I very rarely get to talk to people active in local theatre who aren’t directly involved in a project that they are working on at that moment. Such experiences are usually fleeting moments in the lobby of some theatre. Just a few weeks ago, I had t

A Talk With Actress Ruth Arnell Part 2: The Nearly Lost YearorLos Angeles Is A Beautiful Woman Covered in Gum Wrappers In The second part of my interview with rising actress Ruth Arnell, she discusses early experience in theatre and the brief Lost

No Divas In Community Theatre: The Ruth Arnell Interview Pt.3 In this, the third part of the rough transcripts of an interview with local actress Ruth Arnell, Ruth talks about the work she’s done having returned from L.A. and speaks passionatel

Finessing the Finances:The Business of Being a Struggling ActressThe Ruth Arnell Interview Pt. 4 In this, the penultimate part of the Ruth Arnell interview, Ruth talks about the problems of getting work as an actress while finding and maintaining a d

  Here are the final moments of the interview with local actres Ruth Arnell,in which she talks about acting in Milwaukee and YouTube . . .   ACTING, MILWAUKEE AND SUCH . . .   Me: So what are our ambitions as far as be

Wisconsin Lutheran College announced yesterday that Virginia-based traveling educational theatre group Theatre IV will be arriving at the Schwan Concert Hall for a couple of performances of its dramatic musical stage adaptation of the story of Harriet Tub

In arranging an interview with Alchemist Theatre Co-founder Aaron Kopec for an A&E feature, I quickly found out how much time he spends at the place: nearly all of it. The man who helped make one of the most active small theatre spaces in town r

Alchemist Theatre co-founder Aaron Kopec had a somewhat circuitous path to building the theatre/bar that is now entering its second year breaking even with a nearly full calendar. Back in mid-December of last year, I talked with him about he origins of t

Alchemist Theatre co-founder Aaron Kopec has been able to claim a great degree of success for his one year-old theatre space with a number of sold-out shows. It took a lot of work to get there. Mid last month, he talked to me in the theatre’s bar a

The dead of winter is a strange time for the smallest theatre companies. Far from the warmth of the summer off-season, some of the most fanatical smaller theatre types end up acting on the bizarre, sometimes valid notion that great (or at least entertaini