Forward Theater is debuting its 10th anniversary season with the Wisconsin premier of Skeleton Crew, written by award-winning playwright Dominique Morisseau. The play will run at the Overture Center, 201 State St., Madison, from Sept. 6 to 23.

Off the Wall Theatre is reimagining a Shakespeare classic. Director Dale Gutzman will adapt The Taming of the Shrew to a more contemporary social climate. The play has often been at the center of discussions on misogyny. Gutzman will examine the play — which has often been the center of disc…

The American Players Theatre stirred nationwide controversy when it cast white actor James DeVita as the biracial character Morris in Athol Fugard’s Blood Knot.

Kameron Michaels stands apart from her fellow RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants.

Milwaukee-area audiences are blessed with a wide variety of world-class performing arts experiences. From The Milwaukee Repertory Theater to the Florentine Opera, the Skylight Music Theatre to the Milwaukee Ballet, arts organizations in southeast Wisconsin cater to a full range of theatrical…

Milwaukee-area audiences are blessed with a wide variety of world-class performing arts experiences. From The Milwaukee Repertory Theater to the Florentine Opera, the Skylight Music Theatre to the Milwaukee Ballet, arts organizations in southeast Wisconsin cater to a full range of theatrical…

Cutting-edge Milwaukee performance artists and the community that supports them will convene Aug. 25–26 for the third annual Milwaukee Fringe Festival. 

Lillie Langtry, the toast of the Victorian London stage, has had many male admirers, but none as prominent as the Prince of Wales. 

A dancer’s life comes with glory and suffering, but it’s often through the pain that a dancer recognizes what lies at the heart of the art.

Local nonprofit Feast of Crispian uses plays by William Shakespeare to help military veterans strengthen their emotional reserves and cope with post-traumatic stress disorder. 

Comedian-writer Lizz Winstead was once told by an employer — as he was firing her — that “comedy is not a good tool for social change.”

Another Brick in the Wall , an opera based on Pink Floyd's The Wall album has made its U.S. debut.

When the temperature tops 80 degrees and Milwaukee theater stages go dark, where do actors and technicians spend their summers?

According to an old theater saying, “Dying is easy, comedy is hard.”

There is a famous anecdote that perfectly characterizes Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s first super-agent who represented some of the silver screen’s leading lights in the 1970s and ’80s.

Art is often an exploration of an artist’s innermost thoughts and feelings — in turns revelatory and cathartic. But art also can serve as a refuge for others, a balm to weary souls that helps them heal.

Fans of Broadway need look no farther than the touring version of An American in Paris to see what dancer Christopher Howard has described as the “next generation” of musicals.

When Brenda DeVita, artistic director of the American Players Theatre, needs to reaffirm the Spring Green troupe’s artistic direction, she looks to a hand-scribbled Post-it Note over her desk: “Classic = Always-ness + Now-ness.”

Talking to Milwaukee Ballet’s artistic director Michael Pink about any ballet offers an insider’s insight into the art form.

Pearl Cleage remembers clearly the moment of conception for her play Flyin’ West, and the experience still startles her.

Participating venues and lineups have been announced for the third annual Cream City Comedy Festival.

Bill Florescu, general director of the Florentine Opera Company, is always eager to discuss Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. But that eagerness is even more pronounced as the Florentine prepares to mount a production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute this month to close out its 2017–18 season.

In a world where people have to pay to pee, can anyone be truly free?

When Caryn Churchill’s Top Girlswas written and first staged in London in 1982, Margaret Thatcher was midway into her 15-year tenure as Britain’s first female prime minister.

War is hell, and that certainly was true with America’s involvement in the Vietnam conflict during the 1960s and 1970s.

It’s true that family members tend to resemble each other, but few resemblances are as striking as those among members of the fictional D’Ysquith family.

The iconic actor finds his stride reinventing classic music and literature, enthralls Milwaukee audience on Tax Day.

What do you get when you place two teenagers and the poetry of Walt Whitman in the hands of America’s most-produced playwright?

In Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s classic play, the character of the Stage Manager always has the first and last words about doings in the small town of Grover’s Corners. 

In February, a contingent of World Wrestling Entertainment superstars toured the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and talked about the racial struggles of the Deep South as part of a Black History Month video package.

Forward Theater Co. has announced its 2018-19 lineup celebrating its 10th anniversary season with performances that pay tribute to the company’s history of diverse storytelling.

Until the Flood — a play by Dael Orlandersmith at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater that runs through April 22 — powerfully explores the effects of racial divisions within a Midwestern city. 

Cornering Michael Pink when he’s in the process of creating a world-premiere ballet is like trying to capture a sunbeam.

In playwright Caryl Churchill’s mind, being a successful woman in a “man’s world” is a difficult, often contradictory and ultimately messy process that doesn’t always yield the desired results.

The word “corteo” is Italian for cortège — the solemn procession most often staged as part of a funeral.

Have you ever found yourself watching an episode of Iron Chef and thinking, “this would be a lot more entertaining if the chefs were also dancing and wearing less clothing?”

Cooperative Performance has announced its 2018-2019 season with five projects that explore female relationships and gender role expectations, censorship, our perceptions of reality and mental health.

The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents Doubt, A Parable, a Pulitzer — and Tony — winning play directed by MCT producing artistic director C. Michael Wright. Follow Sister Aloysius Beauvier on a personal crusade with devastating consequences as she sets out to unveil the secrets of a Catholic…

Comedian Kathy Griffin is embarking on her comeback, some nine months after she provoked outrage — and lost much of her work — by posing with a fake severed head that appeared to depict President Donald Trump.

Dael Orlandersmith is bringing to the Milwaukee Rep Until the Flood — her tour-de-force exploration of the 2014 shooting of black teen Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. 

When Florentine Opera’s upcoming Viva Opera! takes the Uihlein Hall stage March 16 and March 18, the annual performances of opera’s greatest works will feature award-winning English lyric soprano Kate Royal, who’s making her Milwaukee debut.

Would you make a deal with the devil trading your immortal soul for what you wanted most in the world?

The renowned comedian and actor Adam Sandler will be returning to his roots as a standup comedian for a comedy special featuring friend and costar Rob Schneider. The special will run for two nights in April at the Pabst Riverside Theater.

On Feb. 27, the Renaissance Theaterworks announced its 26th season of providing roles for women onstage (and off) with its 2018-19 season lineup. “She Blinded Me with Science” will feature three mainstage productions written by female playwrights. The announcement came as part of Renaissance…

Two women from very different backgrounds form a complex, often uneasy, alliance in Black Pearl Sings! continuing at Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Stackner Cabaret through March 18.

Playwright Bruce Graham drew from personal experience when he wrote The Outgoing Tide, a tale of regrets and resolution between an elderly couple and their adult son.

Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size, now in production by the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, is a rough-hewn and poignant vehicle that evokes the complicated dynamics of human brotherhood.