COVID-19 stifled the Michigan State University Theatre Department’s ability to offer live shows, but the pandemic has not muted student creativity. The “Audio Anthology” collection, available at theatre.msu.edu/dei_audio/, demonstrates how the department is continuing to create imaginative projects during restricted times.
Just past midnight on Jan. 30, Lansing and beyond lost a theater icon. Rosalyn Carmen Decker, a gifted actress who always deserved a spotlight but never sought one outside the stage, died at Sparrow Hospital from pneumonia.
A play where the legs of actors are visible! Where characters sometimes speak over each other and give each other eye contact! And where the actors actually move around — and even change costumes!
Peppermint Creek Theatre’s “Hear Our Cry” was originally shown in late October as a drive-in “movie” in the parking lot at the corner of Capitol Avenue and Ionia Street. Now, until Dec. 31, the same compelling Zoom medley is available on YouTube.
Idris Goodwin is an American poet, rapper, essayist, lecturer, professor, author and playwright. He is offering five of his “Short Plays for an Anti-Racist Tomorrow” to theaters and communities everywhere to perform for free.
Lately, for people who follow Riverwalk Theatre, it has been hard not to know Rico Bruce Wade.
With her original play, “An Act of Madness: The Bath School Bombing,” Falion has been enlightening audiences about the 1927 attack on the Bath Consolidated School.
Never describe Dixon’s violin playing with a label or brand it with a specific genre. That is precisely the kind of “fit into a box” categorization he scorns.
The good news is no local theater company is currently at risk of shutting its doors for good. When those doors might reopen for live performances isn’t as certain.
The shortened theatrical season had no shortages of outstanding performances. Even if the coronavirus hadn’t closed theaters before their schedules were completed, it would have been tough to beat the winners of this year’s Pulsars.
