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An eagle-eye view of Lansing area theater and performing arts from the view of a local critic and performing arts columnist.
About this blog
This is a personal blog with absolutely no affiliation with the Lansing State Journal. While I write a column on similar topics for them, this blog is purely my own opinion with no one responsible for what is expressed here except me. What I'll express here are observations and thoughts about theater, shows, and art in general. I'll mostly avoid reviews--I prefer traditional media for that--and stick with more conversational responses to theater.
Lansing theaters
- All-of-Us Children's Express
- BoarsHead
- Capital TheatreWorks
- Holt Dimondale Community Players
- Icarus Falling
- Lansing Civic Players
- Lansing Community College
- Michigan State University Theater
- Mid-Michigan Family Theatre
- Peppermint Creek
- Riverwalk Theatre
- Ruhala Performing Arts Center
- Starlight Dinner Theatre
- Summer Circle
- The Revue
- Wharton Center
- Williamston Theatre
Arts blogs and reviews
- A Theater Vixen
- Blogging from Downtown Ann Arbor
- Confessions of a Cranky Critic: Don Calami
- Dad, the Artistic Director
- Did He Like It?
- Encore Michigan
- Flyover: Art in the American Outback
- Glick Arts
- IF:then
- Latest News at Jim Fordyce's Michigan Entertainment
- Nickell's Bag
- Rogue Critic
- The Producer's Perspective
- Williamston rehearsal blog
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About Me
- Bridgette Redman
- Lansing, Michigan
- I am a lover of theater who is blessed to be able to write freelance theater reviews and a weekly performing arts column for the Lansing State Journal. I have a degree in journalism and was a National Endowment for the Arts Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater fellow in 2007. I've acted in, directed, and worked back stage at theaters on a community level and am now content to cheer on the efforts of my husband and son. Together, Richard (my husband) and I were drama specialists at the Montessori Children's House of Lansing for four years. I was also the publisher of Book Help Web (a book review and author profile/interview site) for many years and was one of the founding writers of Flyover (a blog that focuses on art news from America's outback) at Arts Journal. I'm a former Category Lead for the Books, Magazine, and Newspaper section of Epinions.com.
My theater reviews
- 13
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Adam's Rib
- And Then There Were None
- Bad Dates
- Bedroom Farce
- Blithe Spirit
- Comedy of Errors
- Ctrl-Alt-Delete
- Damn Yankees
- Disremember Me
- Dogeaters
- Escanaba in Da Moonlight
- Far East
- Fatal Error
- Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
- Flipaswitch
- Fully Committed
- God's Favorite
- Gypsy
- Hamlet
- Hamlet
- Harvey
- I Do, I Do
- Indian Ink
- Jeffrey
- Kabara Sol
- Keely and Du
- Krapp's Last Tape/A Slight Ache
- Krapp's Last Tape/The Zoo Story
- Life is a Dream
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Mehsuggah Nuns
- Miss Julie
- Moon Over Buffalo
- O Jerusalem
- People vs. Friar Laurence
- Romeo and Juliet
- Schoolhouse Rock Live
- Skylight
- Speed-the-Plow
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Take Me Out
- Tale of the Allergist's Wife
- The Little Foxes
- The Nerd
- The Pillowman
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
- Trying
- Unnecessary Farce
My script reviews
My other theater writings
Non-Lansing Theaters I've Visited
- 7 Stages in Atlanta
- A Noise Within
- Breathe Art Theatre
- Deaf West Theatre
- Detroit Repertory
- Fountain Theatre
- Fox Theatre
- Geffen Playhouse
- Georgia Shakespeare Festival
- Grand Valley State University Shakespeare Festival
- Kirk Douglas Theatre
- Mark Taper Forum
- MeadowBrook Theatre
- Orlando Repertory Theatre
- Performance Network
- Reprise!
- South Coast Repertory
- Theatre at Boston Court
- University of Michigan Theatre
- Whole Art Theater
- Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble
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2 comments:
Since I can't seem to reply to you on twitter and don't have your email...I thought I would do the next best thing...
I loved the show. The man who played Paul I have liked for some time. But the play was a little heavy for me, on a night when I wanted not to have to think about such deep issues.
You know, I really should have my email up on the blog somewhere. It's bredman.lsj@gmail.com
It is definitely a heavier show--much like Doubt last season. I need to blog about the show still, but it's been a busy week.
I also enjoyed Michael Joseph Mitchell in the other shows that I've seen him in--Doubt, Holiday Memories, Under the Lintel. He's an excellent actor.
I especially appreciated the balance in the show. There are two characters who could be considered the protagonist even though they are each others' nemesis. In fact, the two characters are incredibly alike.
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