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Theater, Dance, and Opera
The Ann Arbor area plays host to several community and semi-professional
theater companies, with new shows going up every month. Ballet,
modern, and traditional dance concerts abound, along with musical
theater productions from Broadway to grand opera.
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"Playing Around": Ann Arbor Civic Theatre.
"Panhandle Slim & The Oklahoma Kid": Purple Rose Theatre Company.
"The Little Dog Laughed": Performance Network Professional Season.
 Monday
July, 2008
 7-8:30 p.m.
"All's Well That Ends Well":
Ann Arbor District Library. Director John Neville-Andrews and actors Janet Haley and Donna Dancho discuss their upcoming production of Shakespeare's tragedy for the Michigan Shakespeare Festival in Jackson. Also, Neville-Andrews directs the actors in scenes from the play, emphasizing moods and emotions suggested by the audience.
AADL multipurpose room (lower level), 343 S. Fifth Ave. at William. Free. 327-4560.
 Tuesday
July, 2008
7 p.m.
"Israeli Scouts Friendship Caravan":
Jewish Community Center. A program of song, dance, and storytelling celebrating friendship by a touring ensemble of Israeli Boy and Girl Scouts. Preceded at 6 p.m. by a pizza dinner.
Jewish Community Center, 2935 Birch Hollow Dr. (off Stone School Rd. south of Packard). $6 (family, $18). $2 discounts for JCC members. Reservations requested. 971-0990.
 Wednesday
July, 2008
3 & 8 p.m.
"Panhandle Slim & The Oklahoma Kid":
Purple Rose Theatre Company. Every Wednesday-Sunday, June 19-August 30 (except August 6), and July 1 and August 5 & 26. Guy Sanville directs Purple Rose founder Jeff Daniels's new comedy, the tale of a showdown between 2 Wild West archetypes - a singing cowboy a la Roy Rogers and a scoundrelly outlaw. Thrown together by unfortunate circumstances, they argue over the best way to be a cowboy, while 2 other actors portray their reminiscences. Cast: John Seibert, Tom Whalen, Phil Powers, and Jessica Garrett. 8 p.m., Purple Rose Theatre, 137 Park St., Chelsea.
Tickets $25 (Sun. eves., Wed. & Thurs.), $33 (Sat. & Sun. matinees), & $38 (Fri. & Sat. eves.) in advance and at the door. 433-7673.
 Thursday
July, 2008
8 p.m.
"The Little Dog Laughed":
Performance Network Professional Season. Every Thursday-Sunday, June 19-July 27. Ray Schultz directs Douglas Carter Beane's Tony-nominated 2006 comedy of manners about a Hollywood agent hot on getting the film rights to a new play for her client, a sexually confused up-and-coming actor afflicted with what she calls a "slight recurring case of homosexuality." The play has won praise for the subtlety and zing of its richly comic dialogue and for what New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley calls "an expressly theatrical energy that finds the verbal music and rhythm in Hollywood-style hypocrisy." Contains adult language and content, including male nudity. Stars Roxanne Wellington, Bart Bund, Jacob Hodgson, and Chelsea Sadler.
Performance Network, 120 E. Huron. Tickets $25 (Thurs. & Sat. matinee), $30 (Fri. & Sun.), and $37 (Sat. eve.) available in advance at performancenetwork.org & by phone, and at the door. $3 discounts available for seniors age 60 & over, $10 discounts available (except Sat. eve.) for students. Half-price student rush tickets & $10 tickets for age 16 & under available 1 hour before showtime. For reservations, call 663-0681; to charge by phone, call 663-0696.
8 p.m.
