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Milwaukee Rep's THE COLOR PURPLE Opens 9/26
by BWW News Desk - September 04, 2014
Milwaukee Repertory Theater's 2014/15 Quadracci Powerhouse Season kicks off in grand style with an uplifting production of The Color Purple. This hit musical, based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will be directed by Artistic Director Mark Clements, who reunites with the same creative team behind last season's wildly successful hit production of Ragtime. This will be the fifth musical that Clements has directed at The Rep.
RUACH to Present Philomusica String Quartet in 'UNDERSTANDING STRUGGLE THROUGH MUSIC', Today
by BWW News Desk - September 02, 2014
RUACH, the Jewish arts and music organization serving Greater Milwaukee, will present a concert performed by the Philomusica String Quartet, featuring works of Shostakovich and others, today, September 2nd at 7:45 p.m. in Youth Arts Hall of the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, 325 W. Walnut Street. The performance, titled 'Understanding Struggle through Music: A Jewish Perspective,' will also feature works by Hans Krasa and Sholom Secunda, in addition to Shostakovich's famed String Quartet No. 8. In addition, there will be a 7 p.m. pre-concert talk by Philomusica violinist, Alexander Mandl, and RUACH founder/executive director, Joshua Richman.
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre to Present THE GOOD FATHER, 9/17-10/12
by BWW News Desk - August 28, 2014
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) presents the Midwest premiere of THE GOOD FATHER by Christian O'Reilly. This contemporary Irish love story features local artists - and real-life married couple - Laura Gray and Jonathan Wainwright. THE GOOD FATHER performs in the Broadway Theatre Center's Studio Theatre in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward. The show runs September 17 - October 12, 2014.
Skylight Music Theatre to Hold 'So You Think You Can Be Toto' Competition, 9/22
by BWW News Desk - August 26, 2014
Skylight Music Theatre announces 'So You Think You Can Be Toto' Competition to be held on September 22 at 6:00 p.m. in the Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theater Center (158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI). Skylight invites the public to attend this one of a kind competition.
Skylight Music Theatre to Present LA CENERENTOLA, 9/19-10/5
by BWW News Desk - August 21, 2014
Skylight Music Theatre is creating a new production of Rossini's classic opera La Cenerentola. The production runs September19th through October 5th in the Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center (158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee WI).
RUACH to Present Philomusica String Quartet in 'UNDERSTANDING STRUGGLE THROUGH MUSIC', 9/2
by BWW News Desk - August 15, 2014
RUACH, the Jewish arts and music organization serving Greater Milwaukee, will present a concert performed by the Philomusica String Quartet, featuring works of Shostakovich and others, on Tuesday, September 2nd at 7:45 p.m. in Youth Arts Hall of the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, 325 W. Walnut Street. The performance, titled 'Understanding Struggle through Music: A Jewish Perspective,' will also feature works by Hans Krasa and Sholom Secunda, in addition to Shostakovich's famed String Quartet No. 8. In addition, there will be a 7 p.m. pre-concert talk by Philomusica violinist, Alexander Mandl, and RUACH founder/executive director, Joshua Richman.
BWW Reviews: Iannone and MCT Present MASTER CLASS on the Power of Art
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - August 13, 2014
In opening Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's 40th Anniversary season, Milwaukee actor Angela Iannone reprises the role of Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's Tony Award winning play Master Class this August. While Callas has ultimately been lauded as the top operatic singer in the last century, Iannone has garnered a 2014 Ten Chimneys Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship under David Hyde Pierce's directorship. Then Iannone was recently awarded Milwaukee's second Ruth Schudson Leading Lady Honoree that adds to her multiple theater achievements. These two women appearing in different eras present a master force on the power of art to transform a cultural landscape and christens Milwaukee's 2014-2015 theater season.
Celebrate WPR with Kathleen Dunn 9/25 at the Elm Grove Woman's Club
by BWW News Desk - August 12, 2014
Celebrate Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) with on-air host Kathleen Dunn on Thursday, September 25 at the Elm Grove Woman's Club. This evening is a unique opportunity for listeners to interact with radio personalities and other WPR fans.
