Fall Arts Guide 2024
Illustration by Timothy Czerniakowski
Shepherd Express 2024
FALL ARTS GUIDE
53212 Presents
5 Points Art Gallery
Acacia Theatre Company
- Acts of Peace: A Journey through One Acts, Oct. 11-27 (St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church)
The Alice Wilds
All In Productions
Alverno Art & Cultures Gallery
American Players Theatre (APT)
- August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, through Sept. 7
- The Virgin Queen Entertains Her Fool, through Sept. 19
- Ring Around the Moon, through Sept. 20
- Dancing at Lughnasa, through Sept. 27
- Constellations, through Sept. 28
- King Lear, through Sept. 28
- Much Ado About Nothing, through Sept. 29
- Nat Turner in Jerusalem, Oct. 17-Nov. 10 (Hill Theater)
The play by award-winning playwright-screenwriter Nathan Alan Davis shines a light on Nat Turner, an enslaved person who paid with his life by leading an 1831 rebellion in Virginia. The revolt was put down with violence. (David Luhrssen)
Aperi Animam
Arts @ Large
Bel Canto Chorus
Black Arts MKE
Black Holocaust Museum
Boerner Botanical Gardens
- Education Center open 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. 7 days a week.
- Botanical Gardens open May 1 – Sept. 10: 8 a.m. – 7 p.m., 7 days a week
Bombshell Theatre Co.
Boulevard Theatre
The Box Theatre Co.
Bronzeville Arts Ensemble
Cabaret Milwaukee
- Frisch, Frei, Stark, Treu: A Puppet History of the Milwaukee Turners, Oct. 11, 13, 18, 20, 26-27 (The Brick House)
If you came of age in Milwaukee during the ’70s and ’80s, Turner Hall was a great place for fish frys. For children of the 21st century, Turner Hall Ballroom is a popular venue for music. Most Milwaukeeans who have frequented the venerable structure in the heart of Downtown have had only a vague idea—at best—that Turner Hall stands for more than fried fish and rock’n’roll. The local Turner Society provided Abraham Lincoln with bodyguards, supported trade union organizers and women’s voting rights. Milwaukee’s three Socialist mayors were members of the society. (David Luhrssen)
Capital City Theatre, Madison
Carroll Players
Carthage College Theatre
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Catey Ott Dance Collective
Cedarburg Art Museum
- Atmospheric Wisconsin: Six Impressions, through Nov. 10
- Reimagined: Doris White, through Nov. 10
Cedarburg Cultural Center
- Cedarburg Artists Guild Annual Juried Exhibit, through Oct. 13
Cedarburg Performing Arts Center
Chant Claire Chamber Choir
Charles Allis Art Museum
Chazen Museum of Art (UW-Madison)
- Petah Coyne: How Much the Heart Can Hold, Sept. 9-Dec. 23
- Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century, through Nov. 10
Choral Arts Society of Southeastern Wisconsin
The Constructivists
- In the Canyon, Oct. 12-26 (Broadway Theatre Center)
Playwright Calamity West explores politics, religion, abortion and more in the 2018 drama In the Canyon. It’s a drama that follows the lives of an ensemble of characters from 2007 to 2067. The challenging script is brought to life under the direction of Jaimelyn Gray in the season-opening production for The Constructivists. (Russ Bickerstaff)
Concord Chamber Orchestra
Covered Bridge Art Studio Tour
DanceCircus
David Barnett Gallery
- Lyrical Visions: The Work of Marc Chagall, through Oct. 12
Accompanying the Jewish Museum Milwaukee’s groundbreaking “Marc Chagall’s Dead Souls” exhibit, David Barnett offers a wide-ranging retrospective of the important figurative modernist, alongside other artists' works that have been directly inspired by his work. (David Luhrssen)
- Animals in Art, Oct. 18-Jan. 11, 2025
Dead Man's Carnival
Door Shakespeare
Early Music Now
Their name isn’t just a lark. The Queen’s Six are an a cappella group chartered by Queen Elizabeth and based in Windsor Castle, where they perform regularly for the royal family and staff. Their wide repertoire ranges from Renaissance polyphony and haunting folk songs to “lewd madrigals” and arrangements of contemporary jazz and pop. And they venture beyond the castle walls to tour the world. (David Luhrssen)
Ex Fabula
