Tradition...Tradition!

The Tony Award Winning Musical Fiddler On The Roof comes to the Milwaukee Marcus Center June 14-19, 2011!! 

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Fiddler On The Roof - Touring Show Feature

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Cheknov Reading @ Ten Chimneys

On behalf of our friends at The Rep and Ten Chimneys:

On Monday, May 2 MRT's talented Acting Interns will be participating in a reading at Ten Chimneys. They will present Chekhov: Two Hours, Four Plays which includes The Dangers of Tobacco, The Proposal, The Festivities and The Bear. The program begins at 7 pm.

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Songwriting Seminar in Waukesha

This is cool!

How To Write Songs For Film/ T.V with Janey Street
The Milwaukee Chapter of Nashville Songwriters Association International presents a workshop with professional songwriter, Janey Street on Saturday May 21, 2011 (9:30 am - 4:30 pm) and a day of private consultations on Sunday May 22, 2011.

For full details, please go to Songwriting Seminar: How to Write Songs for Film/TV with Janey Street

Stone Soup Opens Tonight!

Come see Danceworks Performance Company's Stone Soup - the fascinating and final concert of the season at Sweet Water Organics. Performances run all weekend. 

Don't forget to sign up for your free tour when you buy your tickets online or by calling (414) 277-8480, ext. 6025. 

Check out ThirdCoast Digest's great article about the show!

Wicked Divas Coming to MKE

MSO Pops:  Wicked Divas

May 27-29, 2011

Uihlein Hall

They lit up Broadway. Luminous voices that have brought audiences to their feet. And now, the be-"witch"-ing Julia Murney & Jennifer Laura Thompson — stars of Broadway's Wicked — pair up for showstopper after showstopper. From Ragtime, The Music Man, Evita, My Fair Lady and, of course, Wicked, plus hits from Hollywood.

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SWAG Deal of the Day

Up to $10 off on seats to the hit musical Rock of Ages! 

Rock stars former "American Idol" finalist Constantine Maroulis and opens Friday, April 29th at the Milwaukee Theatre. All Facebook fans of the Southeast WI Arts Guild receive our exclusive rate on this and other great productions! 

Click "like" today and save! 

Plus....check out this great jsonline preview of Rock of Ages..."A Rock Musical for Dudes!" 

Lunch @ MAM

Milwaukee Art Museum Express Talk:

Frank Lloyd Wright

Thursday, April 28  @ 12 noon

Take an artful lunch break with a 30-minute introduction to the featured Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century exhibition.

Directorial Debut @ UWM

Tonight at UWM:  Former Milwaukee Rep Artistic Director Joseph Hanreddy's directorial debut at the Peck School of the Arts. Aimee and Jaguar opens tonight at 7:30pm in Kenilworth Studio 508! Walk-up tickets still available for $5!

More information about Peck School of the Arts

A Favorite From Aurum Design

A favorite from the creative team at Aurum Design in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This short film was created as part of the 48 Hour Film Festival. The entire project was written, filmed and edited within 48 hours. Soundtrack by Sleepcomesdown was also written, recorded and mixed within the same constraints while the film was being created.

French & German: A Melodious Combination

From our friends at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music: 

Prometheus Trio season finale tonight at 7:30pm...don't miss this wonderful program of Ravel, Boulanger, Schumann and Beethoven!

Third Coast Digest article

Go to The Domes!

More ideas for Spring Break!! 

This week at the Mitchell Park Domes - Rocky Mountain Spring!
Hours: Mon-Fri: 9 am–5 pm

Admission Rates: $5 - $6.50 per person

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Go for 'Baroque'!!

Waukesha Choral Union presents the All-Beethoven concert, April 30, 2011, 8:00 p.m. in Shattuck Auditorium on the Carroll University campus. The performance of four works by Ludwig van Beethoven includes the Mass in C major and Choral Fantasy.

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Visit Betty Brinn!

Fun for the little ones!! Betty Brinn Children's Museum is open Monday-Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm. 

Featured exhibits: The Nursery & Garden Shop, Smokey Bear & Woodsy Owl - Home Sweet Home, Main Street, Brady Corporation, Jr. and Under Construction - Go Green!

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Water Week @ Discovery World!