BWW Reviews: TRICK BOXING Romances Summer Fun at Third Avenue Playhouse
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - August 11, 2014
Cross, hook, jab and uppercut-know anything about boxing? Sturgeon Bay's Third Avenue Playhouse imports Sossy Merchanics in a Stage Door Theatre Company performance billed Tricky Boxing August. While no audience member needs to know anything about boxing to throughly enjoy the high energy production, the team of Brian Sostek and Megan McClellan pairs in the nostalgic 1940's fictional tale of boxer Dancing Danny David and how he acquired the 'knockout of his life.'
Photo Flash: First Look at Angela Iannone in Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's MASTER CLASS, Now Playing Through 8/24
by BWW News Desk - August 10, 2014
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) begins its 40th Anniversary, the 2014-2015 Season, with MASTER CLASS the Tony Award-winning play by Terrence McNally. Angela Iannone reprises the role of legendary opera diva Maria Callas, which she first performed at MCT in 1999. MASTER CLASS is a collaboration with Milwaukee Opera Theatre (MOT) and Carroll University. MOT Artistic Director Jill Anna Ponasik and Carroll theatre professor James Zager will co-direct the production. MASTER CLASS performs in the Broadway Theatre Center's Cabot Theatre in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward. Check out a first look below!
THE DOYLE AND DEBBIE SHOW to Open Milwaukee Rep's 2014-15 Season
by BWW News Desk - August 07, 2014
Kicking off Milwaukee Repertory Theater's 2014/15 Season in the Stackner Cabaret is the side-splitting and rollicking production The Doyle & Debbie Show, a perfect blend of comedy and country music. Called "90 minutes of goofy perfection" by the Chicago Sun-Times, The Doyle & Debbie Show features a washed-up country star and his newest singing partner dusting off their microphones and resurrecting a familiar signature sound. Singing 16 original hits, including "Stock Car Love" and "Blue Stretch Pants," this hilarious send-up of country music duos will have audiences doubled-over with laughter and roaring for an encore. The show is parody at its best - simultaneously lampooning country music at the same time idolizing its tradition of iconic duos and the battle of the sexes.
MCT's MASTER CLASS Begins Today
by BWW News Desk - August 07, 2014
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) begins its 40th Anniversary, the 2014-2015 Season, with MASTER CLASS the Tony Award-winning play by Terrence McNally, today, August 7. Angela Iannone reprises her role of legendary opera diva Maria Callas, which she first performed at MCT in 1999. MASTER CLASS is a collaboration with Milwaukee Opera Theatre (MOT) and Carroll University. MOT Artistic Director Jill Anna Ponasik and Carroll theatre professor James Zager will co-direct the production. MASTER CLASS performs in the Broadway Theatre Center's Cabot Theatre in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC to Play WCT, 9/12-28
by BWW News Desk - August 06, 2014
The Waukesha Civic Theatre presents The Sound of Music, running September 12th to 28th, 2014.
MOTOWN, Coming to the Marcus Center Next Year, Featured in BROADWAY BALANCES AMERICA
by BWW News Desk - August 04, 2014
Broadway Across America has announced that Motown the Musical will be featured on Lifetime Television's award-winning morning show 'The Balancing Act' as part of the six part series 'Broadway Balances America.' Motown the Musical is being presented at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts as part of the 2014/2015 BMO Harris Bank Broadway at the Marcus Center Series from July 7 to 12, 2015.
'POWER BALLADZ' Coming to Marcus Center, 9/12
by BWW News Desk - August 01, 2014
'Remember days of skipping school? Racing cars, and being cool? With a six pack, and a radio... we didn't need no place to go.' If these lyrics remind you of your first kiss or your first slow dance....then there is a place to go - to Power Balladz - The Ultimate 80's Sing-Along show! Relive the best of the 80s at Marcus Center's Todd Wehr Theater on September 12 and September 13 at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $37 and go on sale this Sunday, August 3 at 12:00 pm. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Marcus Center box office at 414-273-7206 or online at MarcusCenter.org or Ticketmaster.com. Groups 10+ SAVE! Call 414-273-7121 ext. 210 or 213.
Zonya Love, Allyson Kaye Daniel, Nathaniel Stampley & More to Lead Milwaukee Repertory Theater's THE COLOR PURPLE this Fall
by BWW News Desk - July 31, 2014
Milwaukee Repertory Theater announced casting today for The Color Purple, the glorious musical saga which opens Friday, September 26, 2014 and runs from September 23 - November 2, 2014.
