Is Buffalo Nation (Bison bison), premiered at Present Music last weekend, an opera? An oratorio? A song cycle? Live accompaniment to film? Or an unstaged, multimedia morality play with incidental music?

More satisfying than a whole box of Jeez-Its™, Carte Blanche’s production of Reefer Madness! The Musical is easily the single most enjoyable musical comedy this season. A charmingly well-balanced cast takes a show without much complexity to it and manages to keep it obscenely fun from beginning to end. This is a slick, sexy, stylish production. I enjoyed this show quite a bit more than I’d...

Like professional sports, motivational speaking is a kind of performance art not often associated with more traditional artistic work. The challenge of turning personal experiences and insights into an inspirational package for groups of strangers all over the country sounds kind of soul-crushing. Like any art form, motivational speaking is bogged-down with people who honestly haven�t accompli...

The Marian Center for Non-Profits took very little time to become extremely packed. I don�t recall ever seeing that many people crammed into the hallway outside the Marian Center�s 4th floor studio theatre. The space now serves as local musical theatre talent Lisa Golda�s Vox Box. It�s a space that she�s using to teach voice lessons. She�s hoping that it can be a space that can be shard by al...

As the new theatre season begins to get moving along stages in greater Milwaukee, a number of theatre-based classes have also been announced. Here are a couple of interesting opportunities— October 8th – 10th, Mark Bucher of the Boulevard Theatre presents DRAMATIC LICENSE—a program dedicated to the fine art of the audition. The program is a follow-up to Boulevard’s “Audition Idol” l...