Milwaukee’s Rising Talent
New voices in theater
Creative outlets are essential to a community's long-term well-being, yet theater remains one of the most delicate species in the cultural ecosystem of any city. Because it relies on disparate, shifting factors, fresh talent is a must. All too often, the most capable young actors leave town after reaching a certain level of success, moving on to places like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. Top talent seems to stay in Milwaukee only if the actors have fallen in love and decided to settle down, start a theater company or both... |
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A Curious Case of F. Scott Fitzgerald
We crawl into the world on all fours and-unless cut short-exit life with the aid of a cane. Aging normally begins in infancy and ends in old age, unless your name is Benjamin Button. Reversing the natural order, he was born an old man and died as a baby. Director David Fincher (Seven) freely adapted The Curious Case of Benjamin Button from F. Scott Fitzgerald's dark if humorous meditation...
Engaging Correspondence
Theater Review
A dialogue between a relentless young woman and a famous, reclusive author plays out in endearing shades of human emotion as the Boulevard Theatre presents the local premiere of Victor L. Cahn's Roses in December. Anne Miller stars as Carolyn Meyers, a graduate student working in the alumni office of Prescott College. The play opens as she is writing a letter to author Joel Gordon (David Ferrie) in an effort to engage him in a dialogue. Gordon is reluctant to do...
The State of Art
Art Preview
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The beginning of the new year brings with it both a cautious optimism regarding the country's change in political administrations and concern about the global economy. Several leaders of Milwaukee's creative community express their thoughts on the state of art in light of these momentous events. Racine Art Museum (RAM) Executive Director Bruce Pepich has more than 30 years of experience in Wisconsin art management. Under his direction RAM has become one of the top Fine Craft museums in America. So we asked him about... |
Murder Short & Sweet (Chicago Review Press), edited by Paul D. Staudohar
Book Review
Along with science fiction, fantasy and horror, the murder-mystery genre has retained an avid readership as mainstream "literary" fiction has receded. Indefatigable anthologist Paul Staudohar gathered a broad collection of mostly 20th-century stories into the aptly titled Murder Short & Sweet. It can't be called a representative survey, but the volume includes masters of the form beginning with Arthur Conan Doyle and ending with recent award-winners Clark Howard and Lawrence Block. Several stories have seldom been anthologized and may be out of...
Be Embraced, Ye Millions!
Classical Preview
Though some rudimentary sketches for a Tenth Symphony were eventually found among his belongings, it is hard to imagine where Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) could have taken the symphonic genre after the completion of his D Minor Symphony-a work written a dozen years after his Seventh and Eighth Symphonies and a fitting culmination of Beethoven's symphonic output. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 has been called the "Choral Symphony," but that is misleading and a mistake in emphasis, undervaluing the three purely orchestral movements that precede the choral finale. But the title (which was not Beethoven's) understandably...
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In 1964, the time of Doubt, no one spoke of pedophile priests, even if the Roman Catholic Church was already riddled with them. Directed by John Patrick Shanley from his own play, one of the most provocative recent productions on a Broadway that has surre
As if guided by evil voices, Hitler rose remarkably from nobody artist to master of Europe, aided by timing and abetted by luck. He survived, unscathed, several plots to kill him. Valkyrie dramatizes the one that nearly hit bull's-eye, a conspiracy by Ger
Although the wacky, anonymous, eyeball-mask-wearing members of The Residents make a point of labeling it a collection of "pop songs," The Bunny Boy isn't simply a pop album. It's also a cryptic Internet series that "inspired" the album, a live performance
Steve Grimm's place in Milwaukee music history remains secure for having fronted one of the city's most prominent bands to make it to a major label. It's been a while since Bad Boy was a happening entity, but Grimm remains vital-if inextricably linked to
General Billy Mitchell was predicting the future of aerial warfare when a restaurant opened near the airfield that would bear his name. Under different names and...
