An affinity for night is a large part of both the public and private persona of musician Sam Llanas...

When the Pro Arte Quartet (PAQ) shows up at Wauwatosa East High School...

Rocker Nick Lowe was late for his interview. As someone who prides himself on reliability...

When does personal integrity outrank duty? Can one overcome hatred, even when it's the justifiable...

Even those who love William Shakespeare know the Bard was not always at his best. The Tempest, written late in the author's career, is a pastiche of Shakespeare's brightest formulas woven with...

There's something to be said for literate audience members, and American Players Theatre could have used more of them for Saturday's opening night of Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck's heartbreaking tale of friendship and devotion set during America's Great...

In addition to himself, the mind of Raskolnikov (Matt Schwader) is occupied by six other characters in American Players Theatre's production of Crime and Punishment: his mother Pulcheria Alexandrovna, the detective Porfiry, the reluctant prostitute Sonya and her drunken father Marmeladov, and the parasitic...

Creative license, when mishandled by the uncreative, can generate results both oafish and irritating. Credit director William Brown and a brilliant American Players Theatre cast for bringing Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Critic to life with vibrant lunacy, resulting in 150 minutes of sheer theatrical joy...

An enormous photo of a smug-looking young man, circa 1930s, looks out at the audience and down on the scene of emotional destruction his past actions have wrought. He is as dominant as the trio of torn souls occupying the stage in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, which opened last...