Live theater provides a storytelling forum for demographics that otherwise wouldn't be heard, especially singing cats, finger-snapping street gangs, and action-star mimes. Delight in audible drama with today's Groupon: for $30, you get two tickets to Tipping Point Theatre's production of The Cocktail Hour, running from March 24 to April 30 or Crimes of the Heart, running from May 19 to June 25 (a $56 value on Thursdays, Sundays, and Saturday matinees; a $60 value on Friday and Saturday evenings). This Groupon is good for any performance of either show. Seating is assigned when you call to reserve your tickets.

Recently praised by Encore Michigan, Tipping Point Theatre excites audiences with the drama and intrigue of live, professional equity theater. Audience members clutch seats during The Cocktail Hour as director James Kuhl's featured cast brings to life A.R. Gurney's dark comedic tale, which follows an aspiring playwright who travels home to ask his father's permission to produce a play based upon their family. Madness ensues during a family dinner gone wrong, when they discover their recently hired chef to be inept at preparing a roast.

Winner of 1981's Pulitzer Prize, Crimes of the Heart transforms theatergoers into theater-stayers with a story rife with deathly fascination. After main character Babe Magrath shoots her senator husband, she flees with her sisters to their old family home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, to conjure up old rivalries, work through disappointments, and practice spelling Mississippi backwards.

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