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Next week, the UK’s all-male Shakespeare troupe Propeller (led by acclaimed director Edward Hall) will be taking Ann Arbor by storm with stellar new productions of “Richard III” and “The Comedy of Errors.” The shows have been receiving rave reviews and great word-of-mouth from audiences. The video trailers for both productions are here — and they are pretty awesome.

U-M Professor Enoch Brater is on sabbatical in New York this semester and caught an early performance of Propeller’s The Comedy of Errors at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) last week.  …

Guest blogger Garrett Schumann re-contextualizes Bach’s Mass in b minor and provides an inside scoop as to what we can listen for during Bach Collegium Japan’s performance in Hill Auditorium.

The University Musical Society will donate 50% of all new ticket purchases to the Bach Collegium Japan concert on Thursday, March 24 in Hill Auditorium to the American Red Cross Japan Earthquake…

Ten years ago today, UMS audiences began a great experiment — the Royal Shakespeare Company presenting four Shakespeare History plays (Henry VI, parts i, ii, and iii, and Richard III) over the course of 27 hours with lunch and dinner breaks built in.

Three distinct voices — a theater critic, a drama professor, and a student — give three distinct perspectives on The Cripple of Inishmaan.

Check out this note from the executive director of Arts Emerson: The World on Stage, which presented the play in Boston last month: I’m writing to tell you that you are in for a huge theatrical treat this week! I’m still receiving comments from our audiences about how much they enjoyed the work – and also messages of regret from people who weren’t able to see it during the short time that it was in Boston.

Guest blogger and U-M graduate student composer Garrett Schumann brings us this glimpse of what we can expect to hear from the Scharoun Ensemble Berlin.

In advance of performances by the Druid Theater of Ireland, the U-M Residential College Drama Department is screening a few related films that we hope you can check out if you get the chance. All screenings will take place in the RC Keene Theater located in the East Quadrangle Dormitory and are free and open to the public.