Music
Foals bring their “Holy Fire” to Turner Hall
The Foals will debut their emotionally charged new tracks and newly refined sounds from "Holy Fire" at Turner Hall Sunday.
May 19th, 2013 by Madeline PieschelLush sounds echo in the Basilica to end the MSO series
The Milwaukee Symphony ends its Basilica series with an all-strings program.
May 18th, 2013 by Michael Barndt“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 StriniBill 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 StriniOf Montreal returns to The Pabst
The theatrical psychedelic pop band brings their wildly entertaining show to Milwaukee for the third time in a year on Thursday.
May 16th, 2013 by Madeline PieschelMaestro Almond closes the season
Frankly Music's season ends on happy notes of Mendelssohn, Dvorak and Haydn.
May 14th, 2013 by Michael BarndtSwans, spider women, and Tupperware
Milwaukee Ballet performs the classic "Swan Lake," Marcus Center hosts Dixie's Tupperware Party, "Porgy and Bess" opens at Skylight, and Bill Cosby comes to town.
May 14th, 2013 by Hannah McCarthyFrankly Music’s maestro conducts a concluding concert
Frank Almond puts down his violin and picks up a baton for Frankly Music's season finale Monday at Wisconsin Lutheran College.
May 12th, 2013 by Tom StriniArlo Guthrie, aging gracefully
Arlo spins true-life yarns, sings the old songs at a packed theater in South Milwaukee.
May 11th, 2013 by Gene CawleyGlorious, funny, poignant
A brilliant cast and canny direction bring Mozart's score and da Ponte's libretto into full bloom.
May 11th, 2013 by Tom StriniThe Cell Phones stand alone
Chicago-based rockers The Cell Phones, led by an epic frontwoman, are the ones really saving rock and roll.
May 11th, 2013 by Jeff MoodySoprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine, Mezzo Adriana Zabala
Two lead singers in the Florentine's "Le Nozze di Figaro" go way back -- to Rome.
May 9th, 2013 by Tom Strini