Leading its 14th season, the Abreact Theater’s smartly directed and superlatively acted performance of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child delivers the quality and gravity Abreact patrons are used to.

The result is "Burn the Red Banner: Or, Let the Rebels Have Their Fun," 80 minutes of non-stop mayhem now playing in the shabby-chic confines of The Abreact Performance Space in Detroit, 1301 W ...

The thrust stage at The Abreact is about the size of the fifth pocket on a pair of Levis and the audience sits right on top of the action. So up close and personal we can practically smell the tension ...

In a highly effective Abreact production, John Jakary and his cast manage to do just that. Very little of the activity onstage is broadly physical, but that doesn't necessarily entail stasis.

And the squeamish asked, "Just how bloody would the production be?" Director Thomas Hoagland – an Abreact founder – assured me late last fall during a chance encounter that he had it all figured out.

LOCAL metal bands Abreact and Eater of the Sky have been named as two of four Victorian acts to perform at the Bendigo leg of this year's Groovin the Moo festival.

The Abreact jumpstarts its 2010 season, rather fittingly, with a series of Bogosian monologues. 1301 Lafayette, Detroit; theabreact.org. Travis R. Wright is arts and culture editor of Metro Times.

Those are the puzzles of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, ‘Buried Child,’ which opens the 14th season of the Abreact Theatre Collective.

Those are the puzzles of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “Buried Child,” which opens the 14th season of the Abreact Theatre Collective.

The Abreact theatre is located at 1301 West Lafayette #113. Detroit, MI 48226. Reservations can be made by contacting the theatre by phone at 313-454-1542 or email [email protected].

The Abreact Performance Space will present Burn the Red Banner: Or, Let the Rebels Have Their Fun, by local playwright Franco Vitella, directed by Frannie Shepherd-Bates. The show runs from ...