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Tickets to The Midtown Men at Marcus Center Now on Sale
by BWW News Desk - September 11, 2015
The Marcus Center Presents series returns this fall with a special one-night only performance by THE MIDTOWN MEN, co-presented by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) and Marcus Center. This is the first of several collaborations planned for the 15/16 Season and beyond between the MSO and Marcus Center. Tickets go on sale today, Friday, September 11 at 12:00 pm at the Marcus Center Box Office (929 North Water Street, Downtown Milwaukee), by phone at 414-273-7206 or online at Ticketmaster.com or MarcusCenter.org. Groups 10 or more can call Marcus Center Group Sales at 414-273-7121 x 210. The MC Presents series is proudly sponsored by Envoy Restaurant and Lounge.
MCT's DEAR ELIZABETH to Run 9/23-10/18
by BWW News Desk - September 04, 2015
Take an intimate look at the 30-year friendship between poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell in DEAR ELIZABETH, September 23 - October 18, 2015. Milwaukee Chamber Theatre continues its 2015-2016 Season with a moving and innovative play by Sarah Ruhl, under the direction of Marie Kohler and starring real-life married couple Carrie Hitchcock and Norman Moses. DEAR ELIZABETH performs in the Broadway Theatre Center's Studio Theatre in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward.
Milwaukee Rep to Present DREAMGIRLS, Starring Nova Y. Payton, This Fall
by BWW News Desk - September 03, 2015
Milwaukee Repertory Theater launches the Quadracci Powerhouse season with its highly anticipated production of the Tony Award-winning musical DREAMGIRLS.
Ticket to WICKED's Return to Marcus Center on Sale 9/14
by BWW News Desk - September 02, 2015
WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, will return to Milwaukee during the Associated Bank Broadway at the Marcus Center series on November 4-15. Tickets for the return engagement go on sale Monday, September 14. 
BWW Review: A Dog's Life Leads to Love at TAP'S Irresistible SYLVIA
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - August 31, 2015
The connection between man/woman and beast, especially a domesticated beast, can be complicated. Ask a dog or cat owner to describe their relationship and the pets often acquire human qualities, they are usually loved beyond what anyone might expect, and profoundly impact the lives of their owners .Stage Door Theatre Company expounds on that devotion in their recent comedy Sylvia at Sturgeon Bay's Third Avenue Playhouse.
BWW Review: Shanley's Irrepressible OUTSIDE MULLINGAR Debuts at Peninsula Players
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - August 31, 2015
A tiny village named Killucan set in contemporary Ireland ignites family fueds and past ghosts in an irrepressible production titled Outside Mullingar at Peninsula Players Theatre. John Patrick Shanley's 2014 play flames the deep fires of hearth and heath burning in his four Irish characters: Tony Reilly, and his son, Anthony, and then their next door neighbors, Aoife Muldoon, and her daughter, Rosemary.
The Midtown Men, BLACK NATIVITY and More Set for Marcus Center's 2015-16 Lineup
by BWW News Desk - August 27, 2015
The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts announces the Marcus Center Presents and Off Broadway series for the 2015/16 season which is sponsored by Envoy. Flex packages will be available through the Marcus Center Box Office starting on Thursday, August 27.
TASTE OF ISLANDS Closes Live @ Peck Pavilion Series Today
by BWW News Desk - August 22, 2015
MilwaukeeJobs.com is pleased to announce additional schedule information for the Live @ Peck Pavilion closing celebration, Taste of Islands.
BWW Review: Profound and Personal OTHELLO Opens at APT this August
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - August 19, 2015
Othello—The name speaks to one of William Shakespeare's most acclaimed tragedies first produced in 1603, and has seen thousands of reincarnations, perhaps hundreds of thousands in the past four centuries. How does American Players Theatre (APT) at their Up the Hill venue renew the drama's intense spirit? On an August summer evening, APT stages under John Langs direction, Andrew Boyce's scenic design and Matthew J. Le Febvre's striking costume design a very intimate and evocaive “Tragedy of the Moor of Venice.” 
