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Creative conspirators Sarai Yardbird Anzaldua, Josh Bryan and Jackie Benka hit their point on their first roll of Cream City's newest live performance channel Cabaret Milwaukee. Nestled in the catacombs of the The Brewery's local watering hole Best Place, eager ladies and gentleman seated snugly around wood furnishings filled the rathskeller for an evening of... Continue Reading →
Even though they like jangle out of storage bins to dance in October, skeletons don't smash carved stories for Halloween like the Alchemist Theatre. Per tradition, Artistic Director Aaron Kopec brings a bit of intrigue to the fall season with his choose-your-own-adventure mystery drama Closing Night. A cerebral crime story, Closing Night challenges its cast... Continue Reading →
The irony of robots is that they are kind of low tech now. In Brian Rott's latest amalgamation of ideas, props, plot and actors Robot Cabaret, we find out that quite possibly robots have feelings too. Extraordinarily imaginative, Rott, in creative tandem with Michael Guthrie, centers an underlying point of tension around a Robot Detective that... Continue Reading →
Incarnating the falling action of Stephen Sondheim's musical story Assassins, Lee Ernst finally reveals himself unmistakably through an amazingly new gravely voice, taking himself up a notch from his deliberately muted early scenes. He's ranting in a Santa suit about why the White House deserves an unexpected guest arriving in a Boeing 747. In his... Continue Reading →
An intensely focused brand of chaos sort of missed the New Kids on the Block when they debuted 21 years ago, luckily creative forms aren't left solely in the clutches Artist and Repertoire directors anymore. Brian Rott is distinguishing himself quickly as a visionary expanding the limits of traditional stage-bound theatrical performance. Founder and Artistic... Continue Reading →
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