Star Productions Presents JAY LENO One Night Only
by BWW News Desk - October 18, 2016
The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center has announced today that Star Productions will present Jay Leno, performing his stand-up comedy show, at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 10 at 8 p.m.
by BWW News Desk - October 18, 2016
The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center has announced today that Star Productions will present Jay Leno, performing his stand-up comedy show, at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 10 at 8 p.m.
The Marcus Center Announces BOOK OF MORMON Ticket Lottery
by BWW News Desk - October 17, 2016
Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON , which played a record breaking two-week run in 2015, is pleased to announce a lottery ticket policy for the National Tour, which begins October 25 at the Marcus Center in Milwaukee and plays a limited one week engagement through October 30. In Milwaukee, the production will conduct a pre-show lottery at the box office, making a limited number of tickets available at $25 a piece.
by BWW News Desk - October 17, 2016
Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON , which played a record breaking two-week run in 2015, is pleased to announce a lottery ticket policy for the National Tour, which begins October 25 at the Marcus Center in Milwaukee and plays a limited one week engagement through October 30. In Milwaukee, the production will conduct a pre-show lottery at the box office, making a limited number of tickets available at $25 a piece.
Prominent African-American Poet and Playwright Will Make Two Visits to Marquette
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2016
Jay Wright, a prominent African-American poet, will give a poetry reading on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 3:30 p.m. in Weasler Auditorium as part of the Marquette Forum series.
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2016
Jay Wright, a prominent African-American poet, will give a poetry reading on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 3:30 p.m. in Weasler Auditorium as part of the Marquette Forum series.
BWW Preview: Spectacular First Stage 30th Anniversary Season Celebrates 61 World Premieres
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - October 12, 2016
What other regional or national theater company can be credited with producing 61 total world premieres? Professional children's theater company First Stage began a legacy 30 years ago, and continues in their new season under the theme 'Theater You Never Outgrow.' Artistic Director Jeff Frank believes the company creates the strongest theater, at home, in Milwaukee, which eventually reverberates around the country. Now authors and producers nationally recognize First Stage and knock on the company's door, approaching them with opportunities, so the company can envision new legacies in Theater for Young Audiences.
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - October 12, 2016
What other regional or national theater company can be credited with producing 61 total world premieres? Professional children's theater company First Stage began a legacy 30 years ago, and continues in their new season under the theme 'Theater You Never Outgrow.' Artistic Director Jeff Frank believes the company creates the strongest theater, at home, in Milwaukee, which eventually reverberates around the country. Now authors and producers nationally recognize First Stage and knock on the company's door, approaching them with opportunities, so the company can envision new legacies in Theater for Young Audiences.
BWW Review: Boxing and Elegant Moves Join Forces in MKE Rep's Powerful THE ROYALE
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - October 12, 2016
Two men enclosed in a boxing ring--one black and one white-vie for the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship and a transformative match that might knock out race relations for decades to come. Milwaukee Repertory Theaer imports Marco Ramiriez's The Royale to the Stiemke Studio in sophisticated style starring David St. Louis playing the African American boxing champion Jay 'the Sport' Jackson. Jay Jackson represents the actual heavyweight champion Jack Johnson who defeated the previous World Heavyweight champion, Jim Jeffries, a white man, on July 4, 2010 to win freedom for the black boxer. In the stunning Rep production, Ramirez's script loosely retells the story that changed the course of boxing history where Jackson became the first African American Heavyweight Champion in an era when the Klu Klux Klan lynched black men for merely the color of their skin.
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - October 12, 2016
Two men enclosed in a boxing ring--one black and one white-vie for the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship and a transformative match that might knock out race relations for decades to come. Milwaukee Repertory Theaer imports Marco Ramiriez's The Royale to the Stiemke Studio in sophisticated style starring David St. Louis playing the African American boxing champion Jay 'the Sport' Jackson. Jay Jackson represents the actual heavyweight champion Jack Johnson who defeated the previous World Heavyweight champion, Jim Jeffries, a white man, on July 4, 2010 to win freedom for the black boxer. In the stunning Rep production, Ramirez's script loosely retells the story that changed the course of boxing history where Jackson became the first African American Heavyweight Champion in an era when the Klu Klux Klan lynched black men for merely the color of their skin.
