Mid way through this month there are a couple of shows looking to cast for the upcoming season. First off, Pink Banana Theatre has announced its show this November—they will be doing a production of Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone. On the whole Ruhl’s stuff is pretty forgettable, but this play looks uncharacteristically promising. The idea is that a woman is in a quiet café when a s...

Windfall Theatre is looking to cast for a dinner party. The party in question is called Omnium Gatherum. It was written several years ago by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros. The premise is simple: a hostess/domestic tycoon in the mold of Martha Stewart hosts a party and subsequent intellectual discussion between a right-wing Tom Clany-like novelist, an upwardly-mobile African Ame...

Racine Theatre Group Over Our Head Players is looking to cast for the show that will evidently be opening its 2011-2012 season. The theatre company opens its season in September with the Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore comedy Do Not Disturb. Though the sfript asks for three men and three women, Over Our Head is looking for five women and three men aged 20-50 for the comedy, which looks kind of...

The Drowsy Chaperone sounds very much like the title of a vintage Broadway musical. It’s not. It’s actually the title of a musical about a fan of a fictitious vintage Broadway musical named, oddly enough The Drowsy Chaperone. The fan plays the record and finds himself transported to the world of the fictitious 1928 musical. Inside 50 years, this is going to be a very strange artifact, as fut...

The Imagination Theatre of Germantown is looking to cast for its production of the1950’s Meredith Wilson musical The Music Man. Trouble right here in River City comes to Germantown August 12th through 21st and Imagination is looking for a cast. They’re seeking men, women teens and children ages 8 and up to fill a variety of roles. Auditions for Music Man will take place on May 16th and 17t...

The Sunset Playhouse�of Elm Grove is looking for talent to be featured in its Musical Mainstage�series for 2011-2012. Here’s a look at what they have ahead. September 12th-13th. (I love the logos the Sunset commissioned for the series. This one kind of looks like it came from a breakfast cereal box…or perhaps a box of laundry detergent . . .) It’s a celebration of music written ad/or m...

The Matt Kemple-founded Milwaukee Comedy Festival has been around for quite some time now. Roughly half a decade, in fact. The Festival is looking for entrants for it 2011 program, due to hit Comedsportz Milwaukee this coming August 4th � 7th. Wisconsin�s largest single comedy event has announced its national search for sketch and imrpov teams, music comedy and video sketches. The festival is no...

It was in the era of TV sitcom Bosom Buddies. It covered some of the comedic ground as I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry nearly three decades earlier. William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore�s stage comedy Love, Sex and the I.R.S. is a comedy about a couple of roommates. The two guys�Jon and Leslie�decide to save some money on taxes by listing themselves as� a married couple. You can probably see...

Perhaps the longest currently running shorts program of its kind in Milwaukee, Pink Banana Theatre has sifted through all the submitted scripts and it’s all set to start looking for actors to fill them. Auditions for Pink Banana’s Higher Education run March 5th and 6th at Soulstice Theatre’s space in the Marian Center on 3195 South Superior Street. Those coming to audition will be deliveri...