Country music legend Patsy Cline developed new range and depth for female vocals in one of the nation's most popular music genres. Her interesting life story, about a woman who achieved great critical and commercial success in the mid-20th century...

Thankfully, it doesn't take “a thousand words” to describe the world premiere that opened at the Broadway Theatre Center's intimate Studio Theatre on Friday. In fact, only a few will do: “brilliant,” “witty,” “well crafted” and “entertaining...

One non-profit fundraiser can pretty much bleed into the next for those with the means to attend them. The challenge for any non-profit is to put something together that is distinct and unique while still serving that basic role of a fundraiser event—to raise money. Uprooted Theatre’s October 30th fundraiser conceptually goes a few steps beyond memorable fundraising event to make kind of an...

    Renaissance Theaterworks’ latest provocative drama opened last night--Neil LaBute’s Reasons To Be Pretty. It’s the third of three darkly comic dramas LaBute has written about body image—this one cutting to the heart of what beauty is—every one of the four characters seems to be struggling with the title in one form or another. Renaissance has now staged all three of them . . . The...

Amidst the flurry of fully-staged theatre openings that will be happening in the next few weeks, the Broadway Theatre Center’s Skylight Bar and Bistro will be playing host to two different staged readings on two consecutive Mondays. On Monday, the 14th of September, Renaissance Theaterworks presents a staged reading of These Shining Lives--a new work by Melanie Marnich that debuted elsewhere jus...

Noel and the Plant My wife and I arrived at the Broadway Theatre Center and promptly spotted a woman named Noel standing next to a large potted plant. It was the Skylight Opera’s open house.  The Skylight has been around for 50 years. It opened its doors last night to celebrate the occasion. Noel was a rather short woman in a red dress standing next to a rather large potted plant. Noel is th...

Using an ambitious play-within-a-play format, the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s season-opening comedy Well stars accomplished actress Angela Iannone as the play’s actual playwright, Lisa Kron. As Kron, Iannone tells a series of semi-autobiographical stories and even brings her mother on board to watch the . . .

Using an ambitious play-within-a-play format, in the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s season-opening comedy Well, accomplished actress Angela Iannone takes on the role of playwright Lisa Kron and tells a series of semi-autobiographical stories. She brings her mother on board to watch the performance and make . . .

A prospective couple, one a Jewish accountant, the other a Protestant Midwestern woman 12 years his junior, work out their complicated feelings for each other in Lanford Wilson’s romantic dramedy Talley’s Folly. The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre continues their production of this one-act Pulitzer Prize winner tonight . . .

Milwaukee's all-women theatre company Renaissance Theaterworks debuts its latest production this weekend: Red Pepper Jelly 3: The Best Recipe. Like previous Red Pepper productions, this one will feature a mix of comedic and dramatic monologues, songs and poems, and maybe even a dance or two. This production will cull highlights from the . . .