With spring around the corner, Meadow Brook Theatre is getting ready for three shows centered around romance and comedy.

An adaptation of the Anthony Horowitz novel “Mindgame” is closing out its run at Michigan’s largest professional producing theatre.

The mystery thriller is directed by resident stage manager and associate director Terry Carpenter.

“‘Mindgame’ gives them the idea that they need to come to the theatre ready to watch and listen closely in order to not miss a clue and to decide what is and what isn’t a clue,” Carpenter said. “From the moment the curtain rises, they will realize something is not as it should be.”

Performance schedules can be found at mbtheatre.com. Tickets can also be bought via the website.

With “Mind Game” wrapping up March 7, the next play in MBT’s 2009-10 season is “Enchanted April.”

Travis Walter, MBT interim artistic director, directs the romantic comedy which runs from March 17 through April 11 is based on Elizabeth von Arnim’s 1922 novel.

The novel inspired two movie incarnations, one in 1935 and another in 1992. Matthew Barber’s play adaptation is based off the latter.

Two housewives, frustrated with their marriages, decide to rent a castle in Italy. To help with costs, they recruit two English women who help the two French sisters realize what they left behind.

“Some of the things we need we already have at home, but we don’t realize until we leave them,” Walter said.

Walter said most of the cast producing the show is new to the production business.

Because the story takes place in both London and Italy, the show will feature two completely different sets.

“Usually most of our audience is used to viewing just one set,” Walter said.

Tickets range from $24 to $39.

Also, the second annual children’s series wraps up with two performances of “Seussical the Musical” March 20. Tickets are $15.

Slated for March 22 and 23 is a pair of intern-produced performances.

Nights of entertainment entitled “No Strings Attached” features two one-act comedic plays.

Robert “Bo” Anderson’s “Puppet Play” will start off each night at 7 p.m. Directed by Alex Pedica, OU alum and performance intern, the play is about two different couples — a teacher and a teacher’s assistant, and a puppeteer and a dresser — where one person in each pair is having a hard time growing up.

One of the characters has an “instant” that requires all four of them to take a step back.

“All four of them are forced to really look at what is going on in their lives,” Pedica said.

The other play, “The Macbridged Mactragedy of Macbeth,” is directed by administration intern Becky Doster. Six young theatre professionals perform a very abridged version of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” in an attempt to make it relatable to a contemporary audience.

Tickets to these shows are free and available at the door, but donations are recommended. Proceeds go to Meadow Brook Theatre.