MILWAUKEE THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 80

Jay Wright, a prominent African-American poet, will give a poetry reading on Tuesday, Oct.

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.

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.

Nominations have now opened for the 2016 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2015 through September 30, 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.

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.

For the 2016-2017 no 'shrinking violet' opening of the Cabot Theatre Stage, Skylight Music Theatre presents the 1997 award-winning musical, Violet.

The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and Milwaukee Public Schools continue to team up for an outreach program called Arts Connect.

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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.

Misfits: The 2016-2017 theme for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's season.

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.

Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit will be presented by Marquette Theatre at the Evan P.

???????Stephen Berry, a University of Georgia history professor, will discuss Edgar Allan Poe at the annual Frank L.

The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and Milwaukee Public Schools continue to team up for an outreach program called Arts Connect.

Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit will be presented by Marquette Theatre at the Evan P.

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 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.

Knock on the card table and the Gin player who does so wins the game if ten points or less remain in their hand.

Once again, Peninsula Players imports a fresh new play first produced in 2015 direct from Utah to Door County.

The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce additional schedule information for the Live @ Peck Pavilion closing celebration, Taste of Islands.

You can feel fall.

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.

Work Light Productions, producer of the Tony Award-winning musical Rodgers + Hammerstein's CINDERELLA, has announced casting for the national tour launching in September 2016.