66 stories from Detroit Free Press
For as long as she can remember, "To Kill a Mockingbird" has loomed large for Celia Keenan-Bolger.
It's real, but it's also stringently limited. "'Holy smokes. I've never seen anything like this,' said Robert Wall, 89, a Detroit native who has attended every Motor City auto show since 193…
David Cryer has been touring in the musical for 12 years
Long a champion of new music, Broadway star has added pop to repertoire
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Seven years in the making! Nine versions from first draft to final script! A cast of... six.
"Norma & Wanda" is no movie epic, it's the latest comedy by Jeff Daniels, a writer who clearly takes comedy seriously.
"The Phantom of the Opera" notched its 7,000th performance on Broadway this month, and Harold Prince, its director, is practically ... purring.
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Arthur Miller visits campus, speaks to over 600
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Jerry Mitchell.
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Woodie King Jr., Ruby Dee, Glynn Turman and Ted Lange are among the film and theater artists expected to roast and toast Detroit playwright Ron Milner on Sunday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
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Trenyce stars in "Not a Day Goes By," a musical adaptation from an E. Lynn Harris book of the same name that plays tonight through Sunday at the Music Hall. The play co-stars Emmy winner Jac…
Emanuel Azenberg, one of the producers of "Movin' Out," says the mood was somber after the show was previewed for potential backers, even though the performance "went wonderfully."
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Mel Brooks holds forth on 'The Producers,' his old plays, and what's up next
Ron Seykell: New York cabaret star comes home to teach theater and dance
'Sound of Music' star emphasizes youth
Producer Joseph Nederlander informed the board in writing that he was withdrawing his previous proposal to lease the theater and run it as a commercial venture.
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In two years, Jack O'Brien has directed four Broadway shows, including the current megahit musical "Hairspray." Not bad for a kid from Saginaw who never dreamed of becoming a theater artist.
Yet another example of why they call it acting:
In "Hairspray," Linda Hart plays Velma Von Tussle, a TV producer dead set against letting black kids on the all-white afternoon dance show in 1962. In real life, Hart spent her childhood years in Detroit, where her father, the Rev. Ralph Hart, was (and is) the white pastor of a predominantly black church.
In 1962, at the height of the great folk music boom, Elektra Records put out an anthology album featuring its top artists: Judy Collins, Theodore Bikel, Josh White, the Limeliters, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Bob Grossman . . .
Hold on. Who is Bob Grossman and whatever happened to him?
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