Since 2009, Ex Fabula has been connecting community through the art of true, personal storytelling. Ex Fabula, which is Latin for “from stories,” presents storytelling workshops, StorySlams and Community Collaborations where people listen to each other, feel heard, and grow in empathy and understanding. (David Luhrssen)
Falls Patio Players
Festival City Symphony
First Stage
- Pete the Cat, Oct. 4-Nov. 3 (Marcus Performing Arts Center)
Another beloved children’s book character comes to life to open a new season for First Stage as it presents Sarah Hammond’s one-hour musical adaptation of Pete the Cat. The cool, blue cat created by Kimberly and James Dean graces the stage of the Marcus PAC’s Todd Wehr Theater. (Russ Bickerstaff)
Florentine Opera
- Madame Butterfly, Oct. 18-20 Enchanted by opera from an early age, Giacomo Puccini wrote the music for two of the most enduring stories set to music, La Boheme (1895) and Madama Butterfly (1904). The latter narrative of a Japanese girl (only 15!) who loses her life to an American cad has given rise to many contemporary interpretations concerning imperialism and feminism. But overall are the gorgeous melodies, suffused with Puccini’s understanding of Japanese music, and the piercing drama of betrayal and loss. (David Luhrssen)
Forte Theatre Company
- She Loves Me, Oct. 4-13 (Saber Center for the Performing Arts) Forte Theatre Company kicks off their new season with a nod to old-fashioned romance with She Loves Me set in a European 1930s perfume shop. As two clerks fight among themselves, the animosity turns into affection. The films, Shop Around the Corner and You’ve Got Mail were inspired by this sweet-smelling love affair. (Harry Cherkinian)
Four Seasons Theatre, Madison
Frankly Music
Gallery 218
Gallery 2622
Gallery Night and Day
- October 18-19
Milwaukee’s original art hop happens quarterly with a focus on galleries in the Third Ward, East Town and Walker’s Point. (Morton Shlabotnik)
GHS Dramatic Impact
Green Gallery
- Ryan Peter: It Only Works if Everyone Believes It Does, through Sept. 7
Greendale Community Theatre
Grohmann Museum
- Gil Reid and Friends: Working on the Railroad, Sept. 6-Dec. 22
“Retired railroad executive Chris Burger and his wife Rita have made annual gifts to the museum of much of Gil’s calendar work for Amtrak, along with other illustration work. Given the Grohmann Museum’s hallmark of displaying the art of industry, and the railroad’s intimate connection to it, we make exhibitions of railroad art a regular feature,” says the Grohmann’s director James Kieselburg. “Southeastern Wisconsin has a considerable rail following among its thousands of railfans, which makes it a natural for us.” (David Luhrssen)
Grove Gallery
Haggerty Museum of Art
- Material Muses: Medieval Devotional Culture and its Afterlives, through Dec. 22
- Affirmation/Transformation: Fandom Created, through Dec. 22
- The Big 4-0: An Exhibition Celebrating the Haggerty Museum of the Arts Forty Years, through Dec. 22
Harley-Davidson Museum
- Mama Tried: Bringing It Together, through January 2025
- Creating a Legend: Art & Engineering at Harley-Davidson, through spring 2027
Harley-Davidson motorcycles have often featured striking designs in recent decades. This is not a new development. If you imagine that Messrs. Harley and Davidson, tinkering in the tool shed in 1903, were concerned only with making those early bikes run, you’d be wrong. Company cofounder William S. Harley was an artist as well as an engineer. Featured are Harley’s Model 6 Single (1910), Brook Stevens’ FL Hydra Glide (1949) and Willie G. Davidson’s FX Super Glide (1971). (David Luhrssen)
H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art
Hover Craft
Hyperlocal MKE
Inspiration Studios Art Gallery
- Penny DeCamara/Denise Hansen Exhibit, September
- Art on the Plaza VII, September
- Ronni Schmauz and Deb Rucinzki, October
- The Vultures, Oct. 18-20, 25-27 (Theatrical Tendencies)
Irish Cultural and Heritage Center
Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts
- Free Improvisation Sessions, Saturday mornings
- Milwaukee Jazz Institute, Sunday afternoons
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
- Chagall’s Dead Souls: A Satirical Account of Imperialist Russia, through-Sept. 8
