http://wmuk.org en http://wmuk.org/post/next-normal-farmers-alley-theatre-examines-issues-around-mental-health <p></p><p>This past winter, What A Do Theater in Battle Creek staged the award-winning play Next to Normal. Now <a href="http://www.farmersalleytheatre.com/">Farmers Alley Theatre</a> in Kalamazoo is trying their hand at it <a href="http://www.farmersalleytheatre.com/current-season/next-to-normal">with two Broadway actors playing lead roles</a>.</p><p> Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:37:58 +0000 Gordon Evans 6212 at http://wmuk.org Next to Normal at Farmers Alley Theatre examines issues around mental health http://wmuk.org/post/whipping-man-looks-life-after-civil-war <p><span style="line-height: 1.5;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>It the end of the Civil War when the play “The Whipping Man” opens. A young Confederate soldier who is severely wounded has just made it back home only to find that life as he knew it is gone forever.&nbsp;</p><p> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:11:00 +0000 Lorraine Caron 2237 at http://wmuk.org The Whipping Man looks at life after the Civil War