Articles tagged:Michigan Theater

Posted: Sat May 26 5:59 a.m. by Jenn McKee Entertainment Journalist, AnnArbor.com
Inaugural Cinetopia International Film Festival will make the Michigan Theater a 'movie land'

"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 ...

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Posted: Thu May 24 2:45 p.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff
Chance to win free tickets to Cinetopia opening night screening

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 ...

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Posted: Tue May 15 7:59 a.m. by Jenn McKee Entertainment Journalist, AnnArbor.com
Things you may not know about Dan Rather, appearing Monday (for free) in Ann Arbor

Dan Rather is coming to the Michigan Theater on Monday--not to break a story, but to tell his own.

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Posted: Tue May 8 1:34 p.m. by Bob Needham Entertainment director, AnnArbor.com
Joe Jackson bringing Duke Ellington tribute to Michigan Theater this fall

Joe Jackson plans to release a Duke Ellington tribute album next month, and a tour in support of the album plans to stop at the Michigan Theater on Sept. 27. The album features Jackson covering a number of tunes associated with the jazz great, including "Take the A Train," "Satin ...

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Posted: Wed Apr 25 6:30 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff
Chance to win free tickets to 'Nate the Great' on stage at the Michigan Theater

AnnArbor.com and the Michigan Theater are partnering to offer readers a chance to win free tickets to "Nate the Great," a live musical that's part of the Michigan's Not Just For Kids Series.

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Posted: Wed Apr 25 5:57 a.m. by Jenn McKee Entertainment Journalist, AnnArbor.com
Jewish Film Festival coming to the Michigan Theater

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 ...

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Posted: Sun Apr 22 8:30 a.m. by Will Stewart AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist
Fab Faux bring the sound of the Beatles to the Michigan Theater, with mixed effect

There are few certainties in this world, but one of them is that you can’t improve upon the Beatles’ records. On the other hand, the Fab Four never played their later records, like “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” live. That’s where the Fab Faux comes in, as it did ...

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Posted: Sun Apr 22 5:42 a.m. by Martin Bandyke AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist
Monday's choice: Lambchop or 'Monterey Pop'

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 ...

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Posted: Sat Apr 21 2:07 a.m. by Jenn McKee Entertainment Journalist, AnnArbor.com
Ann Arbor gets sneak peek at locally filmed 'The Five Year Engagement'

"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 ...

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Posted: Fri Apr 20 7:16 a.m. by Will Stewart AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist
Reunited Bela Fleck & the Flecktones offer transcendent concert at the Michigan Theater

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 ...

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Posted: Tue Apr 17 3:40 p.m. by Jenn McKee Entertainment Journalist, AnnArbor.com
Michigan Theater plans major new international film festival

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 ...

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Posted: Tue Apr 17 5:59 a.m. by Kevin Ransom AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist
Fab Faux returning to re-create Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper' (and more) live on stage

The Fab Faux When The Fab Faux formed in 1998, they knew they didn’t want to be like the “other” Beatles tribute bands that had come along over the years—bands like Beatlemania, 1964 and Rain. They knew they didn’t want to wear the matching suits and mop-top wigs to represent ...

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Posted: Sat Apr 14 5:45 a.m. by Roger LeLievre AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist
'It just felt like time for a reinvention,' explains Bela Fleck of Flecktones reunion, Ann Arbor-bound tour

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 ...

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Posted: Thu Apr 12 9:36 a.m. by AnnArbor.com Staff
Team StarKid announces new tour and new online release

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 ...

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Posted: Tue Apr 10 7:35 a.m. by Will Stewart AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist
Pioneering jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd coming to the Michigan Theater

Charles Lloyd Charles Lloyd has always had his feet in two different worlds. As a jazz saxophonist, he first established himself in the 1960s' post-bop landscape both as a leader and as a sideman with a particularly lyrical style that was sometimes at odds with the more-jarring sounds of the ...

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