FANNY PACKS AND HANKY CODES WINS BEST SCRIPT AT THIS YEAR'S GPS (GAY PLAY SERIES) The third annual GPS (Gay Play Series) completed its most successful year last night at Ferndale’s Ringwald Theatre. The Audience Award for Best Script this year went to Fanny Packs and Hanky Codes by San Francisco playwright Kristian O’Hare. Fanny Packs and Hanky Codes was directed by Matthew Turner Shelton and featured Shelton, Patrick O’Connor Cronin, Frannie Shepherd-Bates, and Josh Campos.

Eleven of the Detroit area’s most popular and critically-acclaimed theatre companies will be holding joint general auditions for the 2012-2013 theatre season June 12, 13 and 14, at the Two Muses Theatre inside the West Bloomfield Barnes and Noble (6800 Orchard Lake Rd, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, south of Maple Rd.). Auditions will be held from 5:30-10:00 p.m. each evening.

Restoration Dogs is a transformative period piece by Mark Finnell containing aspects of parody of the cult film Reservoir Dogs (1992). In this transformative work, eight criminals plot to steal the Crown Jewels of the British throne under the rule of King Charles II . The setting is London 1671.