July 13th - 17th - Grades 9-12
July 20th - 24th - Grades 2-12

The CMS Musical Theatre Camp is a day camp for elementary, middle and high school students. Campers in grades 9-12 will spend the full two weeks developing skills including solo and ensemble voice development, choreography, and prop design, while focusing on healthy singing using musical theatre repertoire. Campers in grades 2-8 will join them in the second week, and the camp will culminate in a final revue featuring scenes and songs from many popular musicals. The final performance will take place the last Friday at 7 p.m. in Fairchild Theatre.

$300 for Grades 9-12, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for two weeks
$220 for Grades 2-8, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for one week (July 20-24)
For more information, please visit our website: http://www.cms.msu.edu/el/children/camps_musicTheatre.php

PLEASE CONSIDER SHARING to influence my quality of life...
 
Part-Time Home Helper, Morning Shift [M-F, 30 hours/week, $10.00/hour]
http://lansing.craigslist.org/hea/5079085086.html
 
Job Description Includes:
- Helping with dressing, eating and shaving.
- Helping manage household organization.
- Some typing, and making some phone calls.
- Juicing fresh vegetables.
- Preparing soups from simple recipes.
- Light housekeeping and laundry.
- Transferring from wheelchair to another chair (I can bare my own weight).
 
Other Information:
- Pay is $10.00/hour.
- About 30 hours per week (generally about 6 hours each morning, usually from 7:30am to 1:30pm, Monday through Friday).
- The job location is in Haslett.        
- I live a holistic health lifestyle.
- I am seeking an HONEST, DEPENDABLE, and KIND person.
- A genuine POSITIVE LIFE ATTITUDE is a must!
- Must have valid driver’s license & reliable vehicle, for reliable attendance.
 
Information for Dr. Craig Oster:
*Resumes required, via email at drcraigoster@comcast.net
*Back-up workers for this position will also be hired.
*Background checks will be done on job candidates before hiring.
 
Peace and gratitude,
Craig
 
Craig Oster, PhD
20.5-year survivor of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) &
Co-founder/Scientist/Advocate at THE HEALERS campaign

The Studio Performing Arts Center has a summer acting session for any adults (and older teens) interested in furthering their skills.  We are looking for more adults to join the class.  The class will focus on a variety of techniques with approaches to scene study, as well as touch on Audition Techniques.  Class meets this MONDAY, JUNE 22 at 7pm at The Studio, 5015 Park Lake Rd., East Lansing, MI  48823 and costs $72 for the session.  For more information, call P.K. At 517-336-4088 or 517-203-8324.

"CRUNCH MONTH"
 
Hello fellow Shakespeare lovers!
 
I am writing as a Board Member of the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, but also a theatre director, actor, and audience member myself. And I'm writing because this is one of those times that we most need your help!
 
I call this period "crunch month" - that month when all professional salaries are due, sets and costumes are being built, and costs are at their highest all year - but opening night is still a month away, ticket sales have not yet taken off, and sponsorships and grant money have not yet rolled in for the summer. And that leads to a monetary "crunch" at the worst time of the year.
 
When I first moved to Michigan from NYC, I came across this small outdoor theatre festival in Jackson, Michigan that performed outstanding Shakespeare productions in the park - and from the first show I saw I was hooked. The Festival has since grown tremendously in scope and nature, has for many years been located indoors in state-of-the-art, air-conditioned, bug-free splendor, and has continued to present remarkable theatre for five weeks every summer.
 
This year, the Festival is expanding to include three weeks in Canton, MI as well as two ongoing weeks in Jackson (for the record, we do not ever plan to leave Jackson as our home base!).
 
But the Festival needs your help. Even when ticket sales are at their best, they cover only a portion of the true costs of running a theatre, let alone an entire summer festival season. The rest depends on you - donors, sponsors, friends, fellow theater-lovers. 
 
The Michigan Shakespeare Festival is a professional Actors Equity Association-LORT theatre festival, featuring all-professional actors, artistic staff, and technicians. 
 
