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spring arts guide table of contents INTRODUCTION ... 4 LIZZIE TRIPP ... 6 FEBRUARY CALENDAR ... 8 GINA LAURENZI ... 12 MARCH CALENDAR ... 14 MADELYN YEE ... 18 APRIL CALENDAR ... 20 MARK DAVIS ... 24 MAY CALENDAR ... 26 ALLIE BABICH ... 30 JUNE CALENDAR ... 32 MALAINA MOORE ... 34 DIRECTORY ... 36
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g n i m r o f r e Th e P ! r e T t a M s t Ar By donating to the United Performing Arts Fund, you can provide children with an outlet for creativity and expression. You can help create jobs and boost the local economy. You can make our city a more creative place. To put it simply, your support of Milwaukee’s performing arts makes life better for everyone. Donate today at UPAF.org/donate Susan Gartell of Milwaukee Ballet Photo by Rachel Malehorn and Timothy O’Donnell; Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Photo by Ron Oshima; Christina Hall (Mrs. Lovett) and Andrew Varela (Sweeney Todd) in Skylight Music Theatre’s Sweeney Todd
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Lizzie Tripp
The Value of Arts Education
SIX MILWAUKEE PROFESSIONALS WHO GRADUATED FROM LOCAL PROGRAMS Gina Laurenzi
Madelyn Yee
Mark Davis
We’ve only scratched the surface. For the Shepherd Express Spring Arts Guide 2018, we decided to speak with six successful artists who emerged from our city’s many arts education programs. They work in various media, emerged from different programs and span many years in age. The youngest, Malaina Moore, turns 20 this spring. She was a Rufus King High School student when she discovered Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival and will see her newest play performed this fall by Marquette University, where she majors in theater arts. The éminence grise among them, Mark Davis, literally grew up at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and never left the building for long. He’s now chair of the school’s jazz studies program. In her early 20s, the Milwaukee Ballet’s Lizzie Tripp trained at the Ballet School and Academy and won a place in the internationally prestigious MBII before joining the company last season. Only a few years older are choreographer Gina Laurenzi and actress Allie Babich from Danceworks and American Shakespeare Center in Virginia, respectively. Babich is among a growing number of Milwaukee expats who have found work in the arts elsewhere, in her case after training with First Stage and absorbing that company’s mantra: “Life skills through stage skills.” Laurenzi found work closer to home. Drawing inspiration from a UW-Milwaukee outreach workshop conducted by Danceworks’ Artistic Director Dani Kuepper, Laurenzi went on to graduate from UW-Milwaukee’s dance program and is now at Danceworks as director of its youth company. Likewise, 20-something, Madelyn Yee graduated with a theater degree from Marquette University and has applied that program’s strong emphasis on design to a career as a stage designer. She was responsible for designing the recent production Black Nativity staged at the Marcus Center and her work is often seen at the Broadway Theatre Center.
Allie Babich
There are many other graduates of Milwaukee arts education classes whom we hope to feature in the Shepherd Express during the coming year. The institutions that have worked to create meaningful programs for students in the performing arts, in some cases to fill the gap left by the gutting of arts education in public schools, have contributed to elevating and sustaining Milwaukee’s vibrant cultural life. David Luhrssen Spring Arts Guide Editor John Schneider Spring Arts Guide Assistant Editor
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UNSEEN FORCES
On view through September 2, 2018
Kevin Stalheim | Art istic Director
Feb-June 2018
three concerts
ON SALE NOW
Between TWO Worlds Mar 24 Funk Dreamscapes from the Invisible Parallel Universe: Renée Stout installation view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2018.
Exhibitions featuring:
Joy Feasley Paul Swenbeck
Iris Häussler Renèe Stout
Emery Blagdon Stella Waitzkin
FREE admission This exhibition series is supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Department of Tourism, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Funding was also provided by the Kohler Trust for the Arts and Education, Kohler Foundation, Inc., Sargento Foods Inc., and Frederic Cornell Kohler Charitable Trust. The Arts Center thanks its many members for their support of exhibitions and programs through the year.
Feb 22-24
Sound & Sight
Jun 23
2018 BIENNIAL
Spring 2018 Bembe Drum & Dance Friday, March 2, 7:30 p.m.
Betsayda Machado y La Parranda El Clavo Friday, March 23, 7:30 p.m.
Pinto con Tinto: Carnival Friday, March 8, 5:30 p.m.
FEBRUARY 3–APRIL 8
Lunch & Learn Series April 13: Expansive Threads May 15: Modern Hispanic Leaders 11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Biennial Artists Panel: Saturday, March 17 | 2:00–3:00 205 Veterans Avenue, West Bend | wisconsinart.org Christopher Priebe, Marcella, Photographic print, 2017
Latino Arts, Inc. | www.latinoartsinc.org | 414-384-3100
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Dancer Lizzie Tripp on the Milwaukee Ballet Training Program BY JOHN SCHNEIDER Waukesha native Lizzie Tripp trained at Milwaukee Ballet School and Academy; won a place in MBII, the Ballet’s pre-professional program; and became a company member last season. She says: “I was in seventh grade when I started at the school. I was in a jazz dance school but it was too expensive so my mom switched me. At first I didn’t like it, but Karl von Rabenau and Jenny Miller were my teachers and they made me really love ballet. Mireille Favarel was my teacher when I got to higher levels. She and MBII’s director Rolando Yanes are also amazing. They were all company members so they prepare you for stuff they know. “At first it’s four days a week. It goes up to six. An hour and a half class and then an hour style class. It’s ballet but there are a couple classes in modern or jazz and now even hip-hop. You perform. We did Rolando’s ballets a lot. We had new works created on us. I danced in the corps in Swan Lake. I danced in Peter Pan my first year, when I was 12. After three years, you move up to the Academy for two years. We had “pas class” every Wednesday. I had a chance to do the “Grand Pas” from The Nutcracker. You work with the MBII boys, which is a help. You have to audition for MBII. People come from all over the world to audition. It prepares you for a career anywhere.”
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Black Pearl Sings!
The Clockwork Man’s Body (World Premiere)
Through March 18
CONTINUING: CABARET MILWAUKEE
OPENING:
Looking
Student Body (Student Production)
Through Feb. 18
MEMORIES DINNER THEATER
Through Feb. 18
Zombies from the Beyond SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE
Through Feb. 18
People Will Say We’re in Love SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (SIDENOTES CABARET SERIES)
Through Feb. 18
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE
Through Feb. 18
Ellis (World Premiere)
COOPERATIVE PERFORMANCE
Through Feb. 24
Stones in His Pockets WINDFALL THEATRE
Through Feb. 24
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CALENDAR
Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat (Family Friendly)
FIRST STAGE (FIRST STEPS SERIES)
Through Feb. 25
Equivocation
NEXT ACT THEATRE
Through Feb. 25
“2018 Snowdance 10 Minute Comedy Festival” OVER OUR HEAD PLAYERS
Through Feb. 25
The Importance of Being Earnest
VILLAGE PLAYHOUSE OF WAUWATOSA
Through Feb. 25
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MARQUETTE THEATRE
Feb. 15-25
Frank Winters’ Student Body centers on students discussing what to do after watching a video depicting a possible sexual assault at a campus party. Marquette Theatre faculty selected the piece as this year’s social justice offering based on a student’s suggestion; the production features an all-student cast and design team. The show’s original director, Debra Krajec, stated: “My goal is for the Marquette community and our theatre patrons to realize that sexual assault really happens here, and is a real problem that needs to be dealt with.” (Since this writing, Krajec has unfortunately had to step down from directing the show; she has been replaced by Leda Hoffman.) (Selena Milewski)
Man of the Century: The Story of Winston Churchill SCHAUER ARTS & ACTIVITIES CENTER Feb. 16
The Sleeping Beauty (Student Production) CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY THEATRE
Feb. 16-25
Finding Neverland
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (BROADWAY SERIES)
Feb. 20-25
The Brothers Size
MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE
Feb. 21-March 18
Set in the humid back country of Louisiana, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s absorbing drama The Brothers Size tells of two brothers with very different ambitions. Ogun struggles with the daily challenges of running an auto repair shop, while his brother Oshoosi, still adjusting after being released from prison, looks to leave the bayou behind. (Evan Rytlewski)
A Comedy of Tenors
RACINE THEATRE GUILD
Feb. 23-March 11
The Outgoing Tide
IN TANDEM THEATRE
Feb. 22-March 18
Milwaukee stage veteran James Pickering stars as Gunner, a retired owner of a trucking company beginning to lose his mental capacities in this gentle drama from playwright Bruce Graham. As his wife urges him to sell their beloved home, he hatches a plan that he hopes will keep him out of an assisted living facility. (Evan Rytlewski)
The Wiz (Family Friendly) FIRST STAGE
Feb. 23-March 25
One House Over (World Premiere)
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (POWERHOUSE)
Feb. 27-March 25
Stupid F**king Bird (SFB) (Student Production)
UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS THEATRE DEPARTMENT (STUDIO 508 SERIES)
Feb. 28-March 4
According to director Jim Tasse, Aaron Posner’s “remix” of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull maintains— despite the modernized setting—the original’s subject matter: art, its creation, the identity of artists and how artists define themselves as human beings. Tasse says we find a “Hamletesque mother-son relationship” between a young playwright pushing the boundaries of theatrical style and his working actress mother, ensconced in traditional forms. With an all-student cast and design team, the production both engages students with the classic cannon as well as Posner’s expressionistic modern style, which Tasse relates to David Mamet and Neil LaBute. (Selena Milewski)
dance OPENING:
Hyperlocal MKE #16: “Volunteer” HYPERLOCAL MKE
Feb. 25
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CONTINUING: Globalfest on the Road: “The New Golden Age of Latin Music”
Worldwide Minerals & Natural Sculptures
SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Masterfully Cut Gemstones • Helpful Experts
Turtle Island Quartet: “Bird’s Eye View —The Legend of Charlie Parker”
Visit us on Gallery Night & Day April 20 & 21
Feb. 16
SOUTH MILWAUKEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Feb. 16
The Marshall Building 207 E. Buffalo, Suite 604 Historic Third Ward
Hours: Thursdays 10am-5pm or by arrangement 414-455-8250 Email: rocks@chrysaliseboutique.com
Lukasz Kuropaczewski: “Classical Guitar Concert”
UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Feb. 16
“The Queen’s Cartoonist”
UW-WASHINGTON COUNTY (FINE ARTS SERIES)
Feb. 16
“Andreas Delfs Returns” MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Feb. 16-17
Flanders Recorder Quartet: “The Final Chapter: 30 Years”
Our 83rd Year
EARLY MUSIC NOW
2018 SEASON
Feb. 17
For decades the recorder has been regarded as a second-tier instrument, something kids learn to play “Hot Cross Buns” on before they abandon it for other, more respected instruments. Since 1987, the Flanders Recorder Quartet have been the instrument’s most ardent advocates, demonstrating its grace and versatility at performances around the globe. Now those days are coming to an end: The quartet has announced that it will disband at the end of the year, so this is likely your last chance to catch them. (Evan Rytlewski)
Daimh
IRISH CULTURAL AND HERITAGE CENTER
Feb. 17
JUNE 12 to JULY 1
Now and Then
The world première of a magical comedy-drama by Sean Grennan. A touching, funny and unbelievable story about aspirations and love.
