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    • 30s & 40s Meetup Nights
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    • Box Office FAQs
    • Buy Gift Card
    • Production Archive
  • About
    • Program Advertisement
    • Staff
    • Artists
    • History
    • Board of Directors
    • Education
      • College Night
      • Classes
    • Employment
    • Auditions
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    • Accessibility
    • Infectious Disease Safety
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    • Purple Rose Gang
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    • Volunteering
    • Financial Reporting

Daily Archives: September 19, 2017

A 20-Year Trip to The Purple Rose

By: Paul Stroili “So there’s this theatre in Michigan that’s doing one of my plays,” my friend Michael Grady said to me. Michael is an amazing writer, a brilliant playwright and the funniest person I’ve ever met. We were roommates in Chicago in the early ‘90s, but it was now 1996 and my wife Monica…

September 19, 2017Backstage LookBy Nathan Magyar
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