Arts & Entertainment

Theater: The Second Time Around
Theater

The Second Time Around

Much acclaimed 2004 production of Skin Tight returns with the same cast and director.

Monthly Musical Musings

Monthly Musical Musings

March’s best albums include new ones by Future Islands and by Ambrose Akinmusire.

Comedy: These Comedians Will Kill You
Comedy

These Comedians Will Kill You

Milwaukee’s Caste of Killers Comedy Collective celebrates its fourth anniversary.

Arts Roundup: Ballet Dances to Pink Martini
Arts Roundup

Ballet Dances to Pink Martini

Milwaukee Ballet’s Spring Series features three very different works, including two world premieres.

Rock Roundup: No April Fool’s Jokes Here
Rock Roundup

No April Fool’s Jokes Here

Sorry, just a roundup of the week’s best five shows.

Review: Sure, Shostakovich Can Be Happy
Review

Sure, Shostakovich Can Be Happy

Fine Arts Quartet finds the Russian’s merry side, along with a rarely-performed work of Italian romanticism.

Visual Art: I Owe You Nothing, Darling
Visual Art

I Owe You Nothing, Darling

Ceramics talk, and women endlessly hold up teacups in the work of Lisa Selby.

Review: Great to Be Here in… What Town?
Review

Great to Be Here in… What Town?

Blitzen Trapper and Drive-By Truckers play well, but have trouble connecting to Milwaukee.

Booked Up: The Ultimate Prison Novel
Booked Up

The Ultimate Prison Novel

The Enchanted is a first novel that magically captures the horror and humanity of prisons.

Classical: Mussolini Meets Cleopatra?
Classical

Mussolini Meets Cleopatra?

Florentine sets Julius Caesar in Fascist Italy, in huge production that requires jazz-like improvisation from performers.

Profile: 40 Years as a Photographer
Profile

40 Years as a Photographer

Frank Ford has shot everyone from Mayor Maier to Paul Cebar to Divine to Richard Avedon.

Theater: Fastest Plays of the Year
Theater

Fastest Plays of the Year

The annual Rep Lab features an ever-changing festival of 10 plays, some as short as two minutes long.