Theater
Helping students reach their true potential
Mark talks with MPS teacher Ralph Janes about how theater and the arts are powerful tools for creating autonomous, high-achieving students.
Mar 24th, 2011 by Mark Metcalf
Gershwin on the Musical Mainstage
Singers from the Milwaukee area's A-list remember George and Ira.
Mar 23rd, 2011 by Peggy Sue Dunigan
Shakespeare’s da bomb at The Rep
The Stackner Cabaret's madcap "Bomb-itty of Errors" is a tour-de-force of rap, rhyme and rhythm.
Mar 22nd, 2011 by Peggy Sue Dunigan
The Skylight’s mid-century modern “Cosi fan tutte”
Dmitri Toscas reset this battle of the sexes in Chicago, 1958, and leveled the playing field for the women.
Mar 21st, 2011 by Marianne Kordas
New! Actors argue the state of the stage in “Back and Forth”
Patrick Schimtz's new play at the Alchemist is based on 75 people from the theater scene.
Mar 20th, 2011 by Matthew Reddin
Brainless comedy, super singing
The Florentine Opera's staging of Rossini's "Italian Girl in Algiers" charms, amuses, impresses.
Mar 19th, 2011 by Tom Strini
The Rep’s rapped Shakespeare
"Comedy of Errors" goes hip-hop in "Bomb-itty of Errors," opening Sunday in the Rep's Stackner Cabaret.
Mar 18th, 2011 by Peggy Sue Dunigan
Imagination Theater
First in a series of first-person stories by amateur actors, musicians, dancers and artists on why they do it. (New show opens 3/18.)
Mar 17th, 2011 by Eric Salter
Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” goes Chicago, 1958
Dmitri Tosca's updated libretto levels the playing field in the battle of the sexes and makes the opera almost modern.
Mar 17th, 2011 by Tom Strini
Using the arts to address the whole child
As programs are stripped from schools, Christina Ratatori uses A.R.T. to collaborate with teachers, artists and students to get the arts back in education.
Mar 17th, 2011 by Mark Metcalf
An Italian Girl in Algiers, a Skylighter at the Florentine
Bill Theisen, Skylight AD, directs the Florentine Opera's staging of Rossini's early comedy.
Mar 16th, 2011 by Tom Strini
Finding Penelope
Patients and caregivers at Luther Manor collaborate on a theatre piece in homage to Penelope, grounded in the serious reality we all deal with as we age.
Mar 16th, 2011 by Mark Metcalf
