Directors
Fresh Start for Performance Network Theatre
PRESS RELEASE Ann Arbor (June 19, 2014) The Board of Directors of Performance Network Theatre voted unanimously last night to support a new production model and management structure under the direction of John Manfredi, a long-time theater producer and actor. Manfredi assumes the role of Producing Artistic Director. The Board suspended operations on May 21. […]
From Williams to Wilson – Ray Schultz in “Blanche & Beyond”.
“Tennessee Williams’ poetic realism really affected Lanford Wilson. Not that I didn’t see it before, but I certainly see more of it after Blanche & Beyond,” said Ray Schultz, director of Burn This and star of the touring one-man show Blanche & Beyond – showing at Performance Network Theatre on October 14 & 15 at 7pm. Ray Schultz spent […]
Who was Lanford Wilson?
“Nobody’s safe around a writer.” – Lanford Wilson Known for contrast. He blended hard-eyed view of the world with elegant language. Starred in his high school’s production of The Glass Menagerie as Tom. Wrote in elements of his personal life. The cafe below his apartment was the setting for Balm in Gilead. Judd Hirsch, Swoosie Kurtz, Christopher Reeve […]
Performance Network Theatre: Ann Arbor's Premier Professional Theatre 