Nominations Open for the 2016 BroadwayWorld Milwaukee, WI Awards
by BWW Special Coverage - October 11, 2016
Nominations have now opened for the 2016 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016. Our local editors have set the categories and now YOU get to nominate and vote for your favorites! Nominations are reader-submitted and will be open through October 31.
by BWW Special Coverage - October 11, 2016
Nominations have now opened for the 2016 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016. Our local editors have set the categories and now YOU get to nominate and vote for your favorites! Nominations are reader-submitted and will be open through October 31.
DISENCHANTED! Comes to Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall
by BWW News Desk - October 11, 2016
Off Broadway at the Marcus Center and Starvox Entertainment are pleased to announce the hilarious hit musical DISENCHANTED! will play in Milwaukee at the Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall on October 11-16.
by BWW News Desk - October 11, 2016
Off Broadway at the Marcus Center and Starvox Entertainment are pleased to announce the hilarious hit musical DISENCHANTED! will play in Milwaukee at the Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall on October 11-16.
The Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents HAY FEVER at Ten Chimneys this October 17th
by BWW News Desk - October 07, 2016
Hailed as one of Noel Coward's comic masterpieces, Hay Fever - written in three days after Coward and his best pals Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne spent a weekend with the infamous stage legend Laurette Taylor and her husband, the equally infamous playwright J. Hartley Manners - was one of Coward's first successful plays and is still staged often around the world. Hay Fever is set in the English country house of the eccentric Bliss family: Judith, a retired stage actress; David, an egotistical novelist; and their two unequivocally unique children Simon and Sorel. Each family member, unbeknownst to the others, has invited a guest for the weekend. Chaos ensues as the guests arrive, take in the unconventional ways of their hosts, and plan their escape.
by BWW News Desk - October 07, 2016
Hailed as one of Noel Coward's comic masterpieces, Hay Fever - written in three days after Coward and his best pals Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne spent a weekend with the infamous stage legend Laurette Taylor and her husband, the equally infamous playwright J. Hartley Manners - was one of Coward's first successful plays and is still staged often around the world. Hay Fever is set in the English country house of the eccentric Bliss family: Judith, a retired stage actress; David, an egotistical novelist; and their two unequivocally unique children Simon and Sorel. Each family member, unbeknownst to the others, has invited a guest for the weekend. Chaos ensues as the guests arrive, take in the unconventional ways of their hosts, and plan their escape.
BWW Review: Skylight's Endearing VIOLET Shatters Visions between the Miraculous and Mundane
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - October 06, 2016
For the 2016-2017 no 'shrinking violet' opening of the Cabot Theatre Stage, Skylight Music Theatre presents the 1997 award-winning musical, Violet. Set in the mid 1960's, the Broadway Theatre Center production relates to a young woman's journey when her father accidentally disfigured her face and left a traumatic facial scar amid the burgeoning civil rights movement and beginnings of the Vietnam war. When Violet travels from North Carolina to Oklahoma carrying her dream and hope that a faith healer will remove the scar, the young Southern woman encounters various people on her Greyhound bus ride to remind the audience life's miracles arise in multiple forms when the heart opens the eyes and mind and removes the mundane from the material world.
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - October 06, 2016
For the 2016-2017 no 'shrinking violet' opening of the Cabot Theatre Stage, Skylight Music Theatre presents the 1997 award-winning musical, Violet. Set in the mid 1960's, the Broadway Theatre Center production relates to a young woman's journey when her father accidentally disfigured her face and left a traumatic facial scar amid the burgeoning civil rights movement and beginnings of the Vietnam war. When Violet travels from North Carolina to Oklahoma carrying her dream and hope that a faith healer will remove the scar, the young Southern woman encounters various people on her Greyhound bus ride to remind the audience life's miracles arise in multiple forms when the heart opens the eyes and mind and removes the mundane from the material world.
Marcus Center-Arts Connect Continues Outreach Workshop with RAVE ON
by BWW News Desk - October 06, 2016
The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and Milwaukee Public Schools continue to team up for an outreach program called Arts Connect. The Center is thrilled to continue to offer this program to area youth and is working with Rave On! The Buddy Holly Experience to offer a workshop for students at MPS' Riverside University High School. This program is designed to allow these students to experience the various aspects of the performing arts including exploration of various college and career possibilities. Students will work with Billy McGuigan, creator and star, on Today, October 6 at 1:00 pm at the MPS' Riverside University High School.
by BWW News Desk - October 06, 2016
The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and Milwaukee Public Schools continue to team up for an outreach program called Arts Connect. The Center is thrilled to continue to offer this program to area youth and is working with Rave On! The Buddy Holly Experience to offer a workshop for students at MPS' Riverside University High School. This program is designed to allow these students to experience the various aspects of the performing arts including exploration of various college and career possibilities. Students will work with Billy McGuigan, creator and star, on Today, October 6 at 1:00 pm at the MPS' Riverside University High School.
