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NEW! For Love of Art

Imagination Theater

First in a series of first-person stories by amateur actors, musicians, dancers and artists on why they do it. (New show opens 3/18.)

Mar 17th, 2011 by Eric Salter

Skylight

Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” goes Chicago, 1958

Dmitri Tosca's updated libretto levels the playing field in the battle of the sexes and makes the opera almost modern.

Mar 17th, 2011 by Tom Strini

PODCAST

Using the arts to address the whole child

As programs are stripped from schools, Christina Ratatori uses A.R.T. to collaborate with teachers, artists and students to get the arts back in education.

Mar 17th, 2011 by Mark Metcalf

An Italian Girl in Algiers, a Skylighter at the Florentine

Bill Theisen, Skylight AD, directs the Florentine Opera's staging of Rossini's early comedy.

Mar 16th, 2011 by Tom Strini

Finding Penelope

Patients and caregivers at Luther Manor collaborate on a theatre piece in homage to Penelope, grounded in the serious reality we all deal with as we age.

Mar 16th, 2011 by Mark Metcalf

On Stage 3/15-21

Artsy abundance, wrapped neatly for you, boyo

Tá fáilte romhat. (You're welcome.)

Mar 15th, 2011 by Tom Strini

NEW! Teen playwrights get pro performances

Plays by Hardman, Cumpton and Dornemann featured at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's fifth annual Young Playwrights Festival.

Mar 14th, 2011 by Mary O'Hara Stacy

“Tuesdays with Morrie” resonates with thoughts of loved ones

A poignant Sunset Playhouse production of a play based on real life.

Mar 13th, 2011 by Peggy Sue Dunigan

Theatrical Tendencies stages Terrence McNally’s take on Jesus

What if Jesus was from Texas and lived in the 1950s? And what if he were gay?

Mar 12th, 2011 by Rosy Ricks

The Rep’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

Funny as hell

In August Wilson's 1982 play, the good-humored grace of talented African-Americans bends under the pressure of American racism.

Mar 6th, 2011 by Tom Strini

PODCAST

“Teaching life skills through stage skills”

As schools are forced to cut back, First Stage Children's Theater and Academy offers a creative outlet for students, fostering empowerment through the arts.

Mar 3rd, 2011 by Mark Metcalf