Theater
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
Julie Harris Remembered
Long-time Milwaukee arts writer Dominique Noth remembers a 1979 encounter with the late, great actress Julie Harris.
Aug 27th, 2013 by
Tony Bennett’s voice, unheard, looms over the Rep’s “I Left My Heart”
At the Stackner Cabaret, three good tenors still searching for just the right tone in this Milwaukee Rep tribute to Tony Bennett.
Aug 26th, 2013 by Tom Strini
“The Penelopiad” an epic tale, told in the perfect location
Leda Hoffmann directs an all-female cast in Margaret Atwood's retelling of Homer's "Odyssey" from Penelope's point of view.
Aug 23rd, 2013 by Matthew Reddin
Homage to Tony Bennett
In "I Left My Heart," three tenors give their takes on Tony Bennett's hits at the Stackner Cabaret, to open the Milwaukee Rep's 2013-14 season.
Aug 23rd, 2013 by Tom Strini
