Actors' Theatre Grand Rapids

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We're thrilled to welcome you to season 44! Season passes are on sale now at https://atgr.ludus.com/passes.phpThis seaso...
06/18/2026

We're thrilled to welcome you to season 44!
Season passes are on sale now at https://atgr.ludus.com/passes.php

This season we're exploring: WHAT MAKES USE HUMAN?

We are in an age where “empathy” can become an HR workshop instead of an instinctive human response...
An age where a machine can remove us from the process of writing our own stories.
An age where grief and fear can make even the people we love feel unknowable.
An age where the consequences of our actions follow us home and threaten our peace.

This season, we are stepping into the strange, funny, brutal, and tender places where humanity is tested — not as an idea, but as an experience. In our bodies. In our homes. In our workplaces. In our families. In the stories we tell and the ones we try to escape.

These plays ask: What remains when harm is ordinary, empathy is optional, and the people most wounded are asked to make room for the very people hurting them? What remains when an algorithm learns our voice, takes the stage, and insists it can do humanity better? What remains when grief, fear, and uncertainty make every familiar thing feel unstable? What remains when violence comes home and calls itself “family”?

In Do You Feel Anger?, the workplace becomes a funhouse mirror of cruelty, where empathy is on the agenda and accountability is nowhere to be found. In The Singularity Play, a rehearsal room becomes the testing ground for an AI model that has learned the language of art and dares us to call it human. In A Mile in the Dark, one woman’s grief collides with fear and uncertainty, turning memory, silence, and suspicion into a fracture in the life she thought she understood. And in Phoebe in Winter, war does not end when the soldiers come home — it changes shape, knocks on the door, and demands to be fed.

Together, these plays form a season of dangerous intimacy: stories about the ways we fail each other, the ways we imitate humanity, the ways we hide from truth, and the ways we keep reaching for something like wholeness anyway.

They remind us that theatre is not escape from the world but contact with it. It is a place where we practice being together in a time that keeps giving us reasons to disconnect. For a few hours, we sit in the same dark, breathe the same air, and allow someone else’s fear, rage, grief, joy, and longing to matter to us. That is no small thing.

So this season, let’s gather for stories that refuse to look away.
Let’s sit in the discomfort.
Let’s laugh where it hurts.
Let’s wrestle with what truth costs.
Let’s reach for what makes us human.

Kyle Los
Executive & Artistic Director

SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! Our last announcement is for our 3rd show in the   -   !!!!Jess is going through a lot: planning the ...
06/11/2026

SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT!

Our last announcement is for our 3rd show in the - !!!!

Jess is going through a lot: planning the funeral of her stepmom, dealing with the weirdness of being back in her hometown, helping her dad (who can barely work a microwave)... but beyond all that, something hasn't been adding up, and the flower arrangements might just have to wait.

Directed by Executive and Artistic Director and and director, Kyle Los!

Auditions are December 5 and 6! Perusal info is linked in our stories and up at atgr.org!

We cannot WAIT to share this season with you! Spread the word, and we'll catch you soon for DO YOU FEEL ANGER?

ANNOUNCING OUR MAY PRODUCTION FOR THE   :   - a dark fable come to life! When a refugee bursts into the home of soldiers...
06/05/2026

ANNOUNCING OUR MAY PRODUCTION FOR THE : - a dark fable come to life!

When a refugee bursts into the home of soldiers from a country that invaded hers, she demands a new family take the place of the one taken from her. And she's not taking "no" for an answer.

Directed by Jason J. Flannery (whose past work includes , , and )!

Audition info is in our stories, and at atgr.org!

We've got one more show to announce! Stick around right here for the goods!

2nd SHOW OF THE   !!!  hits this October, with a story about artists who just want to make art. When they're brought int...
06/03/2026

2nd SHOW OF THE !!!

hits this October, with a story about artists who just want to make art. When they're brought into a project with an AI playwright, it's going to test the boundaries of what counts as art, what counts as a storyteller, and who "owns" the human experience!

Directed by ATGR Executive and Artistic Director, Kyle Los (who last directed and )!!

Audition info is in our pinned story, and as always, at atgr.org! Grab a Season Pass today!!

More info drops soon! Don't go anywhere!

SEASON PREMIERE!!Our   kicks the door down this September with  !!! An empathy coach just needs to train a few employees...
06/02/2026

SEASON PREMIERE!!

Our kicks the door down this September with
!!!

An empathy coach just needs to train a few employees how to express their emotions in a constructive way... maybe use a "feelings" word... stop hitting on everything that moves... and hey, what's with the casual violence?

The line between satire and reality is razor thin!

Directed by Dr. Bridgett Vanderhoof (director of and )!!!

AUDITIONS are coming up soon, with links coming to our stories and atgr.org, where sides, perusal scripts, and Season Passes are yours to claim today!

Stay tuned for more announcements coming soon!

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SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT!! We are thrilled to say that our   is on the horizon, and this year   is asking you WHAT MAKES US H...
06/01/2026

SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT!!

We are thrilled to say that our is on the horizon, and this year is asking you WHAT MAKES US HUMAN?

We'll be dropping show announcements all week, starting with our September Season-Opener tomorrow!

Here's a hint: imagine a workplace comedy gone so... SO wrong.

Stay tuned right here for all of the
ENTERTAINING
INNOVATIVE
CHALLENGING
THOUGHT-PROVOKING
art that you've come to expect from Actors' Theatre.


THANK YOU!!To everyone who came together to experience this utterly necessary story of families touched by real day-to-d...
05/17/2026

THANK YOU!!
To everyone who came together to experience this utterly necessary story of families touched by real day-to-day tragedy - we thank you. It was our privilege to be the first Michigan theatre to tackle this beautiful and devastating work. And to all the artists, directors, designers, actors, management, crew, and Spectrum staff: THANK YOU!

43 seasons down!

Stay tuned to ATGR for incoming news about number 44!

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CLOSING NIGHT!Tonight, we are closing the Michigan Premiere of   - and with it, ending our   !!!It's your last chance to...
05/16/2026

CLOSING NIGHT!
Tonight, we are closing the Michigan Premiere of - and with it, ending our !!!

It's your last chance to catch this story of love, family, and determination to break the systems that hold us down and keep us quiet.

It's last call! Pay-what-you-want tickets for the final show are yours for the taking at atgr.org!! Join us tonight, and celebrate this impactful story about the state we call "home".

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LAST TWO DAYS!!We're down to the final two performances of   !!! Be sure to join us as we celebrate the end of our   wit...
05/15/2026

LAST TWO DAYS!!

We're down to the final two performances of !!! Be sure to join us as we celebrate the end of our with this emotionally driven story of how a family fights an unjust world that has left them behind.

Pay-what-you-want Tickets are yours to claim at atgr.org!!

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LAST 3 PERFORMANCES!!The water goddess Yemoja is beckoning us back to the stage for our last weekend of   performances, ...
05/14/2026

LAST 3 PERFORMANCES!!

The water goddess Yemoja is beckoning us back to the stage for our last weekend of performances, May 14, 15, and 16! It's your last chance to catch this true-to-life story of the lives touched by the Flint Water Crisis, and experience the bottomless drive and love that urges one family forward.

Pay-what-you-want Tickets are available at atgr.org for every night of performance! Get yours now before our 43rd Season comes to an end!!

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