Seeing Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! with the APT this past weekend was a bit strange. Something kept nagging at me as I was watching it. The light and airy pleasantry of O’Neill’s only real comedy flitted across a pleasant outd

  Local writer/director Doug Giffin has put work into quite a few different avenues in the past several years. This month his work as a director makes it to the stage in Spiral Theatre’s production of the Frederick Knott Drama Wait Until Dar

In the past couple of years, Insurgent Theatre co-founder Rex Winsome has become a bit controversial for his outspoken criticism of theatre, which fails to live up to its potential. His new show Paint The Town tells the story of a pair of revolutionari

It’s a long standing tradition in Hollywood for press types to be invited to press junkets where actors and filmmakers take an endless series of individual interviews from countless members of the media who all individually ask them the same q

It was thee evening of July 3rd and there we were in the most remarkably upscale fireworks gathering I’d ever been a part of. The condo overlooked the lake. Everyone there was wearing tuxedos and evening gowns. Everyone was drinking expensive wine o

The 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

Ancillary IntroJuly’s trip North to Door County was going to be significantly cheaper than the trip to Spring Green in June for a variety of reasons. I was scheduled to cover both of Door Shakespeare’s shows this season. Since Door Shakespeare

Closing night of Spiral Theatre’s Wait Until Dark was sold out. A small crowd of people piled into the tiny performance space that Director Doug Giffin and scenic designer Mark Hooker had developed for the Frederick Knott thriller. It was set to be

The beginning of August may seem like an odd time to be doing a year in review, but August first marks the beginning of the first month of the new theatre season. As near as I can make out, there are two different seasons that make up a local theatre year

FEBRUARYTowards the end of last February, Spiral Theatre staged the single best romance of the year with Ruth Arnell and Ryan Dance in Butterflies Are Free It was a year with a unusually large number of monologue shows. The Boulevard Theatre followed-up o