​Join us for a memorial for inimitable local actress, EVE DAVIDSON, who left the stage of life abruptly April 23 due to complications from a brain tumor.

Eve Davidson Memorial
Saturday, May 21, 7 pm
Riverwalk Theatre

Tom Klunzinger will present a litany of remembrances, interspersed with readings and songs from some of the shows in which Eve performed, assisted by Ken Beachler, Tanya Burnham, Kelly Jo Garland and Jane and Mark Zussman. 

Attendees are encouraged to bring a bottle of wine to toast Eve’s memory following the program.

Donations to Riverwalk Theatre in Eve’s memory will be listed in programs for a year, and also count toward Riverwalk membership.

Lansing Community College is hiring an adjunct theater person to teach technical/design theatre as well as design two of our season productions (Scenic/Lights/both). Here is a link to the posting. If you know anyone who might be interested, please share. We would like to have this person on board by Spring semester. Any questions, contact:

Laura Paige Tufford-Dunckel

Performing Arts Coordinator
Business, Communication and the Arts
tuffordl@lcc.edu
517-483-1122
https://jobs.lcc.edu/en/job/492689/adjunct-instructor-theatre

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The Lansing School District is hiring someone to manage and run events in the Auditoriums across the district. 

This person will have the opportunity to oversee several different spaces, ranging from original 1960’s equipment to brand-new, state-of-the-art technology. This position would assist current school staff and volunteers in running of events and productions, as well as perform basic maintenance tasks necessary to keep all spaces working correctly.

This position is full-time, full benefits, and 52 weeks. Salary to be determined based on experience, and will be part of the Communications Department for the district. 

Position is posted till May 21st, please feel free to send any questions you might have to jenna.erbele@lansingschools.net

https://lansingschools.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=1108

​Renegade Theatre Festival Retiring
 
The Renegade Theatre Festival is retiring after almost 20 years of providing a Lansing area festival full of theatrical variety for everyone to enjoy each summer. The Renegade Theatre Festival board voted to retire the festival, making way for new endeavors and opportunities.
 
Since its founding by Chad Swan-Badgero and Louis DiNolfi in 2005 in East Lansing, Renegade has been an inclusive and free festival open to independent theatre artists and to existing theatres seeking a space to experiment. With the promise of a place to perform, 50 chairs and publicity, the Festival put few limits on what an artist could bring, and theatre-goers only knew to expect the unexpected.
 
The Renegade Theatre Festival moved to Old Town in 2008, and Melissa Kaplan joined Swan-Badgero as co-artistic director. Here, plays inhabited vacant storefronts, street corners and shops with three nights of performances and Saturday daytime children’s programming every August. Katie Doyle joined the coordinating team, and all types of performances hit the Music Stage alternating with plays. 
 
In 2010, the Festival committed to presenting New Original Works (N.O.W.). Led by Paige Tufford, Renegade N.O.W. became a proving ground for playwrights from around the world. Over the years, approximately 3,000 scripts were submitted and close to 200 received staged readings. 
 
As theatre artists experimented, so, too, did the organizers, adding such elements as Spoken Word and Experimental stages, hosting the City Pulse’s Pulsar Awards in 2013, and taking Renegade around town in 2017 with festival sites in REO Town, downtown Lansing, the Eastside and East Lansing as well as in Old Town. In 2018, Renegade Ruckus was born when jeff croff joined the team and led a 24-hour play challenge bringing mad creation to life on the final night of the festival. 
 
In 2015, the Renegade Theatre Festival was recognized with the Robert Busby Award from the Lansing State Journal “For extraordinary overall contribution to theatre in the Greater Lansing Area.”
 
The history of the all-volunteer Renegade Theatre Festival is rich with participants, supporters, sponsors, volunteers and donors, and it reflects a community deeply committed to the theatre arts.
 
