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September 09,2016
by Michael Muckian
Milwaukee’s Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and Madison’s Overture Center for the Arts are entertainment venues that strive to meet a wide range of cultural and artistic needs.
Both venues offer modern amenities and multiple theaters of various sizes that serve as home bases for many of the top performing arts companies in each community. And when it comes to hosting the Broadway Across....
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September 09,2016
by Wisconsin Gazette
Like Milwaukee, Madison also has a packed season of theater in store for 2016–2017.
Forward Theater Company
Forward Theater Company kicks off its season this month with Someone’s Gotta Do It (Sept. 22–24), its fourth annual monologue festival. A dozen playwrights have contributed monologues about the impact of jobs on their lives.
Next up, 4000 Miles (Nov. 3–20), a 2013 Pulitzer Prize....
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Classical Music and Arts,
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September 09,2016
by Michael Muckian
Blend the best of music and the best of theater and what do you get? Why, opera, of course. But that’s not to say appreciating opera is easy.
“Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice,” operatic tenor Andrea Bocelli once said. “All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sens....
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Entertainment,
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September 08,2016
by Michael Muckian
Milwaukee’s theater companies take to the boards this season with a staggeringly wide range of productions. From the largest venues to the smallest, the city’s theater companies have something on the schedule for audiences of all stripes.
MILWAUKEE REP
Mark Clements, artistic director of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, begins his seventh season with a one-two punch of a timeless jazz piece ....
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Dance,
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September 08,2016
by Wisconsin Gazette
Wisconsinites enjoy entertainment at many levels, prices and places. This year’s preview of the 2016–17 performing arts season focuses on the largest and best-known performing arts groups and venues in Milwaukee and Madison, but they’re just the tip of the iceberg in a state with a remarkable array of options, from Racine to Bayfield, La Crosse to Door County. In addition, UWM and UW-Madison....
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August 26,2016
by Associated Press
Sometimes even Barbra Streisand needs a little help from her friends. The 74-year-old stage and screen legend decided early on that her 36th studio album would feature Broadway duets.
So she called on some of her friends and favorite actors, including Anne Hathaway, Daisy Ridley, Hugh Jackman, Chris Pine and Bradley Cooper, to bring her vision to life.
The result, Encore: Movie Partners Sin....
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August 25,2016
by Michael Muckian
Nihilism argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose or intrinsic value. That philosophy often is linked with anomie — the despair and breakdown of social bonds among individuals and their communities.
Nihilism and anomie are on full display in Endgame, perhaps the bleakest of Samuel Beckett’s black comedies, which premiered this month at Touchstone, the little black box theater on....
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August 25,2016
by Associated Press
American audiences will get the rare chance to catch a sneak peek of the new Miss Saigon before it opens on Broadway next spring. They just have to go to a movie theater.
A filmed version of the musical’s live 25th-anniversary celebration in London will make its world premiere on some 175 U.S. movie theaters on Sept. 22, some six months before the same production with the same leading actors ....
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August 24,2016
by Associated Press
During an hour-long chat at his Los Angeles home, Henry Winkler does impressions of George Foreman, Terry Bradshaw and William Shatner (his co-stars in the new NBC reality series Better Late Than Never), walks like a ninja who suddenly sports jazz hands, and improvises a scene as the intolerant acting coach he plays in a new HBO comedy.
The 70-year-old entertainer is visibly animated as he disc....
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August 18,2016
by Associated Press
Groundhog Day is back, this time on stage. Is it deja vu, or something new?
A musical based on the much-loved 1993 movie about a jaded weatherman forced to live the same day over and over has opened at London’s Old Vic Theatre at the start of what producers hope will be a journey to Broadway.
Britain’s theater critics were largely enthusiastic the day after the show’s gala premiere, pr....
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