Arts & Entertainment - Aug. 24, 2009
Old theater guy in a new neighborhood
This is the start of what I hope will be a long and happy relationship with you, OnMilwaukee.com and me. I plan to deliver to your screens a mix of stage news, reviews and feature stories via a weekly column appearing on Thursdays and occasional blog postings like this. Come and visit me here often.
Tags: Damien Jaques, Skylight Opera, Dale Gutzman, Milwaukee Rep, Joe Hanreddy, Dawn Helsing Wolters, APT, Spring Green

Arts & Entertainment - April 24, 2007
DeVita's "Silenced" explores censorship, human rights
Wisconsin actor and playwright Jim DeVita has written a novel inspired by a resistance movement in Nazi Germany. DeVita says a group of university students in Munich who agitated against the Nazis are the inspiration for his novel “The Silenced,” published by HarperCollins in June.
Tags: DeVita, APT, spring green, first stage, the silenced, Nazi

Music - Feb. 3, 2005
The Pod Squad calls all music maniacs to the Hi Hat Garage
There was an invasion of pods Wednesday at the Hi-Hat Garage, iPods that is. The event marked the launch of the Pod Squad which hopes to build on the success of nights in Chicago and New York where patrons armed with iPods play DJ.
Tags: iPod, Hi Hat, Garage, DJs, APT, New York clubs, playlist, iParties, CDs, spinning records, noWax, DJ J-Money, Justin Engel, Mark Waldoch, Atomic Records, Pod Squad

Travel & Visitors Guide - Aug. 16, 2004
APT celebrates 25th season 'neath the Spring Green sky
American Players Theatre has come a long way since 1980 when "A Midsummers Night Dream," opened an outdoor theater with most audience members seated on the grass. Read about it in Beyond Milwaukee.
Tags: APT, Theatre, Shakespeare, Taliesen

Arts & Entertainment - July 13, 2003
"Hamlet" gets edgy at APT
If the words "Shakespeare" or "Hamlet" conjure up notions of torturous high school English classes, you owe it to yourself to make the short trek to the American Players Theatre (APT) in Spring Green this summer.
Tags: Hamlet, APT, Shakespeare, DeVita