Against the Grain: The Remarkable Life of Artist Bernard Perlin, Sept. 27-Jan. 26 Bernard Perlin “is not a household name. As an important and yet often overlooked artist of our time, he should be,” says curator Molly Dubin. Perlin executed social realist posters for the federal government during World War II and progressed to magical realism with an ability to “communicate emotion and engender empathy” that “pulls the viewer into the story he’s telling,” Dubin continues. “He had an extraordinary life and career as a gay Jewish artist, from the early years of Fire Island through World War II to New York City society life.” (David Luhrssen)
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
- Knock First, through Sept. 8
- No Grout, through Oct. 6
- Workplace, through Jan. 19
- Lunch Break: Arts/Industry In Between, through Jan. 5, 2025
- Mad Dash: 50 Years of Arts/Industry, through Feb. 2, 2025
- Clocking In: 2024 Arts/Industry Residents, through March 2, 2025
Kettle Moraine Symphony
- The Planets, E.T. Suite, Sept. 28 (Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School)
British composer Gustav Holst didn’t think The Planets (1918) was his best work. Despite his opinion, the bold orchestral suite, representing the seven worlds closest to the Sun (minus Earth), remains a concert favorite and has influenced numerous scores for science-fiction productions—hence the pairing with John Williams’ music for Steven Spielberg’s E.T. (1982). (David Luhrssen)
Kim Storage Gallery
- Up North: Tim Anderson, Sept. 6-Oct. 12
- Equus Intersections, The Blue Horses 2019-2024: Maggie Robertson, Oct. 18-Nov. 16
Kith and Kin Theatre Collective
Kohler Memorial Theater
Ko-Thi Dance Company
Lake Arts Project
Lakefront Festival of Art
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Madison Theatre Guild
Marcus Performing Arts Center
- Esperanza Spalding, Sept. 17
- Beetlejuice, Oct. 1-6
Like the walking dead, Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (1988) has had a long afterlife. The comedy fantasy horror spoof is returning to cinemas this year as a sequel. Meanwhile, the Broadway musical based on the film opened in 2019 and went on the road post-Covid at the end of 2022. The songs are written by the versatile Eddie Perfect, who also contributed to the musical rendition of King Kong. (David Luhrssen)
- Paul Mecurio’s Permission to Speak, Oct. 19
- Marshall Charloff & The Purple Xperience, Oct. 24
- Recycled Percussion, Oct. 25
MARN Art + Culture Hub
Marquette University Theatre
Master Singers of Milwaukee
Material Studios + Gallery
Memories Dinner Theatre
Menomonee Falls Symphony
MIAD Gallery at the Ave
Milwaukee Art Museum
- Beyond Heights: Skyscrapers and the Human Experience, through Sept. 8
- On Site: Derrick Adams Our Time Together, through May 11, 2025
- Currents 39: LaToya M. Hobbs, Carving Out Time, Sept. 8-Jan. 5, 2025
- Robert Longo: Acceleration of History, Oct. 25-Feb. 23, 2025 Even in the 20th century, Robert Longo’s artwork—often (but not limited to) large-scale charcoal drawings— was described as “apocalyptic Pop.” He fell under the broad heading of Pop Art, but with an unnerving edge. “Acceleration of History” collects Longo’s work from the past 10 years, including his uneasy reflections on climate change, mass migrations, the disruptions of war and disjunctions of politics. (David Luhrssen)
Milwaukee Ballet
Milwaukee Chamber Theater
- An Iliad, Sept.19-Oct. 6 (Milwaukee Youth Arts Center) The Iliad originated as oral rhymes set to music, not entirely unlike hip-hop. In Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s imaginative reinvention, a poet exhausted by war, accompanied by a muse, tells a story of hubris and horror. The music behind the poetry of An Iliad comes courtesy of Milwaukee hip-hop producer Klassik. Brent Hazelton directs the production. (David Luhrssen)
- Montgomery Davis New Play Development Series Reading: Lila Hovey’s Anatomical Hearts, Oct. 7 (Zao MKE Church)
Milwaukee Children's Choir
Milwaukee Comedy
Milwaukee Festival Brass
Milwaukee Film
Milwaukee Fringe Festival
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Gallery
Milwaukee Irish Arts
Milwaukee Jazz Institute
Milwaukee Jazz Orchestra
Milwaukee Makers Market
