An e-zine for happenings of local culture in Milwaukee and elsewhere
Just like sitting in forth grade homeroom again, a PA crackled the sound of a matronly voice informing us of what had come to her attention concerning recess play ground antics. Ut oh! No more "Smeer the Queer" or "Beat the Geek", we have to play nice. Luckily for all of the troublemakers in the... 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 →
King Lear (Bo Johnson) gnashes his last words in anguish clinging to his dearest treasure, lost within his own mind. Life's seasons delivered him one too many harsh political maelstroms, one too few kindred summer swoons, his will worn away. The life of a King. We see him tangled, a heap strewn across the overgrowth... 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 →
A jagged cobble gangway leads to a rundown London public house. Inside, the local pub's dingily stained wood bar, worn and barely kept, stays littered with empty glasses awaiting a pour from Margarette (Sharon Nieman-Koebert), a surly bartender in the Whitechapel section. The pub's flock comes to the trough at times solitary, and at others... Continue Reading →
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