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360 Main Street previews ‘Einstein’s Dreams’

eng112f09 — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:25:28 +0000

Lisa Purchase Kelly has a two-part advance story (I and II) on world premiere of Einstein’s Dreams at 360 Main Street. . . . Song cycle by Leo Najar, Randall Williams opens two-day run 8 pm Saturday, Bijou Orchestra, State Theatre, Bay City. . . . . Janet Martineau reviews Popovich Comedy Pet Theatre at Midland Center for the Arts . . . . and Ruthless: The Musical at SVSU . . . . Martineau says the play “is two-hours of campiness personified aimed at child stars, show business and massive egos. . . . ” Janet also interviews former Saginaw Art Museum executive director Sheila Redman Hoffman, now starring in a movie shot in upstate New York . . . . Jeff Vande Zande has a new look and added links at his blog.

Verve Pipe at State Theatre March 12

eng112f09 — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:27:39 +0000

Verve Pipe, Avery Set at Bay City’s State Theatre 7:30 pm March 12 . . . . Tix $15, $20 (under 18 $10) . . . . .Children’s show at 3 pm. . . . Regional student art on display at Saginaw Art Museum through Feb. 27 . . . . All-female musical Ruthless opens Thursday at SVSU . . . . Tix $15 (students, seniors $10). . . . Three Men And a Tenor at Temple Theatre 3 pm March 13 . . . . Presented by Saginaw Valley Concert Association . . . . Tix $20, $25 . . . . . At 360 Main Street, Kara Gheldof says FX boxing drama Lights Out isn’t getting the respect it deserves.

Verdi ‘Requiem’ tonight in Flint

eng112f09 — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:34:29 +0000

Flint Symphony, Festival Chorus perform Verdi Requiem tonight, 8 pm . . . . Enrique Diemecke conducts . . . . .Cello-piano recital 4 pm March 6 at Art Reach, downtown Mount Pleasant . . . . Features CMU faculty, cellist James Fiste, pianist Adrienne Wiley . . . . Tix $6 . . . . Next in Art Reach’s Wellspring literary series, poet/food writer Matthew Gavin Frank . . . . 7 pm March 14 . . . . Frank teaches at Grand Valley, is widely published . . . . Saginaw’s Pit & Balcony stages Michael and Susan Parker’s Sex Please, We’re Sixty . . . . opens March 11, for two weekends . . . . Creative 360 plans Dinner-With-the-Artist Soiree with Midland painter Kathleen Sullivan April 8.

LaBute’s ‘Fat Pig’ opens Feb. 23 at CMU

eng112f09 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:42:39 +0000

Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig opens Feb. 23, CMU University Theatre . . . . Jill Taft-Kaufman directs. . . . . Emily Hendren reviews Matt Bell’s How They Were Found at 360 Main Street . . . . Hemlock native’s short stories “capture the essence of the human spirit and cast into it the unexpected lightness of the impossible,” Hendren writes . . . . Also at 360 Main, Ryan Wilson looks back at Broadcast News, rereleased recently on DVD . . . . Wilson says film “says more about the ethics of television journalism than any film before or after it.” . . . . Chinese film Last Train Home shows at Midland Center for the Arts Feb. 25-27.

Karoly reviews new ‘After the Dust’ release

eng112f09 — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:01:36 +0000

Peter Karoly reviews new CD by Midland-based After the Dust at 360 Main Street . . . .”I popped the CD in the car player and started home for what I anticipated to be a leisurely drive,” Karoly writes; . . . “what I got was my hair parted down the middle and an extra 20 miles added to my speedometer.”. . . . Band members are Drew Brady, Chris Crawford, Korey Gillespie, Travis Evans, Chad Winters . . . . Kris Winterton reviews 5 Browns concert at MCFTA for Midland Daily News . . . . Janet Martineau reviews Saturday’s Saginaw Bay Orchestra concert at her blog . . . . Sean Drysdale interviews Saginaw poet Gina Myers for a “Poodcast,” Myers reports on her blog.