JULY 4 to JULY 22
Gift Certificates, Season Subscriptions, Group and Individual Tickets Available by phone at 920.868.3287
“Wonderful theater! Hard to believe this is not Broadway!”
Miss Holmes
A riveting murder mystery by Christopher M. Walsh. Based on characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A new Sherlock Holmes case but with a definite twist.
JULY 25 to AUGUST 12
The Drowsy Chaperone
By Lisa Lambert, Don McKellar, Bob Martin and Greg Morrison. A delightfully smart and funny Jazz Age musical with show-stopping song and dance numbers.
AUGUST 15 to SEPTEMBER 2
Living on Love Individual tickets may be purchased online beginning March 1. Gift Certificate orders may be placed online 24 hours a day.
June 12 - October 14
920.868.3287 • www.PeninsulaPlayers.com Between Egg Harbor & Fish Creek
By Joe DiPietro, based on the play Peccadillo by Garson Kanin. A sparkling and hilarious new comedy in which sparks fly, silverware is thrown and mad romance blossoms.
SEPTEMBER 5 to OCTOBER 14
Salvage
An intriguing drama by Joseph Zettelmaier that twists like a corkscrew. A mysterious woman enters a collectables shop where the owner finds himself drawn into romance and much, much more
PLAYBILL SUBJECT TO CHANGE
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“Give Chance A Piece Concert Series” PRESENT MUSIC
Feb. 22-24
Dave Bayles Quartet
SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
“Kristin Bauer and Paul Owen Weiner: Clear and Present”
“Jaime Hayon: Technicolor” Through March 25
Through March 2
“2018 Wisconsin Artists Biennial”
“Chair5: Perspectives on Form, Function and Innovation”
Through April 8
For the past 30 years, Dave Bayles has been riding the cymbals and beating the toms that keep Milwaukee swinging. As a member of the Wisconsin Conservatory’s jazz sextet, We Six, Bayles is the go-to drummer for local musicians and journeymen jazz cats passing through town. On Feb. 23 at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, Bayles leads his own quartet for a night of hard-driving hard bop, ballads and blues. (Tyler Friedman)
Through March 4
“Humanly Possible: The Empathy Exhibition”
“Clandestine Possessions” and “Family Time”
Through March 3
“Volumes: Stella Waitzkin”
JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER
“Formidable Brass”
MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN
MILWAUKEE FESTIVAL BRASS
Feb. 25
Through March 10
Empathy concerns the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. The 12 artists in “Humanly Possible: The Empathy Exhibition” attempt to elicit an empathetic reaction from viewers during this contentious time when such feelings seem to be at a premium. Among the themes explored are the complexity of gender identity and the difficulty of celebrating one’s Mexican heritage in light of recrudescent xenophobia. On Thursday, March 1, at 7 p.m., there will be an experimental platform for listening to stories of war. (Tyler Friedman)
Institute of Chamber Music: “UWM Celebrates Black History Month”
UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Feb. 25
Aaron Lazar: “Tony Bennett: The First 90 Years”
“Kris Austin Art Exhibit”
SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER
OCONOMOWOC ARTS CENTER
Feb. 28
Through March 11
visual arts CONTINUING:
“2018 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition” MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
“In Celebration of Ourselves: Seymour Rosen”
MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART
While far more attention goes to the world-renowned exhibits housed at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Museum of Wisconsin Art showcases the talented artists living in our own backyard. No event captures this better than the Wisconsin Artists Biennial, with previous winners including the likes of S.V. Medaris and Tom Uttech. This year’s Biennial features 53 works by 46 artists spanning a breadth of media. Come see the best that our state has to offer. (Rob Hullum)
MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN
Feb. 23
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
CARTHAGE COLLEGE H.F. JOHNSON GALLERY OF ART
CHARLES ALLIS ART MUSEUM
Through April 15
Each year the grand prizewinner of the Charles Allis Art Museum’s annual “Forward” juried art exhibition is invited to mount a solo exhibition the following year. Madison painter James Pederson has taken his solo exhibition in a collaborative direction by incorporating a collaborator and a guest artist into two side-by-side exhibitions. “Clandestine Possessions” exhibits furniture-based works made in collaboration with fellow Madison artist Mariah Tate Klemens. In “Family Time,” Pederson selected paintings by California artist Jackson Hunt to be shown alongside his own. (Tyler Friedman)
“S.V. Medaris—Strange Breeds: Evolution and Selective Breeding” MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART
Through April 1
“Watercolor Wisconsin”
WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
Through March 18
Through April 21
JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER
“Matthew Warren Lee: To Whom Do We Owe Utopia?”
“Small Works by Sculptors in the Bradley Family Foundation”
Through March 24
“The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip”
Through Feb. 18
REDLINE MILWAUKEE
Milwaukee painter Matthew Warren Lee is fascinated by the intersection of nature and technology. His vibrant oil paintings depict landscapes that have been upended—and in some cases permanently scarred—by human intervention, drawing on images of oil rig explosions, wildfires and glacial melt. For all of its glory, these paintings argue nature’s beauty can be easily undone. (Evan Rytlewski)
LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN
Through Feb. 18
“Kristen Bartel: American Dreaming”
SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
“Allied in the Fight: Jews, Blacks and the Struggle for Civil Rights”
Through Feb. 22
JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE
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Through April 22
“The Art and Mechanics of Animation: The J. J. Sedelmaier Collection” GROHMANN MUSEUM
Through April 29
Even before the advent of motion pictures, humans tried to create moving images with devices like the Phenakistiscope and the Zoetrope. Curated by the design and animation studio J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, this exhibit examines some of the many tools and machines that have been used to create
animation over the years, including equipment used by studios like Walt Disney and Terrytoons. (Evan Rytlewski)
“Polymer Art: Recent Acquisitions” RACINE ART MUSEUM
Through June 24
“Turning To Turner”
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
“Unpacking Karen Johnson Boyd’s Clay Collection at RAM”
Though April 29
“Designing Paris: The Posters of Jules Chéret”
RACINE ART MUSEUM
Through July 22
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
Through April 29
“Unseen Forces”
JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER
“Text Message: Words and Letters in Contemporary Craft”
Through Sept. 2
Through May 6
OPENING:
“Featured Artist: John Kearney”
“High Thread Count: Art Quilts by Pat Kroth”
Through May 12
Feb. 15-May 14
RACINE ART MUSEUM
WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
“Resistance, Protest, Resilience”
HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART
MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART
“Beasts: Wild Animals in RAM’s Collection” *use emerald city instead of stars for inside? RACINE ART MUSEUM
Through May 20
Feb. 18-June 10
“Representing Self: Portraits from the Permanent Collection”
“Japanese Studio Craft at RAM”
HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART
Through May 20
In “Representing Self: Portraits from the Permanent Collection,” Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art draws upon its unexpectedly deep cache of art to present a history of portraiture from the early 16th century through contemporary works. The exhibition has been curated to shed light on the various ways that selfhood has been represented over the past 500 years. The works display a broad range of styles and subjects, from society portraits to large-format photographs. (Tyler Friedman)
“HMA DNA: Collection Highlights”
HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART
Through May 20
RACINE ART MUSEUM
Feb. 18-June 10
“Katheryn Corbin: Migrant” LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN
Feb. 25-May 27
Katheryn Corbin specializes in large ceramic sculptures. While crafted according to the method usually used for hollow jars, Corbin frequently sculpts human figures that look as though they just stepped out of a 19th-century Parisian poster. “Katheryn Corbin: Migrant” exhibits the sculptures and sawdust-fired vessels created during Corbin’s tenure as the Lynden Sculpture Garden’s artist-inresidence. The nearly life-sized figurative ceramic sculptures of migrants find the artist reckoning with the contemporary political climate. (Tyler Friedman)
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Choreographer Gina Laurenzi on UWM’s Dance Program and Danceworks Youth Performance Company BY JOHN SCHNEIDER Straight from high school, Kenosha native Gina Laurenzi joined a professional dance company in Chicago. “But I felt behind,” she said, “and I realized it was because the other company members had degrees, while I knew so little about the creative process. I realized I needed to learn more if I was going to do this for a lifetime.” She returned to Kenosha and opened her own small studio. A friend recommended an outreach workshop led by UW-Milwaukee faculty member and Danceworks Performance Company Artistic Director Dani Kuepper. Laurenzi attended and was inspired to enroll in UWM’s BFA dance program. Now a choreographer and dancer with Danceworks Performance Company, she teaches dance at UWM and directs the Danceworks Youth Performance Company. Laurenzi: “The most important thing I learned at UWM is that it’s not just putting moves together to your favorite song. It’s about creating movement that says what you want to say. There are all these sources of inspiration; it doesn’t have to be creating from moves you’ve done before. Creating my own work has been helpful but so has coaching young dancers to come into their own voices, improvise comfortably, clearly respond to those around them and make their own choices. At UWM, all the teachers are affiliated with a company, the teachers perform, performers teach, they bring students into their work. There’s this sense of support about what we bring to the community. I feel like we’re constantly pushing to do something new, this community of artists.”
