BWW Review: Empress Of the Blues Hosts Sultry, Scintillating Stackner Cabaret
Milwaukee Rep's Stackner Cabaret hosts a sultry, sensational evening featuring a brief biographical musical revue of blues star Bessie Smith.
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BWW Review: Theatrical Miracles Abound in RTW's AGNES OF GOD
What designates a miracle in today's world---or in the realm of theological dogma? Artists might claim every time a concert, a dance, a live performance or visual picture appears constitutes a small creative miracle.
BWW Review: Milwaukee Rep Stages Beautiful, Breathtaking OF MICE AND MEN
In a beautiful, breathtaking evening at Milwaukee Rep, Artistic Director Mark Clements reprises his critically acclaimed production Of Mice and Men.
BWW Review: Potent First Stage HOLES Transforms Destinies through Friendship
Dig, dig, dig--Digging five foot deep holes, five feet wide, in a barren desert is what the teenage boys at Camp Green Lake, Texas, do every day from sunrise to sunset.
BWW Review: Sixth Annual Rep Lab Delivers Love for Accomplished Emerging Theater Residents
No stranger to acclaimed success, the Sixth Season of Milwaukee Rep Lab produced a fabulous evening of eight short plays in the Stiemke Studio.
BWW Review: Young Company's ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Believes in the Value of Youthful Talent and Virtue
What a privilege to watch Young Company produce an all feminine All's Well That Ends Well.
BWW Review: In Tandem's A TWISTED CAROL Fracture's Dickens' Timeless Tale
In December, In Tandem Theatre presents their brand new 'alternative' holiday entertainment:A Twisted Carol.
BWW Review: The Rep's Spectacular 40th A CHRISTMAS CAROL Opens Hearts for the Holidays
Opening night at the Pabst Theatre this December celebrated the 40th Anniversary of Milwaukee Rep's A Christmas Carol.
BWW Review: Mime and Music Enchant Audiences at First Stage's A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
In the 50th anniversary year of the award winning, animated television special, the live production A Charlie Brown Christmas captured the imagination of Milwaukee audiences this past weekend.
BWW Review: Chamber Theatre's Haunting Scripts, Heartwarming Actors and Humor Inspire LOVE STORIES for the Holidays
'I know of only one duty,' said George Bernard Shaw, 'And that is to love.
BWW Review: Christie's Treasured MOUSETRAP Catches Milwaukee's Applause and Imagination at The Rep
Milwaukee Repertory Theater transports London's inimitable West End theater tradition to Milwaukee on their Quadracci Powerhouse stage.
BWW Review: Skylight Presents a Bloomin' Beautiful and Brilliant MY FAIR LADY
Assembling an amazing array of talent appearing on the Cabot Theatre Stage, the Skylight Music Theatre's My Fair Lady lingers in the audience's mind long after their standing ovations.
BWW Review: Cecsarini and Tramantano Master the Legend in Next Act's BRAVO, CARUSO!
In a backstage dressing room of New York's Metropolitan Opera, Enrico Caruso appears as David Cecsarini, Artistic Director of Next Act Theater.
BWW Review: The Rep's GUYS ON ICE Warms the Heart with Door County Humor at the Stackner Cabaret
Every time Guys on Ice takes to the stage writer and lyricist Fred Alley's spirit soars again.
BWW Review: Boulevard Celebrates Life and Love at Charming HANDLE WITH CARE
Boulevard Ensemble Theatre opened their 30th season at the East Side Plymouth Church presenting an absolutley charming romance Handle with Care.
BWW Review: Marivaux's Marvelous Comedy Concludes APT's Superb Season
American Players Theatre (APT) stages Pierre D.
BWW Review: OTWT Features GRAND GUIGNOL's Horrors of Theatre History
An evening at Artistic Director Dale Gutzman's Off the Wall Theatre (OTWT) continually thrills the intellect and imagination while raising the heart rate.
BWW Review: Renaissance Theaterworks' THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL Pleads for Human Compassion
Renaissance Theaterworks (RTW) inhabits the Studio Theater at the Broadway Theatre Center and presents a true ballad--a dramatic narrative told over generations often set to music and dance--where this powerful tale recounts the life of 14 year-old Emmett Till.
BWW Review: MKE Ballet Haunts Uhlein Hall in Pink's Thrilling DRACULA
When the curtainss opened in Uhlein Hall last weekend at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee Ballet unfolded Michael Pink's world renowned Dracula to a mesmerized audience.
BWW Review: 'Fantasmaterrific' ROALD DAHL'S JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH Opens 29th First Stage Season
What does somenone do when his or her world is turned upside down and there's no where to go? James Henry, the litlte boy in author Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach discovers this dilemma after a terrible accident places him alone in an orphanage.
BWW Review: Award-Winning Troubadour Sings of THE LION's Courage at The Rep's Stiemke
n revealing a true story through an autobiographical musical, songwriter Benjamin Scheuer performs his coming of age titled The LIon.
BWW Review: Humor and Moral Dilemmas Play Hand in Hand at ANY GIVEN MONDAY
Take one college philosophy student, her two Jewish parents, one an English teacher, the other an event/wedding planner, and an Irish Catholic uncle and throw thiem in a South Philiadelphia aparment for a Monday night football game.
BWW Review: MCT Romances Friendship and Poetry in Ruhl's DEAR ELIZABETH
The romance of letter writing centers Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's (MCT) Midwest premiere of Dear Elizabeth.
BWW Review: Dream Cast and Production Electrify Milwaukee Rep's DREAMGIRLS
The glitter and shimmer of show business underscores the 'American Dream' at Milwaukee Rep this October.
BWW Review: Skylight's Elegant TOSCA Elevates the Art of Opera
n a new season celebrating creative women, Skylight Music Opera opens with an elegant tribute to composer Giacomo Puccini's Tosca.
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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) |