Presenting "Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street", immortalized first in composer Steven Sondheim's 1979Broadway musical and again in 2007 in Tim Burton's film adaptation, the Lake Country Playhouse invites you to enjoy the opportunity to witness the multiple Tony-award winnin...
Now in our fourth year, Optimist Theatre’s Free Shakespeare in the Park is taking on a new challenge, new play, new partners, and a new location…
What:
July of 2013, Optimist Theatre is pleased to present William Shakespeare’s comedy AS YOU LIKE IT.
Plunge i...
Have you heard the news? Port Washington's own Memories Ballroom has been selected as the site of a new, national television reality show called "The E-Factor- The Search for the Next Elvis". Unfortunately, things begin to get "all shook up", as television cameras begin to r...
Have you heard the news? Port Washington's own Memories Ballroom has been selected as the site of a new, national television reality show called "The E-Factor- The Search for the Next Elvis". Unfortunately, things begin to get "all shook up", as television cameras begin to r...
"Cinderella, the Musical!" Friday, Mar 9 7:00p, Saturday, Mar 10 2pm, 7pm, Sunday, Mar 11 2pm at Shorewood High School: Shorewood High School Auditorium, Shorewood, WI Price: $8 (or $5 for children under 10) Parking: Free in School Lot, 1701 E Capitol Drive...
If you are of my generation (middle age-ish, OK 41), you probably remember CRIMES OF THE HEART from the 1986 movie, and not as the 1981 Pulitzer Prize winning play for drama. That will soon change.
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) just opened its season with the heartbreakingly funny play ...
We all know that the Milwaukee Rep presents one of the finest renditions of "A Christmas Carol." It is respected and admired even by those who have not had the good fortune to see it themselves. People from throughout the metro area travel to see it - and in some cases, it i...
Youngblood is back in a big way. A big script, a big cast and to big accolades.
What do you get when you mix 12 superheroes, a submarine and William Shakespeare? Well, it's called SPIRITS TO ENFORCE. That description alone makes this one-act play sound like a farce, and while it's funny and...
They say “if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere” which is good news for local actors Lenny Banovez and Jake Russo. The two Milwaukee-based actors took a chance this summer and up and moved to New York City to stage their own productions. Banovez, along with fi...
Perhaps it is the rough economy. Or a need to be heard. Maybe it’s just the pendulum swinging back to another time in our creative history, but Milwaukee is seeing a boom in small theatre companies making a big impression on the arts.In just the past six months, two new companie...
e. theis is an unbelievable and gifted playwright who casted AMAZING talent for his original play, The Temples of Nadir Local high school students, who are part of the Our Next Generation program (www.ongkids.org) are part of the cast. A MUST SEE, playing NOW at the Alchemist Theatre...
In the arts, vexing problems can be resolved quickly. Resolving them with a laugh is an extra bonus. Take the musical Big, based on the 1989 Penny Marshall movie starring Tom Hanks.:· A 13 year old boy becomes an adult overnight, withou...
Tickets! Tickets! Get your Tickets here! Last night was opening night of Damn Yankees at the Sunset Playhouse in Elm Grove. The musical by Douglass Wallop and George Abbott;Music, with lyrics by Jerry Ross and Richard Adler runs July 11-13, 17-20, 24-27, 31- August 3, 2008. ...