Presenting companies over the years included All-of-us-Express Children’s Theatre, Audio Airforce, Blue Light Players, Capital Theatreworks, Generations, LCC Theatre, MSU Theatre, Mid-Michigan Family Theatre, Peppermint Creek Theatre Co., Riverwalk Theatre, Ruhala Performing Arts Center, Shakespeare on the Grand, Skildtrade Cabaret, Stormfield Theatre, Super Christy Players, The American Shakespeare Collective, The Puppet Theatre, Williamston Theatre, Young Artisans Workshop, and numerous independent theatre artists and collectives. 
 
The many Old Town locations that served as Festival locations included Absolute Gallery, Old Town General Store, MICA Gallery, Urban Beat, The Red Cedar Friends Meeting House, Mother and Earth Baby Boutique, and Zoobie’s, as well as other spaces such as Creole Gallery, Perspective2/The Marquee and the former Chrome Cat now occupied by different thriving businesses. The Robin Theatre and Blue Owl Coffee (REO Town), Lansing Art Gallery and Impression 5 Science Museum (downtown), Allen Neighborhood Center and Happendance Exchange (Eastside), and (SCENE) Metrospace and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (East Lansing) hosted performances during the 2017 Festival.
 
Renegade Theatre Festival was supported by sponsors Ciesa Design, the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing City Pulse, Lansing Community College, the Old Town Commercial Association, Message Makers, Jackson National Life, Piper and Gold Public Relations, reZüberant Incorporated and Bibbee Creative, and by the many individuals who dropped coins, bills or checks into the ever-present donation baskets.  
 
The organizers are grateful to be retiring the Festival on such a high note and with a plethora of theatrical memories. They hope everyone will celebrate the Renegade Theatre Festival by sharing their own memories on the Festival’s Facebook page. The organizers will be doing the same and recognizing the many contributors who made Renegade Theatre Festival possible.
 

Jane note: In the pre COVID days I have traditionally devised a photocopied full-season GLUT calendar of live theatre to be distributed during Renegade, as it celebrated all theatres… and I’m planning to re-do such a calendar for 22-23 season as theatre re-emerges — and hope to have it available in the Riverwalk Theatre lobby rack for RWT’s August show. Renegade may be gone but theatre is ba-a-a-ck!

It’s one of those days… but maybe all for the best?

In a rush, going to post events on the GLUT Calendar after sending, I noticed Fowlerville 12 Angry Men audition dates had passed — and that Ruhala’s Brighton Beach Memoirs May 27 was a Friday, not a Saturday.

BUT I got a reply from Fowlerville that auditions have been EXTENDED! 

AND an email from Ruhala confirming Friday date.

Best wishes for a less tangled day for everyone!




Fowlerville Community Theatre is pleased to EXTEND auditions for 12 Angry Men. 

Auditions have been EXTENDED to include May 23-24,  2022 from 6:30-8:30 pm at the Fowlerville Library, 130 S. Grand, Fowlerville MI 48836
The audition packet can be downloaded at https://bit.ly/FCT-Angry-AuditionPacket.
Please secure a spot by signing up at https://bit.ly/FCT-Angry-AuditionSignUp.


More info at http://fowlervilletheatre.com



Brighton Beach Memoirs
FRIDAY, May 27 at 8PM
Broadway comic drama written by Neil Simon. The cast will feature a tightly knit ensemble of talented actors. Their points of view will bring the edge this kind of play requires. Overall, the end result being the message and opinions of Neil Simon. You will experience a roller coaster ride as you watch a family deal with its current situational conflict. This show is for our teen/adult audience.

For tickets call 517-337-0464 or email us at mailto:info@RuhalaCenter.com
Ruhala Performing Arts Center | 1846 Haslett Road, East Lansing, MI 48823
https://ruhalacenter.com

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Hear Me Roar!
Announcing Riverwalk Season 34 — 2022-23

Season Reveal Mixer - Saturday May 14

Get ready to mix and mingle with your Riverwalk Theatre family for the official unveiling of our 34th season on Saturday, May 14, from 7-9 p.m. Gather in an informal setting to learn about the season and each production, meet the directors, and sign up to volunteer on a production's crew if interested!

It's the perfect opportunity to renew your membership for the upcoming season (as a bonus, you'll get two free months of membership prior to the start of the new season) and donate to the theatre. You may also renew your membership online at riverwalktheatre.com/membership. Season tickets will be available for purchase at the event.

