Milwaukee This Week: Cheers to an artsy new year
A Chorus Line at the Milwaukee Theatre Theater The Milwaukee Theatre hosts the touring production of A Chorus Line this weekend. Centered around the lives of 17 dancers hoping to make it big, A Chorus...
View ArticleMilwaukee This Week 1/15: Theater and Gallery Night return
Theater Religion and science clash in "How The World Began" at the Rep. The Milwaukee Rep opens 2013 with How the World Began, a story about the perma-conflict between religious and scientific...
View ArticleMilwaukee This Week 1/22: Too much art not to brave the cold
Theater Edith Piaf, reincarnated at Skylight this weekend An extended Edith Piaf Onstage comes to Skylight Music Theatre, Leslie Fitzwater recreating the one-woman show she first performed in 1988. The...
View ArticleMilwaukee This Week 1/29: The time is right for new shows
Theater Race and real estate at the Rep The Milwaukee Rep will stage 2011 Pulitzer- and Tony-winner Clybourne Park, a comic drama that tackles issues of race. A white couple sells their home to the...
View ArticleMilwaukee This Week 2/5: A weekend of song and dance
Music Russian Masters from the MSO, featuring conductor/pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn and trumpeter Mark Niehaus. The MSO welcomes powerhouse conductor/pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn in its Russian Masters...
View ArticleMKE This Week: Singing nuns, pink overload, & lots of love
Theater The Last Romance at Boulevard Theatre. Photo: Troy Freund Boulevard Theatre opens its late-in-life love story The Last Romance Wednesday, Feb. 20 and continues through March 3. The play is...
View ArticleMKE This Week: Plenty of music on every stage
Music Joyce Yang returns to the MSO for another year of Rachmaninoff. Photo credit Oh Seuk Hoon. The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra complete its All-Rachmaninoff cycle of concerts at Uihlein Hall this...
View ArticleMKE This Week: 24 good reasons not to stay home
Theater Sunset Playhouse presents Over the Tavern, a whimsical portrayal of a quick-witted 1950s schoolboy in search of a “more fun” religion, much to the dismay of the Catholic nuns at his school. The...
View ArticleMKE This Week: Global artists, local stars
A detail of Zhiyuan Cong’s Paradise, on view at MIAD. Photo by Kat Murrell. Visual Art The Southern Graphics Council (SGC) International Conference will be held in Milwaukee this year in conjunction...
View ArticleMKE This Week: The road to April Fools is lined with Easter eggs
Music Rafael Padron The MKE Unplugged concert series continues with March 28th’s show featuring Paul Geremia at the Zelazo Center for Performing Arts on UWM’s campus. The Italian-American...
View ArticleMKE This Week: Where history and art collide
Music Chick Corea & Bela Fleck Chick Corea and Bela Fleck will grace the stage at the Marcus Center’s Uihlein Hall on Tuesday night. With 34 Grammy Awards between the two, the musical living...
View ArticleMKE This Week: Spring, and art, is in the air
Dance The Milwaukee Ballet unleashes its Spring Series this Thursday, April 11, at the Marcus Center for Performing Arts. The show features three works: a Sammy Davis Jr. themed composition from...
View ArticleMKE This Week: Galleries Galore
Visual Art Spring Gallery Night – 2013 Gallery Night is back for its spring installment, this Friday and Saturday. A list of more than 50 participating locations can be found here, and TCD visual arts...
View ArticleMKE This Week: Curtains up across the city
THEATER The musical version of the DreamWorks movie Catch Me If You Can will open this week at the Marcus Center. This award-winning show tells the true story of Frank W. Abagnale Jr., a teenage con...
View ArticleMKE This Week: Award-winners and stars abound
“Sing Me a Story” opens at Skylight Music Theater this weekend. Theater Kay Stiefel and Jack Forbes play themselves in this musical memorial to Lerner & Lowe, Rodgers & Hart and Kander &...
View ArticleMKE This Week: May brings new music, dance and theater
Music Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro comes to Uihlein Hall at the Marcus Center on May 10 and 12. This classic opera performed by the Florentine Opera Company tells of love, intrigue, and madness in...
View ArticleMKE This Week: Swans, spider women, and Tupperware
Theater Dixie Longate Alabama belle Dixie Longate, brings her (adults-only) trailer park humor and some of the finest Tupperware to be sold on a stage to the Marcus Center from May 14 to 26. But...
View ArticleMKE This Week: 2012-13 season not quite done
Theater Play Now at The Sunset Playhouse Fore! The Sunset Playhouse will update golf-themed farces from the 1930s and 40s, beginning May 30. Frolic through fairways with high society characters and low...
View ArticleMKE This Week: Celebrating the Past in the Present
Theater Pink Banana’s annual One-Act Festival will take place June 6 to 15 at the Underground Collaborative in the Shops at Grand Avenue. Seven “game-themed” shows written by and staring local talent...
View ArticleMKE This Week: A bit of everything
Art Quad Graphics and Milwaukee Magazine present the Lakefront Festival of the Arts. This weekend of art, entertainment, and community celebration will take place at the Milwaukee Art Museum. There...
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