Life With Father At Waukesha Civic Theatre Tonight

Off The Wall’s Perfect 10 may be the only new show in Milwaukee this weekend, but there is  a brand new production opening just beyond the county. Tonight the Waukesha Civic Theatre raises the curtain on its staging of Life With Father, the Depression-era Broadway hit. One of the longest-running non-musicals in Broadway history, the Howard Linday/Russel Crouse comedy is based on a 1935 book by Clarence Day Jr. It was a collection of autobiographical short stories that were originally published in the New Yorker. It’s a portrait of upper-middle class life in the 1890’s. The father in question is a Wall Street broker with impossibly high demands for his family in the final days of the 19^th century. The retro comedy is an interesting contrast to more contemporary stuff that’s been staged in Milwaukee these past few weeks and should be a really nice trip to the suburbs for those interested in a local production of something with old world Broadway class.  

The Waukesha Civic Theatre production of Life With Father runs June 11th – 27th.