David Cecsarini

Next Act’s Wrestling Play Is Fun Flashy Romp

'The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity' had the audience booing, cheering and stomping.

Next Act Theatre Promotes Libby Amato to Managing Director

Former Interim Managing Director Also Served as Business Manager, Other Roles

It’s About This Guy Named Shakespeare

Next Act's rollicking production of "God's Spies" has fun with Shakespeare, "King Lear" and bawdy old England.

The Professors Of Desire

Next Act’s fascinating show, "There Is a Happiness That Moring Is," is about sex, love, death, poetry and so much more.

Wilson Center Announces 2023 Big Event Honorees

Keith Mardak and Mary Vandenberg; and Latino Arts, Inc. to be Honored as Award Recipients

‘The Tin Woman’ Offers Heartache, Humor

Next Act's slightly surreal dramedy about a heart transplant has strong scenes but weak ending.

Next Act Theatre Hires Cody Estle as New Artistic Director

Chicago Artistic Director to Join Next Act Theatre in December 2022

To Be Or Not To Be Hamlet

Next Act’s fun staging of ‘The Last White Man’ imagines three actors competing for role under guidance of Black female director.

Sandy Wysocki Joins Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts as Executive Director

Strong Acting Powers ‘Three Viewings’

Live theater is back and Next Act show offers laughs, surprises and sorrow.

Next Act Plays Parlor Games

‘Three Viewings’ is a comic drama about three unusual characters at a funeral parlor.

Next Act’s ‘The Christians’ Is Compelling

It feels like live theater being streamed, in a smart play about a mega-church facing a sudden challenge.

Next Act Play Punches Above Its Weight

‘A Small Fire’ is classic ensemble production about family facing a parent’s sudden decline.

So Many Jokes, So Little Time

Next Act has fun with Neil Simon’s ‘Laughter on the 23rd Floor.’

Chamber Theatre Sets Farce in Sheboygan

‘Unnecessary Farce’ is yes, a farce that’s uneven, but fast moving fun.

In Tandem Theatre’s Jane Flieller Joins Next Act

"I'm very excited to take what I've learned from In Tandem in the area of fundraising and development and apply them to Next Act Theatre," says Jane.

In Tandem Readies Its Final Play

Two-decade-old theater’s last show ‘The Fabulous Lipitones’ opens April 25.

Next Act Wins Irish Sweepstakes

Staging of John Patrick’s Shanley’s Irish-y comic drama has great acting by four of town’s top actors.

Final Nominees Announced for 2018 Footlights People’s Choice Awards

Congrats to all our nominees!

They Aimed At The Stars

Next Act’s ‘Silent Sky’ is artful theater about women scientists who helped explore the universe.

Next Act’s Christmas Play Is Uneven

1950s Milwaukee radio setting is grabby, but acting is a tad flat.

Next Act Pokes Fun at the Political Landscape this Fall

THE TAMING by Lauren Gunderson is a refreshing antidote to today's punditry and non-stop squabbling.

Next Act Theatre Celebrates 26 Seasons with Annual Fundraiser

The evening kicks off with an exclusive VIP meet and greet with artists from the 2015-16 Season and Producing Artistic Director, David Cecsarini.

A Nation at Urban War With Itself

Next Act offers powerful production of ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992’

A City of Theaters

Since the 19th century’s German language playhouses, the city has built and renovated countless facilities for theater.

Inherit the Wind Again?

Next Act Theatre’s fine staging of Ten Questions revisits the issue of evolution vs. religion (and creationism). Who wins?

Next Act Commits Heresy

A. R. Gurney’s futuristic parable offers strong views and weak drama, but a stellar cast does its best.

Not Going Gently Into That Good Night

Next Act’s Three Views offers funny, insulting, despairing, poignant look at old age.

“It’s A Wonderful Life” As A Radio Play — But Onstage

Next Act’s clever Christmas show reframes the classic movie once again.

Next Act Theatre

David Cecsarini opens the season with "Perfect Mendacity," a complex play about truth and deception, but it's just one of Next Act's diverse offerings this year.

“Grace” a play to believe in

Craig Wright's play Grace is a beautiful exploration of the nature of faith and belief, and David Cecsarini's cast presents it with ease.

Next Act puts faith in “Grace”

Director David Cescarini talks about his season's last play, an exploration of how we believe what we believe in. Plus: Next Act's 2013-14 season announced.

Next Act’s “Microcrisis” yields huge dividends

The satire of our global financial system finds the humor in its ironies – and the danger that still remains.