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CONTINUING:
A Comedy of Tenors
RACINE THEATRE GUILD
Through March 11
Black Pearl Sings!
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (STACKNER CABARET)
Through March 18
The Brothers Size
MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE
Through March 18
The Outgoing Tide
IN TANDEM THEATRE
Through March 18
One House Over (World Premiere)
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (POWERHOUSE)
Through March 25
The Wiz (Family Friendly) FIRST STAGE
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream BOOZY BARD
March 5-7
Replete with love potions, a partial transformation into a donkey, a “shrewd and knavish sprite” and—spoiler alert—a happy ending, Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. Its comic revelry is perfectly suited to the debauched treatment of Boozy Bard’s bibulous thespians. Each night the actors pick their role du jour from a hat and proceed to perform unprepared and drinking heavily. The audience is encouraged to follow suit by getting sloshed and shouting at the actors, just as Shakespeare would have expected. (Tyler Friedman)
StorySlam: Karma EX FABULA
March 7
12 Ophelias (Student Production)
UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS THEATRE DEPARTMENT
March 7-11
OPENING:
A Comedy of Couples (Student Production)
PostSecret: The Show
March 8-10
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (WILSON THEATER AT VOGEL HALL)
March 1
Into The Woods
SUNSET PLAYHOUSE
March 1-18
Dead Man’s Carnival Himself his own artwork, the magician Sir Pinkerton Xyloma provides a unique service to Milwaukee on the first Friday of every month at the Miramar Theatre on Oakland Avenue. As impresario of Dead Man’s Carnival, Pinky keeps the New Vaudeville Movement, born a couple decades back and national in scope, alive here. Each show features different, highly unusual acts by local and national circus and burlesque performance artists and musicians. Attendees should be 18 years old or older; if younger than 18, a legal guardian is recommended. (John Schneider)
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March 2-11
Through March 25
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The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
OFF THE WALL THEATRE
March 8-18
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus tells the archetypal tale of a deal with the devil; namely, the dubious bargain of exchanging one’s soul for temporarily unchecked power. Dr. Faustus’ tragical history was perhaps most famously told by German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but Off The Wall Theatre takes their text from an earlier version by Shakespeare’s contemporary Christopher Marlowe. This modern take on the timeless masterpiece stars Jeremy C. Welter as Faustus and James Strange as Mephistopheles. (Tyler Friedman)
The Star-Spangled Girl
COMPANY OF STRANGERS
March 9-17
Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure (Family Friendly)
Late Show Comedian Pat McGann— Featuring Mike Mercury
Les Misérables
FIRST STAGE (YOUNG COMPANY)
Clue: The Musical
March 16-18
March 17
March 27-April 1
March 9-25
Silent Sky (Student Production)
Into The Woods Jr. (Family Friendly)
Henry V
March 9-24
WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE
Though it bombed at the box office, Jonathan Lynn’s 1985 comedic adaptation of the board game Clue featured an unusual hook: It had three different endings which theaters were assigned at random. Cut from the same tongue-in-cheek cloth as that cult film, this musical adaptation takes that idea to its logical extreme. Its ending is determined by the audience, who draw cards selecting the murder, murder weapon and the location of the murder. (Evan Rytlewski)
Heard it Through the Grapevine: Motown
SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (CABARET)
March 12-13
Until the Flood
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (STIEMKE STUDIO)
March 13-April 22
The new one-woman show written and performed by Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmith (Yellowman) investigates the diverse reactions and healing process of community members following the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. With subject matter painfully relevant for Milwaukee audiences, all Milwaukee Rep performances will be followed by group discussions led by professional discussion leaders from the Zeidler Center for Public Discussion. (Selena Milewski)
Dancing with Hamlet WINDFALL THEATRE
March 15-24
This world premiere by Milwaukee playwright, actress and director Deanna Strasse graces the 25th season of Carol Zippel’s Windfall Theatre. It’s described as a family comedy with Shakespearean overtones. Three grown-up children grapple with the fact that their divorced mother’s immanent remarriage coincides with their father’s demise in a car accident. The worthy Windfall regularly produces premieres by local playwrights and lesser-known works by famous ones. This one is staged at the Brumder Mansion. (John Schneider)
RACINE THEATRE GUILD (CHILDREN’S THEATRE)
CARTHAGE COLLEGE THEATRE
March 16-24
RACINE THEATRE GUILD
SUNSET PLAYHOUSE
March 18-19
Tarzan
THEATRE GIGANTE
StorySlam: TMI
“This could happen in any jungle,” jokes Slovene playwright Rok Vilčnik. He’s conceived a middle-aged Tarzan and Jane who—with Mike the hyena—grapple with love, aging, and the future of jungles, animals and humanity. This U.S. premiere highlights the 30th anniversary of Milwaukee’s premier experimental dance theater, which enjoys a second home in Slovenia. Director Wes Savick comes home from Boston to stage it with Isabelle Kralj, Mark Anderson and Don Russell. (John Schneider)
March 22
March 16-24
EX FABULA
Are You Sure?
