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Review: Dark Comedy Wrestles with Father-Daughter Relationship in I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard in Milwaukee

One of Milwaukee’s newer theaters, The Constructivists, ends its fifth season with a crowd-pleasing production of Halley Feiffer’s I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard. In this 2015 play, a […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • April 21, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Galileo’s Daughter by Remy Bumppo Theatre Meditates on Family and Science

    Galileo’s Daughter, a world premiere being presented by Remy Bumppo Theatre, is more a meditation on family and science than a play in a strictly theatrical sense. The story is […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 17, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Goodman’s The Cherry Orchard Presents Robert Falls’ Talent in Full Bloom

    For more than 35 years, Robert Falls has led the Goodman Theatre to become one of the country’s very best regional houses. Past triumphs include both starry Broadway transfers (Night […]

  • Doug Mose
  • April 15, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Jagged Little Pill Is a Visceral and Beautiful Look at the Myth of Suburban Perfection

    I remember Alanis Morrisette back in the mid-’90s on MTV. Her album Jagged Little Pill was ubiquitous on the radio and on a continuous loop in my daughter’s bedroom. The […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 14, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Motherhouse at Rivendell Theatre—The Devil Is in the Details

    Annie & her aunts gather around the kitchen table, sharing stories & updates. It seems quite idyllic until all hell breaks loose in Motherhouse. Seated left to right: Jessica Ervin, Mary Cross, Meighan Gerachis, Jane Baxter Miller & Tara Mallen.

  • Kim Campbell
  • April 11, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: A Soldier’s Play, a Murder Mystery, Explores Racism Among the Military Yesterday….and Today

    Near the end of A Soldier’s Play, set on a segregated Army base in the Jim Crow South in 1944, a white captain says to his Black counterpart, “I was wrong […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 5, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Promethean’s A Town Called Progress Provides Some Humor But Takes Itself Too Seriously

    Ida is smart and tough. She’s mayor and police chief in her new town of Progress, but she still can’t get the pump to pump water. At least that’s the […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 4, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: A Little Too Much of the Same in Dying for It by the Artistic Home

    Although Semyon, played by Daniel Shtivelberg, the main character of Moira Buffini’s play Dying For It, lives in post-revolutionary Russia, his struggles are pointedly timeless and engender a theatergoer’s sympathy. […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • March 29, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Redtwist’s Babel Explores the Pursuit of Human Perfection

    Survival of the fittest means that a species that adapts to its environment will be the best suited to reproduce—aka Darwinism. Playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger’s Babel presents a dystopian view of […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • March 28, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Highwaymen, Hookers, and Thieves: The Threepenny Opera at Theo Ubique

    The songs in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera remain standards: “Pirate Jenny,” “Tango Ballad,” and especially “Mack the Knife,” which is arguably the world’s most famous murder […]

  • June Sawyers
  • March 24, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Heartache Overshadows Black Lives in Milwaukee Rep’s Seven Guitars

    Black history month may be over but, in Milwaukee, a perspective of Black lives is offered this month in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars. Milwaukee Repertory Theater, in conjunction with Cincinnati […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • March 20, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: In Joan and the Fire at Trap Door Theatre, the Storytellers Battle Over History but Joan Still Burns

    Joan and the Fire, Trap Door Theatre’s latest production, by Romanian playwright Matei Vișniec, takes us back to the Middle Ages to argue about history. The story is told by an […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • March 19, 2023
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