Arts & Entertainment
The Second Time Around
Much acclaimed 2004 production of Skin Tight returns with the same cast and director.
Apr 2nd, 2014 by Matthew ReddinMonthly Musical Musings
March’s best albums include new ones by Future Islands and by Ambrose Akinmusire.
Apr 1st, 2014 by Jon GilbertsonThese Comedians Will Kill You
Milwaukee’s Caste of Killers Comedy Collective celebrates its fourth anniversary.
Apr 1st, 2014 by Jay SpanbauerBallet Dances to Pink Martini
Milwaukee Ballet’s Spring Series features three very different works, including two world premieres.
Mar 31st, 2014 by Isabel DunkerleyNo April Fool’s Jokes Here
Sorry, just a roundup of the week’s best five shows.
Mar 31st, 2014 by Jon GilbertsonSure, Shostakovich Can Be Happy
Fine Arts Quartet finds the Russian’s merry side, along with a rarely-performed work of Italian romanticism.
Mar 31st, 2014 by Michael BarndtI Owe You Nothing, Darling
Ceramics talk, and women endlessly hold up teacups in the work of Lisa Selby.
Mar 28th, 2014 by Kat MurrellGreat to Be Here in… What Town?
Blitzen Trapper and Drive-By Truckers play well, but have trouble connecting to Milwaukee.
Mar 28th, 2014 by Garrick JanneneThe Ultimate Prison Novel
The Enchanted is a first novel that magically captures the horror and humanity of prisons.
Mar 27th, 2014 by Will Stotts, Jr.Mussolini Meets Cleopatra?
Florentine sets Julius Caesar in Fascist Italy, in huge production that requires jazz-like improvisation from performers.
Mar 27th, 2014 by Rob Gebelhoff40 Years as a Photographer
Frank Ford has shot everyone from Mayor Maier to Paul Cebar to Divine to Richard Avedon.
Mar 26th, 2014 by Judith Ann MoriartyFastest Plays of the Year
The annual Rep Lab features an ever-changing festival of 10 plays, some as short as two minutes long.
Mar 26th, 2014 by Matthew Reddin