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EMU theatre, "The Last Five Years" Review

EMU student performers Kristin McSweeney, Kayla Younkin, Brendan Kelly, and Matt Wallace.

EMU Theatre presents 'The Last Five Years'

Jason Robert Brown’s musical, “The Last Five Years,” recently ended its two-week run on EMU’s Mainstage, and was without a doubt one of EMU’s best productions.

EMU theatre, "The Last Five Years" Preview

EMU student performers Kristin McSweeney, Kayla Younkin, Brendan Kelly,  and Matt Wallace.

EMU's theatre will be producing, "The Last Five Years"

Eastern Michigan University's theatre department invites audience to join them for their final production of the 2015-2016 main stage season; Jason Robert Brown’s, "The Last Five Years"; a love story told through song.

Kasey Donnelly as Dolly and Dakotah Myers as Francis.

EMU Theater presents One Man, Two Govnors

Eastern Michigan University’s Theatre Department will be performing Richard Bean’s slapstick comedy, One Man, Two Govnors this weekend in the Quirk Theatre.

EMU Theatre hosts One-Act Festival

The creative thoughts of Eastern Michigan University students formed in the Theatre Department’s student-written and student-directed One-Act Festival in the Frank Ross Laboratory Theatre this week.

EMU Theatre displays imagination and skill in 'Lily Plants A Garden'

 Bombs explode and sirens blare as a young girl runs into an abandoned house to take shelter away from the war-torn world around her. Alone and scared, the girl named Young Girl, finds a doll amongst the objects left behind. With the appearance of the doll, the magical story of Lily Plants a Garden comes to life.

'Chesapeake' one-man show comes to The Yellow Barn

One-person plays are rare and not many have received wide circulation or much acclaim. This may be due to one thing: no matter how good a play is, it will succeed or fail depending on the actors in it, and obviously, with a one-person show, all the responsibility falls on a single actor.

Encore Theatre presents 'Sondheim on Sondheim'

Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the grandfather of musical theatre. His career as a composer and lyricist has spanned nearly seven decades and his shows are some of the most beloved in the musical theatre repertoire: Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Follies, Sunday in the Park with Georgeand many more.

'The Piano Lesson' will be featuring EMU students Mishana Green as Berniece and Jeffrey DeVault as Boy Willie.

EMU Theatre to perform 'The Piano Lesson'

Eastern Michigan University’s Theatre Department will continue its 2015-2016 main stage season with a one-week only performance of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize- winning play, “The Piano Lesson” opening this Wednesday in the Sponberg Theatre.

Purple Rose Theatre debuts 'The Odd Couple'

They say that comedy is harder to do than tragedy. Before last Friday night, I didn’t fully believe that, because when I’ve acted, I’ve found tragic or dramatic scenes to be more demanding. But, watching the Purple Rose Theatre’s production of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple,” on opening night, I understood; comedy is harder to do because it’s harder to make it look easy.