Milwaukee Ballet's Winter Brilliance

The three world premieres in the Milwaukee Ballet's moving Winter Series at the Pabst Theatre last weekend deserve many more performances, but it's hard to believe they will ever be better cast. Each wildly different, highly individual, contemporary...

Books

Monday, Feb. 20, 2012

Brother Booker Ashe: “It's Amazing What the Lord Can Do” (Marquette University Press), by Willy Thorn

By John Schneider

The legions whose lives were touched by the late Brother Booker T. Ashe and his House of Peace, the revolutionary social service community center at 17th and Walnut in Milwaukee, will have their memories enriched by Willy Thorn's well-organized...

Classical Music/Dance

Monday, Feb. 13, 2012

Food of the Gods

Wild Space Premieres Delicious

By John Schneider

“So many meals, so much meaning!” declared a food expert in one of the scintillating voiceover's that peppered the luscious score assembled by choreographer Debra Loewen for Delicious, the new Wild Space Dance Company performance about...

A&E Feature

Monday, Feb. 13, 2012

Physics and Performance Art at Turner Hall Ballroom

Cedar Block tries to find the Higgs boson

By John Schneider

Alverno Presents, a dedicated importer of performances by groundbreaking artists from around the globe, is breaking ground itself with a commissioned performance by Milwaukee artists. Whatever transpires in the Turner Hall Ballroom on Feb. 18...

Classical Music/Dance

Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012

Milwaukee Ballet's Young Choreographers Accept the Challenge

By John Schneider

Milwaukee Ballet Artistic Director Michael Pink has often said that the company's winter and spring programs of contemporary one-act ballets are designed to provide the dancers with exciting challenges. Freed to be themselves...

2012 Spring Arts Guide

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

Wild Space Dance Company

By John Schneider

If much of the excitement of choreographer Debra Loewen's site-specific performances comes from her inspired transformations of physical environments, the joys of her original...

2012 Spring Arts Guide

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

Marquette University Theatre Department

By John Schneider

Director Phylis Ravel makes inspired, timely performances with students. Jane Anderson's 1997 play about teacher Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger disaster is an...

2012 Spring Arts Guide

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

Milwaukee Choral Artists

By John Schneider

This 20-voice women's vocal ensemble is Wisconsin's premier professional chorus and one of only a handful of professional women's ensembles in the country. This concert...

2012 Spring Arts Guide

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

African American Children's Theatre

By John Schneider

These two short musical biographies by Patsy Ford Simms will feature AACT's stellar youth cast. Dream will play on March 9 at 7 p.m. It recounts the life and ambitions of Dr...

2012 Spring Arts Guide

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

UPROOTED Theatre

By John Schneider

To save his life, a man must uncover the truth about the death of a widow with whom he has been involved and whom he is accused of murdering. The man is black; the woman is...

Wild Space Premieres Delicious

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