Theater
Pink Banana wins again with “Game Night” one-act festival
The win-lose ratio is closer to 50-50 than last year, but even the festival's less-successful offerings have moments of golden glory.
Jun 8th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
Celebrating the Past in the Present
Historical plays open at Uprooted Theater and American Players Theatre, MSO Pops focuses on Mad Men, PianoArts holds a festival that follows the evolution of music and Pridefest kicks off the festival season.
Jun 4th, 2013 by Hannah McCarthy
Thought-provoking theater
Robby McGhee expertly channels monologist Mike Daisey in this one-man show about the history of Apple Inc. and the conditions of the Chinese factory workers they employ.
Jun 1st, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
A reworked monologue exposes the “bad Apple” at Next Act
Actor Robby McGhee and director Alan Piotrowicz team up to present "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," Mike Daisey's monologue about Chinese factory workers.
May 30th, 2013 by Hannah McCarthy
2012-13 season not quite done
BB King gets the Riverside Blues, the MSO ends classical season with epic Elgar, fairway farce at Sunset Playhouse, Bay View's Gallery Night, Highland Games in Tosa.
May 28th, 2013 by Hannah McCarthy
25 years of art, behind the scenes at the Tory Folliard Gallery
Art dealer Tory Folliard has been in the business for twenty-five years and took TCD's Kat Murrell on a tour of that anniversary exhibition and upcoming shows. Video by Gene Cawley.
May 27th, 2013 by Kat Murrell
Unpolished, revised “Waiting” still shines bright
Don't wait to see World's Stage's production of the Bob Kelly/Kelly Pomeroy song cycle, in town for the weekend before a trip to New York's Cherry Lane Theatre.
May 24th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
World’s Stage brings “Waiting” to Milwaukee…and beyond
Bob Kelly and Kelly Pomeroy's song cycle will travel to New York after its Milwaukee premiere this week, to be performed at the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theater.
May 23rd, 2013 by Christina Wright
Big Names, New Faces
De Waart conducts Brahms at the MSO, Present Music's "Multitude" finale, a New York-bound song cycle from World's Stage.
May 21st, 2013 by Hannah McCarthy
“Porgy & Bess,” distilled at 150 proof
The Skylight Music Theatre's "Porgy and Bess" is gripping, intense in Bill Theisen's chamber version of the Gershwin opera.
May 18th, 2013 by Tom Strini
Bill Theisen, exiting with “Porgy and Bess”
Gershwin's great American opera crowns Theisen's ninth and final year as Skylight Music Theatre's artistic director.
May 17th, 2013 by Tom Strini
“Dixie’s Tupperware Party” a high-energy extravaganza
The nation's top Tupperware salesperson comes with a crazy show, where no one is safe from either the occasional tease or the temptation of her real wares.
May 16th, 2013 by Gene Cawley