Because the Festival maintains high artistic professional standards that result in top quality productions utilizing artists of the highest caliber, it is no wonder that the company is the most award-winning theatre in the state, garnering not only local but national acclaim. Reviews called last season's productions "Outstanding" (MLive), "You may never again see this play done so well" (Encore Michigan),  "Remarkably relevant" (Examiner), "Four out of Four stars" (Detroit Free Press), and "Exquisite...gorgeous... perfect" (Jackson Citizen Patriot).  BroadwayWorld named last season's production of Hamlet the Best Shakespearean Production of 2014.
 
This July 9- August 16, 2015 the Festival will offer William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry IV, along with Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, at both venues - in Jackson and in Canton. Tickets are now on-sale. Purchasing your tickets early also helps our cash flow.
 
Won't you please take a moment to remember the Michigan Shakespeare Festival with a donation or sponsorship? It's easy. Just make out a check to the Michigan Shakespeare Festival and mail it to the address below or go to our website for a secure donation link. We'll thank you, we'll applaud you, we'll salute you with another season of awesome Shakespeare. And you'll know that you made the difference. 
 
Thanks in advance - and see you at our shows this summer!
 
Ronald P. Baumanis, Vice Chair
MSF Board of Directors 

Send donations to: 
Michigan Shakespeare Festival
215 W. Michigan Ave. 
Jackson, MI 49201

"The Michigan Shakespeare Festival in Jackson seems to be going from strength to strength, at last becoming the summer destination event it was surely meant to be - DETROIT NEW MONITOR
 
www.michiganshakespearefestival.com

We’re looking for volunteers:

Did you know that in August the 10th annual Renegade Theatre Festival returns to Lansing’s Old Town? (Can you believe it’s been 10 years?) We're so excited about this year's Festival!

The Renegade is always looking for motivated, enthusiastic people to help the whole show run smoothly. In addition to the volunteers needed in such areas as the Information Tent and House Management, this year we are also looking for a few ‘tech support’ folks to assist our musicians in set-up and break-down.

If you’re not sure how you’d like to volunteer – or need more information, or to sign up for volunteering -  please contact Katie Doyle: kdoylemuses@gmail.com , or Miranda Hartman: mirasu1024@gmail.com .

Come enjoy the Renegade Theatre Festival which takes place August 13, 14 and 15, 2015, in Lansing's Old Town.

Check out our website for more details: www.renegadetheatrefestival.org

Peppermint Creek Theatre Company is proud to host a farewell musical concert, celebrating the musical talents and contributions of Chad and Amanda DeKatch, frequent and enthusiastic participants in the Lansing theatre community, and vocal powerhouses.  PCTC is ready to send this dynamic duo off to their new adventures in Florida with a bang!

This is going to be a musical event you won’t want to miss. Featuring songs from Chad and Amanda’s musical stage and directing career (and a few tunes they just dream about singing), the evening will include close to 30 Broadway and pop songs, a few original tunes, dancing, guest stars from past productions with Chad and Amanda, and a full band! 

Guest Stars: Chad Badgero, Stephanie Banghart, Matt Bill, Meghan Corbett,  Brennan Hattaway, Zach Kovan, Emily McKay, Rick Murpi, Hannah Romain, Juan Salazar and DJ Shafer.  

Featuring Songs From: Anything Goes, In the Heights, Company, Mame,
Little Shop of Horrors, Ragtime, The Fantastics, Ordinary Days, Light in the Piazza,
The Last 5 Years, Brooklyn, Seussical, Caroline or Change, Next To Normal, Hairspray, Altar Boyz, Into the Woods, Smash, and much more!

Friday, June 26 and Saturday, June 27 at 8 p.m.
$10 general admission
Miller Performing Arts Center
6025 Curry Lane
Lansing, MI 48911

www.peppermintcreek.org

Monday through Thursday, June 22nd – 25th
9 am – 12 pm

Come one day or all four!
Day 1: DESIGN: Dress up, make believe, make costumes and sets for fairy tale fun!
Day 2: ACTING: Theatre games, spontaneous story telling, acting and improv!
Day 3: MUSIC: Singing, music games, songs, and music making!
Day 4: DANCE: Moving and shaking to fun tunes, dancing to your own drum!
 
The camp will be led by actors and designers from MSU’s Summer Circle Theatre.
 
