Riverwalk Theatre Announces Season 27

The Riverwalk Theatre in Lansing has announced its upcoming season, which includes the musicals Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Rent as well as plays The Diary of Anne Frank and Wait Until Dark. Read the complete list at Riverwalk Theatre Season 27.

NEXT TO NORMAL at Lansing's Peppermint Creek Theatre Company

Coutesy Photo: Cast of NEXT TO NORMAL

With three of Jackson's most talented performers appearing in Peppermint Creek Theatre Company's production of the Pulitzer Prize Winning musical NEXT TO NORMAL, you'll want to make sure to go.

Sandy Sykes, Andy Gorney, and Adam Woolsey appear along with Matt Eldred, Todd Tuchek, and Emily McKay.

Dates are July 11 - 20, 2013 and the theater is easy to find just off S. Cedar Street.

For more information or tickets visit www.peppermintcreek.org, or call 517-927-3016.

Great Lansing Ubiquitous Theatre

Here's a new website recently brought to my attention that concerns theatre matters in the Greater Lansing area. It's been added to the side bar as well. Greater Lansing Ubiquitous Theatre or G.L.U.T. for short!

All-of-us Express to Host Auditions

Auditions for the next All-of-us Express Children's Theatre performance, "NigHt of tHe pterodActyls," will take place on Thursday, January 27 and Friday, January 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, January 29, from 10 a.m. to noon.

Auditions will take place at the East Lansing Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road and are open to all youth in Ingham and Jackson counties. Those auditioning need only attend one of the audition times and must be available for call backs.

For more information, contact the East Lansing Hannah Community Center at 1-517-333-2580.

John Peakes To Direct Travels With My Aunt

Peakes Will Direct Travels With My Aunt for Walnut Street; Cast Announced - Playbill.com

When founder John Peakes retired several years ago from the Boarshead Theater in Lansing, he and his wife Judith moved to the Philadelphia area. Today Playbill announced that he would be directing Travels with My Aunt there. Another familiar name is cast member Paul Riopelle who most recently served as Interim Artistic Associate at Boarshead before it closed down. Both Peakes and Riopelle have performed with the Michigan Shakespeare Festival here in Jackson. Peakes will beespecially remembered for his performance as King Lear.

What's Playing at the Wharton Center?

The Wharton Center is on the campus of Michigan State University in Lansing.

For info: www.whartoncenter.com or call 517-432-2000

» Irving Berlin’s White Christmas the Musical: Dec. 8-13
» 101 Dalmatians, the Musical: Jan. 26-31, 2010
» New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein: Feb. 2-Feb. 7, 2010
» Steppenwolf’s August: Osage County: Feb. 16-17
» A Chorus Line: April 6-11
» Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific: April 27-May 2
» The Phantom of the Opera: May 19-June 6