Published Jan. 30, 2013
One of the best casts you could find in Milwaukee will take the stage this Friday as Next Act Theatre opens its production of "The Clockmaker," a quirky and offbeat play written by Canadian Stephen Massicotte.
Published Oct. 3, 2012
Talk about a play with modest goals. In just a little over an hour, "Microcrisis" sets out to explain the entire banking meltdown and financial crisis that has rocked the United States. Easy, huh? Well, the version of the play mounted at Next Act Theatre is so funny, so clear and so meaningful that it's easy to tell Mike Lew, who wrote it, "Job well done."
Published Sept. 22, 2012
Trying to make sense of the financial collapse and difficulties that have grown from it is an almost hopeless task, so we all might as well try and get a laugh out of it all. That's the theory behind the play "Microcrisis," which opens Sept. 27 at Milwaukee's Next Act Theatre.
Published July 12, 2012
Having spent the last 32 years watching theatrical characters make their exits, you would expect me to know how to get off my own stage. I'm retiring from journalism this week. No more deadlines and fewer opening nights. As of tomorrow, I am just another guy in the audience with an opinion, but right now I am trying to sum up more than three decades of being a theater critic in Milwaukee.
Published Sept. 15, 2011
With all due respect to the four plays on its 2011-12 schedule, Next Act Theatre's most spectacular production of the year will be completed before the house lights dim the first time in the new season. The 22-year-old company will open its new 150-seat performance space and theater complex in a cavernous industrial building across the Milwaukee River from the Third Ward next month.
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