FREE ...and snacks provided!
 They are capable of enrolling up to 50 campers, but are not yet near that goal. To enroll, fill out the attached WORD document application form and email to Sara Goeke at sctdaycamp@gmail.com
Questions? email Sarah at that same email address. 
The camp will be held in the Auditorium Building on MSU campus, 542 Auditorium Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824. 
They'll be doing pick up/drop off at the front of the building, on the corner of Farm Lane and Auditorium, since the driveway is nice and big.

For drop off at 9 am, camp supervisors will be waiting outside for kids, if it's raining, just inside the doors. For pickup at noon, the parents will pull up and have to provide a name that is included on the child's authorized pick up name list (See registration form) Children and the camp supervisors will be waiting outside. 

The registration form is an attached docx that can be filled out and emailed back. (Just showing up is fine as well, however the child will need to be registered by the parent dropping off to provide the necessary info about him/her.)

June 11-28
Evenings performances Thursdays-Sundays at 7:30 p.m.
Matinees Sundays at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets are pay-what-you-can (suggested donation $20.00)
734.635.8450
TheatreNova.org

Theatre Nova - The yellow barn, 416 West Huron, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
Tickets Available: www.artful.ly

Tickets are pay-what-you-can (suggested donation $20.00)
734.635.8450
TheatreNova.org

Get ready to see war from a totally different perspective. You will not want to miss the Michigan premiere of 'Grounded' just weeks after the close of its New York run! Directed by Phil Powers and starring Deborah Keller, this thoroughly engrossing one-woman show by award-winning playwright George Brant takes a timely and powerful look at the ethics and costs of fighting wars by remote control. A fighter pilot, upon becoming pregnant, is reassigned to operating drones from a windowless trailer, and finds the experience more taxing and troubling than flying combat missions. 

Oscar winner Anne Hathaway recently starred as The Pilot at the Public Theatre in New York, under the direction of Julie Taymor, and that production closed just two and a half weeks before Theatre Nova’s will open. 

The New York Times’ Charles Isherwood wrote that the play “draws a nuanced and haunting portrait of a woman serving in the United States Armed Forces coming under pressure as the human cost of war, for combatants as well as civilians, slowly eats away at her well-armored psyche.” In an interview with NPR, Taymor called the subject matter “invigorating and disturbing,” and noted that drone pilots “have to sit and linger over the bombs that are dropped … They are safe physically, but their minds are not safe."

"A searing piece of writing...gripping...a must-see." - The Guardian

“Five Stars. Outstanding.” – The London Standard

"As close to perfection as is possible to imagine...Grounded is a powerful, hallucinogenic experience." - What's On Stage

(You Lansing-ites who have enjoyed Deborah Keller’s work at LCC, Peppermint Creek and Riverwalk may want to make the trek to Ann Arbor for this exciting new show. - Jane)

Lansing Community College Performing Arts
The Two Musketeers! By Jon Jory
A comedy adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, in the American college premiere directed by John Lennox
 
7 p.m. each night, Wednesday June 17, through Sunday, June 21, 2015
 
LCC Outdoor Amphitheatre, located on Washington between Dart Auditorium and the Gannon Building
                        Rain location: Dart Auditorium

When a small acting company eliminates one Musketeer from their production of The Three Musketeers due to budget constraints, the rest of the cast must bravely sally forth with only two. The classic tale of D’Artagnan and his sword-fighting friends is presented by a hilariously self-aware cast, with romance, wit, and derring-do to spare. This low-tech, high-comedy adaptation is a witty and slightly bawdy send-up of Alexandre Dumas' beloved adventure.

The cast includes Michael Boxleitner, Dustin Dikes, Patrick Foster, Sally Hecksel, Connor Kelly, Boris Nikolovski, Heath Sartorius, Anna Szabo and Monica Tanner, with Matt Evancho, Jesse Frawley, Ben Guenther, and Nick Lemmer.

Free! Part of LCC’s Summer Stage Under the Stars 2015, an annual performing arts festival featuring a music, theatre and dance presented at LCC’s outdoor stage and in Dart Auditorium. Bring a picnic, blanket and lawn chairs!

LCC Performing Arts Production Office, 517-483-1488
 
www.lcc.edu/showinfo