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Danceworks gets physical and brainy in Bay View
Danceworks has never done anything like the brilliant "Stone Soup," a 45-minute abstraction of the highest order.
Apr 28th, 2011 by Tom Strini
A high-brow week, except for those Brain Thieves
An incredible five theater openings this week, plus Danceworks, Pops, and Early Music Now.
Apr 26th, 2011 by Tom Strini
George Winston, Gentle Genius
At the Pabst Theater Thursday, sophisticated, yet friendly music that anyone can love.
Apr 22nd, 2011 by Rosy Ricks
NEW! A Gay Spring for Milwaukee Theater
Paul Masterson rounds up three productions on gay themes or by gay playwrights.
Apr 17th, 2011 by Paul Masterson
Mark Morris dance, MSO’s Cole Porter and more
Lots of classy stuff, plus a trailer park musical from Carte Blanche. Juicy links inside.
Apr 5th, 2011 by Tom Strini
MSO’s lively music from the Age of Enlightenment
Conductor Christopher Seaman brings out the nuance in the orchestra, the Naughton twins and Todd Levy deliver the solo goods.
Mar 25th, 2011 by Tom Strini
It’s like speed dating, but artsy
This week: violin virtuoso Joshua Bell plays with the MSO, Off the Wall takes on Brecht and We Six takes the "A Train" with Billy Strayhorn.
Mar 22nd, 2011 by Tom Strini
Rising young clarinetist, pianist at Wisconsin Lutheran College
Clarinetist José Franch-Ballester and pianist Anna Polonsky survey styles, moods in an engrossing concert at Wisconsin Lutheran College.
Mar 12th, 2011 by Michael Barndt
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
Arts from Africa and everywhere
Five continents will represent in Milwaukee culture this week. Missed Australia, but really -- who needs Antarctica?
Mar 8th, 2011 by Tom Strini
Got those Eroica Black Bottom blues, oh yes
An August Wilson classic, the MSO goes classical, classical guitar at UWM, plus string quartet, accordion, Afro-Caribbean, dinner theater.
Mar 1st, 2011 by Tom Strini
Soprano Vovkova’s US debut in a Milwaukee recital
Familiar arias, with feeling from soprano based in the Czech Republic, with an assist from her baritone husband.
Feb 27th, 2011 by Marianne Kordas
