“Movement is as fundamental to human existence as breath” is the idea that drives Southwest Michigan-based professional contemporary dance company CPR Dance: Inhale Movement. Now in their fifth year, their most recent performance, 5oma, explored emotions, meaning-making, and voice, both literal and figurative.
As important as our local performance art organizations are, they’re nothing without an audience. So, Revue spoke with a few devoted attendees to learn what it is that keeps drawing them back.
Teen angst has been a worthy dramatic subject long before social media became so toxic that countries around the world began legislating its use for young people.
Deos Ballet, one of West Michigan’s most exciting performance arts organizations, launches its new season at the end of this month. The 2026/2027 season features six shows ranging from classic ballet to pure madcap humor, from ancient Greece to modern science, and from vengeance beyond the grave to the pleasures and perils of lying on the beach with a book.
We have big Broadway shows, intimate and progressive plays, live performances with symphonies, dancers taking to the stage, and powerful art exhibitions. Here’s our guide to arts events for May and June.
In addition to being marvelously entertaining, fairy tales endure because they help children grow and develop emotional resilience, teach moral lessons, and ultimately lead to a greater understanding of what it is to be human.
To kick off its 80th summer season, The Barn Theatre in Augusta is packing the house with “fudge-sucking trolls”, as Albert Soady, patriarch and narrator of native son Jeff Daniels’ “Escanaba in Da Moonlight”, calls those of us who reside in lower Michigan.
It is incredibly heartening that a now-classic young adult novel, written by a teenager for teenagers, set in the 1960s, that has been adapted for film and television, provides the source material for a multiple Tony-Award-winning musical (including Best New Musical), the first profitable new Broadway musical to open since 2022.
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park announced the lineup for Sunday Strings, a series of six live classical chamber music concerts featuring renowned musicians from West Michigan.
At first glance, James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning “Into the Woods” is a musical mash-up of classic fairy tales: Cinderella meets Little Red Riding Hood meets Rapunzel meets Jack and the Beanstalk.
