Review: DIARY OF A WIMPY KID is 'Most Likely to Delight Your Kids' at FIRST STAGE
by Kelsey Lawler - April 18, 2024
Joshie says respect your parents, follow your dreams, and take your kids to see Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Musical at First Stage. Directed by Julie Woods-Robinson with musical direction by Paula Tillen, this spunky show runs through May 5th in Milwaukee and is a great one for young kids.
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Review: SKYLIGHT Enlists Tim Rice's FROM HERE TO ETERNITY for Season Finale
by Kelsey Lawler - April 15, 2024
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY follows the lives of the soldiers of G Company based in Hawaii in the days leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. The story was inspired by author Jones’ own experiences during the war—but how does that story translate to the stage?...
Review: SPRING AWAKENING at Skylight Music Theatre
by Sofia Ascorbe - March 05, 2024
At its best, Spring Awakening smartly and gut-punchingly calls out religious and bourgeois hypocrisy and shows the (very literal) grave dangers of society’s obsession with innocence and sexual purity on the very youth that this obsession claims to protect. Here, on Skylight Music Theatre’s stage, it...
Review: MAMMA MIA! Dazzles at Milwaukee's Marcus PAC
by Sofia Ascorbe - February 25, 2024
25 years after its first production, Mamma Mia! the musical is making the rounds with a stop at Milwaukee's own Marcus PAC. Famously based off the book by Catherine Johnson and featuring music by ABBA, the story centers around Sophie, who is set to get married in Greece, and the mystery of her biolo...
Review: LITTLE WOMEN Through a Real, Modern Lens at Milwaukee Repertory Theater
by Kelsey Lawler - January 22, 2024
What did our critic think of LITTLE WOMEN at Milwaukee Repertory Theater? Real. Just as you are. Those are a couple of the key themes in Kate Hamill’s new adaptation of the classic Little Women. On stage now at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater under the direction of Marti Lyons, Little Women opens wi...