Acacia Theatre will be holding auditions for its production of Anne of Green Gables. The musical adaptation is being directed by Danette Buikema with musical direction by Jenee O'Connor. The Nancy Ford/Gretchen Cryer musical makes its way to the stage of Concordia University courtesy of the Acacia production, which runs July 13th -22nd.    Earlier auditions already found the production some...

    The Over Our Head Players are gearing up for another summer Schmeatre show and they're looking for new talent. The Racine-based theatre has nnounced a bonus production that has been tacked on to the end of their 20th season. Their undoubtedly popular Theatre/Schmeatre sketch comedy show runs June 8th - 16th.    The evening of short, original comic sketches needs talent. OOHPs is holding o...

Doubtlessly one of the biggest contributions of the ‘90’s to the world of popular stage musicals, RENT has maintained a great deal of momentum over the years. The problem with any big-budget staging of the show is the fact that professional Equity stage actors lack the kind of stage presence the show seems to be reaching for. There’s kind of a wild, young scattered feel about the show tha...

Greendale Community Theatre is one of those inadvertent secrets of local theatre. Yes, the Greendale High School Auditorium gets quite a few people in for their shows, but many of these productions are remarkably polished projects, some of which feel only a couple of Equity actors shy of something you’d find in the theatre district. Greendale Community Theatre is going to be holding open audit...

Pink Banana Theatre Company is staging the end of the world and they’re looking for actors to help it happen. Pink Banana One Act 2012:  The End of the World! Is a series of shorts about the end of everything. They have yet to announce what shorts are going to be in the show, but directors include Luke Erickson, Angela Fingard, David Franz, Dana Gustafson, Clayton Hamburg, and Alan Piotrowic...

  Racine’s Over Our Head Players is looking for a cast for Art. Contemporary French playwright Yasmina Reza’s Art is a four-character drama, but as one of the characters is an inanimate blank, white canvas with a few white lines on it and no dialogue, they’ll probably have a prop stand-in for that one. The drama concerns three men. One of them purchased the painting for a ridiculous sum ...

Based on the story by Isak Dinesen, Babette’ Feast is a clever idea for an early 20th century drama. A French refugee finds herself amongst a group of people in a Norwegian religious community that has shunned all worldly pleasures. The French refugee wants to thank them for their kindness. Should they turn it down? The story was adapted to an acclaimed 1987 film. A stage adaptation of the sto...

nnAuditions are on the horizon in the New Year. In addition to the Alchemist’s upcoming auditions in January, the Sunset Playhouse is looking for a cast for its upcoming production of Greater Tuna.nThe irrepressible comedy by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard  makes it to Elm Grove  courtesy of a production directed by the talented Bryce Lord. The catch is this: they’re only looking ...

In the new year, White Fish Bay’s Bay Players community theatre will be staging a production of Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore’s Wrong Window—it’s an Alfred Hitchcock tribute something on the order of the  recent comic stage adaptation of The 39 Steps. A couple thinks they see their neighbor kill his wife from across the courtyard. Who killed Lila Larswald? And… i...