Like many acknowledged classics, “She Loves Me” had a long and compelling genesis, but for songwriting team Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock it was “love at first write.”
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Stability Through Song
“She Loves Me” director Kirsten Sanderson introduces you to this exquisite, “perfect little gem of a musical.” Will you like it? You’ve just got to!
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A Jewel Box Musical
First seen on Broadway in 1963, “She Loves Me” was as good as lost to generations of theatergoers until the story of two feuding clerks at a Hungarian parfumerie got its first revival.
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Factory Sounds, Detroit Beats
“As soon as I read it, I knew I would do it.” G Clausen makes his PlayMakers debut with a show that’s right up his alley. Experience the hip-hop-infused, rhythm-driven sound design of “Skeleton Crew.”
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The Break Room
One setting, four players. Scenic designer Jan Chambers and director Valerie Curtis-Newton take you inside the world of Dominique Morisseau’s “Skeleton Crew.”
Theatre can get a bad rep for being stuffy, but Dominique Morisseau is shaking things up with her Rules of Engagement.
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Out of the Ashes
Detroit, 2008. What was once an industrial powerhouse has become a microcosm of the threats to economic security and prosperity facing the nation.
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Embodying Robin Hood
Finding the spirit of Robin Hood in a time that truly needs it can be difficult, but Jessie Austrian is up to the challenge. And she thinks you are, too.
Why the longevity and mass appeal of Robin Hood? Well, if everyone’s favorite outlaw stands for anything, it’s the reminder that we’re all in this together.