Music
Arlo Guthrie, aging gracefully
Arlo spins true-life yarns, sings the old songs at a packed theater in South Milwaukee.
May 11th, 2013 by Gene Cawley
Glorious, funny, poignant
A brilliant cast and canny direction bring Mozart's score and da Ponte's libretto into full bloom.
May 11th, 2013 by Tom Strini
The Cell Phones stand alone
Chicago-based rockers The Cell Phones, led by an epic frontwoman, are the ones really saving rock and roll.
May 11th, 2013 by Jeff Moody
Soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine, Mezzo Adriana Zabala
Two lead singers in the Florentine's "Le Nozze di Figaro" go way back -- to Rome.
May 9th, 2013 by Tom Strini
The Queen of Rock and Roll lives
The life of Janis Joplin is celebrated with a flawless performance by Mary Bridget Davies at the Rep, through June 2.
May 7th, 2013 by Angela Morgan
May brings new music, dance and theater
Figaro at the Florentine, Arlo Guthrie in South Milwaukee, Springdances at UWM, an Irish play at the Irish Center, and it's almost Ride Your Bike to Work Week.
May 7th, 2013 by Hannah McCarthy
Windfall’s “A Little Night Music” a waltz to remember
Carol Zippel's cast finds a near-perfect harmony in, ironically, devoting as much time to its words as its notes.
May 4th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
High-effort cabaret
Kay Stiefel and Jack Forbes Wilson work hard -- sometimes too hard -- in their revue at the Skylight.
May 4th, 2013 by Tom Strini
Everything reverberates with Primes’ “Millions”
There's only six tracks on this Brooklyn trio's EP, but Jeff Moody thinks they're just getting started.
May 4th, 2013 by Jeff Moody
Brilliant young talent at the MSO this weekend
Violinist Augustin Hadelich and assistant conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong excel in Mozart and Richard Strauss.
May 3rd, 2013 by Tom Strini
Stiefel and Wilson “Sing Me a Story” at the Skylight
Skylight Music Theatre presents singing duo Kay Stiefel and Jack Forbes Wilson in a revue at the Studio Theatre.
May 2nd, 2013 by Tom Strini
Mozart at MSO, Sondheim at Windfall
Tom Strini and Matthew Reddin take the thread tying Mozart and Sondheim together this weekend and play with it, in this latest installment.
May 2nd, 2013 by Tom Strini & Matthew Reddin
