Tyler Perry Tickets

Tyler Perry News Update Tyler Perry is taking his film experience and translating it to the stage for "Madea's Big Happy Family."

Perry is winding down his 50-city tour with several performances at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Mich., in early May. Perry wrote the play and portrays the main character to honor his mother, who died last year. In the play, a woman confides in her grown children that she is dying of cancer, and Madea steps in to help the family.

The play has been akin to a "church revival, a stand-up comedy act, a melodrama, a paean to Perry's late mother, and an 'American Idol' audition," by Entertainment Weekly.