Arts & Entertainment - Sept. 3, 2009
American Players Theatre stages O'Neill's "Journey"
"A Long Day's Journey into Night" is an American classic, and Spring Green's American Players Theatre opened a high octane staging of it last week. OnMilwaukee.com's Damien Jaques checks in on the production and also catches up with Dawn Helsing Wolters, the new managing director of the Milwaukee Rep, and the Skylight Opera, too.
Tags: spring green, american players theatre, rep, skylight opera, dawn helsing wolters

Music - Dec. 11, 2006
The Polish Diva is finally on disc!
The Polish Diva from Milwaukee, aka Terry Palasz, is best known for her one-woman musical show of the same name. Now, finally, the Diva is on disc! “The Polish Diva’s Polka Party” is a 15-track romp through a mix of polkas and related pop tunes like Bobby Vinton’s “My Melody of Love.”
Tags: Palasz, Polish Diva, Rep, polka

Milwaukee Buzz - Dec. 1, 2006
Wild Space disrobes ... well, sort of
Wild Space Dance Company is celebrating its 20th year together and what better way to do so than to take your clothes off! Well, that's not precisely what "Various States of Undress" -- which runs Dec. 1-2 at 8 p.m. -- is about, but it is certainly a part of it; don't worry, there's no nudity.
Tags: Wild Space Dance, Stiemke, Various States of Undress, dance, Marcus Center, Rep, performing arts, Wilber

Milwaukee Buzz - Nov. 28, 2006
A Cudahy Caroler replacement
Jazz vocalist Ellen Winters made her theater debut in "A Cudahy Caroler Christmas" this month, but her run as Edna has been cut short.
Tags: ellen winters, laurie birmingham, cudahy carolers, rep

Music - Sept. 5, 2006
Ras Rojah birthed one-man show here
For a city its size, Milwaukee's tentacles reach far and wide. For example, while chatting with Bob Marley aficionado Roger Steffens two decades ago, I learned that Ras Rojah spent some time in Brew City in the 1960s and he created his long-running one-man show in Milwaukee.
Tags: Roger Steffens, Reggae, Marley, Ras Rojah, Rep, Kalt's, Miramar

Arts & Entertainment - Oct. 28, 2009
Milwaukee's NEW Theatre Scene
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...
Tags: youngblood, uprooted, theater, theatre, renaissance, rep, pickering, iannone, swenson, Flieller, gobel, knight, cox, johnson, cotey, beautys daughter, savage in limbo, provocative