TMI—that’s “too much information” to those not fluent in abbreviated writing or speech—is the theme of Ex Fabula’s March 22 StorySlam. Local raconteurs will take the stage to tell personal histories on the theme of “too much information” while including just enough information not to exceed the five-minute time limit. Audience members will vote for their favorite after the night’s nine tellers have taken the stage. The Audience Favorites from season 9 will perform on May 18 as part of the annual ALL STARS StorySlam on the theme of “Connection.” (Tyler Friedman)
March 16-25
BOYGIRLBOYGIRL
The Hiding Place
March 22-25
March 16-25
Macbeth
MEMORIES DINNER THEATER
ACACIA THEATRE
An original stage adaptation from the Christian theater company Acacia, The Hiding Place tells the true story of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who, along with her family, helped hide Jews in their small house during the Holocaust. The play captures the harrowing fallout after they’re discovered by the Nazis. (Evan Rytlewski)
The Tales of Hoffman
SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE AND MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE
March 16-29
The Cabot Theatre is the site for Milwaukee Opera Theatre’s collaborative production (with Skylight Music Theatre) of Jacques Offenbach’s immortal opéra fantastique—a tale of a poet (E.T.A. Hoffmann) seeking both romantic and artistic fulfillment. This is an all-new adaptation and English translation by Milwaukee Opera Theatre’s Daniel J. Brylow. The performance companies promise this will be “an imaginative and kinetic new version of Offenbach’s gorgeous opera.” (John Jahn)
SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (CABARET)
VOICES FOUND REPERTORY
March 22-31
Asked what aspects of the classic he hopes to bring to the fore, director Alec Lachman names “the supernatural element” and “the power struggles.” He elaborates, “Whether you’re afraid of those who have power or you’re afraid to lose it, that fear will ultimately corrupt you.” Of the show’s design he says, “One of the fantastic advantages of Shakespeare is that the stories are timeless. With that in mind we are telling this story in a post-apocalyptic setting. The backdrop is a dark, dusty, graffitied and broken Scotland.” (Selena Milewski)
Cinderella
MISSOULA CHILDREN’S THEATRE AT THE SCHAUER ARTS & ACTIVITIES CENTER
March 23-24
Always…Patsy Cline
MILWAUKEE THEATER (STACKNER CABARET)
March 23-May 20
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Uihlein Hall sees a new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical endearingly called Les Miz. Its plot is well-known—the story of a man imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a mere half-loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving child seeking redemption, justice and a new life amid the background of revolutionary France. Les Miz has been staged in some 44 countries and seen by more than 70 million people. (John Jahn)
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CONTINUING:
Women Who Dance (World Premiere)
DANCEWORKS PERFORMANCE COMPANY
March 2-4
“Why is it appropriate for girls to dance when they’re 4 to 16 and then it’s not? Why is it so hard for men to dance? Why is it so hard for women to feel that their dancing is valuable?” asks artistic director Dani Kuepper. She’ll address this in a new work. So will Karlies Kelley and the Latinx women of Panadanza, as will DPC founder Sarah Wilbur who’ll share the stage with 19 diverse Milwaukeeans. (John Schneider)
Monarchs, Mounds, Migrations (World Premiere) DANCECIRCUS
March 8-11
This original full-length multidisciplinary performance developed by founder Betty Salamun with her 43-year-old dance theater company, compares the migration stories of monarch butterflies, ancient Mississippian mound builders and contemporary migrants to reveal some commonalities. The diverse cast of dancers from DanceCircus and Panadanza, musicians and guest artists includes hero’s journey researcher Ana Paula Soares Lynch; poet and storyteller Kavon Cortez-Jones; choreographers Salamun, Michaele Chaigneau-Norton and Karlies Kelley; visual artist Sherrod Milewski; and designer David Drake. Music is by composer Mark Mantel and Mark Wooldrage. It’s at Next Act Theatre. (John Schneider)
march CALENDAR
Shen Yun
“Handel’s Messiah” WAUKESHA CHORAL UNION
MILLER HIGH LIFE THEATRE
March 4
March 16-18
New York-based Chinese dance ensemble Shen Yun has been performing this review of 5,000 years of their nation’s history for more than a decade now. Since that story doesn’t end with the “happily-ever-after” of the worker’s paradise founded by the Chinese Communist Party, Shen Yun is now banned from their home country. Shen Yun combines traditional Chinese dance with more modern moves, stunning special effects and a nicely blended East-meets-West symphony orchestra. (John Jahn)
“Prokofiev Triumphant” MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA March 9-10
“Voices & Strings” BEL CANTO CHORUS March 11
“Brass at the Border IV” MILWAUKEE FESTIVAL BRASS
Jessica Lang Dance
SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
March 24
Zach Schorsch: WISDOM TEETH DANCEWORKS STUDIO THEATRE
OPENING:
“Bembe Drum and Dance Carnival Celebration” LATINO ARTS March 2
Brookfield’s teenage violin prodigy, Julian Rhee, is the “rising star” of note in this Wisconsin Philharmonic concert at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts. This winner of the Wisconsin Young Artist Competition for 2017 will be the featured soloist in a performance of the very challenging yet highly melodious Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Other works on the program are by French composer Jacques Ibert and the diminutive Austrian giant Wolfgang Mozart. (John Jahn)
Guest conductor Joshua Weilerstein leads the MSO in a performance of French composer Hector Berlioz’s groundbreaking, five-movement Symphonie Fantastique—though he might well have dubbed it Symphonie Hallucinogenique. In addition to performing contemporary composer Christopher Rouse’s Bump, soloist Karen Gomyo joins the orchestra for Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 of 1923. (John Jahn)
Marculescu Showcase: “Rising Stars” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Kithara Duo: “Classical Guitar Concert” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
March 3
March 14
“A New American Frontier” KETTLE MORAINE SYMPHONY
“Sensoria/Electric-Acoustic Music” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
March 4
American composers are celebrated in the Kettle Moraine Symphony’s concert at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in West Bend. Richard Hynson leads the orchestra in American popular classics such as Bugler’s Holiday by Leroy Anderson, Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland and the rousingly rustic overture to the 1972 John Wayne film The Cowboys by legendary film music composer John Williams. (John Jahn)
March 15
“Viva Opera!” FLORENTINE OPERA March 16 and 18 1 6
“Of War and Peace” MASTER SINGERS OF MILWAUKEE March 17-18
“Betsayda Machado y La Parranda El Clavo” LATINO ARTS
March 11
March 2-4
March 17
Chamber Music Milwaukee: “Brahmsian Jewels” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
“Catch A Rising Star” WISCONSIN PHILHARMONIC
Symphony Fantastique MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Milwaukee Children’s Choir: “Spring Recital” MILWAUKEE CHILDREN’S CHOIR
“March Winds” MILWAUKEE MUSAIK
UW-Milwaukee’s faculty music ensemble, Chamber Music Milwaukee, consists of two pianists, a violist, violinist and cellist. Together, they’ll present a concert of chamber music by the great German Classico-Romantic composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) at the campus’ Music Recital Hall Room 175. Precise works are not known at this time, but there’s a gorgeous group of trios, quartets and quintets from which Chamber Music Milwaukee can choose. (John Jahn)
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March 17
March 11
March 11
March 31
Ensemble Caprice: “iLove Baroque” EARLY MUSIC NOW
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March 23
“THE Doctor Visits Milwaukee” MILWAUKEE METRO VOICES March 23-29
“Gods and Mortals” CONCORD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA March 24
The CCO performs a concert featuring classical music reflecting storied legends of gods and humans with god-like ambitions at Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church. Works include Jacques Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène Overture, “Prelude and Liebestod” from Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and “Courtly Dances” from Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana. (John Jahn)
“Between Two Worlds” PRESENT MUSIC March 24
The two worlds of the program’s title are contemporary popular music and contemporary classical—if the latter isn’t an oxymoron. Led by guest conductor David Bloom, Present Music will perform world premieres by Milwaukee hip-hop artist Milo and Brooklyn violinist-composer Sarah Goldfeather, whose music has been described as “poignant” and “whimsical.” Also on tap for the night are works by Berkeley’s eclectic Dylan Mattingly plus Michael Gordon, co-founder of New York’s Bang on a Can, the Big Apple’s analogue to Present Music. (David Luhrssen)
“Passion, Beauty, and Light” FESTIVAL CITY SYMPHONY March 25
Bettman & Halpin UW-WASHINGTON COUNTY (FINE ARTS SERIES) March 30
visual arts
“Clandestine Possessions” and “Family Time” CHARLES ALLIS ART MUSEUM
“Kristin Bauer and Paul Owen Weiner: Clear and Present,” CARTHAGE COLLEGE H.F. JOHNSON GALLERY OF ART
CONTINUING:
Through March 2
“Chair5: Perspectives on Form, Function and Innovation” MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN Through March 3
“Volumes: Stella Waitzkin” JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER Through March 4
“Humanly Possible: The Empathy Exhibition” MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN Through March 10
“Kris Austin Art Exhibit” OCONOMOWOC ARTS CENTER Through March 11
“2018 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition” MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Through March 18
“Allied in the Fight: Jews, Blacks and the Struggle for Civil Rights” JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE Through March 25
“Jaime Hayon: Technicolor” MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Through March 25
“2018 Wisconsin Artists Biennial” MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART Through April 8
Through April 15
“Representing Self: Portraits from the Permanent Collection” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART
seum and Milwaukee Art Museum around two memorable works, WAM’s The Gale and MAM’s Hark! The Lark. The exhibition situates Homer’s work alongside contemporaneous canvasses by English artists. (Tyler Friedman)
“S.V. Medaris—Strange Breeds: Evolution and Selective Breeding” MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART
“HMA DNA: Collection Highlights” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART
“Expansive Threads” LATINO ARTS
Through April 1
“Watercolor Wisconsin” WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Through April 21
“The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip” MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Through April 22
“The Art and Mechanics of Animation: The J. J. Sedelmaier Collection” GROHMANN MUSEUM Through April 29
“Turning To Turner” MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Though April 29
“Designing Paris: The Posters of Jules Chéret” MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Through April 29
“Text Message: Words and Letters in Contemporary Craft” RACINE ART MUSEUM Through May 6
Through May 20
Through May 20
“Beasts: Wild Animals in RAM’s Collection” RACINE ART MUSEUM
March 3-April 19
“Japanese Studio Craft at RAM” RACINE ART MUSEUM
“Gwendolyn Zabicki and Ann Toebbe: At Home” CARTHAGE COLLEGE H.F. JOHNSON GALLERY OF ART
Through June 10
“Gary John Gresl: The Body Farm at Lynden” LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN Through June 21
“Polymer Art: Recent Acquisitions” RACINE ART MUSEUM Through June 24
“Unpacking Karen Johnson Boyd’s Clay Collection at RAM” RACINE ART MUSEUM Through July 22
“Unseen Forces” JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER Through Sept. 2
OPENING:
“High Thread Count: Art Quilts by Pat Kroth” MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART
March 1-May 20
Through May 14
“Resistance, Protest, Resilience” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART Through May 20
“Cynthia Brinich-Langlois: Water Sheds” SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Through June 10
“Featured Artist: John Kearney” WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Through May 12, 2019
March 23-June 9
“Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England” MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Born and raised in Boston, Mass., Winslow Homer grew up close to the skiffs and scraggly fishermen that would serve as the subjects of his celebrated marine portraits. In 1881, Homer travelled to Cullercoats, England, where he painted life along the waterfront. “Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England” was jointly developed by the Worcester Art Mu-
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“RAM Ninth Annual International PEEPS Art Exhibition” RACINE ART MUSEUM March 22-April 8
PEEPS are famously versatile. Eating the marshmallow candy (actually: sugar, corn syrup, marshmallow, food dye and gelatin candy) is the least imaginative manner of dispatching PEEPS—although our hats should be tipped to Californian Matt Stonie, who won the 2017 annual World Peeps Eating Championship by ingesting 255 helpless pseudo-chicks in five minutes. The “Ninth Annual International PEEPS Art Exhibition” continues the Racine Art Museum’s tradition of soliciting visionaries around the world to submit works of art made of or centered around PEEPS. (Tyler Friedman)
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Scenic and Props Designer Madelyn Yee on Marquette Theatre BY SELENA MILEWSKI Madelyn Yee graduated from Marquette University in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in theater arts and a minor in Spanish language, literature and culture. She now works as a scenic and props designer at many prominent local theaters. As a props artisan or master, her credits include Skylight Music Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, KOHL’s Wild Theater, Optimist Theatre, Bronzeville Arts Ensemble and Splinter Group. As a scenic designer, she’s worked with Renaissance, First Stage, Chamber and Forward Theater. Asked about the influence of her Marquette education on her work, Yee says, “Marquette showed me different sides of theater I didn’t see in high school. I went intending to focus on stage management, but tried out all different sorts of fields—the lovely benefit of attending a liberal arts program—and then ultimately landed on design. Marquette really helped me just grow as a human which sounds hackneyed but is nevertheless true. I learned what kind of person I wanted to be, and how I could put that energy into my work.” What does she believe is most special about the Milwaukee theater scene? “I love the size and sense of kinship. It allows me to really get to know the people I’m working with. So many of the artists I’ve met here are warm and helpful and kind which was useful for a starting designer who didn’t know exactly what she wanted from her career yet. It’s just a welcoming and nurturing environment for young folk. “I definitely plan on staying here. That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t mind travelling for shows, but it’s the Midwest mentality that’s really appealing to me. I love the seasons, I love the food, I love the people.”
