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Shaw's 'Major Barbara,' at the Hilberry Theatre, anticipates class struggle

The Victorian playwright George Bernard Shaw embraced an intellectual stance that challenged even the most ingrained cultural conventions. His...

The characteristic tension that powersTennessee Williams’plays– the pull of spiritual longing resisting the gravity of physical desire...

In 1952, Agatha Christie’s murder mystery drama, The Mousetrap,opened in theWest End of London. Ten years later, Wayne State University...

The Hilberry Theatre Company’s production of Frank Langella’s Cyrano opened last night to an enthusiastic, if somewhat weepy, audience....

By SUE SUCHYTA Wayne State University’s Hilberry graduate theatre company launched an exciting and innovative run of William Shakespeare...

It is fitting that WSU’s inaugural performance in the newly renovated Studio Theatre should be a play by the Father of Modernism, Henrick...

Last night, September 23, the Hilberry Theatre opened its 49th season with the musical double feature, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine...

Since 1963, more than two million guests have passed through the Hilberry Theatre. We can only speculate on how the associated cheers, tears,...

Everyone has their own idea about what’s wrong with education today. Most of these discussions focus on money and where we should be spending...

In an age in which things seem to be getting smaller (for example, mobile phones, lingerie and budgets for the arts) the Hilberry Theatre is doing...