P.T.D. Productions, an Ypsilanti-based community theater troupe, will kick off its 2012 season with Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning drama, "A Streetcar Named Desire." Performances are scheduled for March 8-10 and 15-17 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, March 11 at 2 p.m., at the Riverside Arts Center, 76 N Huron ...
Fay Kleinman, also known by her married name, Fay Levenson, died on February 21, due to complications from a broken hip. Born in 1912, Kleinman exhibited at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield Massachusetts and in galleries in New York City and Western Massachusetts. Among the New York City galleries that ...
PTD Productions will present "Christmas Belles," a comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, Dec. 8-11 and 15-17 at the Riverside Arts Center, 76 N. Huron St. in Ypsilanti. All shows are at 8 p.m., except the show on Sunday, Dec. 11, which is a 2 p.m. matinee. ...
Ypsilanti’s PTD Productions tackles one of American literature’s most famous dysfunctional families in their production of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” by classic American playwright Eugene O’Neill. The play is O’Neill’s autobiographical account of a day in the life of his family when he was a young man. He changed ...
“The Last Starfighter” was a 1984 sci-fi movie about a young man who’s recruited by aliens, on the basis of his video game-playing skills, to fight an interstellar war. Fantastical, yes—but the basic premise was perhaps not quite as “out there” as you might have thought. For a few years ...
P.T.D. Productions' "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" opens Thursday. Given this winter’s conditions, perhaps it’s not surprising that Carl Ellison, director of P.T.D. Productions’ “Laughter on the 23rd Floor,” cited “bad weather” as one of his biggest challenges while preparing the Neil Simon comedy. Yet Ellison also approached the casting ...
The first thing you notice about P.T.D. Productions’ staging of Alan Ayckborn’s “Table Manners” - part of an interwoven trilogy of plays called “The Norman Conquests” (P.T.D. is presenting the other two plays, “Living Together” and “Round and Round the Garden,” as concert readings) - is its beautifully executed dining ...
Alan Ayckborn’s comic stage trilogy, called “The Norman Conquests,” won critical adulation and awards (including a Tony Award for best revival of a play) when produced on Broadway as "House and Garden" last year, and the plays thus reclaimed a place on theatergoers’ radar. But even so, the trilogy — ...
Darcy MacConnell and Alene Blomquist Bring plenty of tissues — "'Night, Mother" is that kind of play. The powerful one-act, two-character drama, which opened Thursday night at Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti courtesy of P.T.D. Productions, focuses on depressed, middle-aged Jessie (Darcy MacConnell), who matter-of-factly announces to her mother (Alene ...
Darcy McConnell and Alene Blomquist star in P.T.D. Productions' "'Night Mother." We all have bad days. But in Marsha Norman’s 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “’Night, Mother” — now being staged by P.T.D. Productions — a middle-aged, divorced, dowdy mother who suffers from epilepsy determines that she’s having a bad life, ...
P.T.D. Productions will hold auditions for "The Norman Conquests,” directed by Jan Carpman, on Wednesday, September 8, from 7-9 p.m. in Ypsilanti at the Riverside Arts Center (76 N. Huron Street), and Thursday, September 9, from 6:30-8:30 PM in Ann Arbor at the Ann Arbor District Library Downtown Branch (343 ...
While studying creative writing, I once wrote a story with the specific intention of exploring a highly-charged, capital-I “Issue.” It was one of the worst stories I ever wrote. Why? Because I momentarily forgot that generally, readers of fiction don’t want a preachy story in which the characters are merely ...
Lately, the country has been embroiled in a fierce, long, emotional debate about health care reform. But earlier, in the mid-90s — shortly after then-first lady Hillary Clinton failed to get her own health care reform package passed — playwright Lisa Loomer posed pointed questions about the issue by way ...
Celebrated author and Vietnam veteran Tim O’Brien has written extensively about how, in order to convey the emotional truths and chaos of war, a writer must exaggerate characters and events. The idea is that this heightened, off-kilter version of reality will bring readers closer to the lived experience of a ...
If you have never been to Riverside Art Center in Ypsilanti to see a play, this would be an ideal time to make plans to attend. RAC is offering a limited number of free theater tickets for the PTD production of "Auntie Mame" on a first-come first-served basis. Performances are ...
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