Milwaukee Makers Market champions local artists, creators, designers and crafters to celebrate the city’s small businesses. This one-stop shop experience provides an inclusive environment for local makers to showcase their talent and connect with Milwaukeeans. (Sophia Hamdan)
- Celebrate Fall, Sept. 15 (Discovery World)
- Halloween, Oct. 20 (Milwaukee Historical Society)
Milwaukee Makers Market champions local artists, creators, designers and crafters to celebrate the city’s small businesses. This one-stop shop experience provides an inclusive environment for local makers to showcase their talent and connect with Milwaukeeans. (Sophia Hamdan)
Milwaukee Musaik
Milwaukee Opera Theatre
Milwaukee Repertory Theater
- The Coast Starlight, Sept. 3-Oct. 6 (Stiemke Studio)
- Women of Rock, Sept. 6-Nov. 3 (Stackner Cabaret)
- Prelude to a Kiss: A Musical, Sept. 10-Oct. 19 (Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts’ Harris Theater)
- Marie and Rosetta, Oct. 22-Dec. 22 (Stiemke Studio) While gospel music is at the root of 1950s R&B and influenced Elvis, few gospel singers have been included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sister Rosetta Tharpe (inducted posthumously in 2018) deserves the honor. Unlike many gospel performers who kept blues and vernacular music at arm’s length, Tharpe embraced the electric guitar and the rhythms pouring from the rural South into Chicago’s South Side. Marie and Rosetta tells the story of Tharpe and her protégé, Marie Knight. They enjoyed a Top-10 R&B hit together in 1948, “Up Above My Head.” (David Luhrssen)
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
- When the Saints Go Marching In, Sept. 20-22 (Pops)
- Scheherazade, Sept. 27-29
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was one of Russia’s great composers from the Romantic age. Drawing from his nation’s traditions, he was a dazzling orchestrator who knew every instrument’s potential and invented new tone colors for them. Enchanted with the Near East, his symphonic suite, Scheherazade, was inspired by the tales of a resourceful woman who fended off murder at the hands of her husband through storytelling. He described Scheherazade as “a kaleidoscope of fairytale images and designs.” (David Luhrssen)
- Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, Oct. 4-5
- Gemma New Conducts Sibelius, Oct. 11-12
- Poulenc’s Gloria, Oct. 25-26
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra
Milwaukee Youth Theatre
MKE Black Theatre Festival
MKE Studio Tour
Self-guided tour is an opportunity to visit artists at work in their studios (Oct.5-6)
Morning Star Productions
Museum of Wisconsin Art
- Chris T. Cornelius: ukwé·tase (newcomer/stranger), through January 2025
The three-dimensional structure blends contemporary and traditional architectural aspects in unique and compelling ways, while exploring themes of familiarity and alienation within the environment it seeks to capture. The work represents humankind’s place in a world to which it is both resident and stranger, creating a sense of wonder and wariness of the world around us, the Milwaukee-born Indigenous artist says. (Michael Muckian)
MOWA | DTN (Saint Kate–The Arts Hotel)
MOWA on the Lake (St. John's on the Lake)
- Xiaohong Zhang: East Meets West, through Sept. 13
Next Act Theatre
- The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Sept. 11-Oct. 6
The protagonist is a professional wrestler paid to lose matches. “The play grapples with themes of identity, authenticity, race, what it means to be American—which is especially top of mind with the upcoming election—and how we are sold a version of what American exceptionalism is,” says director Michael Cotey. “It examines how challenging it is to be authentic and tell your own story, especially if you have black or brown skin in this country, and how people can get flattened out and reduced into something that can easily be sold and bought and consumed, like a t-shirt or an action figure.” (David Luhrssen)
Nō Studios
North Shore Academy of the Arts
Northern Sky Theater
Oconomowoc Arts Center
Oil a City Gallery
Optimist Theatre
Outskirts Theatre
Overture Center for the Arts, Madison
- Bluey’s Big Play, Sept. 24-25
- Jess and …, Oct. 5
- Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Oct. 5
- Steve Martin & Martin Short, Oct. 6
- Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Oct. 10
- Shrek the Musical, Oct. 11-12
- Churchill, Oct. 12-13
- Lewis Black, Oct. 19
Paint Cedarburg: A Plein Air Painting Event
Peninsula Players
Philomusica Quartet
PianoArts
Portrait Society Gallery
- About Place: Pat Hidson and Elaine Scheer, through Sept. 7
- SEAMS II: Criss Cross, Sept. 20-Nov. 9 The theme of the Portrait Society’s second group fiber show is journeys, travel and border crossing. Among the artists represented in SEAMS II are Heidi Parkes, Rosemary Ollison, Anika Kowalik, Monica Rezman, Liv Aanrud, Lisa Barber, Rosemary Ollison and Ella Clemmons. (Morton Shlabotnik)
Present Music
- Holy Lift-Off, Oct. 31 (Milwaukee Art Museum)
- Raven Chacon: Concert/Fundraiser, Oct. 14 (Miller Caves)
Prometheus Trio
Quasimondo Physical Theatre
Racine Art Museum
- Collection Focus: Frances and Michael Higgins, through Oct. 12
- RAM Focus: Patrick Nagatani, through Oct. 12
- Zero Waste Objects, through Oct. 12
- Craft in Color, through Jan. 11, 2025
- In Between: Contemporary Artists Working in Two and Three Dimensions featuring Dennis Lee Mitchell, through Jan. 25, 2025
- Low: Rene Amado, through July 2025
Rene Amado showcases the cars, bicycles, and community of lowrider culture through photography and video. “Low” blends his photography with custom bicycles and other small vehicles from various builders/makers (including himself) and a video in which he expands on the story of lowrider culture through interviews and documentation. (Morton Shlabotnik)
Racine Symphony Orchestra
Racine Theatre Guild
Real Tinsel Gallery
- Flat File Project, through forever
Real Tinsel’s Shane McAdams has been compiling an indexed collection of Wisconsin artists working on paper, stored and displayed in flat drawer cabinets in the basement lounge of his gallery. He has gathered a variety of drawings, etching, prints and more. “I curate them on the basis of which work is of professional caliber, not my own taste,” McAdams said. The public is invited to peruse. (David Luhrssen)
Renaissance Theaterworks
Sacra Nova Chorale
- Great Music Returns Home to a Great Cathedral, Oct. 13 (St. John’s Cathedral, with Milwaukee Musaik)
Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel
- Colin Mattes: What’s Right, through Oct. 13 (The Vitrine)
- Sara Sowell: Multiple Exposures, through Oct. 13 (The Closet)
- Seth Ter Haar: Cruising Community, through Oct. 13 (The Gallery)
- Nick Lamia: PyroCB, through Oct. 13 (The Space)
Sculpture Milwaukee
- Actual Fractals, Act II
The 2024-25 exhibition of works by renowned international artists is on view throughout Downtown Milwaukee. A sequel to their 2023-24 exhibition, Act II is interested in how monumental public art can explore the connectedness of human beings, nature and animals. (Morton Shlabotnik)
Seat of Our Pants Reader Theatre
Skylight Music Theatre
- Waitress, Oct. 4-27
Sara Bareilles based her Tony and Grammy nominated musical on the 2007 film. Waitress tells the story of Jenna Hunterson, a baker and waitress in an abusive relationship with her husband. After Jenna unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she begins an affair with her doctor. Looking for ways out of her troubles, she sees a pie baking contest and its grand prize as her chance. (Morton Shlabotnik)
South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center
- Glen Miller Orchestra, Sept. 28
Glen Miller was last seen on Dec. 15, 1944, when he flew from England to entertain troops on the European continent. His plane went missing. Miller’s impeccable big-band arrangements buttressed a string of hits—“In the Mood,” “Moonlight Serenade,” “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” “Tuxedo Junction”—that defined an era. The orchestra with his name continues to perform the old songs. (David Luhrssen)
- Some Enchanted Evening, Oct. 23
Sunset Playhouse
- Arsenic and Old Lace, Sept. 5-22
Arsenic and Old Lace was one of Hollywood’s most hilarious screwball comedies. The 1944 film starred Cary Grant, tossed into a house of raging eccentrics. Frank Capra adapted the story from Joseph Kesselring’s play, a long-running hit on Broadway. (David Luhrssen)
