Tune In: The fun first anniversary celebration of
Riverwest Radio at the Polish Falcon Hall included music by Paul Cebar and Mike Fredrickson and delicious potluck, highlighted by a home-baked
cake by the organization’s
UW-Milwaukee Theatre opens its Mainstage Theatre
season with The Tragedy of King Lear. The production, in collaboration with Shakespeare & Company, features an
interesting mix of professional and student talent...
One room, two people and one vial of poison—Arthur\r\nConan Doyle sure knew how to frame a thriller. John Goodrum has adapted Doyle’s\r\nstory featuring that setup into a contemporary play. Go
In Tandem Theatre brilliantly executes Veronica's Position, a comedy about politics and principles set on the precipice of the final decade of the 20th century. The play is set in motion when a drama-queen actress (an Elizabeth Taylor-like character) is due...
In Tandem's fine new production, Chaim Potok's The Chosen, thoughtfully illustrates the paradox of two highly principled young Orthodox Jews living in Brooklyn in households with completely...
In Tandem’s New Musical Is Fun with Only A Few Bruises
By Russ Bickerstaff
In Tandem Theatre closes its season with a production of The Apple Tree—a mid-to-late-‘60’s Sheldon Harnick/Jerry Bock musical triptych dedicated to the idea that one should be careful what one wishes for. Georgina McKee and Luke Leonhardt play male and female leads in three different stories. The stories are tied together with interstitial bits written for the stage by local playwright Ne...
In Tandem Theatre continues its season with a production of Neil Haven’s Stuck. The show opened this past weekend. I’d seen the show before when it’s inaugural UW-Whitewater production came to the In Tandem’s 10th Street Theatre in August of ’08. Directed by In Tandem co-founder Chris Flieller, the show has considerably more aesthetic depth to it than the original production. Flieller...
When a script has the distinction of getting its playwright into an MFA program in Las Vegas, you know it’s good. For UW-Whitewater grad Neil Haven, Stuck is that script. The contemporary comedy about Ella, an agoraphobic elevator operator at a retro hotel, debuted locally with a UW-Whitewater production at the Tenth Street Theatre...
In Tandem and Milwaukee Chamber Present Stravinsky
By Russ Bickerstaff
� Over the course of the past few months, there have been a number of single-performance productions making it to local stages on Sundays. The latest is a really interesting collaboration between the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra�and In Tandem Theatre. �The two groups are teaming-up to present a staging of Igor Sravinsky’s A Soldiers Tale this coming Sunday, January 31st at 3pm.� A seven-piece c...