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Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s 9th Young Playwrights Showcase features three plays by high school writers. By Jeff Jordan - Jan 26th, 2021 06:06 pm //end headline wrapper ?> Marcella Kearns, associate artistic director of Milwaukee Chamber Theatre One of the things that regional theater does for our community is reaching out to students. Even if they do not make theater a career, young people can learn from the experience. For instance, says Marcella Kearns, associate artistic director of Milwaukee Chamber Theatre: “My goal is to foster storytellers. The abil...

Milwaukee Opera Theatre ‘zoirèe’ premieres a new musical, 'In the Clouds'. It’s fun. By Dominique Paul Noth - Jan 25th, 2021 03:23 pm //end headline wrapper ?> Clouds. (Pixabay License). I was pleased to be invited to the rather intimate online premiere of the Milwaukee Opera Theatre’s first “Zoirèe,” rather mischievously named to conjure up images of those exclusive salons or private home soirees where cultural insiders gathered in small groups to see new stage or concert works – only now we do it on Zoom. This one, a conversational recitative...

Theater in the Before and After times Gwendolyn Rice watched a lot of theater this year, even after live productions were shut down As we all know, this year was strange. Every part of our lives was upended, and for those whose work involves live performances, this was an understatement. Collectively, we have lost so much during the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with epic loss of life and livelihoods, we have lost intimate connections with friends and loved ones. We have also lost the experience of being an audience — united in a time and place, attention rapt, heartbeats in sync, inhaling a ...