acclaimed creators of “The Gruffalo,” return with the musical sequel, “The Gruffalo’s Child,” based on Julia Donaldson MBE and Axel Scheffler’s award-winning picture book. For ticket information and times, visit whartoncenter.com. 03/21 – EKOOSTIK HOOKAH. Presented by AlchemyHouse, Ekoostik Hookah will headline The Loft in Lansing. Glostik Willy, Alvin Hall and Uncle Rico’s Time Machine will open the show. All proceeds benefit seed2cure.org. For tickets and more information, visit theloftlansing.com. 03/24 – NEW FOUND GLORY. Punk isn’t dead, it’s just resurrecting. Hopeless Records’ four-piece New Found Glory headlines The Loft in Lansing. Preceded by special guests Turnstile, This Wild Life and Turnover, the show is a rebirth to pop punk in the Sleep When I Die Tour. Hinging on 18 years as a band, New Found Glory released “Resurrection” in October 2014, officially marking it as the band’s eighth studio album. For tickets and more information, visit theloftlansing.com.
Oklahoma motel room, two down on their luck loners desperately cling to each other ... and check each other for bug bites. For ticket information and times, visit whartoncenter.com. 03/26-04/04 – STRANGE INTERLUDE BY EUGENE O’NEILL. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play analyzes the inner workings of the minds of several characters focused on Nina Leeds as she examines the many men in her life. This controversial play spans decades and locations in a surprisingly comedic epic. For show times and ticket information, visit calendar.outreach. msu.edu.
03/27-03/28 – CHESS. From the composers of “Mamma Mia!” and ABBA fame, and the lyricist of “The Lion King” and “Jesus Christ Superstar.” The two greatest chess masters — one American, one Russian — compete to be the best in the world. But their greatest contest is for the love of the same woman. In a flurry of intrigue and international conspiracies, American Freddie Trumper and Russian Anatoly Sergievsky fight to 03/25 – MUMMENSCHANZ. take the queen in a romantic triangle amidst the MUMMENSCHANZ bedazzles with witty, weird, heightened passions of the Cold War. For ticket timeless creatures that perform unique stories information and times, visit whartoncenter.com. without sound or music. In this wordless universe, the ordinary becomes extraordinary as colorful 03/25-03/29 – HANDEL’S XERXES. shapes like the famous “Clay Masks,” “Slinky Man” King Xerxes casts his eye on a young lady and decides and “Giant Hands” spring to life. For show times and he wants her for his queen, causing a tangled web of further information, visit whartoncenter.com. mistaken identity, thwarted plots and unrequited love. Sparkling with beautiful arias, what more could 03/26-04/04 – BUG. anyone want in an opera? Sung in Italian with English Tracy Letts’ disturbing psychological drama explores surtitles. For ticket information and times, visit paranoia and conspiracy theories. Set in a seedy whartoncenter.com.
FILM EVENTS 03/03 – FLOOD. Chinese-born director and Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts graduate Dong Jun reveals the impact of the Sanmen Gorge Dam in China on the citizens’ livelihood and water preservation in his raw 90-minute documentary, “Flood.” The film will air at the Broad Art Museum. For more information and times, visit broadmuseum.msu.edu/programs. 03/16 - 03/20 - MIKE HOOLBOOM. Mike Hoolboom, experimental filmmaker and theorist, will be an artist in residence for a week at MSU, teaching, lecturing and screening his work. Coordinated with the Ann Arbor Film Festival through the MSU Visiting Artist Initiative.
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