BWW Review: RTW'S LUNA GALE Exposes Heartbreaking Truths of Contemporary Life
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BWW Review: Marquette Basketball and MCGUIRE Captivate Milwaukee at Rep's Stackner Cabaret
Marquette University, Milwaukee and Al McQuire became synonymous during the coach's tenure with Men's Basketball during the 1970's.
BWW Review: Ayad Ahktar's DISGRACED Presents Profound Dilemmas in MKE Rep's Fierce Production
A cozy, celebratory dinner party in a cosmopolitan New York penthouse ignites irreversible damage between friends in Ayad Ahktar's 2013 Pulitzer Prize winning play Disgraced now on stage at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's Quadracci Powerhouse.
BWW Review: Enchanted NUTCRACKER at MKE Ballet Elevates Holiday Hope and New Dancers
While the snow fell outside the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, snow feel on stage in The Milwaukee Ballet's enchanting The Nutcracker.
BWW Review: Langston Hughes' BLACK NATIVITY Portrays Christmas Gospel through Poetry and Soul
Black Arts MKE presents their joyous and triumphant 2nd annual version of Langston Hughes' Black Nativity first produced in 1961.
BWW Review: MCT's LOBBY HERO Pursues Relevant Ethical Questions through Bright Comedy
A late night, New York lobby, courtesy of Scenic Designer Stephen Hudson-Mairet, features one security guard and his captain supervisor who delve into current moral dilemmas during Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's Lobby Hero.
BWW Review: Audiences Completely Give Their Hearts to MKE Rep's Resplendent New A CHRISTMAS CAROL
What could be a better holiday gift to Milwaukee than a World Premiere adaptation of Dickens' beloved A Christmas Carol? On Friday night, Artistic Director Mark Clements opened his resplendent adaptation for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in the gorgeous Pabst Theatre.
BWW Preview: MKE Rep's New A CHRISTMAS CAROL Shines Light and Love on Dickens' Dark London
When Dickens wrote his timeless Christmas story about mid 19th century London audiences often push aside, especially at the holidays, he wanted his audiences to be transformed into seeing their world in a new way.
BWW Review: The Rep's FOREIGNER Resounds with Contagious Laughter and Contemporary Relevance
Written 30 plus years ago in 1985, the late Milwaukee playwright Larry Shue's award winning Foreigner first debuted at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.
BWW Review: Skylight's Glittering LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Lavishes Joie de Vivre for Family
What defines a family--those people who love by sacrificing their own life for someone else? In a lavish production where Chris March's luscious costumes touch the senses, Skylight Music Theater stages the 1983 Broadway musical La Cage Aux Folles.
BWW Review: MKE's Cold Nights Warm to Berlin's Hot Music at the Stackner's I LOVE A PIANO
This season Milwaukee Repertory Theater's Stackner Cabaret warms the holidays with the Great American Songbook: A tribute to the incomparable composer Irving Berlin in the musical revue I Love A Piano.
BWW Review: Theater RED's Enthralling BONNY ANNE BONNY Rules the High Seas in World Premiere
In an on-stage adventure that will thrill any secret buccaneer, Theater RED world premieres Bonny Anne Bonny in collaboration with the Department of Theatre at Milwaukee's Wisconsin Lutheran College's (WLC).
BWW Review: Optimist Theatre Embraces Shakespeare and Its Audience
You can feel fall.
BWW Review: APT'S Gritty KING LEAR Grapples with 21st Century Reality
When the audience arrives at American Players (APT) Up the Hill Theatre for the opening of William Shakespeare's King Lear, they might believe a presidential press conference will be staged.
BWW Review: MCT Channels a Crazy Chekhov in Durang's VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
What happens in Bucks County, Pennsylvania-Upper Back Eddy, Bucks County to be specific? Playwright Christopher Durang called Bucks Country home and set his award winning comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike in their country house right there.
BWW Review: Incredible APT ENDGAME Proposes 'We are Obliged to Each Other'
In a stellar setting at the Touchstone Theatre in Spring Green, a superb American Players Theatre (APT) cast plays out Samuel Beckett's Endgame.
BWW Review: Complexity and Cunning Appear in APT's Extraordinary ARCADIA
Could life be portrayed similar to a steaming cup of tea that eventually grows cool, and finally stone cold? That premise represents one possible physical property of energy, specifically heat, in Tom Stoppard's 1993 play titled Arcadia.
BWW Review: TAP's Vintage Comic Opera MADAME SHERRY Transforms into Sparkling Show of Song and Dance
Does a comic opera from 1910 resonate with contemporary audiences? The answer would be with certainty, yes.
BWW Review: PPT'S Marvelous THE FULL MONTY Presents More Than Eye Candy
'Everything which is necessary, the entire thing, the whole shebang.
BWW Review: Door Shakespeare's Fiercely Human JULIUS CAESAR Examines Political Friends and Foes
While William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar dramatically retells history through rich verse, Door Shakespeare at Baileys Harbor's Bjorklunden gives the play a fiercely human touch in this intimate garden setting.
BWW Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Makes True Love Merry at Door Shakespeare
'The course of true love never did run smooth'.
BWW Review: ISAAC'S EYE Enthralls Audiences at TAP with Science and Sensuality
On any given Sunday afternoon or weekday evening, Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) presents enthralling theatrical happenings that make audiences crave indoor (and air conditioned) time and space, that relates to the Newtonian.
BWW Review: APT Chooses Ideal Season to Stage Wilde's Entrancing AN IDEAL HUSBAND
n a year when the country tries to discern the truth about numerous politician's pasts, presents and futures, Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband attempts to make some sense of blackmail and corruption in the government institutions and individuals who serve their citizens.
BWW Review: Off The Wall Theatre Revisits the Human Condition in Wilder's THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
Long ago and far away in an ice age near the fictional town of Excelsior, New Jersey, playwright Thornton Wilder placed the supposedly All American Antrobus family-two adults, two children and their luscious looking maid.
BWW Review: APT's Extraordinary EURYDICE Weeps for Fathers and Lovers
Name one person worth passing through the gates of Hades for while singing a song so sorrowful the stones would weep--A parent? A child? A partner? Perhaps even a true friend? American Players Theatre stages Eurydice, steampunk style in the Touchstone Theatre, recreating Sarah Ruhl's ethereal, surre
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Hana's Suitcase Racine Theatre Guild (4/09-4/18) |
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The Good One Sixth Street Theatre (7/24-8/02) |
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Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra: Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets In Concert Riverside Theater (12/05-12/05) |
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Angel Street (Gaslight) Racine Theatre Guild (10/30-11/15) |
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The Bird Cage Lake Country Playhouse & Academy (6/25-6/27) |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Racine Theatre Guild (12/11-12/20) |
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Churchill Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall (10/01-10/01) |
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Weird Al Yankovic at Fiserv Forum Fiserv Forum (10/17-10/17) |
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Disney's Dare to Dream Jr The Historic Sprague Theater (7/17-7/26) |
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Matt Rife Fiserv Forum (11/07-11/07) |