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Documentary to Screen at Marquette
by BWW News Desk - October 05, 2016
???????A free screening of the documentary Dark Side of the Full Moon will be held on Oct. 10 at Marquette University's Cudahy Hall, Room 001, 1313 W. Wisconsin Ave.
by BWW News Desk - October 05, 2016
???????A free screening of the documentary Dark Side of the Full Moon will be held on Oct. 10 at Marquette University's Cudahy Hall, Room 001, 1313 W. Wisconsin Ave.
BLACK NATIVITY to Return to Marcus Center This December
by BWW News Desk - October 04, 2016
Black Nativity by Langston Hughes will open December 1st and debut an all new Black Nativity 2016 for its second season at Wilson Theater in Vogel Hall. This year's run will take place over two weekends and features new Director, Malkia Stampley. Black Nativity by Langston Hughes is produced by Black Arts MKE (formerly Black Arts Think Tank) with the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.
by BWW News Desk - October 04, 2016
Black Nativity by Langston Hughes will open December 1st and debut an all new Black Nativity 2016 for its second season at Wilson Theater in Vogel Hall. This year's run will take place over two weekends and features new Director, Malkia Stampley. Black Nativity by Langston Hughes is produced by Black Arts MKE (formerly Black Arts Think Tank) with the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.
BWW Review: Gifted Women Define Tennessee Williams Tender Heartbreak at MCT
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - October 03, 2016
Misfits: The 2016-2017 theme for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's season. A little known Tennessee Williams play, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur provides Williams' misfits, four 'women of a certain age,' a stage for exposing their misfortunes in St. Louis, the 1930's. In a place 'just a street car ride away from a cooling Sunday afternoon picnic' at Lake Creve Coeur, Missouri, the misfits uncover what their lives might be in the future. A stage where their adventures appear courtesy of the up and coming Director Leda Hoffman who transforms Kay Allmand, Kelly Doherty, Molly Rhode and Karen Estrada on a set where 'roses explode like a bombshell of clashing colors' designed by Courtney O'Neill. In fact, the entire production becomes a tour de force for women in the theater, on stage and behind the scenes.
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - October 03, 2016
Misfits: The 2016-2017 theme for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's season. A little known Tennessee Williams play, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur provides Williams' misfits, four 'women of a certain age,' a stage for exposing their misfortunes in St. Louis, the 1930's. In a place 'just a street car ride away from a cooling Sunday afternoon picnic' at Lake Creve Coeur, Missouri, the misfits uncover what their lives might be in the future. A stage where their adventures appear courtesy of the up and coming Director Leda Hoffman who transforms Kay Allmand, Kelly Doherty, Molly Rhode and Karen Estrada on a set where 'roses explode like a bombshell of clashing colors' designed by Courtney O'Neill. In fact, the entire production becomes a tour de force for women in the theater, on stage and behind the scenes.
BWW Review: The Rep's MAN OF LA MANCHA Soars to Inspirational Heights
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - October 02, 2016
Everyone eventually wishes for an impossible dream to be fulfilled-In a musical where that song, 'The Impossible Dream,' continues to inspire an audience, Milwaukee Repertory stellar Man of La Mancha opened the final weeks of September and proved why the musical won five 1966 Tony Awards. The first production in the Quadracci Powerhouse season, the iconic musical written by Dale Wasserman combined with brilliant music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion transforms Cervantes groundbreaking novel into a two hour, no intermission musical set in the dungeons of the 16th century Spanish Inquisition. Cervantes and his servant Sancho Panza must prove their worth to their prison mates. To do so, the pair performs the poet's 'Man of La Mancha' in the Spanish dungeon, where all the prisoners participate as actors, which eventually awakens the impossible dream inside those attending in the audience
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - October 02, 2016
Everyone eventually wishes for an impossible dream to be fulfilled-In a musical where that song, 'The Impossible Dream,' continues to inspire an audience, Milwaukee Repertory stellar Man of La Mancha opened the final weeks of September and proved why the musical won five 1966 Tony Awards. The first production in the Quadracci Powerhouse season, the iconic musical written by Dale Wasserman combined with brilliant music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion transforms Cervantes groundbreaking novel into a two hour, no intermission musical set in the dungeons of the 16th century Spanish Inquisition. Cervantes and his servant Sancho Panza must prove their worth to their prison mates. To do so, the pair performs the poet's 'Man of La Mancha' in the Spanish dungeon, where all the prisoners participate as actors, which eventually awakens the impossible dream inside those attending in the audience
Marquette Theatre to Present BLITHE SPIRIT This Fall
by BWW News Desk - September 29, 2016
Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit will be presented by Marquette Theatre at the Evan P. & Marion Helfaer Theatre.
