Theater
Comedy of Errors
If this interpretation appears over the top, the audience gathered at the Up the Hill outdoor stage assimilated quickly to this campy, if not nostalgic take on Shakespeare.
Jul 13th, 2009 by Peggy Sue Dunigan
Audition Idol at Boulevard Theatre
The actor's nightmares: I know I had them.
Jul 11th, 2009 by Hope Stolarski
Skylight offers, Theisen nixes
Skylight Opera's board responds to the outrage over recent firings with a surprising announcement. But the damage has been done. Or has it?
Jul 10th, 2009 by Brian Jacobson
APT set to celebrate 30 years at July 12 dedication party
A look at the troupe that winds words between the trees and rocks, going on for nigh 30 years now. Interviews with players and information before the Touchstone dedication on July 12.
Jul 10th, 2009 by Peggy Sue Dunigan
A Night at the Circus
It may just be a boutique festival circus attached to a much larger parade, but on a cool summer night at Milwaukee's lakefront -- it's pure magic.
Jul 9th, 2009 by Brian Jacobson
Backstage with Mark Metcalf and Alice Austen
This week on Backstage: Alice Austen is an award-winning Chicago playwright -- who lives in Milwaukee. It sounds like a contradiction, but it's not! Find out why.
Jul 9th, 2009 by Amy Elliott
July 7 to 13
July stage work in Milwaukee comes back roaring like a tiger with a gaucho on its tail, a ballerina pirouetting to fireworks, three men in a foreign prison, and a @#%$^ Mamet couple. Confused? All becomes clear within our weekly highlight roundup.
Jul 6th, 2009 by Brian Jacobson
Milwaukee Chamber Theater announces new Managing Director
We're a little late on the news, but in case you are too, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre last week announced new Managing Director Kirsten Mulvey to replace former Managing Director David Todd, who left MCT in February after a short stint that began in the fall of 2007.
Jul 1st, 2009 by Amy Elliott
A Bye Week
With the upcoming holiday weekend, there isn't much starting up, besides a few items of note. We look at what's going on and why the next few weeks are going to be huge, like an elephant big.
Jun 30th, 2009 by Brian Jacobson
The Winter’s Tale, told in the dead of summer
If the acting of Winter's Tale shines, then it's the APT stage design that intensifies the illumination. The production has been set in the late 19th (and early 20th) century.....Set changes are inventively pared down to the modified placement of a single and simple chair.
Jun 28th, 2009 by Michael Madden
An Open Letter to Skylight
An excerpt from Sarah Krieg Hwangs letter: Being a company with 501(c)(3) status means you benefit the public. If you benefit the public then shouldn't that public be informed? Don't they deserve it?
Jun 28th, 2009 by Brian Jacobson
The Philanderer at American Players Theatre
Contrasted against a rugged outdoor setting, the sumptuous turquoise and red late 19th-century scenery at the American Players Theatre production of The Philanderer prepares the audience for contrasts that George Bernard Shaw invokes in his play. Progressive for the time (it was banned at first by British Censorship in 1893), the story contains themes of feminine vs. masculine, father vs. daughter, love vs. lust, and marriage vs. friendship - all mingling together in a captivating script performed by the APT in their Spring Green home.
Jun 25th, 2009 by Peggy Sue Dunigan
