Strollers Theatre, LTD. is proud to finish its 61st season by opening The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare on May 4th. “A sad tale’s best for winter,” a child tells his mother, only moments before their world is darkened by a jealous king. Wrongly accusing his wife of infidelity, Leontes acts as judge and jury […]
The Winter’s Tale
Strollers Theatre, LTD. is proud to finish its 61st season by opening The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare on May 4th. “A sad tale’s best for winter,” a child tells his mother, only moments before their world is darkened by a jealous king. Wrongly accusing his wife of infidelity, Leontes acts as judge and jury […]
Madison Shakespeare Co: ‘Henry the Fourth’ at the Bartell ...
England is in chaos. The country’s leaders are about to slug it out in a winner-take-all fight. And history’s greatest blowhard calls for more wine. Madison Shakespeare Company’s Henry the Fourth is the center of the Shakespeare’s Rarer Monsters season at the Bartell Theatre, presented February 9-17, 2018, in the Evjue Stage. Tickets available now. Directed […]
Rhinoceros: Savagery is Simpler than Empathy
Imagine living in a world, where all the people around you — authorities, politicians, neighbors, even trusted friends and colleagues — one by one inexplicably metamorphose into unthinking, violent and wildly dangerous beasts. If that metaphor strikes a little close to home these days, it’s an indication that a revival of Eugene Ionesco’s groundbreaking 1959 […]
Amadeus Opens at the Bartell Theatre on Friday June 2nd
In his 1998 book, “Outliers,” author Malcolm Gladwell makes the case that if you want to become an expert at something — playing or composing music, for example — all you need to do is put in 10,000 hours of diligent practice. No genius required. Writing two decades earlier, playwright Peter Sheaffer took a diametrically […]
Are We Delicious? Double Delicious
8’Oclock buzz Bob Jacobson interviews guests Tony Trout, Deborah Hearst and Dan McCoy of Are We Delicious? presents Double Delicious, their 22nd (and also 23rd) show written, rehearsed and premiered in a single week. Drawing at random, the two ensembles of Madison performer/writers will write short plays for each other to act. Working together in […]