by BWW News Desk - September 29, 2016
Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit will be presented by Marquette Theatre at the Evan P. & Marion Helfaer Theatre.
Georgia History Professor to Chat Edgar Allan Poe at Marquette
by BWW News Desk - September 28, 2016
???????Stephen Berry, a University of Georgia history professor, will discuss Edgar Allan Poe at the annual Frank L. Klement Lecture on Monday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Beamier Suites BC of the Raynor Memorial Library.
by BWW News Desk - September 28, 2016
???????Stephen Berry, a University of Georgia history professor, will discuss Edgar Allan Poe at the annual Frank L. Klement Lecture on Monday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Beamier Suites BC of the Raynor Memorial Library.
Marcus Center-Arts Connect Continues Outreach Workshop with RAVE ON
by BWW News Desk - September 27, 2016
The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and Milwaukee Public Schools continue to team up for an outreach program called Arts Connect. The Center is thrilled to continue to offer this program to area youth and is working with Rave On! The Buddy Holly Experience to offer a workshop for students at MPS' Riverside University High School. This program is designed to allow these students to experience the various aspects of the performing arts including exploration of various college and career possibilities. Students will work with Billy McGuigan, creator and star, on Thursday, October 6 at 1:00 pm at the MPS' Riverside University High School.
by BWW News Desk - September 27, 2016
The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and Milwaukee Public Schools continue to team up for an outreach program called Arts Connect. The Center is thrilled to continue to offer this program to area youth and is working with Rave On! The Buddy Holly Experience to offer a workshop for students at MPS' Riverside University High School. This program is designed to allow these students to experience the various aspects of the performing arts including exploration of various college and career possibilities. Students will work with Billy McGuigan, creator and star, on Thursday, October 6 at 1:00 pm at the MPS' Riverside University High School.
Marquette Theatre to Present BLITHE SPIRIT This Fall
by BWW News Desk - September 27, 2016
Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit will be presented by Marquette Theatre at the Evan P. & Marion Helfaer Theatre.
by BWW News Desk - September 27, 2016
Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit will be presented by Marquette Theatre at the Evan P. & Marion Helfaer Theatre.
The Second City Releases Tickets for its DYSFUNCTIONAL HOLIDAY REVUE
by BWW News Desk - September 19, 2016
On December 14-18, Chicago's legendary comedy theatre The Second City will appear at the Marcus Center's Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall and tickets go on sale this Friday, September 23 at 12:00 pm. The Second City's Dysfunctional Holiday Revue delivers a healthy dose of seasonal satire where neither holiday film classics, family gatherings nor Christmas carols are too sacred for a show that is the perfect alternative to the same old holiday shows.'
by BWW News Desk - September 19, 2016
On December 14-18, Chicago's legendary comedy theatre The Second City will appear at the Marcus Center's Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall and tickets go on sale this Friday, September 23 at 12:00 pm. The Second City's Dysfunctional Holiday Revue delivers a healthy dose of seasonal satire where neither holiday film classics, family gatherings nor Christmas carols are too sacred for a show that is the perfect alternative to the same old holiday shows.'
UCB TourCO to Stop at the Marcus Center This Fall; Tickets on Sale Today
by BWW News Desk - September 16, 2016
The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts is delighted to present the return of the UCB TourCO as part of the 2016/17 Off Broadway Series. Performances will be in the Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall today, September 16. Tickets go on sale this Today, July 8 at 12:00 pm.
by BWW News Desk - September 16, 2016
The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts is delighted to present the return of the UCB TourCO as part of the 2016/17 Off Broadway Series. Performances will be in the Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall today, September 16. Tickets go on sale this Today, July 8 at 12:00 pm.
