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

When last we left the conversation with comic actor/director/producer Patrick Schmitz, he was discussing the possible misconceptions involved in the title of his preternaturally successful holiday show Rudolph the Pissed-Off Reindeer. He is concerned that

Playwright/musician Peter J. Woods’ October email mentioned something about being interested in the nature of storytelling. To this end, he has organized an evening of storytelling tomorrow night at 6pm at the Borg Ward Collective on 823 West Nat

In this, the final part of of my interview transcripts with the writer/director/promoter/producer of Rudolph the Pissed-Off Reindeer, Patrick Schmitz talks about working with child actors, expectations and the importance of confidence when jumping off a c

Once again, In Tandem’s long-lived local holiday comedy A Cudahy Caroler Christmas comes to the Marcus Center’s Vogel Hall. Born on a much smaller stage to a much smaller audience, it’s interesting to think of Chris Flieller in the role

December is a rough time for struggling theatrical scripts in this town. This is the time of year when old, established scripts are called-in by production companies to fill the same foundations that they did last year. Woods’ Cudahy Caroler Christm

I and a number of other people recently received an email from local actor Cesar Gamino. There wasn’t much in it. He’d mentioned recently completing work on the following short promo for the United Adworkers 208—the local end of a market

As 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

While reasonably fun in places, the script of The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead is pretty far from being any towering work of genius. Australian playwright Robert Hewett tells an interesting story from a series of different perspectives

Ice fishing tends to be one of those winter activities that the uninitiated find intensely bizarre . . . a bit like curling. Indeed, the idea of cutting a whole in the ice in a four-walled wooden closet with no floor in the middle of a desolate lake pr