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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
John Dunivant, Theatre Bizarre’s creator, has just been chosen as a 2011 Kresge Arts Fellow. From The Kresge Foundation: The Kresge Artist Fellowships are given to artists whose commitment to innovation and artistic achievement are evident in the quality of … 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
As I waited on State Fair Road in the damp October cold, dressed as the only non-zombie member of a zombie marching band, sipping from a shiny metal flask, I knew I was about to see something special. “Theatre Bizarre” … Continue reading
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