- Eagles Revisited, Sept. 16-17
- From Bandstand to Broadway, Oct. 10-13
- Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5, Oct. 17-Nov. 3
- Welcome to Vegas, Baby! Oct. 21-22
- David Seebach: Illusions in the Night, Oct. 25-27
Theatre Gigante
- Dust, Oct. 25-Nov. 3 (Kenilworth 508 Theatre)
The two-person play by one of Hungary’s top contemporary playwrights, György Spiró, concerns a couple struggling to stay afloat in the new reality of a post-Communist society. And then they win the lottery. “The couple travels through 75 minutes of whirlwind reasoning and discussion as they face this opportunity that rarely comes around to anyone. Spiró loads the stage with many vital and pertinent issues, seen through the eyes of the couple. Handled with a sense of humor and deep understanding, this play touches the heart and inspires the mind,” says Gigante’s Co-Artistic Director Isabelle Kralj. Her partner, Mark Anderson, will direct. (David Luhrssen)
Third Avenue Playhouse, Sturgeon Bay
Thrasher Opera House, Green Lake
- Mary Mack, Sept. 7
- Larry McCray, Sept. 13
- Melissa Carper, Sept. 14
- Cimarron 615, Oct. 4
Tooth-and-Nail Gallery
Tory Folliard Gallery
- Summer in Wisconsin, through Sept. 7
- Rodger Bechtold: In Response to Nature, Sept. 14-Oct. 12
- Paul Swaydon Grebel: Rooms, Sept 14-Oct. 12
- Fred Stonehouse, Oct. 18-Nov. 16
The work of Wisconsin painter Fred Stonehouse teems with detail and specificity. Its superficial resolution and directness almost seem to spurn any sort of abstract interpretation. Even the most uninitiated viewer would refrain from referring to any of his cast of tightly rendered objects and characters as “abstract.” Every piece of content is identifiable if not nameable. (Shane McAdams)
UW-Parkside Theatre
UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts
- Continuum 24: Where Everything Begins, Sept. 6-28 (Kenilworth Square East Gallery)
- Experimental Tuesdays, Sept. 10 (UWM Union Cinema)
- Woven Images, Sept. 13-28 (Kenilworth Square East 3rd Floor Gallery)
- Sing Out! Tenor-Bass Festival, Sept. 20 (Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts)
- vJohn Hancher Guitar Recital, Sept. 20 (Music Building Recital Hall)
- Experimental Tuesdays, Sept. 24 (UWM Union Cinema)
- Experimental Tuesdays, Oct. 1 (UWM Union Cinema)
- Korea Day Celebration and Symphony Orchestra Concert, Oct. 4 (Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts)
- Fall Choral Showcase, Oct. 5 (Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts)
- Chorale Fall Concert, Oct. 6 (Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts)
UWM Theatre/Peck School of the Arts
UWM Union Art Gallery
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UW-Whitewater Crossman Gallery
UW-Whitewater Young Auditorium
Var Gallery & Studios
Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum
- Emily Robertson: Dyed Well, through Oct. 13
- A Century from Sopra Mare, through Dec. 22
Village Playhouse, Wauwatosa
Voices Found
Walker's Point Center for the Arts
Warehouse Art Museum
Water Street Dance Milwaukee
Waukesha Civic Theatre
- Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida, Sept. 13-29
- Mars Lost, Oct. 4-13
West Allis Players
West Bend Theatre Company
West Performing Arts Center
Wild Space Dance Company
Wild Space has earned a reputation for its ongoing series of site-specific performances. The free performance at the West Side park overlooking Harley-Davidson explores the park’s particular landscape and historical significance. The dancers will perform a dynamic dance, traversing the concentric circles of the park’s wheel-inspired amphitheater—circular design suggesting the wheeled vehicles for which Harley is known. (Morton Shlabotnik)
Windfall Theatre
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music
Wisconsin Lutheran College - Center for Arts and Performance
Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Art
Wisconsin Philharmonic
Woodland Pattern Book Center
- Dream History Tour of Riverwest, Sept. 8
- New & Improved Music, Sept. 19
- Poetry Reading: Ashley Williams and Pita Daniels, Sept. 21
- Open Mic, Sept. 27
