BWW Review: APT'S DEATH OF A SALESMAN Foreshadows Demise of the American Dream
Arthur Miller's 1949 Pulitzer Prize winning play Death of a Salesman might be considered by critics the most influential play of the 20th century.
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BWW Review: APT'S Touchstone Theatre Reveals Shakespeare's Colored Past in Historical Play THE AFRICAN COMPANY PRESENTS RICHARD III
Outside the Touchstone Theatre in Spring Green, American Players Theatre (APT) stages an exuberant African Dance accompanied by the thunder of drums and keyboard.
BWW Review: APT Stages Marvelous Mad, Mad COMEDY OF ERRORS
Quite refreshing and revitalizing as a summer breeze, American Players Theater (APT) opened their 2016 Up the Hill season in Spring Green with a wild version of William Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.
BWW Review: Gilbert and Sullivan's Treasured PIRATES Romp Through Charming PENZANCE at MKE's Skylight
Gilbert and Sullivan returned to the Cabot Theatre when Skylight Music Theatre presented the iconic duo's comic Pirates of Penzance.
BWW Review: Theatrical Wonders of Wonder Appear in MKE Ballet's Astonishing ALICE
If ever a story captured the wonder of childhood dreams and fantasies, then Lewis Carroll's novel 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland' travels to this hidden places in the heart and mind.
BWW Review: Thoroughly Modern LILLY'S PURPLE PLASTIC PURSE Dazzles First Stage Audiences
Twenty years and 21st century technology bring Kevin Henkes' beloved picture book, Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse to First Stage this May and June to send their audiences into summer on a brilliant high.
BWW Review: Boulevard Stages Ionesco's Grand Work of Art THE BALD SOPRANO in Grand Hall
“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind,” quotes Eugène Ionesco, the author of the Boulevard Theatre's charming and provocative production Bald Soprano.
BWW Review: The Rep's Sublime FENCES Proves Wilson's Portrait of Humanity Humbles the American Dream
Milwaukee Rep closes a successful season in sublime style staging a production of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize winning play Fences on the Quadracci Powerhouse stage.
BWW Review: Next Act's MOTHERHOOD OUT LOUD Celebrates Life's Creation and Future
American's national Mother's Day arrives, Sunday, May 8, and Next Act Theatre presents a heartwarming, poignant and powerful production to close their season at exactly the right time of year titled Motherhood Out Loud.
BWW Review: Misbehave with MCT and Succumb to Coward's Fanciful FALLEN ANGELS
One of the hidden elements entwined in Noel Coward's wry play Fallen Angels becomes the French love song 'Memes les Anges'--which translates the first line to: 'Even the angels succumb to love.
BWW Review: First Stage Young Company Presents Stunning, Superb ANTIGONE
Antigone--an ancient play first written by Sophocles in approximately 400 B.
BWW Review: RTW'S CENSORED ON FINAL APPROACH Flies High Alongside Marquette University and WWII WASPS
In the 1940's, women managed factories while welding to build warships and also sat in a bomber's cockpit, climbing into the air to aid America's war efforts.
BWW Review: First Stage World Premiere ELLA ENCHANTED Heroically Speaks to the Value of Words
The battle between saying 'yes' and 'no,' wages a magical war when spoken by a princess.
BWW Review: MKE Ballet's 'Oh Wow' KALEIDOSCOPE EYES Turns Audiences on to World Premieres
With two world premiere ballets and ten Beatles songs front and center on the Uhlein Stage, Milwaukee Ballet presented their Kaleidoscope Eyes at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts in an exquisite opening night performance.
BWW Review: The Rep's World Premiere Sizzles in SIRENS OF SONG and Woos Women to Unite
Women of the World unite for Milwaukee Rep's poetic, powerful world premiere titled Sirens of Song featuring the musical history through a women's perspective sung through familiar melodies of the 20th century.
BWW Review: MKE Rep Presents Miraculous Masterpiece and World Premiere AMERICAN SONG
Perhaps only someone looking from the the outside can see more clearly than those living on the inside of the United States.
BWW Review: Off the Wall Theatre Stages Intimate and Spellbinding HAMLET
With little more than 25 seats available att the Off the Wall Theatre (OTW), Artistic Director Dale Gutzman presents William Shakespeare's Hamlet--An intimate, visceral, up close and personal Hamlet condensed by Gutzman after several years of research and eleven weeks of cast rehearsals.
Bww Review: Skylight's Jubilant CROWNS 'Gets the Praise On' for Hat Queens
Hat Queens--the women in Skylight Music Theatre's Crowns: A Gospel Musical call themselves Hat Queens--,and honor women who proudly wear a magnificent hat on Sunday to display their unique being and personality.
BWW Review: Theater RED Presents Headland's Raw and Risqué THE BACHELORETTE
The night before a friend's wedding sets the stage for Theater RED's Milwaukee premiere of Bachelorette at Bay View's Alchemist Theatre.
BWW Review: First Stage's Magical, Mystical THE SNOW Melts the Chill of Sadness
In the First Stage fictional village of Kishka, 'the wall of snow did not melt, the knitted scarves grew to long to use, and the fires eventually burned out,' described the town's never ending winter.
BWW Review: MKE Chamber Theatre's SLOWGIRL Captures Intergenerational Compassion
Dream of visiting Costa Rica's lush jungles and warm climate this winter? Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) imports Costa Rica to the Studio Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center in their intergenerational production Slowgirl.
BWW Review: Culture and Currency Clash in MKE Rep's Razor Edged THE INVISIBLE HAND
An economic term defines and unravels the life of an American investment banker held captive by Pakistanis in Milwaukee Rep's current production The Invisible Hand.
BWW Review: Say Yes to the BACHELORETTE at Theatre RED beginning March 3.
Prime bridal season in 2016 begins in April, with the June summer and September fall weddings following afterwards, two of the most popular months to marry, which supports a $72 billion dollar bridal industry.
BWW Review: Bold and Brave, Milwaukee's Skylight Presents Sensual POWDER HER FACE
'I have only one purpose in life-- to be loved,' believes Margaret, the Duchess of Argyll in the Skylight Music Theatre's new production of the chamber opera Powder Her Face.
BWW Review: Next Act's Riveting TWILIGHT Opens Milwaukee's Eyes, Hearts and Minds
Milwaukee's Next Act theater needs to be filled to overflowing and sold out each performance this winter for their new production: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.
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Lend Me A Tenor Sunset Playhouse (9/10-9/27) |
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Matt Rife Fiserv Forum (11/07-11/07) |
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Skylight Renaissance Theataerworks (3/21-4/11) |
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"The World Goes ‘Round: The Songs of Kander & Ebb" Milwaukee Repertory Theater (9/11-11/01) |
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SIX (Boleyn Tour) Uihlein Hall at Marcus Center For The Performing Arts (2/02-2/07) |
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"Footloose the Musical" Milwaukee Repertory Theater (9/22-11/01) |
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In the Next Room or the vibrator play Next Act Theatre (2/17-3/07) |
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Heist Milwaukee Repertory Theater (11/17-12/20) |
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Trayf Next Act Theatre (9/16-10/04) |
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Hana's Suitcase Racine Theatre Guild (4/09-4/18) |