The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Milwaukee, WI.
'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever' sets a merry tone for the holiday season - a season that, in the world of this Christmas pageant, challenges kids to focus on something other than just Santa and presents.
The stakes are always higher and the timeline is always tighter at holiday time.
The Skylight's musical Hairspray is Milwaukee's bigger, bolder, bowl-you-over show for the holidays, celebrating diversity of all kinds, from the color of your skin to the inches in your waistline.
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, a play set in the world of Jane Austen's 'Pride & Prejudice,' following Lizzie and Mr.
This is an upbeat, lighthearted musical revue that flows breezily through nearly thirty tunes from "Minnie the Moocher" to "White Cliffs of Dover" to "As Time Goes By.
McDonagh will leave behind a macabre masterwork in The Pillowman, and the Constructivists company can live easy, knowing they did his work justice.
This is a story of family and feeling, with a fanciful little twist.
A delightful, dazzling escape filled with corseted girls in golden tap shoes, The Bard on air guitar, and a big ol' wink to the audience before launching knowingly into any musical encore.
What the Skylight brings to Stephen Schwartz's already glorious music and lyrics is a cast and creative team brimming with sheer brilliance.
Would you believe that one woman could embody the likes of Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Billie Holliday, and Maria Callas? Milwaukee Rep alum and diva in her own right, Bethany Thomas, does just that.
Making its midwest debut at Theater RED, This Prison Where I Live is one in playwright and Director Angela Iannone's four-play Booth Cycle.
We're told from the very beginning of Doc Danger & the Danger Squad that, in this universe, creativity rules and the hero always escapes.
This World Premiere event isn't the Peter Pan narrative you'd expect.
From curtain rise to fall, 'An American in Paris' hinges on dance.
Typically performed in four acts, Milwaukee Ballet Artistic Director, Michael Pink, has trimmed the classic into two acts, maintaining Swan Lake's integrity and grandeur while making it a more comfortable experience for modern audiences.
In the end, you may leave Urinetown wondering, as Little Sally does, what kind of a musical is this? Officer Lockstock would have me remind me you that it isn't supposed to be a happy one.
Beautifully written, with minimal sets and moments that suggest the characters are aware of the parts they're playing, this is a wonderful and enduring work of dramatic art - and one that the Milwaukee Repertory Theater carries out with ease.
Roses wave hello, storybook pages spring to life, the townsfolk are actually nice, and the troupe of orphan children are a little creepy.
Anyone who's taken a poetry class knows that there's so much more to poetic words than meets the eye.
Les Miz, based on the book by Victor Hugo, is now in its 32nd year, having played to more than 70 million people in 44 countries and 22 languages.
Unbridled enthusiasm - that's what this show's got.
Ripped from the headlines.
The overall tone of 'Hoffmann' is rife with broken hearts and a healthy dose of the macabre.
'One House Over' smartly addresses timely issues with quiet honesty, revealing American immigrants' struggles, hopes, and fears through heartfelt dialogue.
For the child in all of us, feet are (mostly) off the ground for this Peter Pan-inspired musical.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Racine Theatre Guild (12/11-12/20) |
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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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THE SNOW First Stage (2/12-2/21) |
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Firebringer Sixth Street Theatre (9/25-10/18) |
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"Somewhere" Checota Powerhouse Theater, Associated Bank Theater Center (4/13-5/09) |
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At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen Next Act Theatre (4/21-5/09) |
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"JP Coletta’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Piano Man" Stackner Cabaret, Associate Bank Theater Center (11/06-1/03) |
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"Footloose the Musical" Milwaukee Repertory Theater (9/22-11/01) |
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Tony Award Nominated: Rock of Ages Skylight Music Theatre (4/16-5/02) |
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"The Cherry Tortured" Milwaukee Repertory Theater (2/26-3/28) |
