Local nonprofits need your help
Published Feb. 7, 2013
While there are many well known and deserving places to donate, there are also some that kind of fly under the radar and could really use some help. Here are a few.
Published Feb. 7, 2013
While there are many well known and deserving places to donate, there are also some that kind of fly under the radar and could really use some help. Here are a few.
Published June 28, 2012
Heavy metal Shakespeare. Loud, fast and violent. That is the style the Optimist Theatre is giving us with its free outdoor production of "Macbeth" that opened last week on the Alverno College campus. The approach may work with "Titus Andronicus," but it misses the points in "Macbeth."
Published June 2, 2011
Milwaukee's groundlings have spoken with clarity and speed. They want free Shakespeare in the park at Alverno College.
Published June 23, 2010
You don't have to drive out into the state to see professional theater in the summer. We are gradually seeing local stage companies fill in the traditionally empty calendars in July and August.
Published June 10, 2010
We have no shortage of Shakespeare in Wisconsin, but seeing the Bard's work for free under the stars is being brought to us for the first time by the new Optimist Theatre.
Last summer Milwaukee experienced, for the first time, free of charge to the audience ...SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKAudiences loved it."Saw the performance today - magnificent ... Hope you are able to find the means to continue this venue. We drove an hour to get there and would do it over and...
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on …” The dream is Free Shakespeare in the Park. And this summer, for the first time ever in the Festival City of Milwaukee, the dream will come true. Outdoors in the courtyard of Alverno College, Optimist Theatre will produ...
Optimist Theatre is excited to welcome Ms. Angela Iannone to the cast of the Tempest in the role of Ariel. Sparks are already starting to fly between Angela and Jim Pickering, as Prospero. Like a moth to the flame – I know if I get too close, I’ll ignite. But, what a...