By Daniel Skora It’s a cozy little attic with dusty Christmas decorations, hat boxes stuffed with yesterday’s fashions, and, most importantly, stacks of old 45’s and 78’s scattered about. Five women enter one by one through a trap door in the ceiling of the room below. Four are African-American, one is white, but by race, … More Sistas Make Great Music at Meadow Brook
By Daniel Skora They are known as the Lovers of Valdaro. Their skeletons were found during an archeological dig near Verona, Italy in 2007 and are judged to be around 6,000 years old. The two figures lay in what has become an eternal embrace, their skulls face-to-face mere inches apart and their limbs intertwined. Though … More New “Gaps in the Fossil Record” Forming at the Purple Rose
By Daniel Skora The Dio Theatre is currently presenting “Rock of Ages”, a musical that combines classic rock songs from the best of the 1980’s metal bands with a story about a small-town girl looking to make it big in Hollywood. Sherrie Christian (Kristin Renee Reeves) leaves Kansas for California in the hope of making … More Rockin’ in the 80’s at The Dio
By Daniel Skora There are two fabulous shows currently being presented at the Encore Musical Theatre, and the cost of a single price of admission gets you in to see them both. The first show is a homecoming for the biggest country hits ever recorded by a woman whose brilliant but short career set the … More “Always…” Sweet and Crazy at The Encore
By Daniel Skora There are a couple of figurative dances going on in Joseph Zettelmaier’s new play, “The Decade Dance”, currently being presented by the Williamston Theatre. The first is the larger dance of the political and cultural events of the 1970’s, the decade that forms the play’s time span and which gives it its … More Time Dances through a Decade and Two Lives at Williamston
By Daniel Skora He was the heartthrob of Peyton Place and the onscreen lover for the likes of Barbra Streisand and Candice Bergen. She was voted the top box office star in the world in 1972 and co-starred opposite leading men like Robert Mitchum and Kris Kristofferson. Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw were already bright … More “Love Story” Stars Exchange “Love Letters” at the Fisher
By Daniel Skora Art is a rejuvenating experience. You want to read again a good book, look again at a great painting, see again a good movie. Movies and plays tell stories, build on plot. As you experience a play or a movie for the first time, you’re taking in the action, supposing what might … More “Rounding Third” Scores at Tipping Point
By Daniel Skora It is, after all, England that we’re talking about, the country across the pond that with all the king’s horses and all the king’s men still couldn’t control that ragtag bunch of colonists who went on to thumb their noses at the men in red, declaring their independence in the process. The … More British Comedy at Northville’s Marquis Theatre
By Daniel Skora It was Yogi Berra, full-time catcher for the New York Yankees and part-time dugout philosopher who once said “When you come to a fork in the road, take it”. (Yogi, you may recall, was also the guy who, when asked how many slices he wanted his pizza cut into, replied “You’d better … More Liz/Beth have “If/Then” Relationships at the Fisher
