Articles tagged: Blackbird Theatre
Celebrate 15 years of the Blackbird Theatre at Frenchie's
Posted: May 20, 2013It's the little theater company that could. And they have, for 15 years, by presenting bold theater productions up close and personal—and sometimes outdoors. To celebrate, they're doing what nearly every adult does after some ... Read more »
Blackbird Theatre announces West Park production of 'Cymbeline' and more
Posted: Feb 28, 2013The Ann Arbor-based Blackbird Theatre Company is preparing to celebrate its 15th year with a series of workshops and performances. However, most will take place at the new Detroit Ensemble Black Box—located inside Michigan Actors ... Read more »
Blackbird Theater and The Neutral Zone team up for 'Liz Estrada'
Posted: Jan 15, 2013The Blackbird Theater and the Neutral Zone have teamed up to present a stage production featuring local teens called "Liz Estrada," happening Friday, Jan. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at The Neutral Zone, 310 E. Washington ... Read more »
Blackbird Theatre to stage outdoor 'MacBeth' in West Park
Posted: Jun 09, 2012After launching an ambitious outdoor theater festival called Shakespeare West last summer—which staged “The Tempest,” “Much Ado About Nothing,” and “Twelfth Night” (a fourth production, “Othello,” was canceled)—Ann Arbor’s Blackbird Theatre is back with “MacBeth.” ... Read more »
Blackbird Theater plans to return to West Park this summer
Posted: Mar 27, 2012Ann Arbor’s Blackbird Theater Company returns to Ann Arbor’s West Park Band Shell this summer with Shakespeare West, Michigan’s newest outdoor Shakespeare festival, which will include a production of "Macbeth" June 15-30. “I have never ... Read more »
Blackbird Theatre launches 'Unemployed' web series
Posted: Nov 14, 2011Local theater company Black Bag Productions, better known as the Blackbird Theatre, is venturing into film and recently launched a new web series titled "Unemployed." Written, directed, and edited by the Blackbird's founder, Bart Bund, ... Read more »
Shakespeare West cancels 'Othello' production
Posted: Aug 31, 2011In the wake of the death of a member of its company, the Blackbird Theatre has announced the cancellation of its upcoming production of "Othello." The Blackbird has been producing Shakespeare works for much of ... Read more »
encore michigan: Shakespeare West 'Twelfth Night' starts with great promise
Posted: Aug 22, 2011Review by Bridgette M. Redman For Encore Michigan The exuberant beginning featured tie-dyed hippies and spaced-out peaceniks grooving out to '60s music in what promised to be one big party. Had the party continued in ... Read more »
Blackbird Theatre reimagines 'Twelfth Night' in its next Shakespeare West production
Posted: Aug 13, 2011The Blackbird Theatre’s inaugural season of Shakespeare West, an outdoor theater series, continues with a unique take on the comedy “Twelfth Night.” Shakespeare’s shipwrecked protagonist Viola washes up on the shores of a different kind ... Read more »
Blackbird Theatre continues Shakespeare West festival with gender-bending 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Posted: Jul 09, 2011The Blackbird Theatre continues the inaugural season of its outdoor theater festival, Shakespeare West, with “Much Ado About Nothing”—complete with same-sex couples and a Queen soundtrack. “I came up with the concept after reading the ... Read more »
slideshow: Shakespeare comes to West Park with Blackbird Theatre's 'The Tempest'
Posted: Jun 18, 2011The Blackbird Theatre is bringing Shakespeare to West Park this summer with a series of productions, the first of which is "The Tempest." Photographer Jeffrey Smith captured these images: Read more »
Blackbird Theatre kicks off new outdoor Shakespeare West festival with 'The Tempest'
Posted: Jun 05, 2011To say that the Blackbird Theater has been tested while preparing for the debut of its outdoor summer theater festival, Shakespeare West, would be a gross understatement. Difficulties have plagued the fest’s inaugural, production of ... Read more »
Blackbird Theatre offers discount tickets for Shakespeare West on Friday
Posted: May 10, 2011This Friday, May 13, tickets for the Blackbird Theatre’s summer-long outdoor Shakespeare Festival in West Park are just $13. Ann Arbor’s new Shakespeare Festival is offering this one-day deal to kick off the summer festivities. ... Read more »
The Blackbird Theatre offers a powerfully rendered 'Seascape'
Posted: May 07, 2011It’s uncanny that just as I’m being asked to explain nearly everything to my almost-3-year-old on a daily basis - reading storybooks and watching “Sesame Street” are acts now punctuated every 30 seconds by the ... Read more »
Blackbird Theatre presenting Edward Albee's 'Seascape,' lizards and all
Posted: Apr 26, 2011Meeting two human-sized, English-speaking lizards is no day at the beach — unless you happen to be a character in Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize winning play “Seascape,” now being staged at the Blackbird Theatre. For ... Read more »
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