Theater
Empty plates, but full story, in Windfall’s opener
"An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf," the company's season opener, is a realistic tale of a man who must be tempted back to life by the employees of his personal restaurant.
Sep 25th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
Quasimondo revives “Bacchanalia”
The physical theatre company starts their sophomore season at Villa Terrace with the play that ended their last season: a lusty romp through ancient Greek mythology.
Sep 21st, 2013 by Jeff Grygny
Skylight Music Theatre
Viswa Subbaraman, the new artistic director at the Skylight, talks about his revolutionary inaugural season, beginning with a Bollywood-flavored "Fidelio."
Sep 20th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
The Rep’s Dan Kazemi puts the music in “Ragtime”
Kazemi, who helped Mark Clements launch the Rep's first musicals on the Quadracci Powerhouse, talks about crafting the epic sound of their latest show.
Sep 19th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
Mary MacDonald Kerr goes solo in MCT’s “The Detective’s Wife”
The veteran Milwaukee actress faces a new challenge in playwright Keith Huff's "ghost story" about a woman whose police officer husband is killed.
Sep 17th, 2013 by Danielle McClune
Next Act Theatre
David Cecsarini opens the season with "Perfect Mendacity," a complex play about truth and deception, but it's just one of Next Act's diverse offerings this year.
Sep 16th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
Boulevard’s “Jerker” offers a poetic exploration of love via phone line
The Robert Chesley play, set during the early days of the AIDS crisis, depicts two gay San Francisco men, whose relationship begins with phone sex but blossoms into something much richer.
Sep 15th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
Soulstice Theatre braves Pinter’s “Betrayal”
Director Matt Michaelis explains his fascination with this affair-driven play, which tumbles backward from the end of an extramarital relationship to its beginning.
Sep 13th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
Quality Over Quantity
There's only a few theater and music events on stage this weekend, including a 'Grey Gardens" musical and Youth Lagoon, but consider it an appetizer for the fall arts rush next week.
Sep 10th, 2013 by Hannah McCarthy
The life of a forgotten suffragist, in song
Victoria Woodhull, a women's rights advocate and social reformer in the mid-1800s, is revived at Milwaukee Opera Theatre by sisters Susan Peterson Holmes and Peggy Peterson Ryan.
Sep 4th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
Sounds on Stage
Many musical openings from Milwaukee Opera Theater, Present Music and Early Music Now, as well as opera lessons from Viswa Subbaraman and playwrights staging their own works.
Sep 3rd, 2013 by Hannah McCarthy
Goodbye and Good Luck
After 31 years in Milwaukee arts journalism, the last four as senior editor at TCD, Tom Strini turns the page.
Sep 2nd, 2013 by Tom Strini
