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Youngblood’s take on Faust, MSO’s Wicked Divas
Even on Memorial Day weekend, actors and musicians are stirring.
May 24th, 2011 by Tom Strini
Sweet ballet, a tough musical, a uke, more
MBC dusts off "Coppelia," Skylight brings home "The Adding Machine," Bel Canto + MSO, funk in Brookfield, hi-tech art at UWM.
May 17th, 2011 by Tom Strini
Delfs returns, a three-opera weekend and Mad Hot
The Florentine stages a Baroque double bill, Windfall puts on a one-man opera, Delfs conducts the MSO, and more.
May 10th, 2011 by Tom Strini
Magic for Eye and Ear
European cirque style proves a good match for European musical masterworks.
Apr 30th, 2011 by Michael Madden
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
