Photo: “The Birds” – (Frankie McElroy, Maggie Trevisan, Maddox Rice, Alana Jefferson, Camille Wenger). Photo by Lad Strayer. Horizon Performing Arts is a local community theatre, based in Ypsilanti, which emphasizes teaching and allowing children to experience the magic of theatre. They concluded their first production of their 2025-26 season with A Year With Frog ...
Photo: Bonnie (Emma Skaggs) and Clyde (Kevin Ludwig) in their getaway car. Photo by Lad Strayer. Continuing with the love theme of their 2025 season’s playbill, Adrian’s Croswell Opera House opened Bonnie & Clyde Friday evening to a mostly full house. The show premiered on Broadway in December 2011, with the script by Ivan Menchall, ...
Photo: (Foreground) Kristin Shields & Jamie Elvey (Background) Henri Franklin & Kate Thomsen. Photo by Sean Carter Photography The Purple Rose Theatre raised the curtain on its 35th season with a remake of Jeff Daniels’ original comedy Norma & Wanda, directed by Rhiannon Ragland. It was clear from the start that both Daniels and Ragland ...
Photo: Maddie Dick and Nicholas Alexander Wilkinson II. Photo by Robert Coelius Dexter’s Encore Musical Theatre Company has a working collaboration with the University of Michigan (UM) School of Music, Theatre and Dance, and for the third year, UM is staging its fall production at The Encore. UM faculty provided direction for the production, with ...
Image: Conceptual rendering of the data center. Courtesy Related Digital Following two hours in a closed session with attorneys by a joint meeting of planning commissioners and board Wednesday evening, following a few questions from the audience attending, the board voted 4 – 1 to instruct attorney David Landry to negotiate a settlement with Related ...
Photo: Residents packed the Saline Township joint meeting on Sept. 24, 2025, voicing both support and opposition to the proposed data center project. Photo by Steven Sheldon Saline Township is being sued by developers and landowners who claim the township’s zoning unfairly blocks them from building a proposed data center. The township hosted a joint ...
Photo: Jared Hoffert as Gov. John Slaton with cast in scene from Parade. Photo by Ashlee Sayles By Steven Sheldon & Sylvia Egerton Warning: This review contains a reference to sexual assault. The creative, artistic team of The Croswell Opera House, led by Jere Righter, deserves all the credit for adding the Alfred Uhry/Jason Robert ...
The Martin Charnin/Thomas Meehan musical Annie premiered on Broadway in 1977, featuring then 12-year-old actress Andrea McArdle in the title role. In late 2024, Dexter’s Encore Musical Theatre Company produced Annie, with Ellen Gruber, a 10-year-old fourth-grade student at Eberwhite Elementary School in Ann Arbor, in the lead role. In June 2025, The Croswell Opera ...
Photo: (L-R) Khara Gilmore and Chris Joseph singing “All I Do.” Photo by Steve Sheldon Dexter’s Encore Musical Theatre Company kicked off season 17 in grand fashion, celebrating the music of the iconic Motown star, Stevie Wonder. This concert was a reprise of a 2022 concert that featured the same band members and singers. Singers Jason ...
Photo: Residents showed up en force to voice their opinions on the proposed rezoning of agricultural land to industrial for a new data center. Photo by Steve Sheldon. In an overflow crowd at the Saline Township board meeting Wednesday evening at the township hall, the board listened to over forty-five minutes of public comment from ...
Photo: Three Men and a Tenor performing at the Saline Community Fair on August 30, 2025. Photo by Steven Sheldon. Legendary UCLA basketball John Wooden once said “the truest test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.” It suggests that private behavior, not just public performance, demonstrates a person’s ...
The combined Saline Township Board and members of the Planning Commission hosted a joint fact-finding meeting on Wednesday afternoon at the township hall at 3 p.m. The meeting was arranged with the sole purpose of the members receiving additional information about the rezoning request by Related Digital for a 250-acre data center, proposed to be ...
After a three-hour meeting on Wednesday evening, August 13, 2025, the Saline Township Board voted unanimously to table data center developer Related Digital’s rezoning request for 525 acres north of US-12 and east of Braun Road until its next board meeting on September 10th. Board Supervisor Jim Marion, with assistance from Treasurer Jennifer Zink, did ...
Commission votes 5-2 against rezoning 575-acre parcel from agricultural to industrial use; Township Board to decide next Following last week’s regular planning commission meeting, another meeting was convened Tuesday evening, August 12, 2025, at the Saline Township Hall. The only agenda item was the conditional rezoning request from Related Digital on a 575-acre parcel to ...
Photo: D. Ward Ensign as Daddy Warbucks and Cici Hubbard as Annie singing I Don’t Need Anything But You. Photo by Lad Strayer In Croswell’s third production of their season, Caroline “Cici” Hubbard led a strong cast in the smash Broadway hit Annie, with the script by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse, and lyrics ...
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