Mike Lew's Microcrisis is a deeply entertaining comedy about global finance. The interpersonal dynamics that drove the recent international financial collapse are succinctly played out in a fictional piece for the stage...

Scott Kopishcke is a Wisconsin-based playwright who has had a few shows produced in Wisconsin, Arizona and Florida. (That's only a weird assortment of locations until you start to think about it.) The playwright's latest work is Back To Nature--a musical about a couple of guys going "up north." The musical will be presented as a staged reading at the Sunset Playhouse nex...

 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a towering legend of the 20th century, a man whose voice still echoes in popular consciousness from recordings made decades ago. The man identified with civil rights...

  Skylight Music Theatre opened its season with Avenue Q, an adult, puppet-based musical that attempts the tricky feat of using comedy to delve into sophisticated themes. Under the direction of Donna Drake...

It may have been inspired by what was possibly one of the most horrific and highly-publicized failures by a Milwaukee policemen. In May of 1991, a pair of officers returned a naked and panicked 14 year-old boy to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who later murdered and mutilated the boy. Playwright Keith Huff wrote A Steady Rain--a very similar story set in Chicago that ...

Theatreworks USA is an ambitious touring theatre outfit that is now celebrating its 50th year. The group brings its production of The Velveteen Rabbit to the stage of the Schauer center next month.
Based on the beloved book by Margery Williams, it's the story of ...

The Boulevard Theater tackles intellectual drama in triplicate with the opening of its new season as Mark Bucher directs the Wisconsin premiere of Yasmina Reza's Life X 3.  It's a four-person ensemble drama. The same situation is played out three different times with three distinctly diffe...

Youngblood Theatre's latest is Melissa James Gibson's [sic]. The title makes reference to unedited, quoted text in the body of a larger work. And the play itself may be an attempt to, in some way, show the unedited end of people that they wouldn't normally want other people to see. Don't worry, though. It isn't disgus...