Stories indexed under: Theater

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  • Children's Theatre opens door to Waisman Center resources May 9, 2013 The Waisman Center Children’s Theatre series might make fewer headlines than the center’s groundbreaking research. Still, it maintains a valuable place among the center’s offerings. On Sunday afternoons during the academic year, it provides an accessible, welcoming opportunity for children of all ages and abilities to enjoy the arts.
  • Costume designer featured as artist in residence March 24, 2010 There’s no denying that clothes say volumes about the person wearing them. This is true, too, on the stage.
  • Patrick Sims One-man play confronts race issues with examination of lynching victim’s life Jan. 25, 2010 Patrick Sims' brain is crowded with the lives and chatter of imaginary people. He's been listening to them since they moved in some 12 years ago when he visited America's Black Holocaust Museum on Milwaukee's north side.
  • Publicity photo from Imaginary Invalid University Theatre explores obsessions, love in comedy, tragedy Oct. 28, 2009 Class and politics, unhealthy obsessions and forbidden love are common themes explored in two productions being staged by University Theatre this semester.
  • Technicolor peace symbol Slide show: The Making of “Hair” April 20, 2009 UW-Madison’s production of “Hair”, which will close University Theatre’s season, has entailed 24 undergraduate cast members, a guest director, a grueling rehearsal schedule and an ambitious goal of being as authentic as possible.
  • University Theatre season full of partnerships, collaborations July 31, 2008 University Theatre (UT) takes the concept of teamwork to new heights in its 2008-09 season, partnering with three different Madison producing organizations to offer new and varied learning experiences for the students that UT serves.
  • University Theatre presents ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ April 1, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison's University Theatre wraps up its 2007-08 season with an American classic set in pre-Katrina New Orleans, where everything is hot, from the heavy air to the heady emotions.
  • Photo of Ralph Russo Collaboration key to Union Theater’s success March 12, 2008 Ralph Russo, cultural arts director of the Wisconsin Unions and Union Theater director, says that the magic experienced at the Union Theater is the result of a collaborative process: “We are not an ‘I’ organization; we’re a team. At the theater, students drive the programming and the staff works to support that. This arrangement is unique in higher education. Usually, campus performing arts facilities are not connected to campus/student unions.”
  • University Theatre presents ‘The Bluest Eye’ Feb. 19, 2008 “The Bluest Eye,’” an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel, will kick off the spring University Theatre season when it opens on Friday, Feb. 29, at the Mitchell Theatre.
  • Concerts, exhibits, plays among spring events Jan. 28, 2008 There’s no end in sight for the strike at the Writers Guild of America, but that doesn’t mean you need to sit around boo-hooing, watching reruns or mind-numbing reality TV. Much finer entertainments are in the works on campus for the spring semester. See a play, visit a gallery, take in a film and attend a concert, or two or seven. Campus arts groups will present the works of the world-renowned as well as our student artists-in-the-making.
  • Theatre auditions attract national producers, hopeful actors, techies Jan. 25, 2008 Theatre producers from around the country will audition actors, singers, dancers, designers, technicians and managers at the 32nd annual Theatre Auditions set for Feb. 9 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union.
  • Three finalists for Wisconsin Wrights’ new play project announced May 16, 2007 Bruce Murphy, Greg Lawless and Kurt McGinnis Brown have been selected as the three finalists for the first Wisconsin Wrights New Play Development Project.
  • Theater students breathe life into Raven software Feb. 19, 2007 In the studios of Raven Software Inc., Middleton's fast-growing video gaming company, UW-Madison theater graduate Carrie Coon is working through a wildly athletic motion capture regimen - with bullet-dodges, head-kicks, dive rolls and back flips - that will become the raw material for a new femme fatale: an elite-force assassin. Raven's need for a strong base of acting talent led to a unique partnership now in its second year between the company and the UW-Madison theater program.