"Kalamazoo's ever-changing music scene can attributed to the fact that it's a student town, and students graduate and move on, he says.

 

"'Kalamazoo, more than any other college town, seems to be on the pulse of what's new,' Martin says."

Studio 246 was born out of the demise of the Whole Art Theatre at the end 2009.

 

It's made up of a collection of actors who were not ready to give up when Whole Art, the 33-year-old home of innovative, often daring theater turned off the spotlights for the last time.