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destructive manner and at great personal cost? The play begins with a celebration of success at any cost and ends with a plea for change.” (Selena Milewski)
ACT Broadway Bound Showcase (Student Production)
WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE
Book of Days (Student Production)
UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS THEATRE DEPARTMENT (STUDIO 508 SERIES)
April 18-22
Don’t Dress for Dinner SUNSET PLAYHOUSE
April 7
April 19-May 6
BritBeat
Tartuffe (Student Production)
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (WILSON THEATRE AT VOGEL HALL)
April 7
“The IllusionistsLive from Broadway” MILLER HIGH LIFE THEATRE April 8
StorySlam: Last Straw EX FABULA
April 10
Our Town
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (POWERHOUSE)
April 10-May 13
Darn Yankees
WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE
April 12-15
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Student Production) MARQUETTE THEATRE
April 12-22
Doubt
MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE
April 12-29
Things My Mother Taught Me MEMORIES DINNER THEATER
April 13-22
Night Must Fall
OFF THE WALL THEATRE
April 16-May 6
CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY THEATRE
April 20-28
A Piece of My Heart
The Princess and the Pea (Family Friendly)
MILWAUKEE YOUTH THEATRE
April 26-27, May 4
Milwaukee Youth Theatre’s production of The Princess and the Pea differs from your classic fairytale setting with its modernized, “red carpeted” kingdom, but the story is as timeless as they come. A prince is trying to find true love to no avail. A mysterious princess shows up to the castle, but may not be who she says she is. The queen has a test (and it involves the titular pea). Will they live happily ever after? (Rob Hullum)
CARTHAGE COLLEGE THEATRE
April 27-May 5
War is a common theme across film and theater. Most of these works depict the experiences of soldiers serving abroad. Less common are the stories of those who work to support those on the front lines. A Piece of My Heart, written by Shirley Lauro, tells the story of the women who served as nurses during the Vietnam War. In our current times of war and uncertainty, this age-old story is as relevant as it’s ever been. (Rob Hullum)
Anything Goes
Eurydice
UW-PARKSIDE THEATRE
April 20-29
The Little Mermaid (Student Production)
CARROLL COLLEGE THEATRE
FALLS PATIO PLAYERS
April 27-May 6
Cole Porter’s 1934 madcap musical (we’d call it a “rom-com” these days) Anything Goes boasts not just the hit title song but also legendary gems “You’re the Top” and “I Get a Kick Out of You.” Uniquely, it all takes place aboard an ocean liner (a dominant form of international travel back then), the fictional S.S. American. Menomonee Falls’ Patio Players promise “music, dance and laughs” in their production of Porter’s “hilarious shipboard romp.” (John Jahn)
Wait Until Dark
WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE
April 27-May 13
April 20-30
The Fantasticks
“An Evening with Rodgers and Hammerstein” RACINE THEATRE GUILD
April 27-May 20
April 22
For the finale of their trio of musical revue concerts known as the “Signature Spotlight Concert Series,” the Racine Theatre Guild offers up highlights from the voluminous entries in the great American songbook that were penned by the award-winning team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. I’m not kidding when I say “award-winning;” among their many accolades were 34 Tonys, 15 Academy Awards, two Grammys and a Pulitzer Prize. (John Jahn)
Fn A t Ca s s
Into the Woods (Student Production)
COOPERATIVE PERFORMANCE
April 20-29
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WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE
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UPCOMING SHOWS
CLUE: THE MUSICAL March 9-25
Band on the Run
SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (MUSICAL MAINSTAGE)
April 30-May 1
dance OPENING: “Two on Tap” SCHAUER ARTS & ACTIVITIES CENTER April 7
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WI WIND ORCHESTRA CONCERT March 20
DARN YANKEES April 12-15
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Away from the Mirror (Student Production)
CARTHAGE COLLEGE DANCE DEPARTMENT
UWM Symphony Orchestra: “Pictures at an Exhibition, Levy, Lasareff-Mironoff” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
April 7-8
April 6
Faculty Recital: “The Vocal Works of Barber, Verdi and Wagner” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Beauty and the Beast (World Premiere)
“Become Ocean” MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Schumann, Klengel, Turina, Ran PROMETHEUS TRIO
MILWAUKEE BALLET
April 7-8
April 12-15
“Inspirational WomenInspirational Music” WISCONSIN PHILHARMONIC
Splash Dance DANCECIRCUS
April 14 and 21
April 10
Secrets from the Wide Sky (World Premiere)
DANCEWORKS PERFORMANCE COMPANY
Franc D’Ambrosio: “An Afternoon with Phantom” SHARON LYNN WILSON CENTER
April 14-21
April 11
“Springdances” (Student Production) UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS DANCE DEPARTMENT
Four Guyz in Dinner Jackets SOUTH MILWAUKEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER April 13
April 26-29
Faculty and guest choreographers create this end-of-schoolyear showcase with dance students. This year, dance activist Ana Maria Alvarez of Los Angeles’ acclaimed Urban Latin Dance Theatre stages an excerpt from her new work, joyUS, which flips the victim narrative of communities of color on its head by embodying stories of joy, hope and resistance gathered from those communities. Milwaukee’s Dawn Springer presents new work, as does Danceworks’ leader Dani Kuepper with collaborating filmmaker Kym McDaniel. (John Schneider)
Shin-ichi Fukuda: “Classical Guitar Concert” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT April 13
“Florentine After Dark” FLORENTINE OPERA (@ THE CENTER SERIES) April 13-14
music OPENING:
The Queen’s Six: “Sacred and Profane: Music of the Tudor and Jacobean Courts” EARLY MUSIC NOW
“MKE Unplugged: Calum Graham” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
April 14
“Sensoria/Ann Yi” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
April 5
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
April 14
Christina and Michelle Naughton SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
April 6
“Dying Loudly: Opera isn’t Dying, But We Are” (Student Production) UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
April 15
Chamber Music Milwaukee: “Spring Colors” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
April 6
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Robert Schumann is the only famous composer on this program, represented by his intensely romantic Piano Trio No. 1 (1847). However, it’s always nice to hear something new— or at least obscure. Thus, Prometheus Trio will also perform the so-called Kindertrio (Piano Trio, Op. 39, No. 2) by Julius Klengel (1859-1933); Joaquín Turina’s Piano Trio No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 76 (1933); and contemporary Israeli-American composer Shulamit Ran’s Soliloquy (1997). (John Jahn)
Ted Yoder SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER April 20
“Landscape of Guitar” UW-WASHINGTON COUNTY (FINE ARTS SERIES) April 20
“Asher Fisch Conducts Mahler” Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra April 21-22
The Alt IRISH CULTURAL AND HERITAGE CENTER April 21
“Spring Masterworks Concert” RACINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA April 22
Faculty Recital: “Evening of Chamber Music” CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY April 23
“In Memoriam” PHILOMUSICA QUARTET April 23
Wisconsin Lutheran College’s Schwan Concert Hall is the site for Philomusica String Quartet’s 10th season performing jewels of the string repertory. Their April concert is titled “In Memoriam” owing to a performance of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 3 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 30. Composed in 1876, it honors the then-recent death of Czech violinist and composer Ferdinand Laub. Laub was professor of violin at the Moscow Conservatory and a man Tchaikovsky called “the best violinist of our time.” Also on the program are works of Claude Debussy and Arvo Pärt. (John Jahn)
“Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony” MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
“Gwendolyn Zabicki and Ann Toebbe: At Home” CARTHAGE COLLEGE H.F. JOHNSON GALLERY OF ART
Rados Malidzan: “Classical Guitar Concert” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