This Week is Water Week @ Discovery World!! 

Join DW for this special week-long focus on water! Enjoy Water-Related Projects in the Kohl’s Design It! Lab. Experience the new MillerCoors Thirst Lab. Take a Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Reiman Aquarium. Special displays from the Milwaukee Harbor, Model Boat Clubs, and more. 

April 25-29 only | 9am-5pm

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New from Aurum Design Studios

Excited to share this creative gem from Aurum Design Studios in Milwaukee's Third Ward. Aurum recently created the opening title sequence for the new Roger Ebert Productions show At The Movies.

Registration Open for The Milwaukee 48 Hour Film Project!

The 48 Hour Film Project comes to Milwaukee on the weekend of June 17th. Filmmakers from all over the Milwaukee area will compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning film will go up against films from around the world. 

Information & Registration 

 

Cleaning House is a Winner

Cleaning House - First Place Winner of the 48 Hour Film Project Milwaukee 2010.

Jack & Jill Tumbles into Sunset Playhouse

Uprooted Theatre presents:

Jack and Jill 

April 22 - April 24, 2011. 

at the Sunset Playhouse 

Where do relationships take us? Is love enough? How hard are you willing to try? Enjoy this staged reading that will make you laugh and sigh. Observe self discovery and personal change. And most of all, feel the characters undeniable yearning.

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UWM Represented @ Cannes!

Six UWM Filmmakers work selected to be screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Incredible!! 

Milwaukee = Indie Film Town USA!

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Boulevard Ensemble Theatre - Season Finale

Now playing at Boulevard Ensemble Theatre: 

Two 2 Go - A Village Wooing and Pullman Care Hiawatha

The Boulevard closes its 25th anniversary season with a doublebill of two rarely-staged one-acts, including celebrated playwright George Bernard Shaw's delightful marital romp Two 2 Go - A Village Wooing and noted playwright Thornton Wilder's soulful regular comedy Pullman Care Hiawatha

Information & Showtimes

Free Movie Tonight!

FREE Flick at the Landmark Downer theatre tonight (April 21, 2011) at 7:00pm...

New Garage Explosion!! In Love With These Times

New Garage Explosion is a documentary about the revival of the grungy garage rock community—featuring the likes of Black Lips, The Dirtbombs, The Oblivians, Smith Westerns, and the late Jay Reatard. Seating is limited.

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Math Gets Musical with Adding Machine

Skylight Opera Theatre presents:

Adding Machine - A Musical

May 20 - June 12, 2011

Original Music: Joshua Schmidt. Libretto: Jason Loewith & Joshua Schmidt. 

Darkly comic and heartbreakingly beautiful, Adding Machine is an adaptation of Elmer Rice’s 1923 Expressionist drama. It tells the story of Mr. Zero, who after 25 years of service to his company is replaced by a mechanical adding machine. 

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Call For Flim Entries!

It's begun! 2011 Call For Entries Now Open!

The 3rd Annual Milwaukee Film Festival

September 22 – October 2, 2011

Now accepting feature and short film submissions from all genres. The final deadline for all entries is June 15. 

Milwaukee = Film Town USA!!

More Information & Entry Requirements 

Where is Miss Nelson?!?

 

First Stage Children's Theater presents:

MiSs Nelson's MisSing!
Opens April 29, 2011 at Marcus Center's Todd Wehr Theater)

For kids three and up

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You never know what you've got until it's gone, and the students in Room 207 are about to find out the hard way. Originally produced by First Stage in 2003, this classic is back with a brand new scene and musical number. 

Cirque de la Symphonie

Cirque de la Symphonie presented by the MSO

Friday, April 29 & Saturday, April 30

Experience a dazzling, awe-inspiring performance when cirque meets symphony. The best of the symphonic repertoire sets the stage as aerialists fly overhead and acrobatic feats are performed to classical music. Discount available to Facebook friends of Southeastern Wisconsin Arts Guild!  

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Rock On!

Rock of Ages

Friday, April 29 - Sunday, May 1

Milwaukee Theatre 

SWAG has your discounted seats to this hit musical! Rock of Ages captures the feeling of a 'live' rock concert for audience members. The musical features songs from Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Steve Perry, Poison, Asia andothers. 

