Nov
03
Comedy Auditions in Racine
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsThe Over Our Head Players have recently announced auditions for their upcoming 2009 Snowdance 10 Minute Comedy Festival. The upoming festival of original comedy shorts runs January 30 through February 22nd. The general premise is this: shorts of no longer
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Nov
11
Alchemist Theatre’s New Season (sort of)
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsIt’s been a while since I’ve been to the Bay View theatre/bar Alchemist Theatre. It’s been even longer since the last time I’ve checked their website. A bit weary over the prospect of a three-show weekend that’s suddenly turn
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Mar
26
Mamet, Goldberg, Billington and the Written Word
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsThere was a column by Jonah Goldberg in Tuesday’s paper about David Mamet’s recent essay in the Village Voice. Goldberg’s the neo-conservative guy with the glasses. Mamet’s the guy who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross. Mamet’s essay
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Jun
06
When You Are Pretending That Your Scarf Is A Rifle
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsSome of the acting was really quite impressive in the independent debut production of Small Pieces Fly To Heaven. The stories of multiple women involved in the Iraq war is particularly interesting where it speaks through the perspective of women in the US
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Mar
26
I Could’ve Sworn She Said Its Name Was “Angus.&rdquo
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsOpening night for the Rep’s production of Endgame was Easter Sunday, so there weren’t many people there. It always seemed vaguely strange that the Rep chose to open its Stiemke shows on Sunday, but I’ve never asked for a reason. Whatever
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Oct
29
Milwaukee Shakespeare, Pirandello and Cats!
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsA few odds and ends—MILWAUKEE SHAKESPEARE CLOSES DOWN MID-SEASONThere’s a different frazzled-looking Wall Street broker on the front page of nearly every daily paper these days. The distinctive visual of a jagged line plummeting to the right h
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May
26
The Girl In The Frame
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsThe regular theatre season has almost come to an end. This week, the Tenth Street Theatre plays host to one of the final openings of the season as In Tandem Theatre opens its production of The Girl In The Frame. It’s an offbeat musical comedy by Jer
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Nov
01
Lee Ernst Awarded Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship
Russ Bickerstaff Curtains
Earlier this week, the Milwaukee Rep announced that Rep resident acting company member had been selected as an inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellow by the Ten Chimneys Foundation. (The Ten Chimneys is, of course, the venerable estate built by Broadway legends
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May
06
Q&A With Director Shawn Gulyas
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsOne of two musicals to open last week, Windfall Theatre's season closing production of A New Brain is easily the more risky fo the two. A musical theatre piece about a songwriter with a brain tumor isn't exatly well-trodden territory, especally if it cou
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Jun
01
Never to Be Staged In Real Life
Russ Bickerstaff CurtainsAnd so the cast has been announced for my next one-act . . . a half-hour, two-person short being staged in July by Insurgent Theatre as a companion piece to Peter J. Woods’ Systems. Suffice it to say, the cast of two men is going to be an interestin
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