Theater
Fine-tuning a Tenor
The Broadway revival of "Lend Me a Tenor" debuted last weekend, but you don’t have to travel to see this classic farce.It premieres this weekend on the Bay Players Stage.
Apr 8th, 2010 by Hope Stolarski
Next Act’s The Value of Names
Jeffrey Sweet's play peels away the layers of meaning and worth bound up in names.
Apr 4th, 2010 by Peggy Sue Dunigan
The Boulevard’s It’s Your Mother
Durante and Tuxill's string of vignettes about mothers and daughters skates on the surface of the relationships.
Apr 4th, 2010 by Peggy Sue Dunigan
Hanreddy’s “Seven Keys” to hilarity
Joe Hanreddy bows out with Seven Keys to Slaughter Peak as The Rep's AD. It's a funny love letter to theater and the joys of making stuff up.
Mar 27th, 2010 by Tom Strini
8-bit Warrior at the Alchemist Theatre
Vince Figueroa's original play takes us back to a simpler time, when Donkey Kong ruled the world.
Mar 27th, 2010 by Ryan Findley
A Wiz made for kids glitters at First Stage
First Stage has adapted the 1975 Broadway version of The Wizard of Oz.
Mar 22nd, 2010 by Peggy Sue Dunigan
The Florentine’s Elmer Gantry
A flawed masterpiece brings a great American novel to the opera stage.
Mar 20th, 2010 by Tom Strini
You’re all sinners!
As the Florentine mounts the Midwest premiere of Elmer Gantry (the opera), we look at the Sinclair Lewis novel and the 1960 film version.
Mar 19th, 2010 by Barbara Castonguay
The Florentine stages Elmer Gantry, an All-American opera
Composer Robert Aldridge and librettist Herschel Garfein worked 18 years to make their dream of an opera a reality.
Mar 16th, 2010 by Tom Strini
Skylight’s Day in Hollywood/Night in the Ukraine
A little strain Hollywood, a whole lot of Marx Brothers fun in the Ukraine.
Mar 13th, 2010 by Tom Strini
He’s just not that into her…or he’s lost at sea
Theater Gigante stages a haunting and tender tale of longing and obsession.
Mar 12th, 2010 by Annemarie Chapdelaine
Milwaukee Rep’s grand design for 2010-11 theater season
Mark Clements stepped up on the Powerhouse stage Monday night and launched grand plans and guest artists for the upcoming Rep season.
Mar 9th, 2010 by Brian Jacobson
