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Ex Fabula Encourages People to Tell their Stories
Executive director Megan McGee discusses Ex Fabula, and Festival City Symphony talks about upcoming concerts. Read more
Milwaukee's Fall 2019 Classical Music Calendar
Here's a comprehensive list of all of the classical music performances scheduled for Fall 2019 in Milwaukee. Read more
Performing Arts Weekly: March 28-April 3, 2019
Highlighting this week’s arts’ scene, The Constructivists beckon you To Fall in Love at The Underground Collaborative, and the Festival City Symphony plays music of Aaron Copland in Pabst Theater. Read more
Performing Arts Weekly: Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 2018
In Tandem Theatre presents a world premiere based on the life and times of traveler, poet, hobo, journalist and political activist Carl Sandburg. Read more
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Performing Arts Weekly: May 10-16, 2018
This week, we look at a musical tribute to the legendary Judy Garland at Sunset Playhouse, as well as two classical music concerts by Frankly Music and the Festival City Symphony. Read more
Classical Music Preview: March. 22, 2018
The coming week includes the Concord Chamber Orchestra’s concert, “Gods and Heroes,” the Venezuelan Afro-Soul quartet Betsayda Machado y La Parranda El Clavo visiting Latino Arts and the Festival City Symphony’s concert, “Passion, Beauty and Light.” Read more
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Classical Music/Dance Preview: Jan. 25, 2018
The Festival City Symphony honors “Saints and Heroes,” the Concord Chamber Orchestra’s season sampler concert offers “People Power,” and the Fine Arts Quartet’s 55-year run of Milwaukee concerts comes to a grand finale. Read more
Performing Arts Weekly: March 23, 2017
The ‘Mockingbird’ Lands First Stage and Autism Society riff on Harper Lee By John Jahn Dutch American author Kathryn Erskine won 2010’s National Book Award for Yo,Performing Arts Weekly Read more
Performing Arts Weekly, Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2017
Bess Wohl’s American Hero opens at the Soulstice Theatre on Jan. 27 and runs through Feb. 11; the Festival City Symphony continues its season by “Going for Baroque” at The Pabst Theater on Jan. 29; Momentum, with Milwaukee Ballet II danc... Read more
Performing Arts Weekly 9.28
The Taming by heavily produced modern playwright Lauren Gunderson runs at Next Act Theatre, Sept. 29-Oct. 23. Read more
Festival City Symphony
Festival City Symphony closes its Symphony Sundays season with “Bigger is Better,” a concert including works that Music Director Monte Perkins says “epitomize the Romantic Era, using a large orchestra and grand themes that were described... Read more
Anthony Wood Will Show You The Funny
Much like taxes, friction and gravity, Humor is a powerful force. Like any powerful force, humor can be used for good, evil or...profit. This month in Madison, local ambassador of funny Anthony Wood (best known locally for writing A Cudahy.. Read more
Festival City, Fine Arts Quartet, Frankly Music
The Festival City Symphony’s first fall concert, “American Celebration,” takes place Sunday, Sept. 13 at the Pabst Theater. Sept. 13 also witnesses the Fine Arts Quartet at UW-Milwaukee’s Helene Zelazo Center. Finally, Frankly Music hono... Read more
A Rousing Russian Festival Finale
Monte Perkins leads the Festival City Symphony in works by Tchaikovsky and Borodin, concluding the orchestra’s Symphony Sundays season. Read more
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Festival City Symphony presents Sounds of the Sea
Festival City Symphony performs “Seascapes” with work by Wagner, Debussy and Bridge as part of its Symphony Sundays series at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb.15 at the Pabst Theater. Read more
Festival City Symphony Marches Right Along
Men and women have been falling into line behind the sound of fifes, drums and bugles since time immemorial. Eventually, military marches became processionals as they migrated from battlefields to stages, cathedrals and boulevards. The musi... Read more
Early August Jinx?
So the whole situation Tuesday night (Aug. 4) was weird enough all on it’s own.But what if I told you that it happened exactly a year to the day after the <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080805&content_id=3255585&vkey=ne.. Read more
Green Bay Packers Going to American Idol Finale?
If this is true, it’s seriously one of the oddest sports crossovers I’ve heard in awhile. AmericanIdol top 3 contestant Danny Gokey is from Milwaukee and he’s in towntoday to get footage for Idol to show during next week’s show. Theycall it hom.. Read more
Brewers have 19 picks signed
Less than a week after the First Year Players Draft, the Brewers have signed contracts with 19 of their 54 picks, including 2 of their top 5.<a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080610&content_id=2886440&vkey=news_mil&fex.. Read more
Festival City Symphony: Don’t Go Russian Off
Sergei Rachmaninoff's notorious “Piano Concerto No. 3,” a composition so trick Don’t Go Russian Off ,Today in Milwaukee Read more