For SWAG discount, click here. (PW: metal)

Mahalia! Comes to the Marcus

Premiering at the Marcus Center

Mahalia! 

Friday, April 22, 2011 

(runs through May 1)

A jubilant celebration of the life and music of one how captivated a nation through her powerful vocals and magnetizing spirit. Mahalia Jackson's melodious gospel styling fascinated kings and queens, presidents and leaders of the free world as she was proudly deemed the "Queen of Gospel Music". 

Show Infomation 

 

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Shakespeare Coming to the Park Soon!

It's almost time to reserve your (FREE) seats to the Optimist Theatre June 2011 production of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare! 

Optimist Theatre begins to take seating RSVP's around the end of April/beginning of May and the guaranteed way to be among the first to know is to subscribe to the OT newsletter. 

See you at Twelfth Night!

"Midsummer" Ends Tomorrow!

WCT PlayMakers & The ACAP Players present:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespeare.

The WCT PlayMakers and the ACAP Players join forces for the fifth season with this incredible adaptation of the Bard’s classic fairytale. Produced by special arrangement with Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre.

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"IRS" at Sunset Playhouse

And you thought dealing with the IRS was over...

On-deck at the Sunset Playhouse: 

Love, Sex, and the I.R.S.

by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. 

Performances: April 28 - May 22, 2011. 

Sharing a room can help a fella save a dime, but sharing a tax return is a little trickier. When an audit notice comes due, bosom buddies do what any self-respecting taxpayer would do: they figure out who looks better in a dress.

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Venus & Adonis and Dido & Aeneas @ Florentine Opera

Venus & Adonis and Dido & Aeneas. 
by John Blow and Henry Purcell
Opens May 13, 2011 
Marcus Center - Vogel Hall

The Florentine Opera presents an unprecedented double-bill featuring two timeless Baroque works, transporting you to an alluring world of gods and goddesses, passionate love and glittering melodies. The intimacy of Vogel Hall's jewel box theater is the perfect setting to experience the lush music and breathtaking scenes. 

Performance dates: May 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21 & 22, 2011. NOTE: Tickets are selling fast-May 13th performance is SOLD OUT. Best seats and availability on May 18 & 19.

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Florentine Opera - the 2011/12 Season

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Jim Higgins looks ahead to the Florentine Opera's 2011-2012 season. Highlights include: 

Puccini's Turandot (November 4 & 6, 2011); Love Songs from Vienna to Broadway (February 10, 11 & 12, 2012); Floyd's Susannah (March 16 & 18, 2012); Mozart's Idomeneo (May 18 & 20, 2012) 

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Spring is a Season for Choral Collaborations

Milwaukee Choristers present:
Post Meridian 
April 15-16, 2011 - 7:30 pm
St. Sebastian's 
5400 W. Washington Blvd., Milwaukee

Enjoy evening-inspired music including selections by Aaron Copland, Johannes Brahms, George Dyson and Patricia Ilika Black. A special feature will be the Choristers’ first performance of John Rutter’s “Te Deum.” You’ll also hear special guests, the Milwaukee Youth Chorale. 

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MAM Book Salon - this Saturday!

MAM Book Salon: Death in a Prairie House 

Saturday, April 16, 10:30 am.

Join other art and reading enthusiasts for this series of Frank Lloyd Wright–themed book salons. Supplying both a gripping mystery and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the tragedy. 

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LOL with CSz!

The Southeastern Wisconsin Arts Guild is very pleased to announce our community partnership with a true Milwaukee institution - ComedySportz! 

Friends of the SWAG on Facebook/LinkedIn receive $2.00 off at the door at the ComedySportz Friday Night Show! ComedySportz is Live interactive comedy for the whole family!

Learn more about ComedySportz

Be Our Guest!

The Most Beautiful Love Story Ever Told Comes to Life!  Disney's Beauty and the Beast is coming to the Milwaukee Theatre April 15-17, 2011.  

Beauty and the Beast is based on the 1991 Disney film. Seven new songs were written for the musical. 'Beauty' ran on Broadway for 5,464 performances between 1994 and 2007, becoming Broadway's eighth-longest running production in history.  

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AND....