"Panhandle Slim & The Oklahoma Kid":
Purple Rose Theatre Company. Every Wednesday-Sunday, June 19-August 30 (except August 6), and July 1 and August 5 & 26. Guy Sanville directs Purple Rose founder Jeff Daniels's new comedy, the tale of a showdown between 2 Wild West archetypes - a singing cowboy a la Roy Rogers and a scoundrelly outlaw. Thrown together by unfortunate circumstances, they argue over the best way to be a cowboy, while 2 other actors portray their reminiscences. Cast: John Seibert, Tom Whalen, Phil Powers, and Jessica Garrett. 8 p.m., Purple Rose Theatre, 137 Park St., Chelsea.
Tickets $25 (Sun. eves., Wed. & Thurs.), $33 (Sat. & Sun. matinees), & $38 (Fri. & Sat. eves.) in advance and at the door. 433-7673.
 Friday
July, 2008
7 p.m.
Summer Theater Camp Productions:
Young Actors Guild. July 18 & 19 (different programs). Young local actors present 4 productions that culminate their summer theater camp. Tonight (tentatively): Emily Wilson-Tobin directs excerpts from Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton, Tennessee Williams's short play about competing cotton gin owners.
Greenhills School Campbell Center for the Performing Arts, 850 Greenhills Dr. (off Earhart). $3 suggested donation. 913-9800.
8 p.m.
"A Puppetry Spectacle":
Dreamland Theater. July 18-20 (different programs). Three days of puppet shows by local and area puppeteers. Also, sock & shadow puppet making for kids. Tonight: the Dreamland Puppet Troupe and Michigan puppet troupe Penguicon present A Shoggoth on the Roof, an anonymous H. P. Lovecraft Society member's parody of Fiddler on the Roof based on Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos.
Dreamland Theater, 26 N. Washington St. Ypsilanti. $7. 657-2337.
8 p.m.
"Playing Around":
Ann Arbor Civic Theatre. July 11, 12, 18, & 19. Civic Theatre actors perform 2 plays from the theater's annual playwriting contest. Tonight: Almaza Ijaz-Black directs Elizabeth Wolf's The Strawberry & the Kaiser, a romantic comedy loosely based on the biographies of Sigmund Freud and his family. When a young American woman comes to Vienna for psychoanalysis, the Freuds are attracted to her in a way that threatens their family dynamic. Cast: Lyn Davidge, Susan Klein, Lisa White, Christine Hoberg, Gordon Barnett, and Kate Murphy.
AACT Studio, 322 W. Ann. Tickets $10 & $15 in advance and at the door. 971-2228.
8 p.m.
"Panhandle Slim & The Oklahoma Kid":
Purple Rose Theatre Company. Every Wednesday-Sunday, June 19-August 30 (except August 6), and July 1 and August 5 & 26. Guy Sanville directs Purple Rose founder Jeff Daniels's new comedy, the tale of a showdown between 2 Wild West archetypes - a singing cowboy a la Roy Rogers and a scoundrelly outlaw. Thrown together by unfortunate circumstances, they argue over the best way to be a cowboy, while 2 other actors portray their reminiscences. Cast: John Seibert, Tom Whalen, Phil Powers, and Jessica Garrett. 8 p.m., Purple Rose Theatre, 137 Park St., Chelsea.
Tickets $25 (Sun. eves., Wed. & Thurs.), $33 (Sat. & Sun. matinees), & $38 (Fri. & Sat. eves.) in advance and at the door. 433-7673.
8 p.m.
"The Little Dog Laughed":
Performance Network Professional Season. Every Thursday-Sunday, June 19-July 27. Ray Schultz directs Douglas Carter Beane's Tony-nominated 2006 comedy of manners about a Hollywood agent hot on getting the film rights to a new play for her client, a sexually confused up-and-coming actor afflicted with what she calls a "slight recurring case of homosexuality." The play has won praise for the subtlety and zing of its richly comic dialogue and for what New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley calls "an expressly theatrical energy that finds the verbal music and rhythm in Hollywood-style hypocrisy." Contains adult language and content, including male nudity. Stars Roxanne Wellington, Bart Bund, Jacob Hodgson, and Chelsea Sadler.
