Arts & Culture

Gallery Night Preview: Close Encounters at Safi Studio
Gallery Night Preview

Close Encounters at Safi Studio

There it sits, shining in the light, a mound shaped like a mountain…

Open Call

Open Call

Marquette County seeks artists for "The Hidden History Mural Trail," a public art project highlighting the beauty of the region.

Guys and Dolls crowds stage with colorful characters

Guys and Dolls crowds stage with colorful characters

A classic musical comedy joyfully bursts at the seams of the Off the Wall space.

12 Songs Holiday Project: Celebrated Workingman & Orangutan
12 Songs Holiday Project

Celebrated Workingman & Orangutan

The Celebrated Workingman and Orangutan! combine forces with a fun ditty called "No More Christmas Suicide (Don't Make Baby Jesus Cry)"

12 Songs Holiday Project:Melissa Czarnik & the Eric Mire Band
12 Songs Holiday Project

Melissa Czarnik & the Eric Mire Band

Poet/emcee Melissa Czarnik and the Eric Mire Band deliver a soulful rendition of "O Come All Ye Faithful" like you've never heard before.

12 Songs Holiday Project: Joel Kopischke “O Festivus”
12 Songs Holiday Project

Joel Kopischke “O Festivus”

Writer, director and performer Joel Kopischke offers an original Festivus Carol with special guest accompaniment from Stas Venglevski on bayan.

The Lionheart ensemble in glorious polyphonic sound

The Lionheart ensemble in glorious polyphonic sound

Early Music Now's Christmas concert offered an immersion into 15th Century religious polyphony. Six voices blended into one resonant sound.

Thoroughly modern Moliere at UWM

Thoroughly modern Moliere at UWM

An eye-opening student production of Moliere's "Lovers Quarrels," in Richard Wilbur's stageworthy translation, merits attention.

“Christmas in the Basilica”: Songs of hope and beauty
“Christmas in the Basilica”

Songs of hope and beauty

Bel Canto Chorus' Christmas show, held in the stunning Basilica, is a perfect blend of old and new, religious and secular.

5Q: Paint with Purpose: Morgan Oldenburg of SPILL
5Q

Paint with Purpose: Morgan Oldenburg of SPILL

Color is her cue; abstraction her muse. From the spacious confines of her Marshall building gallery, Oldenburg is setting off on an art adventure.

APT’s new “Gift of the Magi” enriches the season

APT’s new “Gift of the Magi” enriches the season

James DeVita and Josh Schmidt added music and songs to their adaptation of O. Henry's sweetly ironic tale of Christmas love and sacrifice.

Michael Barndt’s November roundup

Michael Barndt’s November roundup

Miss those concerts at Villa Terrace, the Wisconsin Conservatory, St. John Cathedral and St. John's on the Lake? Michael Barndt was there. Read on and catch up.