OnMilwaukee.com News - Aug. 18, 2009
OnMilwaukee.com hires Damien Jaques to bolster theater coverage
OnMilwaukee.com, Milwaukee's daily magazine, announced Tuesday the hiring of Damien Jaques as its new theater columnist. Jaques, the former theater critic for the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, brings with him 29 years of experience in arts coverage, and will write a weekly column for OnMilwaukee.com.
Tags: damien jaques, theater

Movies & TV - Dec. 27, 2007
IPic: IConfused, but ILiked
Completing my Christmas tradition of Chinese food and a movie, I finally checked out the new IPic theater at Bayshore Tuesday. It's a little overwhelming at first, but overall, it's a great way to see a movie.
Tags: Ipic, movies, theater, bayshore

Arts & Entertainment - Dec. 22, 2007
Bucketworks finds new start with new home
Bucketworks has been repeatedly misinterpreted as an arts collective, a co-op for creatives, a community arts center. Director James Carlson has a better way of putting it.
Tags: bucketworks, james carlson, quasi cafe, brian miracle, kyle leipold, wi-fi, arson etiquette, gallery, dance, theater, web 414

Movies & TV - Dec. 21, 2006
Story makes "History" memorable
From the London stage and stages around the world, "The History Boys" comes to movie theaters to tell the story of eight boys' efforts to get into the most prestigious schools in Britain.
Tags: the history boys, richard griffiths, theater

Milwaukee Buzz - Dec. 15, 2006
Jake's Women
I auditioned for the part of Jake in the Neil Simon play, "Jake's Women" at Sunset Playhouse last week. Didn't get the part but you ought to put the play on your calendar. It's one of Simon's lesser-known works, but has lots of laughs.
Tags: sunset, theater, jake's women, begel

Milwaukee Buzz - Oct. 18, 2006
Rehearsal begins on Chekhov's "The Seagull"
Rehearsal started last night for a rare event in Milwaukee: a Chekhov production. The multi-talented Jason Economus directs some of this city’s best actors in an actor-driven production of "The Seagull."
Tags: chekhov, seagull, theater

Milwaukee Buzz - Feb. 1, 2006
Al McGuire play coming back to MU
The Marquette University Department of Performing Art's production of Dick Enberg's McGuire, the one-man play about legendary Marquette basketball coach Al McGuire, will return to the Helfaer Theatre at Marquette in June 2006.
Tags: Al McGuire, Marquette University, theater

Milwaukee Buzz - Sept. 24, 2005
Pabst team puts a new shine on the Riverside
The Riverside, one of Milwaukee's oldest theaters -- it opened in 1928 -- has hosted top-notch acts like Judy Garland, Abbott and Costello and, in 1940, Frank Sinatra. It's now getting another lease on life, thanks to the same team that runs the nearby Pabst Theater.
Tags: Riverside, Pabst, Cudahy, Witt, Milwaukee, Theatre, Theater

Arts & Entertainment - Sept. 23, 2005
Sunset's "Crossing Delancey" scores a "cute"
"Crossing Delancey" is comfortable piece, peppered with enough ethnic and pro-"career woman" references to appeal to any culturally diverse or feminist viewers that might have been in the white suburban audience at the Sunset Playhouse of Elm Grove.
Tags: Sunset, theater

Arts & Entertainment - July 8, 2005
A talented cast brings "Little Shop of Horrors" to life
The dark side of the Jim Henson Workshop bared its fangs at the Milwaukee premiere of the touring Broadway show, "Little Shop of Horrors." The talented cast brought this musical to life at Uilein Hall Tuesday night.
Tags: Little Shop of Horrors, theater, broadway

Arts & Entertainment - April 13, 2005
Loewen and the City minister beautiful movement
The City of Milwaukee and Debra Loewen have a great relationship. Through Wild Space Dance Company, she supplies the city with innovative, artistic contemporary dance performances. In return, the city acts as her muse.
Tags: Debra Loewen, Wild Space Dance Company, Milwaukee Gas Light Building, Turner Ballroom, Milwaukee Art Museum, Alverno College, dance, theater, Dance Imports, Erwin Helfer, Jan Bartoszek, Pitman Theatre

Arts & Entertainment - March 15, 2005
Village Playhouse brews up award-winning acts
The Village Playhouse of Wauwatosa does more than just put on an act. It offers a dramatic voyage bound for success. Its production of "Two Rooms" won this year's Wisconsin Association of Community Theatre's biannual AACTFest competition in February.
Tags: Village Playhouse, Two Rooms, Tom Zuehlke, Wisconsin Association of Community Theatre, AACTFest, Jennifer Najoom, Leifa Butrick, Emory Churness, Mark Wyss, Godot, Part Deux, one-act plays, theater, Interview with the Psychic

Milwaukee Buzz - Dec. 10, 2004
Renaissance Theaterworks hunts for a new home
Milwaukee’s only women-founded, women-run theater company, Renaissance Theaterworks, 342 N. Water St., is searching for a new home in the city. Stay tuned to OMC for details as they come in.
Tags: Renaissance Theaterworks, theater, Third Ward, Sarah Kriger Hwang

Arts & Entertainment - May 25, 2004
User-friendly Bialystock & Bloom prepares to turn 10
Bialystock & Bloom prides itself on being a user-friendly theater company. For almost 10 years and over 25 productions, it has continuously cultivated a fun atmosphere and provocative theater-going experience.
Tags: Bialystock & Bloom, theater, theatre, Broadway, Producers

Kids & Family - March 26, 2004
Broadway and Lincoln intersect in Rozman's finale
After 18 years of service, Dr. Kevin Rozman will retire from MPS this summer, but before he goes, he'll direct one last show at the Lincoln Center of the Arts, entitled "LCA on Broadway."
Tags: Rozman, Lincoln, MPS, theater, Broadway