Splendor in the Park: A ceremony marking Lake Park’s ongoing beautification with the recent refurbishing of its Gen. Erastus B. Wolcott statue included welcoming remarks by Lake Park Friends President Dave O’Brien, as well as a colors presentation by Steve Michaels and the Sons of Union Veterans.

Present Music collaborated with Milwaukee Dance Theatre in performances last Thursday through Sunday at the Off-Broadway Theatre, featuring a streamlined production of Antigone. Rather than an adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy, this was a new version with a script by Milwaukee Dance Theatre artistic directors Isabelle Kralj and Mark Anderson, and incidental music by Eric Segnitz, Greek tragedy is notoriously tricky stuff. Contemporary audiences are not as educated in Greek myth as were educated classes of previous eras. But beyond that, staring back into legendary times and finding relevant ways of presenting the profound universal truths of these dramas is downright intimidating.