A/C Feature 2
Ahhh, summer…
Lovely music, lovely setting, lovely summer evening.
Jul 13th, 2011 by Marianne Kordas
Crime and Punishment, abridged at APT
Dostoyevsky's novel, in American Players Theatre's 90-minute version, engages, bores, and re-engages.
Jul 5th, 2011 by Tom Strini
American Players Theatre’s intimate, subtle and varied “Glass Menagerie”
In Tennessee Williams' classic of American family dysfunction, APT finds the rueful laughter amid the sorrow.
Jul 3rd, 2011 by Tom Strini
Fine Arts Quartet/Quintet closes summer season
A delightful quintet by "other" brother Michael Haydn, a Verdi quartet with cello in the tenor role and a tragic Mozart quintet often too lovely to despair.
Jun 30th, 2011 by Michael Barndt
Image by image, artists build impact in the Haggerty
In "Seeing in Sequence" at Marquette University's Haggerty Museum, eight disparate artists focus obsessively on a single idea or subject.
Jun 28th, 2011 by Kat Murrell
“Church Basement Ladies” finds its intended audience
The Marcus Center stages a gentle musical comedy set in a Minnesota Lutheran church with an all-Milwaukee cast.
Jun 24th, 2011 by Marianne Kordas
Amy X Neuburg’s “avant-cabaret” charms Present Music
Amy X Neuburg returned to Milwaukee with her unique combination of poignant poetry, far ranging voice, magic sound board and creative composition.
Jun 19th, 2011 by Michael Barndt
family
The women of Broadminded Comedy bring their family's foibles on stage for (well-intentioned) laughs.
Jun 14th, 2011 by Matthew Reddin
MSO ends its season with a gripping Mahler “Resurrection”
Edo de Waart leads the orchestra, chorus and soloists through one of Western culture's greatest musical adventures.
Jun 11th, 2011 by Tom Strini
Burlesque, bitter and funny
In Josh Schmidt's breakthrough musical, life was terrible and hilarious in 1923. Kinda like now.
May 22nd, 2011 by Tom Strini
“Coppelia” returns to the Milwaukee Ballet
Actor Dan Mooney will play Dr. Coppelius in Michael Pink's revival of the 1870 comedy.
May 18th, 2011 by Tom Strini
Florentine’s Baroque double bill is pitch-perfect
The Florentine Opera's "Venus and Adonis" and "Dido and Aeneas" are at once thoroughly modern and authentically Baroque.
May 15th, 2011 by Tom Strini
