friday, February 26, [...]

Casting Call for “A Tribute to Motown: An American Dream Story”  

The New McCree Theatre, 5005 Cloverlawn Drive, will be holding auditions for the climax of its 2009/2010 production season, the original musical revue, A Tribute to Motown: An American Dream Story, March 8 and 9, 2010 at 7:00 p.m sharp.  The theatre is seeking young men and ladies, between the ages of 15 – [...]

The Hilberry Company hosts “Engage with the Stage” theatre event for students

Graduate students of the Hilberry Theatre Company are giving high school students an opportunity to discover the inner workings of live theatre. This unique offering, Engage with the Stage, follows two matinee performances of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 and Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 10 a.m.
On each [...]

Mosaic Youth Theatre Purchases New Center Building

Mosaic Youth Theatre has acquired a historic 40,000-square-foot building on Second Avenue in New Center, the former location of WTVS and WJBK. The plan is to renovate it as a permanent home for the program and a center dedicated to youth excellence with offices, studio and rehearsal space and a 180-seat black box theater. Mosaic [...]

Auditions For A New Production Of “Forgotten”

The Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant: An Original Jazz-Folk Opera
Elise Bryant, Director; Bill Meyer, Music Director; Sam Kirkland and Dave Elsila, Producers
“FORGOTTEN: The Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant” will be presented at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, March 26, 2010. Elise Bryant will direct this new production, and [...]

“In The Blood” at Virgil H. Carr Cultural Arts Center

by Suzan Lori-Parks,
Directed by Wyldchild L. Chemist,
January 8-10, 2-10
Amy Gutz as Amiga Gringa.
Photography by: Ryan Myers www.moveimagery.com
Written like final round slam poetry, In the Blood keeps it real in the “here and now.” Hester, a mother devoted to her 5 children struggles to find ways to feed them. Five actors play her 5 young [...]

Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company: “The Last Five Years”

[ January 1, 2010 8:00 am to January 23, 2010 8:00 am. ] January 1–23, 2010
the Furniture Factory

Anne Damman & Kevin Young photo by Charles NowakMagenta Giraffe Theatre Company of Detroit presents The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown, directed by Frannie Shepherd-Bates and with musical direction by Michael Fiedler, from January 1–23, 2010, at the Furniture Factory in midtown Detroit.

A gorgeous musical about [...]

The Hebrew Hammer Saves Hanukkah Extended Performances

[ January 1, 2010 8:00 pm to January 2, 2010 8:00 pm. ] The Hebrew Hammer
Extended to January 1 & 2, 2010 at 8pm
at Planet Ant
By Jonathan Kesselman
Adapted and Directed by Frannie Shepherd- Bates

Featuring: Jon Ager, Sarah Switanowski, Richard Payton, Daniel Burrell, Joshua Campos, Hugh Duneghy II, Lisa Maxine Melinn

No Actor Left Behind with Days of Our Lives Actor Steve Blackwood

Train with a Professional
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 10:00am – 2:00pm
Prudential – HWWB (2nd Floor Conference Room)
No Actor Left Behind: The three A’s of the Art
How to Act
How to Audition and
How to Administrate for film and theatre”
One day seminar taught by award winning “Days of our Lives” actor Steve Blackwood
You will learn:
The basics of acting from [...]