Theater
In Tandem Theatre
The theatre company, fronted in its 16th year by Chris and Jane Flieller, will begin its season Friday night with a post-apartheid mystery: "Burying the Bones."
Oct 1st, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
Classic fall offerings return
The MSO does Concertos for Orchestra, while classic autumnal events like Oktoberfest, ARToberfest, the annual Film Fest and the Alchemist Halloween show round out the week.
Oct 1st, 2013 by Danielle McClune
Sexy, thought-provoking ambiguity – not ambivalence
Director Laura Gordon explains the Stiemke's opening show, a two-person show about sexual dynamics more complex than it looks on the surface.
Sep 26th, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
Youngblood Theatre goes dramatic with “Dying City”
Youngblood Theatre’s artistic director Benjamin Wilson talks their first show of the season, a post-9/11 drama about loss staged in the Lincoln Storage Warehouse.
Sep 25th, 2013 by Danielle McClune
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
