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

Arts & Entertainment - Oct. 28, 2009
Milwaukee's NEW Theatre Scene
Perhaps it is the rough economy.  Or a need to be heard.  Maybe it’s just the pendulum swinging back to another time in our creative history, but Milwaukee is seeing a boom in small theatre companies making a big impression on the arts.In just the past six months, two new companie...
Tags: youngblood, uprooted, theater, theatre, renaissance, rep, pickering, iannone, swenson, Flieller, gobel, knight, cox, johnson, cotey, beautys daughter, savage in limbo, provocative

Arts & Entertainment - April 24, 2009
You MUST see The Temples of Nadir
e. theis is an unbelievable and gifted playwright who casted AMAZING talent for his original play, The Temples of Nadir  Local high school students, who are part of the Our Next Generation program (www.ongkids.org) are part of the cast. A MUST SEE, playing NOW at the Alchemist Theatre...
Tags: theater, local high school students

Arts & Entertainment - Nov. 13, 2008
When Three Wrongs Make One Big Right
In the arts, vexing problems can be resolved quickly. Resolving them with a laugh is an extra bonus.  Take the musical Big, based on the 1989 Penny Marshall movie starring Tom Hanks.:·         A 13 year old boy becomes an adult overnight, withou...
Tags: entertainment, Theater, Theatre, Shorewood Players

Arts & Entertainment - July 12, 2008
Damn Yankees
Tickets! Tickets! Get your Tickets here! Last night was opening night of Damn Yankees at the Sunset Playhouse in Elm Grove.  The musical by Douglass Wallop and George Abbott;Music, with lyrics by Jerry Ross and Richard Adler runs July 11-13, 17-20, 24-27, 31- August 3, 2008.  ...
Tags: musical, theater, sunset playhouse, damn Yankees