STAGE TUBE: Union Theatre Premieres THE SPITFIRE GRILL
by Sally Henry Fuller
- Jul 19, 2015
The Spitfire Grill, a musical based on the 1986 film of the same name that was seen Off-Broadway in a production by Playwrights' Horizons at the Duke Theatre on 42nd Street in 2001, is to receive its U.K. premiere at London's Union Theatre. Check out a trailer for the show below!
BWW Reviews: TAP's Charming EDUCATING RITA Connects to Comedy and Literature
by Peggy Sue Dunigan
- Jul 15, 2015
What is the value of an education? Does consumerism closet society's need to connect with art and literature, a "something more" to be experienced in the world than merely a career? Stage Door Theatre Company at Third Avenue Playhouse revisits these questions in Educating Rita, a 1983 play written by Willy Russell. Many theatergoers may remember the 1983 award-winning film starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters, although the original Russell play has recently been revived in Chichester, England this spring.
Vintage Theatre Productions Presents THE SPITFIRE GRILL, Now thru 8/16
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 26, 2015
Vintage Theatre Productions presents 'The Spitfire Grill' tonight, June 26 through August 16 at Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St. in Aurora. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m.; Thursday July 2 and August 13 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, August 15 at 2:30 p.m. No performances July 3 & 4.
Vintage Theatre Productions to Present THE SPITFIRE GRILL, 6/26-8/16
by Tyler Peterson
- May 29, 2015
Vintage Theatre Productions presents 'The Spitfire Grill' June 26 through August 16 at Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St. in Aurora. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m.; Thursday July 2 and August 13 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, August 15 at 2:30 p.m. No performances July 3 & 4. Tickets are $32 ($28 advance). Call 303-856-7830 or purchase online at www.vintagetheatre.org.
BWW Reviews: MAID TO MARRY Presents Chic, Romantic Opera at Third Avenue Playhouse
by Peggy Sue Dunigan
- May 21, 2015
Be shaken as well as stirred by this inventive trio at Sturgeon Bay's Third Avenue Playhouse. Robert Boles, James Valcq and Ryan Patrick Shaw conjure contemporary mayhem from an 18th century Italian opera in Stage Door Theatre Company's enchanting Maid To Marry. This evening's play on words captures the essence of merry on the way to marry.
BWW Previews: Sturgeon Bay's Stage Door Theatre Company Presents Exceptional Summer Season Ahead
by Peggy Sue Dunigan
- Apr 6, 2015
This winter to spring, Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) at Stage Door Theatre Company brought award-winning playwright David Mamet's Oleanna to Sturgeon Bay. A provocative, mercurial three act, no intermission play premiering in 1992, Mamet portrays two unlikely opponents in a battle over their futures--a struggling college student Carol trying to make the honor role to gain admitance into graduate school who asks for help from a professor seeking tenure after multiple years of serving the university, John.
ZOMBIES FROM THE BEYOND Opens Tonight at Hill Country Community Theatre
by BWW News Desk
- Feb 19, 2015
A bevy of flying saucers from Planet X has appeared over the skies of Beertown, led by alien aviatrix, Queen Zombina, on a quest to 'zombify' and abduct all of Earth's men! The Milwaukee Space Center and the US military are prepared to meet the foes head on, until Zombina unleashes her secret weapon. It's up to a mild-mannered scientist, an all-American girl-next-door, a man-hungry secretary and one plucky, tap-dancing delivery boy to save the world from this planetary menace from outer space!
ZOMBIES FROM THE BEYOND Opens 2/19 at Hill Country Community Theatre
by Tyler Peterson
- Jan 30, 2015
A bevy of flying saucers from Planet X has appeared over the skies of Beertown, led by alien aviatrix, Queen Zombina, on a quest to "zombify" and abduct all of Earth's men! The Milwaukee Space Center and the US military are prepared to meet the foes head on, until Zombina unleashes her secret weapon. It's up to a mild-mannered scientist, an all-American girl-next-door, a man-hungry secretary and one plucky, tap-dancing delivery boy to save the world from this planetary menace from outer space!
BWW Reviews: Discover Love's Mysteries at TAP'S Magical THE FANTASTICKS
by Peggy Sue Dunigan
- Oct 7, 2014
Live and then love a little more after an enchanting evening at Sturgeon Bay's Third Avenue Playhouse this fall. The world's longest running musical The Fantasticks arrived at the Stage Door Theatre Company on October 1st. After more than 17,000 performances played in approximately 90 countries worldwide since the first production in 1960, The Fantasticks garnered 1991 Tony Award Honors for Theatrical Excellence, and still entrances audiences 60 years later.
BWW Reviews: Love Arises with TAP's Transcendent TALLEY'S FOLLY
by Peggy Sue Dunigan
- Jul 14, 2014
There's magic in the summer air at Third Avenue Playhouse. Sturgeon Bay's Stage Door Theater Company opened their new season with Lanford Wilson's Talley's Folly. In this 1980 Pulitzer Prize winning play set in Lebanon, Missouri, with some resemblance to a Door County July, an age worn folly, a Victorian boathouse, conjures a moonlight rendezvous for two heartbroken cynics, Sally and Matt.
Summer Stages: Summer Stages in Wisconsin Provide Theater Under the Stars
by Peggy Sue Dunigan
- Jun 11, 2014
Wisconsin theater moves to the magnificent outdoors this summer with diverse venues presenting great classical and original productions throughout the state. In Spring Green, Wisconsin, American Players Theatre (APT) has been performing legendary playwrights under the stars for more than 30 years. At the Up the Hill Theatre, Shakespeare's comedy that spars witty conversations between the sexes Much Ado About Nothing features acclaimed actors Colleen Madden and David Daniel in the beloved roles of Beatrice and Benedict. In the company's new indoor Touchstone Theatre, Brenda DeVita directs her first production as APT's new Artistic Director. Sarah Day plays Joan Didion in the adaptation from Didion's award winning memory in her play The Year of Magical Thinking. APT extended their season in 2014 with five Up the Hill Play and now four productions instead of three in the Touchstone that runs through November.
BWW Reviews: TAP Celebrates WHAT I WORE, Womanhood and their Wardrobes
by Peggy Sue Dunigan
- May 6, 2014
To celebrate women and the love/hate relationship they contemplate with their closets, Wisconsin's Sturgeon Bay', which opens the way to beautiful Door County, and Co Artistic Directors' Robert Boles and James Valcq of Third Avenue Playhouse present the late Nora Ephron's and her sister Delia's theater experience titled Love, Loss and What I Wore. The 2009 Off Broadway premiere won two Drama Desk Awards and will be considered one of the second longest running Off Broadway productions at the Westside Theatre. How fortunate Stage Door Theatre Company gives peninsula audiences a premiere opportunity to experience this worldwide hit show to end their winter season and brighten a cold spring.
BWW Reviews: World Premiere Musical 'Anatole' Illuminates Honor in the City of Light
by Peggy Sue Dunigan
- Feb 26, 2014
Fantastique! Magnifique! Milwaukee's First Stage garnered these praises from the audience after their World Premiere musical Anatole opened in the Todd Wehr Theater last weekend. Set in Paris, the City of Light, the classic children's stories written by Eve Titus with illustrations by Paul Galdone illuminate the themes of friendship, honor and integrity so one can be the person, or in this instance, the heroic mouse one was meant to be.
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