"Hipsters" is part of the lineup for the inaugural Cinetopia Film Festival. AnnArbor.com and the Michigan Theater are offering a chance to win free tickets to a Cinetopia screening. Full details here. The Michigan Theater will become “movie land” for four days, beginning May 31, when its inaugural Cinetopia International ...
Looking forward to the upcoming first-ever Cinetopia International Film Festival, coming to downtown Ann Arbor next week? The Michigan Theater and AnnArbor.com are teaming up to offer five pairs of tickets to the opening-night screening of the festival, "Hello I Must Be Going." Just answer the questions below before midnight ...
The Ann Arbor leg of the Michigan multi-city Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival kicks off on Sunday, April 29, with 15 films—documentaries and narrative films that examine Jewish history, culture, and identity—scheduled for screenings over the course of 5 days at the Michigan Theater. Here’s this year’s lineup, broken down ...
Lambchop You have a choice of Lambchop or Monterey Pop on tomorrow night’s menu, and we’re not talking about a cut of meat or a new Faygo concoction. Lambchop is the long-running indie-rock band from Nashville led by singer-songwriter Kurt Wagner, finally making its Ann Arbor debut Monday evening at ...
"The Five Year Engagement" producer Rodney Rothman, left, and director Nicholas Stoller answer questions after the premier of their movie at the Michigan Theater Friday night. When 1,100 patrons crowded the Michigan Theater’s main auditorium on Friday night, to get an early glimpse of the filmed-mostly-in-Ann-Arbor comedy “The Five Year ...
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones had something for everyone Thursday, during a mesmerizing, marathon show before an enthusiastic Michigan Theater audience that was as eclectic as the band’s music. Hippies, jazzbos, folkies and the just-plain-curious were equally knocked out by the reunited, original quartet, which fused jazz, funk, bluegrass, rock ...
The Michigan Theater has announced that it's planning the inaugural Cinetopia International Film Festival—May 31-June 3—which will feature 30-40 movies from all over the world. At a press conference Monday, the Theater’s CEO and executive director, Russ Collins, mentioned that at last count, there were about 4,000 film festivals worldwide ...
The original lineup of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones comes to the Michigan Theater on Thursday. Banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck—coming to the Michigan Theater Thursday in a show sponsored by The Ark—pretty much created progressive bluegrass music during his days with the band New Grass Revival in the 1970s. After ...
Team StarKid—a Chicago-based theater company that originally formed at the University of Michigan, when its members had a viral hit with "A Very Potter Musical"—recently announced a second national tour, called Apocalyptour, featuring a cast of StarKid veterans performing hits from the company’s acclaimed original comedy musicals (including AVPM and ...