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Theater: Skylight Soars With ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’
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Skylight Soars With ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’

Potent music by Dennis DeYoung of Styx, big cast, great voices and period atmosphere.

Theater: Rep’s Titanic Will Return This Fall
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Rep’s Titanic Will Return This Fall

Show canceled, some 10,000 tickets refunded, after many in the large cast caught COVID-19.

Theater: To Be Or Not To Be Hamlet
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To Be Or Not To Be Hamlet

Next Act’s fun staging of ‘The Last White Man’ imagines three actors competing for role under guidance of Black female director.

Theater: Skylight Stages 1970s Musical ‘Raisin’
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Skylight Stages 1970s Musical ‘Raisin’

But the musical version often loses power of watershed play ‘Raisin in the Sun.’

Theater: Rep’s ‘Titanic’ Is a Triumph
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Rep’s ‘Titanic’ Is a Triumph

A massive undertaking with terrific performers that never misses the show’s humanity or intimacy.

Theater: Rach Meets Rachmaninoff
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Rach Meets Rachmaninoff

Milwaukee Opera Theatre’s "Preludes" is a unique yet disappointing musical theater work about the composer.

Theater: Rep’s ‘New Age’ Is Not So New
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Rep’s ‘New Age’ Is Not So New

Show celebrating the power of women covers familiar territory, but hits home.

Theater: “Babel” Offers Disturbing View of Future
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“Babel” Offers Disturbing View of Future

Uneven production by The Constructivists imagines society with genetic laws that decide who lives and dies.

Theater: What I Hear You Saying Is…
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What I Hear You Saying Is…

Renaissance production of ‘Actually’ looks at sex and consent for university students with thought-provoking play.

Theater: ‘Indecent’ Offers Tangy Slice of Theater History
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‘Indecent’ Offers Tangy Slice of Theater History

But Paula Vogel’s play about playwright Sholem Asch’s travails bogs down in over busy Chamber Theatre staging.

Theater: Rep’s Beatles’ Flavored Bard a Blast
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Rep’s Beatles’ Flavored Bard a Blast

Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’ with Beatles songs creates funny frothy fun.

Theater: Even the Program Notes Are Funny
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Even the Program Notes Are Funny

Next Act’s ‘Pipeline’ is witty, insightful look at dilemmas posed for Black students, families at upscale school.