“Watercolor Wisconsin” WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
April 27-28
April 28
“The Hands of Liberace” MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (WILSON THEATER) April 28
Institute of Chamber Music: “A Tribute to Fine Arts Quartet” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT April 29
visual arts
CONTINUING: “2018 Wisconsin Artists Biennial” MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART Through April 8
“Clandestine Possessions” and “Family Time” CHARLES ALLIS ART MUSEUM Through April 15
“S.V. Medaris—Strange Breeds: Evolution and Selective Breeding” MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART Through April 1
“RAM Ninth Annual International PEEPS Art Exhibition” RACINE ART MUSEUM Through April 8
“Cynthia Brinich-Langlois: Water Sheds” SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS Through April 19
Through April 20
Through April 21
“The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip” MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Through April 22
“The Art and Mechanics of Animation: The J. J. Sedelmaier Collection” GROHMANN MUSEUM Through April 29
“Designing Paris: The Posters of Jules Chéret” MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Through April 29
“Text Message: Words and Letters in Contemporary Craft” RACINE ART MUSEUM Through May 6
“High Thread Count: Art Quilts by Pat Kroth” MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART
“Expansive Threads” LATINO ARTS Through June 9
“Beasts: Wild Animals in RAM’s Collection” RACINE ART MUSEUM Through June 10
“Japanese Studio Craft at RAM” RACINE ART MUSEUM Through June 10
“Gary John Gresl: The Body Farm at Lynden” LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN
Through May 20
“Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England” MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Through May 20
April 15-May 20
“2018 MIAD Senior Exhibition” (Student Exhibit) MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN “Senior Art Thesis Exhibitions” (Student Exhibit) CARTHAGE COLLEGE H.F. JOHNSON GALLERY OF ART
Through June 24
“Unpacking Karen Johnson Boyd’s Clay Collection at RAM” RACINE ART MUSEUM Through July 22
“Unseen Forces” JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER Through Sept. 2
OPENING:
“HMA DNA: Collection Highlights” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART
“Wisconsin Regional Arts Program” OCONOMOWOC ARTS CENTER
“Polymer Art: Recent Acquisitions” RACINE ART MUSEUM
“Resistance, Protest, Resilience” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART
Through May 20
April 14
April 20-May 12
Through May 14
“Representing Self: Portraits from the Permanent Collection” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART
Festival of Arts UW-WASHINGTON COUNTRY
Through June 21
“Featured Artist: John Kearney” WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
Through May 20
film screenings, demonstrations and hands-on activities for the whole family. (Rob Hullum)
Through May 12, 2019
“Stitching History from the Holocaust” JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE April 8-Sept. 23
Kenilworth Open Studios UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS April 14
Kenilworth Square East’s most recent upgrade, an arts studio on the sixth floor, was made possible by a $1 million donation from alumna and local artist Jan Serr and her husband John Shannon. Kenilworth Square East holds an Open Studios event to offer the community a free look inside the studio. The four-hour event allows you to watch these student artists in action, as well as
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“Robin Jebavy: Glass Utopias” SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS April 28-June 7
“Racine Unified Art Exhibition 2018” WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS April 29-May 26
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Mark Davis, Chair of Jazz Studies at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music on His Musical Education BY TYLER FRIEDMAN How did the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music help you grow to be the artist you are? The Conservatory is the institution that is most responsible for our area’s thriving jazz scene, and I’m fortunate to have received my early musical training there. I’ve now been teaching there and serving as the Chair of the Jazz Institute for 25 years. I’ve learned so much from working with hundreds of students, teaching alongside amazing faculty members, and performing with legendary guest artists such as Benny Golson and Phil Woods. What sort of training and resources does the Wisconsin Conservatory offer? We offer lessons and classes for all ages and levels in a variety of styles, and our faculty are teaching in over 50 schools. The Conservatory’s Jazz Institute offers a jam session on the second Friday of each month and master classes by world-renowned artists—all free and open to the public. The Institute also offers concerts by our faculty ensemble, We Six, a summer jazz camp, a high school honors program, school residencies as well as lessons and ensembles for teens and adults. What is unique about learning to play jazz as opposed to other genres? In addition to mastering their instrument, a student of jazz learns how to improvise. This involves assimilating the “language” of jazz through in-depth listening and emulating great players. Improvisation is the creative freedom that makes jazz so exciting. Students of jazz also learn by playing in a group where they develop a strong sense of rhythm and learn how to interact musically with others.
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9 to 5 (Student Production)
Band on the Run
May 2-6
CONTINUING: SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (MUSICAL MAINSTAGE)
Miscast
The Princess and the Pea (Family Friendly)
May 3
Through May 1
Columbo— Prescription Murder
Anything Goes
May 3-19
Through May 13
Wait Until Dark
Dead Man’s Carnival
Through May 6
Don’t Dress for Dinner SUNSET PLAYHOUSE
Through May 6
Our Town
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (POWERHOUSE)
WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE
Through May 13
Always…Patsy Cline MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (STACKNER CABARET)
Through May 20
The Fantasticks
IN TANDEM THEATRE
Through May 20
Mrs. Wrights
QUASIMONDO MILWAUKEE PHYSICAL THEATRE
Multiple Locations Through September (dates TBA)
Celebration
WINDFALL THEATRE
May 4-19
Judy Moody and Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt (World Premiere) (Family Friendly) FIRST STAGE May 4-June 3
Moving Beyond the Battlefield: An Arts Collaboration Between Veterans and Artists (World Premiere) (Student Project) LAKE ARTS PROJECT May 5-6 and May 12-13
Animal Tales: Aesop’s Fables
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
May 9-12
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OPENING:
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (BROADWAY SERIES)
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ALCHEMIST THEATRE
Some say the roots of Peter Falk’s gumshoe go back to the feigned naiveté of Porfiry, the detective from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The archetype first came to life as Columbo in a 1960 screenplay for “The Chevy Mystery Show” and was adapted for Willliam Link and Richard Levinson’s 1962 stage play Prescription: Murder before returning to television with Falk in the rumpled raincoat. The play has been revived occasionally: “Just one more question…?” Alchemist co-founder Aaron Kopec will direct it the comfortable environs of his Bay View theater. (David Luhrssen)
FALLS PATIO PLAYERS
CALENDAR
WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE (CABARET)
MILWAUKEE YOUTH THEATRE
May 4
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Sister Act
RACINE THEATRE GUILD
May 11-27
C’mon Get Happy: Judy Garland
Flyin’ West
May 12-13
May 23-27
SUNSET PLAYHOUSE
As You Like It BOOZY BARD
May 7-9
It’s Too Darn Hot: Cole Porter
SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (CABARET)
May 17-20
Elm Grove’s Sunset Playhouse presents “The Sizzling Songs of Cole Porter” in something of a lavish, extravagant and a little scandalous musical revue of the great composer’s immortal songbook, featuring such ageless gems as “Let’s Misbehave,” “What is This Thing Called Love?” and “I Get a Kick Out of You.” So many more from which to choose! Becky Spice and Jack Wilson perform. (John Jahn)
Season 9 ALL STARS: “Connection” EX FABULA May 18
Oregon Trail: The Play!