Martineau reviews ‘Vagina Monologues’

eng112f09 — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:14:22 +0000

Janet Martineau reviews (with photos) Creative 360 production of Vagina Monologues . . . . The actors’ body English “completes the serving . . . and perhaps is the most important ingredient of the show,” Martineau writes . . . She also reports on Midland Center Stage Theatre’s Urinetown reaping 10 awards in regional competition. . . . Martineau has also (wisely, Three-Eyed Fish thinks) changed the name of her great blog to Janet’s Journals from the needlessly self-deprecating Martineau’s Mindless Meanderings. . . . American Salvage author Bonnie Jo Campbell reads at CMU Park Library’s Baber Room, 8 p.m. Thursday . . . . Salvage was a finalist for National Book Award in 2009 . . . . Midland Music Society Chorale programs David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus for 3 pm March 13, Midland Center for the Arts Auditorium . . . Tix $15 ($10 students) . . . . Jim Hohmeyer conducts.

Bay City Players’ 2011-12 season

eng112f09 — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:05:27 +0000

Bay City Players announces 2011-12 season . . . . Musical 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee . . . . Michigan playwright Ron Bernas’ A Little Murder Never Hurt Anyone . . . . John Cariani’s Almost, Maine . . . . Arthur Miller’s All My Sons . . . . Musical Drowsy Chaperone . . . . Bijou Orchestra presents world premiere, Einstein’s Dreams, song cycle by Randall Williams, with special guest Alan Lightman, author of novel on which the cycle is based. . . . . Now open at Flint’s Buckham Gallery: Rasterize . . . . exhibition of work by Sarawut Chutiwongpeti (Bangkok, Thailand – installation); Michelle Harris (Ferndale, – video, sound, sculpture); Michael D. Melet (Flint, – mixed media, drawing); Christopher J. Troutman (Vincennes, Ind. – drawing). . . . Canceled: Scheduled Feb. 13 concert by CMU Orchestra.

New art exhibit opens Feb. 14 at SVSU

eng112f09 — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:22:18 +0000

Opening Feb. 14 at SVSU University Art Gallery, photos by Kesha Bruce, Scott Youngstedt, paintings by Mike Mosher . . . . Exhibit titled (Re) Calling and (Re) Telling . . . . Coming up at the gallery in March, selected paintings and works by Midland’s Larry Butcher . . . . Heather Sellers reads her poetry at 7 pm Feb. 15, Founders Hall, SVSU, part of Voices in the Valley series. . . . Ryan Wilson reviews The Fighter at 360 Main Street . . . . “Since family conflict is the center of the story,” Wilson writes, “at its best The Fighter feels less about boxing and more like a Eugene O’Neil drama for the lower class.” . . . . Roger Bryant reviews Midland Symphony Orchestra concert for Midland Daily News.

Apter, Herman Feb. 14 at Art Reach

eng112f09 — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:03:32 +0000

Reading Feb. 14 at Art Reach Wellspring series, translators Ronnie Apter, Mark Herman . . . . Janet Martineau interviews Denyse Clayton on upcoming Vagina Monologues at Creative 360 . . . . Dinner theater presentation starts at 8 pm Feb. 11 and 12 . . . . C.P. Chay interviews Flint-based artist Amanda Simons at 360 Main Street . . . . On the walls at Espresso Milano in Downtown Midland: art by Don and Shirley Rulf . . . . Dorothy Moll was guest organist Sunday at Midland UCC . . . chose works by J.S. Bach, Norman Warren, David N. Johnson . . . Ongoing at CMU University Art Gallery, Graphic Protest: Works by Dylan Miner, Allyn Guerra, inspired by the Mexican print artist Jose Guadalupe Posada dealing with political protest and commentary. . . . . Grammy winner jazz saxophonist Bob Mintzer plays at CMU School of Music 8 pm Friday.

Modern choral music in concert Sunday

eng112f09 — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:48:55 +0000

CMU Chamber Singers, Midland Camerata Singers in joint concert 2 p.m. Sunday, Staples Family Concert Hall . . . . Nina Nash-Roberston, Jim Hohmeyer conduct 20th-, 21st-century choral music . . . . Ed Carney interviews Michigan jazz bassist Paul Keller ahead of his orchestra’s Thursday gig at Temple Theatre . . . . Read the interview at 360 Main Street . . . . My poems “Canning Peaches” and “Rustling Brick” published on-line by Clapboard House . . . . Also in the current issue, poems by CMU MA candidate and Temenos poetry editor Joe Kane.