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In this podcast, Metro Times Arts & Culture Editor Travis Wright hosts the Craig Fahle Show featuring John Dunivant, Ken Poirier and Gary Bredow of Theatre Bizarre. Listen to the show at WDETfm.org…
Known as a circus-themed underground masquerade party, Theatre Bizarre is going mainstream — at least as conventional as an event like Theatre Bizarre can go. The Halloween party, until last year held on West State Fair just south of the … Continue reading
The show had become a cult legend before the city of Detroit shut it down in 2010. The annual Halloween masquerade at Theatre Bizarre drew thousands annually in a dilapidated neighborhood just south of the Michigan State fairgrounds. Now, a … Continue reading
This week, Kresge Arts in Detroit celebrates its third year with a second round of fellows who work in visual art. And as the program has completed one full cycle, Kresge has now invested more than $1.3 million in individual … Continue reading
The creators of the underground Halloween party known as Theatre Bizarre have spent the better part of the past decade transforming a section of a blighted, burned out neighborhood in the City of Detroit into a one night carnival. With … Continue reading
The Theater Bizarre has become an institution in Detroit, a chance for the many alternative artists, fetishists, performance artists, perverts and degenerates to gather and collectively turn the State Fair Grounds into some sort of Hellish interpretation of a carnival. … Continue reading
Theatre Bizarre. For years the name was like a secret password for those in the know. For the cognoscenti of Detroit, the words evoked a fire-lit carnival fantasy world that, Brigadoon-like, appeared for one night a year the weekend before … Continue reading
DETROIT — The arts community here is abuzz over the potential dismantling of the site of Theatre Bizarre, an 11-year-old party and macabre neighborhood carnival that is part Ringling Brothers, part “Dawn of the Dead,” and features makeshift rides, punk … Continue reading
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