Theater

Review: Bad Example’s “Fahrenheit 451”
Review

Bad Example’s “Fahrenheit 451”

Books good. Book burning bad. TV bad. Conformity bad.

Tour de Fat and PBR Street Party mesmerize Bay View

Tour de Fat and PBR Street Party mesmerize Bay View

The day began with a carnival of entertainers and bike parade, while later the sounds and smells captured a new demographic in Bay View.

Review: APT’s “Syringa Tree” grows strong in Spring Green
Review

APT’s “Syringa Tree” grows strong in Spring Green

Colleen Madden plays 24 characters in Pamela Gein's play about life in apartheid South Africa.

Review: All’s Well at APT
Review

All’s Well at APT

All's fair in love and war in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, at the American Players Theatre in Spring Green.

Review: Alchemist Theatre’s Closet Land
Review

Alchemist Theatre’s Closet Land

A hard play about torture and resilience. Do you have what it takes, or will you crack?

Optimist Theatre’s Tempest interrupted by tempest

Optimist Theatre’s Tempest interrupted by tempest

Milwaukee's only known Shakespeare in the Park this summer was a grand production -- until lightning and rain wrecked it.

Where the Arts Are Now: Next Act Theatre
Where the Arts Are Now

Next Act Theatre

This portrait of Next Act Theatre is the first TCD's summer series of snapshots of Milwaukee's arts groups.

Review: The Skylight’s Evening with a very human Gilbert & Sullivan
Review

The Skylight’s Evening with a very human Gilbert & Sullivan

Dale Gutzman ingeniously weaves operetta artifice, Skylight tradition and compelling character development.

Everything Old Is New Again at the Skylight

Everything Old Is New Again at the Skylight

Dale Gutzman returns to direct after a 25-year absence, with Gilbert & Sullivan fantasy inspired by the Skylight's very first show.

Review: Pink Banana’s Sex, Drugs and the American Way
Review

Pink Banana’s Sex, Drugs and the American Way

No, really; the short plays are about sex, drugs and the American way.

“No day but today”

“No day but today”

The Skylight Opera Theatre takes a risk and hits a high note with their production of Rent.

Review: An imaginative Florentine Rigoletto
Review

An imaginative Florentine Rigoletto

Georgia Jarman is an extraordinary Gilda, Noele Stollmack's set is way cool, and conductor Joseph Rescigno is in his element.