BWW Review: Iannone Uncovers Edwin Booth's Life at Theater RED's World Premiere
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - August 19, 2015
Milwaukee's TheateRED begins their 2015-2016 season titled 'We All Have Blood On Our Hands,' with a World Premiere written by one of the city's acclaimed actors and directors, Angela Iannone. Iannone constructs a play, The Seed of Banquo, based on the historical facts of American theater great Edwin Booth, and yes, also the brother of the infamous John Wilkes Booth. Edwin Booth opened a theater with his namesake in 1888, and then directed, designed and starred in the plays he choose to produce. In Iannone's The Seeds of Banquo, his historical and personal stage design, prompt book and blocking were used to recreate Booth's original production, including the stage back drop, while she intermingles Booth's personal life to the point where lines in Shakespeare's Macbeth might easily be quoted by the individual Booth regarding his own relections.
BWW Review: Come Fly with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre at Charming BOEING BOEING
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - August 19, 2015
With a grand Alexander Calder like mobile hanging over the Cabot Stage when the audience enters the theater, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) opens their 2015-2016 season with the modern French farce Boeing, Boeing. Marc Camoletti's 1960 play won a 2008 Tony Award for Best Revival in New York and throughly delighted the Cabot Theatre audiences at the Broadway Theatre Center on opening weekend.
BWW Review: APT's Sensational SEASCAPE Signals Life's Evolution
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - August 19, 2015
In the intimate American Players Theatre's (APT) Touchstone Amphitheater, Edward Albee's 1975 Pulitzer Prize winning play Seascape premiered on Saturday afternoon---perhaps with greater resonance in this century than when originally produced.. Director Laura Gordon returns to the drams after directing Milwaukee Rep's 2007 production in the Stiemke Studio along with APT company member Cristina Panfilio. Panfilio agian performed the role of Sarah, the coming up from the ocean floor lizard wife of Leslie. This stellar duo continues to define Albee's play with sensitivity and endearing wit, along with fellow actors Sarah Day, Jonathan Smoots and LeShawn Banks. 
Priceless Professional Theater Entertains Every Summer at PPT
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - August 17, 2015
During June, July, August and often through warm Octobers, summer theater abounds across the country. In Door County's Fish Creek, Wisconsin, Penninsula Players Theatre (PPT) has enchanted summer audiences for more than 80 years on the shores of Green Bay where the sunsets surprise each show night. Even when a close to an 80 miles per hour wind storm arrived one August afternoon and blackend the lights and power for an entire peninsula, the show went on. PPT plugged in the generators and lit candles to illuminate the tables and walkways so the classic farce Lend Me A Tenor played to an audience of approxiimately 300 people. The dedication to excellent performance extends far beyond what might be expected by the residents and tourists.
Photo Flash: First Look at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's BOEING BOEING, Opening Tonight
by BWW News Desk - August 14, 2015
Fasten your seatbelts for a hilarious journey back to the swinging '60s in BOEING BOEING, now through August 30, 2015. Milwaukee Chamber Theatre kicks off its 2015-2016 Season with this Tony Award-winning farce by Marc Camoletti, under the directon of Michael Cotey. BOEING BOEING performs in the Broadway Theatre Center's Cabot Theatre in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
BWW Review: APT's PRIVATE LIVES Passionately Explores How Long Can Love Be Perfect?
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - August 14, 2015
Noel Coward's popular play Private Lives currently on stage at American Players Theatre might be ripped from modern entertainment headlines. These scenes of two recently divorced spouses reconnecting for a romantic tryst could be versions of Duchess Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew living unmarried under one roof (after their long ago divorce) and wishing for royal approval to remarry. Or perchance reminiscent of Gyweneth Paltrow and Coldplay's Chris Martin separating and naming their split a "conscious uncoupling," Coward's 1930 production appears more believable decades later, continually relevant for contemporary audiences.
Photo Flash: Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's BOEING BOEING Begins Tonight
by BWW News Desk - August 13, 2015
Fasten your seatbelts for a hilarious journey back to the swinging '60s in BOEING BOEING, tonight, August 13 - 30, 2015. Milwaukee Chamber Theatre kicks off its 2015-2016 Season with this Tony Award-winning farce by Marc Camoletti, under the directon of Michael Cotey. BOEING BOEING performs in the Broadway Theatre Center's Cabot Theatre in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!
