Born in a province of Czarist Russia, Kadya Molodowsky tutored children in Kiev in the early days after the Bolshevik Revolution. She went on to become a schoolteacher in Warsaw for children who lived in utter poverty. Chance, circumstance and an enviable relationship with the language got her noticed as a poet. By the time she had emigrated to the US in 1935, she had already published a fe...

  Staged reading have been flourishing of late. It’s a fun opportunity to get a taste of a script live and in person. In Tandem Theatre is hosting an opportunity to see a staged reading of a work in progress by UW-Oshkosh Resident Playwright Richard Kalinoski. Front Room is described like this in the press release: “Front Room is about Sandra, a middle-aged, theatre professor and director. H...

As a part of The Montgomery Davis Play Development Series, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents a staged reading of a new play by Jennifer Uphoff Gray tonight. A Thousand Words is a new mystery by Gray which mingles the past with the present as a New York Art Museum exhibit manager quits her job only to run across a very important collection of photos. The cast for the staged reading includes some i...