Review
How Do I Leave This Family?
Florentine Opera offers new opera, ‘Three Decembers,’ all about a troubled American family.
Mar 17th, 2016 by Deborah Tyszka
C-viche Is An Ethnic Adventure
Peruvian, Mexican and even Chinese flavors intermixed at this new Bay View restaurant.
Mar 14th, 2016 by Cari Taylor-Carlson
Creating Thunder From Small Forces
Skylight’s ‘Crowns’ blends powerfully-sung spirituals with a gender gap tale set in the South.
Mar 7th, 2016 by Dominique Paul Noth
Strings & Reeds & Ping Pong Balls
Present Music deftly handles six very different works and wins the game.
Feb 29th, 2016 by William Barnewitz
Growing Up Irish In Milwaukee
In Tandem offers solid staging of local playwright Mike Neville's bittersweet memory play.
Feb 23rd, 2016 by Dominique Paul Noth
MSO Flutist Steals The Show
Sonora Slocum soars in Nielson concerto, but guest conductor Anu Tali is a letdown.
Feb 22nd, 2016 by William Barnewitz
So These Two Italians Come To Town
Internationally-known guitarists of SoloDuo beguile audience with exquisite playing.
Feb 18th, 2016 by William Barnewitz
Skylight Production Is a Brave Triumph
Orchestra and cast deftly handles difficult score and sex-charged story of ‘Powder Her Face.’
Feb 15th, 2016 by William Barnewitz
Do We Dare Play Charles Ives?
Prometheus Trio avoided the composer for years, then finally braved it. How did it go?
Feb 10th, 2016 by William Barnewitz
The Language of Music
De Waart and Milwaukee Symphony offer a kind of multilingual musical melange.
Feb 8th, 2016 by William Barnewitz
A Nation at Urban War With Itself
Next Act offers powerful production of ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992’
Feb 1st, 2016 by Dominique Paul Noth
What Makes a Great Conductor?
MSO guest conductor Hans Graf nailed that question, and pianist Orli Shaham thrilled.
Feb 1st, 2016 by William Barnewitz
