Oct
20
A Conversation With In Tandem’s All The Great Books
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsIn Tandem Theatre’s production of the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s All The Great Books (abridged) closes this weekend. In anticipation of the final weekend of one of the season’s funniest shows thus far, here is Part One of an extended
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Oct
13
3 Guys Weekend: All The Great Books
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsWith my schedule being what it’s been lately, it was exceedingly pleasant to go to a show with my wife Saturday night. As she isn’t normally into going into smaller venue shows, it’s quite an endorsement for In Tandem that she agreed to
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Dec
14
Free Preview Performance At the Boulevard
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsAs the holiday season wraps-up on Milwaukee stages the Boulevard Theatre opens one of the first non-holiday shows of the New Year on December 26th with Victor L. Cahn’s epistolary play Roses In December. The production stars Anne Miller as a graduat
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Jun
02
Smoking Onstage
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsThere was an Associated Press piece in the Encore section of the daily yesterday by Sean O’Driscoll about the New York ban on actors smoking onstage. Evidently it’s okay to smoke onstage in New York if it’s not tobacco, which is kind of
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Oct
31
The Perfect Candidate Scores Early Success for Theatre Gigante
Russ Bickerstaff Curtains
Stll cozying-up to its new name, Isabelle Kralj and Mark Anderson’s Theatre Gigante (formerly Milwaukee Dance Theatre) has managed a resounding success with the premiere of its US political satire The Perfect Candidate. Running now through Sat
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Jul
25
A Host Of Closings
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsThe summer begins to draw to a close this weekend as a number of smaller shows close. This weekend hosts a last chance to see a number of shows before they disappear:SPINNING INTO BUTTER
Pink Banana Theatre’s staging of the compelling Rebecca Gil
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Oct
26
Zombie Puppet Show Tonight
Russ Bickerstaff Curtains
It kind of sounds like a band from River West, but there actually IS a “zombie puppet show,” at Bucketworks tonight. In what is perhaps inadvertent recognition of the 40th anniversary of Night of the Living Dead, a local group has developed
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Dec
10
The Milwaukee Rep's 'The Norman Conquests'
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsThe Milwaukee Rep provides a welcome alternative to the usual Christmas holiday fare as director Joseph Hanreddy presents British playwright Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy The Norman Conquests.
The trilogy presents the same quiet weekend in the cou
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Dec
04
Not Your Traditional Adult Christmas Puppet Show
Russ Bickerstaff Curtains
An email came-in this morning prompting this last-minute addition to the local holiday theatre season. Playwright Neil Haven (who most recently staged a charming comedy about an agoraphobic girl living out of a hotel elevator) has written an adult, indie
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Jun
03
Small Pieces Fly To Heaven
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsIn addition to the upcoming Combat Theatre show that Bunny Gumbo is opening and closing this weekend, there’s an independently produced show running this weekend only at the Off-Broadway Theatre.
June 5-8 Deborah Clifton (longtime member of t
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