Review: Where Camelot Began—Rose Kennedy at Renaissance Theaterworks in Milwaukee
Guest review by Anne Siegel Chicago-based actor Linda Reiter is bringing her acclaimed portrayal of Rose Kennedy to Milwaukee in Rose:…
Review: To Kill a Mockingbird Isn’t Your Parents’ Mockingbird, But It Tells a Powerful Story
Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird is not the same story you read in high school or reread last year. It’s not the…
Review: In After the Blast, a Play About Environmental Disaster, a Robot Named Arthur Steals the Show
Zoe Kazan’s play After the Blast is set a few generations in the future—underground. An environmental disaster has made “upstairs” unlivable and…
Review: Invictus Theatre Shatters the Illusion of the American Marriage in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid o Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee at Invictus Theatre Company
Review: New Steppenwolf Ensemble Theater Sparkles With Seagull, in Which Everyone Is Miserable
Seagull by Anton Chekhov adapted by Yasen Peyankov
Review: Timeline Theatre Presents the Soul of a Nation on Display in The Chinese Lady
The Chinese Lady by Timeline Theatre Company
Review: Wired by Kinetic Light Smashes Barriers and Demonstrates Equitable Artistic Access
Projections of light traced the movements of the dancers on the floor, shadows of them spinning and bouncing in their…
Review: With The Old Man and the Pool, Mike Birbiglia Returns to a Winning Formula of Heart and Humor
Over the last 15 years or so, chances are you’ve come across comedian, author, filmmaker, podcaster and storyteller Mike Birbiglia.…
Review: Ribaldry and Laughs in Matt Murphy’s Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man
Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man
Review: House Theatre Unearths the History of Haiti with The Tragedy of King Christophe
If we depended on the news media to learn the history of the island nation of Haiti, we would not…
Review: In Red Orchid’s Tense Last Hermanos, Two Brothers Are Desperate to Escape Across the Border
Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta is a play about two brothers, set at some time now or in the recent past…
Review: Porchlight’s Excellent Spring Awakening Rings an Alarm
Just over 130 years ago, when the German Empire was young and the 19th century was old, the German expressionist…
