by Howie Magner | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
Theater professor Anne Basting has been named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, making her the first University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty member to earn the esteemed John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s highest honor and the sixth person to earn a fellowship...
by Elliott Puckette | Aug 1, 2016 | Magazine Article
On April 23 at 7:00 am a small group of people met at the top of a hill in rural southwest Wisconsin. For the next 24 hours, they took turns speaking the words of one of the most prolific and influential writers in human history. All the world’s a stage,And all the...
by Joseph Borgwardt | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
In the Fall of 2010 an unlikely group of actors set to work transforming Luther Manor Senior Living Community in Wauwatosa into an interactive venue for live theatre. Familiar facility settings—resident rooms, the dining hall, the sanctuary—became part of a living...
by Gwendolyn Rice | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
I could feel a draft moving through Milwaukee’s Broadway Theatre Center’s rehearsal hall that snowy January afternoon. The artistic directors from Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and Forward Theater Company leaned back in their folding chairs. “Whenever you are ready,”...
by Bob Skloot | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
January 5, 2010 • “Trusting Self and Universe” As the adage has it, journeys begin with decisions. In my case, the decision is to combine the Jewish mandate for tikkun olam (“repairing the world,” in Hebrew) with an awareness that we must spend...