SAVE up to $10 per ticket  when you reserve your seats through SWAG!! Facebook/LinkedIn fans of the Southeastern WI Arts Guild are entitled to receive our exclusive group rate - find out how!

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Les Mis is Coming!

The New 25th Anniversary Production of Les Miserables comes to the Marcus Center!!
April 19 - 24, 2011

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Kenilworth Open Studios this Saturday!

A yearly celebration of Peck School of the Arts faculty and students. The public is invited to experience three hours and five floors of art, music, theatre, film and dance. 

Enjoy a scene from the Musical Theatre production No, No, Nanettecheck out performances from BFA acting students, see a mask-making demonstration and watch a presentation by Peck School alumni-founded Youngblood Theatre Company. 

Free & open to the public! 

Kenilworth Open Studios

!925 E. Kenilworth

Saturday, April 16

11am - 2 pm

Festival City Symphony - Season Finale

Festival City Symphony closes its season with a concert featuring the music of Felix Mendelssohn, Bruch and Beethoven. 

The program begins with Beethoven’s Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus. MSO concertmaster Frank Almond will perform as soloist in Max Bruch’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. FSC will also perform Felix Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony, profound yet brilliant and a fitting “Season Finale”.

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Let's get unruly...

Unruly Music

April 14-17, 2011

the Marcus Center

The next generation of concert artists. The latest in digital performance and multimedia. Since 2006, Unruly Music has been producing virtuoso performances of postclassical music in Milwaukee. Spanning a wide variety of genres and styles, the series explores contemporary trends in chamber music, improvisation, and electronic sound.

Information & Tickets 

(414) 273-7206

 

Conversatory Nights Season Finale

Conservatory Nights at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music

Season finale: 3 Bass Hit 

Thursday, May 12 at 7:30pm

$18 general admission, $14 seniors and students.
Call 414/276-5760 to order tickets. 

Music for three double basses. Join John Babbitt, Jim Paolo and Jeff Hamann for an evening in celebration of the lowest of the low, the foundation of harmony, the root to your tonic.

Just the Tax MAM

Next MAM After Dark: 
Tax MAM
Friday, April 15, 2011
5 pm - midnight

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There are no "IRS extensions" on this one; this is your last chance for an After Dark viewing of the drawings, models, furniture, videos, and more of Wisconsin's native son and "America's greatest architect," Frank Lloyd Wright. 
 

Calling Young Writers!

For the young writers (grades 5 - 12) in your life: Creative Writing Camps fashioned after what adult writers wish they'd have had when they were kids. Kim Suhr, Director - Red Oak Young Writers, LLC.

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The New Materiality @ MAM

Currently on display at MAM - 

The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft 

March 10–June 12, 2011 

Make it part of your MAM After Dark experience!

Emperor's Private Paradise Coming to Milwaukee...

Coming to the Milwaukee Art Museum in June, 2011...
The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City

The Emperor’s Private Paradise ushers in the Summer of China, so named because the Museum will feature five exhibitions on Chinese art, offering a rare opportunity to view objects spanning three thousand years of China’s history.

Greg & Steve at Marcus Center

Greg and Steve Presents Kids: Jumpin' and Jammin' with Greg & Steve

Monday, April 11 @ Uilhlien Hall

Performances:  10:00 am & 12:30 pm
Tickets: $8.00 / $7.50. 

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Greg & Steve “educate, motivate, enrich & entertain”. Their music has become an integral part of curriculum in across the nation!!

Learn to Improv this Summer!

ComedySportz offers a unique summer camp for creative kids (ages 8-15) called Improv Camp. 

CSZ will be running half-day sessions throughout the summer. Kids will learn how to play improv games, become more confident and learn to be a member of a team. Kids will learn games applicable to situations in school, on the playground and in every day life. If you've got a creative kid, this class is perfect!!

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This is part of a series about camps for creative kids. We hope this information will prove useful for parents throughout southeaster Wisconsin.  Check back for more summertime ideas!

"The Hundred Dresses" - Added Performances

Performances have been added to First Stage's The Hundred Dresses:

Sunday, April 17  

1 & 3:30 pm 

This widely popular production addresses the issue of bullying in a way that can be understood and appreciated by all. "Would you have the courage to stand up for someone, even if it meant that you might be picked on, too?"

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