Arts & Culture
7/15 – 7/21
Milwaukee stages are jumping with fearless productions, including offerings from Youngblood, Danceworks, and Uprooted Theatre. If you're ready for something fresh, edgy and fabulous, get out there.
Jul 14th, 2009 by Brian Jacobson
Comedy of Errors
If this interpretation appears over the top, the audience gathered at the Up the Hill outdoor stage assimilated quickly to this campy, if not nostalgic take on Shakespeare.
Jul 13th, 2009 by Peggy Sue Dunigan
Audition Idol at Boulevard Theatre
The actor's nightmares: I know I had them.
Jul 11th, 2009 by Hope Stolarski
An interview with Roy Staab
Discussed: being broke in Paris early, how installation art is like a dance, working like a scientist, structuration and figuration, and the one question interviewers should never ask him.
Jul 10th, 2009 by Kat Murrell
Skylight offers, Theisen nixes
Skylight Opera's board responds to the outrage over recent firings with a surprising announcement. But the damage has been done. Or has it?
Jul 10th, 2009 by Brian Jacobson
APT set to celebrate 30 years at July 12 dedication party
A look at the troupe that winds words between the trees and rocks, going on for nigh 30 years now. Interviews with players and information before the Touchstone dedication on July 12.
Jul 10th, 2009 by Peggy Sue Dunigan
A Night at the Circus
It may just be a boutique festival circus attached to a much larger parade, but on a cool summer night at Milwaukee's lakefront -- it's pure magic.
Jul 9th, 2009 by Brian Jacobson
Jarreau, Opera, Ballet, and Bombastics
With Thursday night's concert featuring 7-time Grammy Winner Al Jarreau, interactive activities for the kids, plus a ballet and opera feature with an unbelievable fireworks finale Saturday night -- it's a party unlike most others in the greater Milwaukee area this July
Jul 9th, 2009 by Hope Stolarski
Backstage with Mark Metcalf and Alice Austen
This week on Backstage: Alice Austen is an award-winning Chicago playwright -- who lives in Milwaukee. It sounds like a contradiction, but it's not! Find out why.
Jul 9th, 2009 by Amy Elliott
A handbook of current exhibitions
Selections from current gallery shows around the city: Charles Allis, Green Gallery East, DeLind Gallery, Katie Gingrass and many more spaces on the East Side, in the Third Ward and downtown.
Jul 8th, 2009 by Kat Murrell
Five questions for Deb Brehmer
We ask Deb Brehmer five questions. She responds with thoughts on local artists, the importance of nurturing an art-buying community, her fascination with portraiture as a work-a-day art form and the importance of context to art-viewing and appreciating.
Jul 8th, 2009 by Amy Elliott
Hitting up the drive-in this summer
There are still two or three great drive-in movie theaters to try out in Wisconsin, but this summer also find the loving low-culture return of the outdoor cinema party at three different Milwaukee locations. The 41 Twin is dead; long live the 41 Twin experience.
Jul 7th, 2009 by Brian Jacobson