BWW Review: TAP'S Tender THE GIN GAME Knocks on a Tragic Battle Of Cards and Wills
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - September 12, 2016
Knock on the card table and the Gin player who does so wins the game if ten points or less remain in their hand. Knock on Third Avenue Playhouse's door in Sturgeon Bay to appreciate their new production of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize wining play The Gin Game. In this fascinating battle of wills and wits, Weller and Fonsia fight for their dignity in a dilapidated nursing home, where the nurses become condescending and the Methodist church choir continually sings to entertain them.
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - September 12, 2016
Knock on the card table and the Gin player who does so wins the game if ten points or less remain in their hand. Knock on Third Avenue Playhouse's door in Sturgeon Bay to appreciate their new production of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize wining play The Gin Game. In this fascinating battle of wills and wits, Weller and Fonsia fight for their dignity in a dilapidated nursing home, where the nurses become condescending and the Methodist church choir continually sings to entertain them.
BWW Review: PPT's Regional Premiere ALABAMA STORY Defends Freedom to Read in Poignant Production
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - August 30, 2016
Once again, Peninsula Players imports a fresh new play first produced in 2015 direct from Utah to Door County. Playwright Kenneth Jones' Alabama Story received a first regional premiere at the award-winning Fish Creek theater in a story where an innocent children's book by Garth Williams--'The Rabbits' Wedding'-incites civil unrest in Montgomery, Alabama, 1959.
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - August 30, 2016
Once again, Peninsula Players imports a fresh new play first produced in 2015 direct from Utah to Door County. Playwright Kenneth Jones' Alabama Story received a first regional premiere at the award-winning Fish Creek theater in a story where an innocent children's book by Garth Williams--'The Rabbits' Wedding'-incites civil unrest in Montgomery, Alabama, 1959.
Marcus Center to Host Live @ Peck Pavilion Closing Celebration TASTE OF THE ISLANDS
by BWW News Desk - August 27, 2016
The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce additional schedule information for the Live @ Peck Pavilion closing celebration, Taste of Islands.
by BWW News Desk - August 27, 2016
The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce additional schedule information for the Live @ Peck Pavilion closing celebration, Taste of Islands.
BWW Review: Optimist Theatre Embraces Shakespeare and Its Audience
by Erin Lewenauer - August 26, 2016
You can feel fall. The breaking of a stick. The shattering of leaves. It's unusual to fall victim to this intense experience in the aggressively muggy, unending days of August in Milwaukee. And yet you'll feel this beginning with the first chord of Optimist Theatre's production of Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar, performed 12 times over 3 weekends: August 4-7, 11-13, and 18-21. Free to the public, this marks the program's 7th season, held outdoors at the Selig-Joseph-Folz ampitheater in Alice Bertschy Kadish Park.
by Erin Lewenauer - August 26, 2016
You can feel fall. The breaking of a stick. The shattering of leaves. It's unusual to fall victim to this intense experience in the aggressively muggy, unending days of August in Milwaukee. And yet you'll feel this beginning with the first chord of Optimist Theatre's production of Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar, performed 12 times over 3 weekends: August 4-7, 11-13, and 18-21. Free to the public, this marks the program's 7th season, held outdoors at the Selig-Joseph-Folz ampitheater in Alice Bertschy Kadish Park.
Photo Flash: The Midwest Premiere of ALABAMA STORY
by BWW News Desk - August 19, 2016
Inspired by actual events in 1959, Alabama Story centers on a fearless, no- nonsense librarian, a vocal segregationist senator and an innocent children's book. In a parallel story, childhood friends Joshua and Lilly, a black man and white woman, reunite among the societal tensions of the times. In 2000, Emily Wheelock Reed was cited for her work in 1959 Alabama by the American Library Association and received the Scroll of Honor from the Freedom to Read Foundation for refusing to remove the children's book, The Rabbits Wedding from the shelf.
by BWW News Desk - August 19, 2016
Inspired by actual events in 1959, Alabama Story centers on a fearless, no- nonsense librarian, a vocal segregationist senator and an innocent children's book. In a parallel story, childhood friends Joshua and Lilly, a black man and white woman, reunite among the societal tensions of the times. In 2000, Emily Wheelock Reed was cited for her work in 1959 Alabama by the American Library Association and received the Scroll of Honor from the Freedom to Read Foundation for refusing to remove the children's book, The Rabbits Wedding from the shelf.
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