THE DRAMA DEN

It's insanity. It's football, and vomit, and kilts, and puppets. It's forwards, and backwards, and inside out. It's William Shakespeare. ...

"Utter and complete lack of communication is the true basis of any happy family!" 37 Postcards, running at Lake Country Playhouse through...

Delve into what it’s really like to be “living in America, at the end of the millenium” with the 20th anniversary tour of Jonathan Larson...

All photos by Liz Lauren. As published in the December issue of the KM Perform Express Newsletter. Tempered dialogue masks sexual, threat...

Forward Theater Company’s I and You opens with Caroline, a severely ill teenager, using her hair comb to threaten an unexpected visitor… ...

As published in the November issue of the KM Perform Express Newsletter. At the strike of 7:30 PM, the city of Waukesha sings the tune of...

As originally published in The Capital Times on June 19th, 2017. Photo by Liz Lauren Drums are heard first, like the thunderous heartbeat...

From which an excerpt was published in The Capital Times on May 14th, 2017. Glitzy tap sequences, flaming maple donuts, a tribe plagued b...

Photo by Joan Marcus The girls are beautiful, the orchestra is beautiful… The era is ugly. Cabaret gives an unforgiving stare at 1931 Ber...

Between a Pulitzer Prize winning script, masterful direction, and honest acting, the company of August: Osage County brings to life a hea...

Photo by Dahlia Katz Boy meets horse. It’s love. Boy meets miners. It’s cannibalism. In this stage adaptation of Trey Parker’s 1993 indep...

“There aren’t any set rules,” shares David Daniel immediately following his performance in Outside Mullingar. “[The company and the audie...

While the “music of the night” in The Phantom of the Opera tour sweeps away audience hearts and souls, it can’t quite sweep away the nume...

January 14th and 15th, audiences are transported from the cold, grey storms of Wisconsin to a land where music dances through the hot air...

“When everything dropped away and all there was was the music. That was the best.” Jersey Boys brings to Madison a raw portrayal of the p...

When an escape artist has to say a prayer before getting locked into a Houdini-style restraining apparatus, theatergoers know The Illusio...

“That man, a world leader? But he appears to have a heart, mind, and soul!” Not how a blushing bride of the 17th century is expected to a...

Recently, I was lucky enough to come into some tickets for Parsons Dance, a New York based modern dance company on tour. I'll admit, I'm ...

Broadway revivals are an incredibly tricky endeavor. There should be immense respect for the directors with the guts to take on such a pr...