BWW Interviews: The Greendale Community Theatre Presents LEGALLY BLONDE
by Caroline Campana - July 25, 2014
Looking for something fun to do this weekend? The Greendale Community Theatre is excited to announce their production of Legally Blonde the Musical, a fan favorite.
BWW Reviews: PPT Presents Chic AND THEN THERE WERE NONE by Agatha Christie
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - July 23, 2014
Sit down for a sophisticated cocktail on the Green Bay shores at Door County's Peninsula Players Theatre (PPT) this weekend. Then enter through the theater doors at eight in the evening to enjoy the stage adaptation of Agatha Christie's best selling novel which has sold over 100 million copies to date: And Then There Were None. Considered one of Christie's masterpiece mysteries, the plot centers around a 'Ten Little Indians' poem. A poem eventually changed to 'Ten Little Soldiers' for an American version published around 1940, as the story continued to mesmerize readers and become the best selling mystery novel of all time.
BWW Reviews: APT's Sarah Day Delivers Magnificent THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - July 18, 2014
Perhaps the power of American Players Theatre can be determined by an audience's silence when exiting the Touchstone Theater after a Sunday evening performance, the haunting quiet almost reverent appreciation for what had transpired minutes before. In Spring Green, Sarah Day illuminates the stage in an approximately one hour forty five minute no intermission performance. APT's one woman play retells award winning author's Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, a play she adapted in 2007 and based on her memoir from the year after her husband John Gregory Dunne died in 2003 A time when Didion simultaneously coped when her daughter Quintana suffered from septic shock, often lying n the hospital's ICU hovering between life and death.
WCT Presents DYNAMITE COMEDY Tonight
by BWW News Desk - July 18, 2014
The Waukesha Civic Theatre presents Dynamite Comedy tonight, July 18th, 2014.
BWW Reviews: AFT Reprises a Winning PACKER FANS FROM OUTER SPACE
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - July 14, 2014
After attending American Folklore Theater's Packer Fans From Outer Space twice in one week, the smiles and laughter can still be remembered, a Door County memory to revisit regularly, even when the company's name changes next year to Northern Sky Theater. Lee Becker, Frederick Heide and James Kaplan collaborated as composers, lyricists, and writers of professional theater that brings to the Peninsula Park Stage this cadre of unforgettable characters in an unimaginable story. A story set in 1953 where one Juddville apple farmer, Harvey Keister, saves the intergalactic Packers from extinction by the intergalactic Bears, and in the battle, saves the earthly Green Bay Packers from their demise as Wisconsin's football team.
BWW Reviews: Love Arises with TAP's Transcendent TALLEY'S FOLLY
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - July 14, 2014
There's magic in the summer air at Third Avenue Playhouse. Sturgeon Bay's Stage Door Theater Company opened their new season with Lanford Wilson's Talley's Folly. In this 1980 Pulitzer Prize winning play set in Lebanon, Missouri, with some resemblance to a Door County July, an age worn folly, a Victorian boathouse, conjures a moonlight rendezvous for two heartbroken cynics, Sally and Matt.
Music by the Lake to Welcome Beatles Tribute Band BritBeat, 7/19
by BWW News Desk - July 08, 2014
The annual summer entertainment festival Music by the Lake will celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles American invasion with a July 19 concert featuring premier Beatles tribute band BritBeat. This will be BritBeat's Music by the Lake debut. Tickets are available for purchase at musicbythelake.com or by calling 262-245-8501.
MCT to Present MASTER CLASS, 8/7-24
by BWW News Desk - July 08, 2014
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) begins its 40th Anniversary, the 2014-2015 Season, with MASTER CLASS the Tony Award-winning play by Terrence McNally
BWW Reviews: Shakespeare's War of Love and Wit Enchant Audiences at APT
by Peggy Sue Dunigan - July 03, 2014
Outdoor theater experienced under Spring Green's star studded Wisconisn sky at American Players Theatre easily engages the audiences. When the renowned company alights on the Up the Hill Theatre with one of William Shakespeare's finest comedies Much Ado About Nothing for their summer 2014 season. the enthralling performance directed by David Frank electrifies the audience with charm and laughter.

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