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4/5/2012

Robert Lepage’s The Andersen Project comes to Ann Arbor March 15-17. Our own Sara Billmann interviewed actor Yves Jacques, who stars in this person. Jacques plays all three main characters: Frederic, an albino rock lyricist from Montreal who heads to Paris to write the libretto for a children’s opera based on a Hans Christian Andersen story; Arnaud, the opera company’s fast-talking administrator whose personal life is unraveling due to his sexual obsessions; and Rashid, a Moroccan janitor who moms up after clients at a peep show located on the first floor of the building that contains the apartment Frederic is subletting. Read on to find out more.

UMS Night School is a free and open to the public series “classes” which include a 30-minute discussion of each performance in Pure Michigan Renegade, plus a 60-minute intro session for the next performance on the series. You’ll find follow conversation, coverage, and materials here on the Lobby.

Join us Sunday, March 11 at 4 pm EST for a live web chat with mavericks Jeremy Denk and Morton Subotnick who will offer insights into the music featured in the American…

Tobias Wacker, owner of lab, has been talking to us about Max Raabe ever since we announced the 11/12 season. Toby’s enthusiasm is so infectious that we felt it would be a true disservice to keep it to ourselves