Performance Network, 120 E. Huron. Tickets $25 (Thurs. & Sat. matinee), $30 (Fri. & Sun.), and $37 (Sat. eve.) available in advance at performancenetwork.org & by phone, and at the door. $3 discounts available for seniors age 60 & over, $10 discounts available (except Sat. eve.) for students. Half-price student rush tickets & $10 tickets for age 16 & under available 1 hour before showtime. For reservations, call 663-0681; to charge by phone, call 663-0696.
 Saturday
July, 2008
10 a.m. noon. & 2:30 p.m.
Summer Theater Camp Productions:
Young Actors Guild. July 18 & 19 (different programs). Young local actors present 4 productions that culminate their summer theater camp. Today: Kirk Carlson directs 3rd-6th graders in A Box of Delight (10 a.m.), a show of improvisation, movement, & acrobatics. Tina Albright directs The Tempest (noon), Shakespeare's visionary romance set on a magical island ruled by the enigmatic but benevolent sorcerer Prospero and his beautiful daughter Miranda. Jenny Sawtelle directs Telling Wilde Tales (2:30 p.m.), Jules Tasca's adaptation of several Oscar Wilde short stories.
Greenhills School Campbell Center for the Performing Arts, 850 Greenhills Dr. (off Earhart). $3 suggested donation. 913-9800.
2 p.m.
"A Puppetry Spectacle":
Dreamland Theater. July 18-20 (different programs). Three days of puppet shows by local and area puppeteers. Also, sock & shadow puppet making for kids. Today: Goldilocks & Red Riding Hood vs. the Monsters (2 p.m.) and shadow puppet shows for and about cats (2:45 p.m.). Followed at 3:30 p.m. by sock puppet making ($1). Also, puppetry improv and puppet shows for mature audiences at 7 p.m.
Dreamland Theater, 26 N. Washington St. Ypsilanti. $7. 657-2337.
3 & 8 p.m.
"The Little Dog Laughed":
Performance Network Professional Season. Every Thursday-Sunday, June 19-July 27. Ray Schultz directs Douglas Carter Beane's Tony-nominated 2006 comedy of manners about a Hollywood agent hot on getting the film rights to a new play for her client, a sexually confused up-and-coming actor afflicted with what she calls a "slight recurring case of homosexuality." The play has won praise for the subtlety and zing of its richly comic dialogue and for what New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley calls "an expressly theatrical energy that finds the verbal music and rhythm in Hollywood-style hypocrisy." Contains adult language and content, including male nudity. Stars Roxanne Wellington, Bart Bund, Jacob Hodgson, and Chelsea Sadler.
Performance Network, 120 E. Huron. Tickets $25 (Thurs. & Sat. matinee), $30 (Fri. & Sun.), and $37 (Sat. eve.) available in advance at performancenetwork.org & by phone, and at the door. $3 discounts available for seniors age 60 & over, $10 discounts available (except Sat. eve.) for students. Half-price student rush tickets & $10 tickets for age 16 & under available 1 hour before showtime. For reservations, call 663-0681; to charge by phone, call 663-0696.
3 & 8 p.m.
"Panhandle Slim & The Oklahoma Kid":
Purple Rose Theatre Company. Every Wednesday-Sunday, June 19-August 30 (except August 6), and July 1 and August 5 & 26. Guy Sanville directs Purple Rose founder Jeff Daniels's new comedy, the tale of a showdown between 2 Wild West archetypes - a singing cowboy a la Roy Rogers and a scoundrelly outlaw. Thrown together by unfortunate circumstances, they argue over the best way to be a cowboy, while 2 other actors portray their reminiscences. Cast: John Seibert, Tom Whalen, Phil Powers, and Jessica Garrett. 8 p.m., Purple Rose Theatre, 137 Park St., Chelsea.
Tickets $25 (Sun. eves., Wed. & Thurs.), $33 (Sat. & Sun. matinees), & $38 (Fri. & Sat. eves.) in advance and at the door. 433-7673.
