Arts & Entertainment - Theater

July 2008

THEATER

Barn Theatre: Michigan’s oldest resident summer stock theater is in its 63rd year. The modern classic West Side Story, based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with a score by Bernstein-Sondheim, plays July 8-20.• Steel Magnolias, a comedy about the intersecting lives of six women in Louisiana, runs July 22-Aug. 3. $29. On M-96, just west of Augusta (between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo), 269-731-4121; barntheatre.com.

Performance Network: The Little Dog Laughed centers on sharp-tongued agent extraordinaire Diane and her closeted client, up-and-coming actor Mitchell, and the tabloid gossip that engulfs them. Through July 27. $30-$42. 120 E. Huron St., Ann Arbor; 734-663-0696; performancenetwork.org.

Purple Rose Theatre: Jeff Daniels’ latest work, Panhandle Slim & The Oklahoma Kid, is his first Western that tells the tale of a showdown between an outlaw and a singing cowboy. Directed by Guy Sanville. Through Aug. 30. $12.50-$38. 137 Park St., Chelsea; purplerosetheatre.org.

Zeitgeist: Part two of Mike McGettigan’s Desperate Losers runs through July 12. $10 (at the door). 2661 Michigan Ave., Detroit; theabreact.com.