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Craig Manning A&E Editor Miller Auditorium announced both its 2012-13 Michigan Mailers Spotlight Series and its smaller Broadway Plus Series shows this morning, completing the line-up for the upcoming year of events. The announcement comes on the heels of a previous release, which listed a quar...
Read More →John Campbell A&E Reporter Fancy Pants Theater is putting on three shows for the price of one with “Something Old, Something New, and Something In Between.” “Something Old, Something New, and Something In Between” is a series of three one-act plays with different characters, actors and m...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor When the right song collides with the right moment, both are immortalized forever. I’ve written a lot, over the past few years, about music I love most, but while criticism certainly has its place in the artistic landscape, nothing can beat the moments where our sound...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter The 2012-2013 season at The University Theatre is rapidly coming to an end, and what better way to close than with the Cole Porter Tony Award-winning classic “Kiss Me, Kate?” “Kiss Me, Kate” is the story of a production of William Shakespeare’s “The Taming ...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter Farmers Alley Theatre is fusing Alfred Hitchcock with Monty Python with their production of “The 39 Steps,” continuing its near sold-out run The four-person show is based on the 1935 Hitchcock movie of the same name, which was in turn based on the 1915 John Buchan ...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor 42 Directed by Brian Helgeland Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Andre Holland B The uplifting and inspirational sports story is the type of movie we’ve seen time and time again over the course of cinematic history. You know the type: Hoosiers, Rocky, Chariots...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter The 2012-2013 season at The University Theatre is closing up shop this and next weekend with Cole Porter’s Tony Award-winning classic “Kiss Me, Kate.” “Kiss Me, Kate” involves a production of the William Shakespeare-penned comedy, “The Taming of The Shr...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter Stanley (Landon Cally) and Eugene (Nikolas Spayne) try to come up with comedy sketch ideas in "Broadway Bound." (Photo courtesy of James Smith) The Kalamazoo Civic Theatre is presenting old-time comedy with their production of “Broadway Bound,” the third ...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter The Bullock Performance Institute’s Live and Interactive! series closed its year-long run last Wednesday night with the University Percussion Ensemble. Directed by WMU professor Judy Moonert and WMU graduate assistant Nicholas Chernich, the ensemble of Andrew Maxbaue...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter The Kalamazoo Civic Theatre is bringing the third installment of Neil Simon’s “Eugene trilogy” to Kalamazoo with “Broadway Bound.” Western Michigan University’s own Nikolas Spayne stars as Eugene, the main character of the series whose story is largely base...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor Roger Ebert, arguably the most famous and influential writer in the history of entertainment criticism, passed away earlier today due to complications from thyroid cancer. He was 70 years old. Just two days ago, Ebert wrote a note to his fans announcing that he would be ...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor After weeks of speculation and supposed information leaks, the line-up for this summer’s Lollapalooza was announced today via the music festival’s official website. Set to take place from Aug. 2 – 4 in Chicago’s Grant Park, three-day passes for Lolla 2013 already...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter The Bullock Performance Institute’s Live and Interactive! series continues on Wednesday evening with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). ICE consists of Eric Lamb on flute, Rebekah Heller on bassoon, Dan Lippel on guitar and Nathan Davis on percussion. The...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter Matt Crowle (Courtesy Photo) A Broadway actor is taking the stage at the Franke Center For the Arts in Marshall for one more night only. Matt Crowle, who portrayed Not Dead Fred and Prince Herbert in the Broadway production of “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” grew up o...
Read More →Sean Murphy A&E Reporter Spring Breakers Directed by Harmony Korine Starring: James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine A- Spring Breakers is a frustratingly amazing film. It’s gorgeous to look at, nuanced in its portrayal of its major themes, but by the e...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor From the moment the curtain began to rise on Miller Auditorium’s West Michigan premiere of American Idiot, it was clear that this wasn’t going to be your customary piece of musical theatre. Snippets of pop cultural memory, circa 2004, crackled through radio static, f...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor The national touring company of “American Idiot,” the hit Broadway musical based on Green Day’s 2004 rock opera of the same name, is coming to Miller Auditorium. Tony Award-winning and critically-acclaimed, “American Idiot” will make its Wes...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter The Bullock Performance Institute’s Live and Interactive! series continued last Wednesday with the Western Wind Quintet. The quintet, consisting of WMU music professors Martha Councell-Vargas on flute, Michael Miller on oboe, Bradley Wong on clarinet, Lin Foulk on Ho...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience RCA, 2013 B+ There’s nothing in music criticism that bothers me more than writers lambasting an artist and tearing down their latest work for “overreaching.” No matter the cause, be it one particular critic’s self-import...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor Western Michigan University's theatre program announced their 2013-14 season this morning. Theatre productions are performed at the Gilmore Complex on WMU's West Campus, near Miller Auditorium. (Western Herald file photo) Though the current weather is offering e...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter Some video game series’ don’t get sequels as often as the gaming community hopes. Fans have been clamoring for a new StarFox game since 2006 and a new Killer Instinct since 1996. Fans of the Tomb Raider series, however, will be pleased with the newest game in the...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter Lachlan MacQuarrie (Macduff) and Shane Schmidt (Macbeth) star in WMU's "Macbeth" (Photo by John Lacko) Vengeance is awakened at the D. Terry Williams Theatre in the Gilmore Theatre complex, as the University Theatre brings the classic William Shakespear...
Read More →John Campbell A&E Reporter A person’s first sexual experience is something that is very different for everyone. Some people find their first experience extremely hilarious. Others don’t like talking about theirs. Regardless of how the milestone is felt, it’s these experiences that form...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor Growing up in Marquette, Mich., Jeremy Porter was probably one of those guys who spent as much time listening to the radio and spinning records on the turntable as he did hitting the books. At 16, he helped launch one of the Upper Peninsula’s first punk bands—called ...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor Slim Gypsy Baggage is back by popular demand. The regional-touring act, which has been on a 100-gig-a-year schedule since they came together back in 2011, played Bell’s Eccentric Cafe for Kalamazoo beer week in January. Considering the highly-in-demand nature of Bell&#...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor Austin Godfrey, a senior PR major, visits Parking Services on WMU's campus. Some of Parking Services' revenues from permits and tickets pay for free rides on Metro Transit and Bronco Transit buses (photo by Katrina Hummel) Of the benefits available to WMU student...
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John Campbell A&E Reporter Lachlan MacQuarrie and Shane Schmidt star in WMU's "Macbeth" (Photo by John Lacko) Murder, betrayal and evil will fill the University Theatre this week, as students mount their production of the William Shakespeare classic, “Macbeth.” Shane Montgomery...
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Craig Manning A&E Editor Folk music stalwart and rock ‘n’ roll legend Bob Dylan is coming back to Kalamazoo. According to his website, the 71-year old singer/songwriter will play Wings Stadium on April 20. No start-time or ticket price is is given, and the tour listing offers no indi...
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The Kalamazoo Civic's Ben Zylman (left) accepts an award from Michigan State Festival Chair, Art Nemitz (right) John Campbell A&E Reporter The Kalamazoo Civic Theatre played host to the Michigan’s division of the American Association of Community Theatre, as the organization’s ...
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