Published May 14, 2013
Watch out, Milwaukee. You're about to see a whole new side of the Tupperware party. Sweet-talking, big-haired Southern belle Dixie Longate came into town yesterday with her off-Broadway hit show, which runs at the Marcus Center's Vogel Hall May 14-26.
Published May 10, 2013
What you get to see, if you go to "Sing Me a Story," is two unbelievably polished performers, gems of the Milwaukee theatrical community, kicking back and indulging their theater-geekiness (and that is said with admiration, believe me).
Published April 24, 2013
The music is big, the costumes are flashy and the dancing is arresting in this lavish production that runs at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts through Sunday, April 28. But glamor is only half of Abagnale's story. The other half is despair. And the musical version of "Catch Me If You Can" captures that well - maybe even better than the movie did.
Published April 21, 2013
It's great when a pop culture show can stay relevant long enough to be enjoyed as a kid, then enjoyed again through your kid's eyes decades later. Because Scooby Doo was around before I was born, and my daughter's finally at the age to watch the campy mystery cartoon, too, I not only didn't mind sitting through Sunday's performance of Scooby-Doo Live! Musical Mysteries at the Milwaukee Theatre - I enjoyed it almost as much as she did.
Published March 23, 2013
It's difficult to pigeonhole this show. It's not a concert. It's not a tribute cover band. It's not theater. What it is seems to be a couple of hours of the great songs of Sam Cooke boiled down to a musical theater audience level and delivered with practiced smiles, dance moves, patter with the band and a timorous set of vocal chords that sometimes hit but often missed channeling one of the great singers of our time.
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...
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