"Honestly, I'm not a big drinker," says the British-born director who is lighting up the Rep, "especially now with a 17-month-old girl at home, but I'm partial every now and then to a finely crafted cocktail.” Where better to go than this wonderfully camp retro bar? “It serves up the best-made

The Milwaukee Rep opens its Quadracci Powerhouse season with Stephen Sondheim's Assassins. In this oddly themed musical, Lee Harvey Oswald sings alongside John Wilkes...

The tragedy Othello is the most urgently humanistic of Shakespeare's great plays—more tightly constructed than Hamlet, more carefully motivated than Macbeth, more urgent if less spaciously tragic than King Lear, but with a resistance...

There's heavy metal pumping into the Quadracci Powerhouse Theatre prior to the show. A single shaft of light illuminates a Harley amidst the gritty gleam of an industrially inspired set. Somewhere in the background we're hearing "Welcome to the Jungle." It's kind of a weird contrast against an audience that has come to the theatre dressed--like they're going to the theatre. There everyone is in ...

The story of Shakespeare's Othello has taken many forms over the past 400 years. The Milwaukee Rep tackles the Moor of Venice this month in a decidedly modern production that mixes the ancient text with present-day iconography...

  And now, the third in the Audio Curtains podcasts: Part Five of my interview with Milwaukee Rep Artistic Director Mark Clements. (That other voice you're hearing in these recordings is that of Milwaukee Rep Public Relations Director Cindy Moran, who sat-in on the conversation.) In total, the audio from the interview runs something like and hour and a half, so I'�ve cut it up into 5 more man...

  And now, the third in the Audio Curtains podcasts: Part Four of my interview with Milwaukee Rep Artistic Director Mark Clements, in which we talk about audience reaction to the new season and Clements' creative sensibilities. (That other voice you're hearing in these recordings is that of Milwaukee Rep Public Relations Director Cindy Moran, who sat-in on the conversation.) In total, the ...

And now, the third in the Audio Curtains podcasts: Part Three of my interview with Milwaukee Rep Artistic Director Mark Clements, in which we discuss the role of the Rep and a rather interesting project he's initiated to commission a steady stream of new works for the stage.(That other voice you're hearing in these recordings is that of Milwaukee Rep Public Relations Director Cindy Moran, who...

And now, the second in the Audio Curtains podcasts: Part Two of my interview with�Milwaukee Rep�Artistic Director Mark Clements, in which we discuss matters pertaining to the Residant Acting Company and establishing sustainable growth in the Milwaukee theatre business.�(That other voice you're hearing in these recordings is that of Milwaukee Rep Public Relations Director Cindy Moran, who sa...