TASTE OF ISLANDS to Close Live @ Peck Pavilion Series, 8/22
by BWW News Desk - August 05, 2015
MilwaukeeJobs.com is pleased to announce additional schedule information for the Live @ Peck Pavilion closing celebration, Taste of Islands.
BWW Reviews: TAP'S Captivating STEEL MAGNOLIAS Bridges Tears and Laughter
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - August 05, 2015
The year is 1987 on an April Saturday at Truvy Jones' beauty salon in a rural parish of Louisiana. Shelby Eatenton will marry Jackson Latercherie surrounded by nine bridesmaids in her favorite color pink instead of the peaches and cream colors her mother M'Lynn Eatenton prefers. With this as the opening scene, Robert Harling's iconic Steel Magnolias ticklesthe funny bones and heartstrings in a way similar to how Shelby joyfully touches her world with pink at Truvy's. Owner Truvy succintly says what she appreciates every Saturday morning in her salon, "Laughter through tears is my very favorite emotion."
Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's BOEING BOEING
by BWW News Desk - July 31, 2015
Fasten your seatbelts for a hilarious journey back to the swinging '60s in BOEING BOEING, August 13 - 30, 2015. Milwaukee Chamber Theatre kicks off its 2015-2016 Season with this Tony Award-winning farce by Marc Camoletti, under the directon of Michael Cotey. BOEING BOEING performs in the Broadway Theatre Center's Cabot Theatre in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!
BWW Previews: Edwin Booth's Legacy Englightens Angela Iannone's World Premiere Staged By Theatre RED
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - July 31, 2015
While most people recognize the infamous name of President Lincoln's assasin John Wilkes Booth, who might be familiar with his brother's name, Edwin Booth? Acclaimed and award-winning Milwaukee actor Angela Iannone collaborates with Theatre RED and brings Edwin Booth out from his brother's tarnished reputation. Her World Premiere play incorporates further details regarding Booth's life in The Seeds of Banquo, and opens this August as the fourth selection in her Edwin Booth Cycle of Plays.
Live @ Peck Pavilion Series Begins 7/26
by BWW News Desk - July 23, 2015
MilwaukeeJobs.com is proud to present Live @ Peck Pavilion on the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts grounds this summer. The season starts this Sunday, July 26 and runs through August 22. Each day of the series will have a different program focus and all events will all be free and open to the public.
Tickets to DIRTY DANCING at Marcus Center on Sale Today
by BWW News Desk - July 17, 2015
Individual tickets for the Milwaukee premiere of Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage at the Marcus Center go on sale today, July 17 at 12:00 pm.
BWW Reviews: Door Shakespeare's Sensual ROMEO AND JULIET Revisits 1920's
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - July 16, 2015
A few hours after their first production on a Saturday night, Door Shakespeare changes costumes, peotic canons and presents Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at 8:30 p.m.  Under the velvet moonlght of a Bailey's Harbor sky that naturally resembles the darkness  that dominates much of the Bard's iconic story,  the tragic  play unfolds. A riveting Romeo and Juliet theatergoers will remember when the sun sets the following evening regardless of what they have ever known or seen of this production before.  
BWW Reviews: DIAL M FOR MURDER Rings Up Classic Suspense at Peninsula Players
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - July 16, 2015
Ever wondered what was going to happen when the phone ring wakes someone from a drowsy sleep? While technology may have changed since the 1950's, the premise and fear of the unknown ring-ring and who might be calling remains equally fascinating. After sipping a drink under the stars before the performance at Peninsula Players Theatre (PPT) and silencing those cell phones, eagerly enjoy their thriller on stage this July written by Britain's Frederick Knott, his iconic Dial M for Murder.
BWW Reviews: Optimist Theatre Reaches Magical Mission with Shakespeare in the Park
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - July 15, 2015
Optimist Theatre names their mission to reach artists and audiences across economic, ethnic and experiential landscapes. On opening night for the company's 5th anniversary, the landscape was an amphitheater in Kadish Park overlooking the lights of Milwaukee's sklying twinkling like stars where young and old revive thier souls with a 1967 take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The company's new tribute to anti-establishment flower childfen playing in the guise of Shakspeare's fairies conjure mischeif in the forest along with their King Oberon and QueenTitania. The mayhem continues when two love struck couples muddle the magic between the forest's fairy royalty, yet the audience applauds a happy ending.

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