EVENT DETAILS
    • Cost - Free

    • Masks required at all times inside the building

    • Dress code - Casual

    • No RSVP necessary — the more, the merrier!

    • Refreshments provided

OOPS - should have sent this out sooner! A little busy/distracted by that invisible rabbit…. Jane

May 2022


4/29-30 & 5/1; 5/6 & 7- 6:30 dinner 7:30 show; Sundays: dessert 1:30 show 2pm - Harvey - at Grand Ledge High School Auditorium - STL

4/29-5/8- 7pm Fridays; 3pm Saturdays and Sundays - The Little Mermaid - AECT

5/5 & 5/6 @ 8 p.m. - An Evening of One Acts, directed by Andy Callis. One acts include, This is the Rill Speaking by Lanford Wilson, Trifles by Susan Glaspell and Overruled by George Bernard Shaw. Free admission. LCC Black Box Theatre 1422 Gannon Bldg - LCC

5/8, 2-4 p.m. - 10-Minute Play Festival. Ten plays directed by students in the Play Directing Class present their work - Comedy, drama and the absurd. Free admission. LCC Black Box Theatre 1422 Gannon Bldg LCC

5/13-14 & 20-21- 8 pm - Let’s Eat! -Six directors take on six short plays to explore our relationships with food and drink - at Lansing Mall former Overdrive nightclub - $15 at the door - IX 

5/14 - 7-9 pm - Riverwalk Season Reveal Mixer -  Gather in an informal setting to learn about the season and each production, meet the directors, and sign up to volunteer on a production's crew if interested • Cost - Free • Masks required at all times inside the building • Dress code - Casual • No RSVP necessary • Refreshments provided - RWT

5/15- 16 - 7pm - Auditions for “Songs About Stuff: The Music of Wally Pleasant” production dates July 7-17 -  2m, 2w, flexible age/ethnicity, looking for a diverse cast! Adam Carlson is directing, Sharon Garner is music directing - OTL  

5/17-22 - 7:30pm Tue/Wed/Thur; 8pm Fri; 2pm & 8pm Sat; 1pm & 6:30pm Sun - Dear Evan Hanson - Great Hall - WTN

5/19-21 - 6:30pm Thursday and Friday, 10am Saturday- Auditions for Matilda JR - AECT

5/19 – 6/19- 8pm Thur/Fri, 3pm & 8pm Sat, 2pm Sun - Tracy Jones by Stephen Kaplan directed by Tony Caselli - a funny, touching story of human connection. World Premiere - WT

Friday 6/3, 7 pm, Saturday, 6/4, 2 and 7 pm Friday 5/27, 7 pm, Saturday, 5/28, 2 and 7 pm Little Women - Grace Bible Church, 1000 S Canal Rd, Lansing - MTC


Greater Lansing Ubiquitous Theatres

AECT - All-of-us Express Children’s Theatre - 
www.cityofeastlansing.com/allofus - 517-319-6957 - ecooke@cityofeastlansing.com


IX - Ixion - ixiontheatre.com, ixionensemble@gmail.com, 517-775-4246 - performs at Lansing Mall, 5660 W Saginaw Hwy., in former Overdrive nightclub, Lansing, MI 48917


MTC - Midway Theater Company - 
midwaytheatercompany.org - 517-316-5272


OTL - Over the Ledge Theatre Company - Fitzgerald Park, Grand Ledge, www.overtheledge.org - 517-318-0579


PCTC - Peppermint Creek Theatre Company - 
www.peppermintcreek.org - 517-927-3016


RWT - Community Circle Players at Riverwalk Theatre, www.RiverwalkTheatre.com, 517-482-5700


STL - Starlight Dinner Theatre - 517-243-6040 -  check website for new location - www.starlightdinnertheatre.com


WT - Williamston Theatre - 517-655-SHOW (7469) www.williamstontheatre.org 


WTN - Wharton Center for Performing Arts at MSU - 517-432-2000 or 1-800-Wharton or  www.whartoncenter.com5/5 & 5/6 @ 8 p.m.