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

  • Major Barbara
  • April 13, 2012
The Victorian playwright George Bernard Shaw embraced an intellectual stance that challenged even the most ingrained cultural conventions. His...
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"Summer and Smoke” at the Hilberry finds perfect tension

  • Summer and Smoke
  • February 25, 2012
The characteristic tension that powersTennessee Williams’plays– the pull of spiritual longing resisting the gravity of physical desire...
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The Hilberry Theatre Announces its 50th Anniversary Season

In 1952, Agatha Christie’s murder mystery drama, The Mousetrap,opened in theWest End of London. Ten years later, Wayne State University...
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'Frank Langella's Cyrano' brings a modern classic to the Hilberry.

  • Frank Langella's Cyrano
  • January 14, 2012
The Hilberry Theatre Company’s production of Frank Langella’s Cyrano opened last night to an enthusiastic, if somewhat weepy, audience....
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Much Ado About Nothing is a Hilberry Theatre Must See

By SUE SUCHYTA Wayne State University’s Hilberry graduate theatre company launched an exciting and innovative run of William Shakespeare...
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A renovated 'Doll’s House' premieres in the newly renovated Studio Theatre.

It is fitting that WSU’s inaugural performance in the newly renovated Studio Theatre should be a play by the Father of Modernism, Henrick...
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The Marx Brothers have invaded the Hilberry ... don't miss it.

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...
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It's not too early to order your Hilberry Theatre season tickets.

Since 1963, more than two million guests have passed through the Hilberry Theatre. We can only speculate on how the associated cheers, tears,...
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Forget Spiderman. The Hilberry presents 'Charlotte’s Web'!

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...
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It's epic! The Cider House Rules, Parts One and Two at the Hilberry.

  • The Cider Hours Rules
  • April 1, 2011
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...
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