8 p.m.
"Playing Around":
Ann Arbor Civic Theatre. July 11, 12, 18, & 19. Civic Theatre actors perform 2 plays from the theater's annual playwriting contest. Tonight: Almaza Ijaz-Black directs Elizabeth Wolf's The Strawberry & the Kaiser, a romantic comedy loosely based on the biographies of Sigmund Freud and his family. When a young American woman comes to Vienna for psychoanalysis, the Freuds are attracted to her in a way that threatens their family dynamic. Cast: Lyn Davidge, Susan Klein, Lisa White, Christine Hoberg, Gordon Barnett, and Kate Murphy.
AACT Studio, 322 W. Ann. Tickets $10 & $15 in advance and at the door. 971-2228.
 Sunday
July, 2008
2 p.m.
"Panhandle Slim & The Oklahoma Kid":
Purple Rose Theatre Company. Every Wednesday-Sunday, June 19-August 30 (except August 6), and July 1 and August 5 & 26. Guy Sanville directs Purple Rose founder Jeff Daniels's new comedy, the tale of a showdown between 2 Wild West archetypes - a singing cowboy a la Roy Rogers and a scoundrelly outlaw. Thrown together by unfortunate circumstances, they argue over the best way to be a cowboy, while 2 other actors portray their reminiscences. Cast: John Seibert, Tom Whalen, Phil Powers, and Jessica Garrett. 8 p.m., Purple Rose Theatre, 137 Park St., Chelsea.
Tickets $25 (Sun. eves., Wed. & Thurs.), $33 (Sat. & Sun. matinees), & $38 (Fri. & Sat. eves.) in advance and at the door. 433-7673.
2 p.m.
"The Little Dog Laughed":
Performance Network Professional Season. Every Thursday-Sunday, June 19-July 27. Ray Schultz directs Douglas Carter Beane's Tony-nominated 2006 comedy of manners about a Hollywood agent hot on getting the film rights to a new play for her client, a sexually confused up-and-coming actor afflicted with what she calls a "slight recurring case of homosexuality." The play has won praise for the subtlety and zing of its richly comic dialogue and for what New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley calls "an expressly theatrical energy that finds the verbal music and rhythm in Hollywood-style hypocrisy." Contains adult language and content, including male nudity. Stars Roxanne Wellington, Bart Bund, Jacob Hodgson, and Chelsea Sadler.
Performance Network, 120 E. Huron. Tickets $25 (Thurs. & Sat. matinee), $30 (Fri. & Sun.), and $37 (Sat. eve.) available in advance at performancenetwork.org & by phone, and at the door. $3 discounts available for seniors age 60 & over, $10 discounts available (except Sat. eve.) for students. Half-price student rush tickets & $10 tickets for age 16 & under available 1 hour before showtime. For reservations, call 663-0681; to charge by phone, call 663-0696.
2 p.m.
"A Puppetry Spectacle":
Dreamland Theater. July 18-20 (different programs). Three days of puppet shows by local and area puppeteers. Also, sock & shadow puppet making for kids. Today: The Story of the Dragon and His Dinosaur Friends (2 p.m.) and shadow puppet shows for and about cats (2:45 p.m.). Followed at 3:30 p.m. by shadow puppet making (for a donation) and at 7 p.m. by puppetry improv and puppet shows for mature audiences.
Dreamland Theater, 26 N. Washington St. Ypsilanti. $7. 657-2337.
3 p.m.
"Dreaming a Place: Nightfire and PlaceMagic":
Nightfire Dance Theater. Nightfire director Irena Nagler leads a session of environmental dancing in an outdoor setting (shelter available), accompanied by music and other sound, visual art, and poetry. Participants should bring anything needed for protection from sun, rain, and occasional rough terrain. If you like, you can also bring a sketchbook, pens, pencils, poetry, and shoes you can wear in water. No experience necessary.
location TBA. $5-$20 sliding scale. 996-1772.
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