OVER OUR HEAD PLAYERS
May 18-June 2
Racine’s volunteer theater company Over Our Head Players ends its 26th season with Oregon Trail: The Play!, which it describes as a “comedy skewering not only the beloved video game from the 1980s and ’90s but American history.” Based on the plot of the classic game, A.J. Allegra’s Oregon Trail: The Play! follows the Bootsmeyer family on their hazardous trek through the Old West. Hold onto your bonnet strings for a ride that features everything from illness and river crossings to highway robbery. (Selena Milewski)
Urinetown
SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE
May 18-June 10
A hit that debuted at the New York International Fringe Festival and went on to claim four Tony Awards, Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis’ satirical musical comedy Urinetown imagines a city plagued by such a severe water shortage that private toilets are no longer tenable. The script’s commentary on bureaucratic callousness hits home, but it’s the show’s loving sendups of musical conventions that made it such a favorite with Broadway fans. (Evan Rytlewski)
BRONZEVILLE ARTS ENSEMBLE
This professional company works to cultivate Milwaukee’s African American theater community and to illuminate the black experience in America. Pearl Cleage’s play is set in 1898 when “women and African American citizens had a legal system stacked against them and gentrification threatened homeownership and often destroyed the safety of their insulated communities,” as artistic director Sheri Williams Pannell describes it. The cast features BAE member Malkia Stampley. Performances are at the Marcus Center’s Vogel Hall. (John Schneider)
Any Number Can Die SUNSET PLAYHOUSE
May 31-June 17
dance OPENING: Svadba-Wedding
WILD SPACE DANCE COMPANY and MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE
May 8-10
MOT will meet the challenges of Ana Sokolovic’s contemporary opera for six women, representing a young bride and her girlfriends on the night before the wedding, performed a cappella with vocal percussion and unusual sound effects. Wild Space women will provide visual counterparts in the Great Hall at Best Place, always busy with actual weekend weddings. These Tuesday-Thursday performances will seat the audience at tables readied for these celebrations of a complex rite of passage. (John Schneider)
Swan Lake
MILWAUKEE BALLET
May 31-June 3
Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s fabulous ballet, Swan Lake, is the tale of a beautiful princess, Odette, transformed into a swan by an evil sorcerer. The plot is ripe for modern interpretation and modernday relevance. Indeed, Michael Pink’s version has been sharpened and shortened to heighten the story’s impact. “The story of yearning and heartache is one of the most compelling in all of ballet,” he says. “I see it as an age-old power struggle for dominance and good triumphing over evil.” (John Jahn)
music OPENING:
“Mighty Giants and The Cauldron of Rebirth” MILWAUKEE METRO VOICES May (dates TBA)
“Hollywoodland: Songs from the Silver Screen” SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS May 2-3
“All Our Own” WE SIX May 3
“All Our Own” finds the Wisconsin Conservatory’s resident sextet, We Six, presenting a program comprised entirely of their own compositions. Firmly rooted in the bop tradition (i.e. encompassing bebop, hard bop, and post bop), We Six presents polished, idiomatically correct and always swinging tunes. Duly inspired by their compositional and improvisational prowess, consider signing up for private lessons with Mark Davis (piano), Paul Silbergleit (guitar), Eric Schoor (saxophone), Eric Jacobson (trumpet), Jeff Hamann (bass) or Dave Bayles (drums). (Tyler Friedman)
UWM Symphony Orchestra Season Finale: “Made in America” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT May 4
“Spring Concert at St. Sebastian Church” CHANT CLAIR CHAMBER CHOIR May 5
“Girls Night Out” WAUKESHA CHORAL UNION May 5
“In the Beginning: The Creation” KETTLE MORAINE SYMPHONY May 6
“Spring Concert” MORAINE CHORUS AND MORAINE SYMPHONIC BAND May 6
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WILD SPACE DANCE COMPANY and MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE
May 8-10
The Magic Flute
FLORENTINE OPERA
May 11-13
The reason this show is titled The Magic Flute and not Die Zauberflöte is because it will be sung in English, not its original German. Uihlein Hall’s orchestra pit will resound with wonderful music, and its stage will be the site of fanciful and mystical action in the Florentine’s production of Wolfgang Mozart’s legendary singspiel; here we follow Prince Tamino and Papageno on their epic quest to rescue the trapped daughter of the Queen of the Night. (John Jahn)
“A New Day” CONCORD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA May 12
“Legends and Masters” FESTIVAL CITY SYMPHONY May 13
The historic Pabst Theater hosts the Festival City Symphony—under their new music director and conductor, Carter Simmons—for a concert of celestial music that brings folktales to life. Featured composers are Carl Maria von Weber, Johannes Brahms, Engelbert Humperdinck and Jean Sibelius—the latter present through his stunning and seamless Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105. (John Jahn)
“Strings Attached” FRANKLY MUSIC May 14
Frankly Music’s season at Schwan Concert Hall amounts to a festival for stringed instruments. As the ensemble’s leader and founder, violinist Frank Almond, says, “Our final concert features a string extravaganza with the rarely heard Grande Sestetto of [Wolfgang] Mozart, along with the much-loved [Johannes] Brahms Sextet No. 1.” Frankly Music welcomes back violist Toby Appel and cellist Nicholas Canellakis who will be making his debut with the group in this concert. (John Jahn)
“The Immigrant Story” BEL CANTO CHORUS May 16
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“Let’s Meet Beethoven” FESTIVAL CITY SYMPHONY (PAJAMA JAMBOREE)
“Representing Self: Portraits from the Permanent Collection” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART
“Gary John Gresl: The Body Farm at Lynden” LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN
Squirrel Nut Zippers SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
“HMA DNA: Collection Highlights” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART
“Polymer Art: Recent Acquisitions” RACINE ART MUSEUM
“Sensuous Ravel” MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
“Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England” MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
“Unpacking Karen Johnson Boyd’s Clay Collection at RAM” RACINE ART MUSEUM
“Festival City Postcards” MILWAUKEE FESTIVAL BRASS
“Wisconsin Regional Arts Program” OCONOMOWOC ARTS CENTER
“Unseen Forces” JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER
“Kindermusaik and the Kitchen Sink!” MILWAUKEE MUSAIK
“Racine Unified Art Exhibition 2018” WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
“Stitching History from the Holocaust” JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE
The Glenn Miller Orchestra SCHAUER ARTS & ACTIVITIES CENTER May 25
“Robin Jebavy: Glass Utopias” SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
“Featured Artist: John Kearney” WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
visual arts CONTINUING:
“Expansive Threads” LATINO ARTS
OPENING:
May 16
Through May 20
Through May 20
May 19
May 19-20
Through May 20
May 20
Through May 20
May 20
Through May 26
Through June 7
Through June 9
“Text Message: Words and Letters in Contemporary Craft” RACINE ART MUSEUM
“Beasts: Wild Animals in RAM’s Collection” RACINE ART MUSEUM
Through May 6
Through June 10
“Senior Art Thesis Exhibitions” (Student Exhibit) CARTHAGE COLLEGE H.F. JOHNSON GALLERY OF ART
“Japanese Studio Craft at RAM” RACINE ART MUSEUM Through June 10
Through May 12
“2018 MIAD Senior Exhibition” (Student Exhibit) MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN Through May 12
“High Thread Count: Art Quilts by Pat Kroth” MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART Through May 14
“Resistance, Protest, Resilience” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART Through May 20
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Through July 22
Through Sept. 2
Through Sept. 23
Through May 12, 2019
“Cedarburg Artists Guild: Eclectic Meanderings” OCONOMOWOC ARTS CENTER May 25-June 17
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Actress Allie Babich on First Stage BY JOHN SCHNEIDER Encouraged by her aunt, Milwaukee actress Debra Babich, Allie began training and performing with First Stage in fifth grade, graduating to its Young Company in high school. The opportunities to practice and to watch professional actors work inspired her to pursue acting as a career. After completing the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theatre’s BFA acting program, she taught Shakespeare at First Stage, acted professionally here and nationally and is now with the American Shakespeare Center repertory company in Virginia. Babich: “At First Stage, I never felt like a “kid” in the room. We were “young performers” and that’s how we were treated. We were expected to work as hard as the adults, and we were prepared for it, too. We learned how to score our scripts, interact with the stage manager, what “tech week” means, and about the jobs that aren’t as visible but are just as important—prop artisans, designers, house management and many others! I think what really sets First Stage apart is that it’s just as important to them to train good people as good actors. That’s the life skills part of “life skills through stage skills.” It’s in the cheer students say as part of their warmup: ‘I can’t is not in my vocabulary. I take risks. I conquer my fears. I am not afraid to lead.’ While that’s good advice for any career, it’s especially good for artists. That mantra has helped me to choose excitement and joy instead of fear when things are in transition.”
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CONTINUING:
Oregon Trail: The Play!
