$2M-backed space serves as “great training ground” for students

The Livonia Community Theatre is presenting a production of “The Comedy of Errors".

Valentine’s Day -- the holiday made for a Hallmark movie. At least that’s what it seems like now. But it wasn’t always so closely associated with roses and teddy bears.

Bullet holes remain in the windows of a house on Detroit’s east side, at the corner of Fairmount Drive and Shakespeare.

Join actors at Nichols Arboretum for moving performances of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" throughout June.

Valentine’s Day -- the holiday made for a Hallmark movie. At least that’s what it seems like now. But it wasn’t always so closely associated with roses and teddy bears.

Longtime drama professor at the University of Michigan, Kate Mendeloff, has died.

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Valentine’s Day -- the holiday made for a Hallmark movie. At least that’s what it seems like now. But it wasn’t always so closely associated with roses and teddy bears.

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London’s mayor has sent a message of support to Hong Kong residents fleeing China’s crackdown on democracy to seek new lives in the United Kingdom.

Shakespeare in the Arb has been canceled. It would have been the theater's 21st season.

FILE - Author Maggie O'Farrell poses for the media at the Costa book awards in London on Jan. 25, 2011. O'Farrell's "Hamnet," an imagined take on the death of Shakespeare's son from the bubonic plague, has won the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)NEW YORK – Maggie O'Farrell's “Hamnet,” an imagined take on the death of Shakespeare's son from the bubonic plague, has won the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction. “Hamnet,” an unfortunately well timed story for the current pandemic, explores the impact of the boy's illness and death on his family. The book critics circle was founded in 1974 and has hundreds of members around the country.

Valentine’s Day -- the holiday made for a Hallmark movie. Though, Chaucer’s mention of Valentine’s Day in this poem is also disputed. Slowly, but surely, Valentine’s Day started getting sweeter. (Wikipedia Commons)Shakespeare romanticized Valentine’s Day in his work and it began to really take off in Britain and in Europe. And then boom - Hallmark hit the map in 1913, and started mass producing Valentine’s Day cards.

DETROIT – The director of a new program called Shakespeare STEAM is using the stage to give Detroit students the tools they need to succeed -- something she said she missed out on in school. Shakespeare in Detroit has dedicated its entire season to an educational pilot program that teaches children about Shakespeare and everything that goes into putting on the play. Shakespeare in Detroit is connecting grade school children to theater by providing vocational and artistic training in its program, called “Shakespeare STEAM.”As the artistic director and a graduate of Detroit Public Schools, the program is personal for White. “I wanted to give the opportunity for kids who sat in the seats that I once sat in to have the opportunity to learn everything about theater,” White said. There is a matinee at 12:15 p.m. Saturday at the Detroit School of Arts.

Journalist Mitch Albom brings a story about Sam White who is on a mission to bring Shakespeare to Detroit. Go to ShakespeareinDetroit.com for more information