Review, Stages, Theater, Theater Festival

Dispatch: Midwest Premiere of Morisseau Play Highlights Milwaukee Black Theatre Festival

At a time when many regional theater companies are pulling back on their operations due to funding and other issues, Milwaukee’s Black Theatre Festival has expanded from one week to […]

Anne Siegel /
Stages, Theater

Review: Dancing with Joy at Broadway in Chicago’s Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations

That drumbeat hits and then you hear a voice like no other—“I know you wanna leave me but I refuse to let you go!” The Temptations were like no other […]

Kathy D. Hey /
Stages, Theater

Review: Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline Explores the Troubled School to Prison Route at Victory Gardens

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The pipeline in Dominique Morisseau’s play is the school-to-prison path followed too often by young people from disadvantaged backgrounds because of harsh school and police policies. The route is explored […]

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