OVER OUR HEAD PLAYERS
Through June 2
Judy Moody and Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt (World Premiere) (Family Friendly) FIRST STAGE Through June 3
Urinetown
SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE
Through June 10
Any Number Can Die SUNSET PLAYHOUSE
Through June 17
Mrs. Wrights
QUASIMONDO MILWAUKEE PHYSICAL THEATRE
Father Knows Best
WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE
June 1-17
Heathers The Musical SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (STUDIO SERIES)
June 7-10
2018 One Act Festival COOPERATIVE PERFORMANCE June 7-24
King Lear
BOOZY BARD
June 11-13
You’re Only Young Twice
MEMORIES DINNER THEATER
June 12-21
Queens of Country
SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (CABARET)
June 14-17
Multiple Locations Through Sept. (dates TBA)
Of Gods, Golems and Frank Sinatra
OPENING:
June 14-24
OFF THE WALL THEATRE
Dead Man’s Carnival
june
CALENDAR
June 1
33rd Annual Original One Act Festival VILLAGE PLAYHOUSE OF WAUWATOSA June 1-17 The longest running festival of its kind in the nation offers Wisconsin playwrights the chance to see their work staged and audiences the excitement of seeing plays that no one’s ever seen. Each 10-45 minute script has its own director and cast; audiences vote their favorites and awards are presented in July. “It’s fun to watch the growth of artists who find a home in community theatre,” says Erico Ortiz of Inspiration Studios, the festival’s site. (John Schneider)
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Peter Pan (Family Friendly) SCHAUER ARTS & ACTIVITIES CENTER
June 15-17
An American in Paris
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (BROADWAY SERIES)
June 26-July 1
dance
CONTINUING:
Swan Lake
MILWAUKEE BALLET
Through June 3
music OPENING:
“Spring Concert: Sounds of a Better World” MILWAUKEE CHILDREN’S CHOIR June 2
“At The Movies” MASTER SINGERS OF MILWAUKEE June 3
West Side Story MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA June 9-10
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA June 15-17
“Sound and Sight” PRESENT MUSIC June 23
visual arts
“Cedarburg Artists Guild: Eclectic Meanderings” OCONOMOWOC ARTS CENTER Through June 17
“Gary John Gresl: The Body Farm at Lynden” LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN Through June 21
“Polymer Art: Recent Acquisitions” RACINE ART MUSEUM Through June 24
“Unpacking Karen Johnson Boyd’s Clay Collection at RAM” RACINE ART MUSEUM Through July 22
“Unseen Forces” JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER Through Sept. 2
“Stitching History from the Holocaust” JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE Through Sept. 23
CONTINUING:
“Featured Artist: John Kearney” WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
“Robin Jebavy: Glass Utopias” SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
OPENING:
Through June 7
“Expansive Threads” LATINO ARTS Through June 9
“Beasts: Wild Animals in RAM’s Collection” RACINE ART MUSEUM Through June 10
“Japanese Studio Craft at RAM” RACINE ART MUSEUM Through June 10
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“Nina Ghanbarzadeh and Ethan Krause” SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
BEST LIGHTING SHOWROOM
June 16-July 26
“The Big Idea VI” (Student Exhibit) LATINO ARTS June 21-Aug. 24
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Playwright Malaina Moore on the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Young Playwrights Festival BY JOHN SCHNEIDER One of three high school students citywide to win production of an original one act in the 2016-17 Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Young Playwrights Festival, Malaina Moore will have her newest play produced this fall by Marquette University where she majors in theater arts. Moore: “I hadn’t written a play before. I was a junior at Rufus King. When [associate artistic director] Marcy Kearns came, she was really good at motivating us. I mean to come into a classroom of majority non-theater students and get so many kids excited about playwriting is amazing. They do this with a lot of schools so she’s giving feedback to hundreds of students. “She had us think about conflicts. My conflict was around black lives, the black community. I wanted to represent the people I knew. She gave me a lot of praise. After the first draft, she said ‘I want you to know I love this.’ I know she probably says that to everyone but she’s one of the people who inspired me to keep going. Kids don’t get that recognition for their work, ever. Then, once I was chosen, it kept getting better. I met so many people, made so many connections. They’d invite me to all types of things, to almost the entire production process. They were very nice. They told me, this is how it works. I had a voice. I came to auditions, of course. It was so cool to see how many people I could have play each part.”
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JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE
414-390-5730 jewishmuseummilwaukee.org
JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER
920-458-6144 jmkac.org
KACM THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER
414-224-3200 mam.org
414-224-9490 milwaukeerep.com
MILWAUKEE BALLET
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
414-271-0711 presentmusic.org
MILWAUKEE THEATRE
414-276-5760 wcmusic.org
414-902-2103 milwaukeeballet.org
414-291-6010 mso.org
MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE
414-221-9332 kacmtheatrical.weebly.com
414-291-7800 milwaukeechambertheatre. com
KETTLE MORAINE SYMPHONY
MILWAUKEE CHILDREN’S CHOIR
262-334-3469 kmsymphony.org
KO-THI DANCE COMPANY
414-273-0676 ko-thi.org
LATINO ARTS
414-384-3100 latinoartsinc.org
LIGHTS! CAMERA! SOUL!
414-499-6366
800-745-3000 milwaukeetheatre.com
414-221-7040 milwaukeechildrenschoir.org
MILWAUKEE COMEDY
milwaukeecomedy.com
MILWAUKEE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
414-388-9104 milwaukeeentertainmentgroup.com
LUMINOUS THEATRE
414-423-9760 mfbrass.org
LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN
MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN (MIAD)
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
414-273-7121 marcuscenter.org
MARQUETTE THEATRE
414-288-7504 marquette.edu/theatre
MASTER SINGERS OF MILWAUKEE
MILWAUKEE METROPOLITAN VOICES
414-778-1940 milwaukeemetrovoices.org
MILWAUKEE MUSAIK
414-276-5760 milwaukeemusaik.org
MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE
888-744-2226 mastersingersofmilwaukee.org
917-684-0512 milwaukeeoperatheatre.org
MEMORIES DINNER THEATER
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC THEATRE
262-284-6850 memoriesballroom.com
414-347-1685 milwaukeepublictheatre.org
414-267-2950 myso.org
414-390-3900 milwaukeeyouththeatre.org
PRESENT MUSIC
PROMETHEUS TRIO
QUASIMONDO MILWAUKEE PHYSICAL THEATRE
414-702-0392 thequasimondo.com
RACINE ART MUSEUM
262-638-8300 ramart.org
RACINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART
262-636-9285 racinesymphony.org
NEXT ACT THEATRE
RACINE THEATRE GUILD/ RACINE CHILDREN’S THEATRE
262-334-9638 wisconsinart.org
MILWAUKEE FESTIVAL BRASS
414-847-3200 miad.edu
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY Orchestra
MILWAUKEE YOUTH THEATRE
luminoustheatre.com
414-446-8794 lyndensculpturegarden.org
PLEIN AIR SHOREWOOD
414-534-6287 pleinairshorewood.com
414-278-0765 nextact.org
262-633-4218 racinetheatre.org
262-560-3179 oasd.k12.wi.us
414-277-8480 ext. 6025 andreaburkholder.com/upcoming
OCONOMOWOC ARTS CENTER
OFF THE WALL THEATRE
414-484-8874 offthewalltheatre.com
OPTIMIST THEATRE
262-498-5777 optimisttheatre.org
OUTSKIRTS THEATRE COMPANY
414-367-6484 outskirtstheatre.org
OVER OUR HEAD PLAYERS
262-632-6802 overourheadplayers.org
PHILOMUSICA QUARTET
414-443-8802 philomusicaquartet.com
REAL TIME
REDLINE MILWAUKEE
SOUTH MILWAUKEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
414-766-5049 southmilwaukeepac.org
SOUTHWESTERN SUBURBAN SYMPHONY
414-427-9428 swssymphony.org
SUEMO: A DANCE EXPERIENCE
suemodance.com
SUMMIT PLAYERS
414-216-3702 summitplayerstheatre.com
SUNSET PLAYHOUSE
262-782-4430 sunsetplayhouse.com
THEATER RED
theaterred.com
THEATRE GIGANTE
414-961-6119 theatregigante.org
THEATRICAL TENDENCIES
414-541-6240 theatricaltendencies.com
UW-PARKSIDE THEATRE DEPARTMENT
414-491-9088 redlinemilwaukee.com
262-595-2564 uwp.edu
RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS
UW-MILWAUKEE PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: ART & DESIGN DEPARTMENT
414-291-7800 r-t-w.com
SCHAUER ARTS & ACTIVITIES CENTER
262-670-0560 schauercenter.org
SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
262-781-9520 wilson-center.com
SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE
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SOULSTICE THEATRE
414-481-2800 soulsticetheatre.org
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UW-MILWAUKEE PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: DANCE DEPARTMENT
414-229-2571 uwm.edu/arts/dance
UW-MILWAUKEE PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: MUSIC DEPARTMENT
414-229-5162 uwm.edu/arts/music
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UW-WASHINGTON COUNTY
262-335-5200 washington.uwc.edu/events/finearts. html
UW-WHITEWATER YOUNG AUDITORIUM
WILD SPACE DANCE COMPANY
414-271-0307 wildspacedance.org
WINDFALL THEATRE
VILLAGE PLAYHOUSE OF WAUWATOSA
WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
414-207-4879 villageplayhouse.org
VOICES FOUND REPERTORY
414-254-2553 voicesfoundrep.com
WALKER’S POINT CENTER FOR THE ARTS
414-672-2787 wpca-milwaukee.org
Saturday, April 21, 2018
WI State Fair Expo Center | 1-2pm VIP, 2-6pm GA
Early bird tickets: GA $40, VIP $70 Limited VIP Tickets available.
shepherdtickets.com This event is for 21+. IDs will be checked at the door. •
WESTPAC
262-789-6406 nbexcellence.org/community/westpac. cfm
414-332-3963 windfalltheatre.com
414-271-3656 villaterracemuseum.org
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WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE
262-547-0708 waukeshacivictheatre.org
262-472-2222 uww.edu/youngauditorium
VILLA TERRACE DECORATIVE ARTS MUSEUM
6th annual
WAUKESHA CHORAL UNION
414-297-9310 choralunion.org
SHEPHERD EXPRESS SPRING ARTS GUIDE
414-276-5760 wcmusic.org
WISCONSIN PHILHARMONIC
262-547-1858 wisphil.org
WOODLAND PATTERN BOOK CENTER
414-263-5001 woodlandpattern.org
WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
262-636-9177 ramart.org
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