The Korean American Faculty & Staff Association at UWM and Korean American Association of Milwaukee host the 2023 KOREA Day (한국의 날) Celebration.
A seldom-produced gem from Rodgers and Hammerstein, this sparkling musical stands out as their sole work initially crafted for film and subsequently adapted for the stage in 1992. The storyline traces the Frake family's journey from their family farm to the 1946 Iowa State Fair. Reminiscent of Thornton Wilder's masterpiece Our Town, the Tony Award-winning State Fair follows siblings Margy and Wayne coming of age on the midway, finding love, heartbreak and deeper life lessons that they will carry with them long after the fair closes.
Prelude: Day in the Life of a Music Major is a FREE event for high school musicians featuring faculty performances, breakout sessions by primary instrument/voice, large ensemble rehearsals, an interactive music theory class, and more from the Peck School of the Arts Department of Music.
A joint concert by the UWM Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band.
On the desolate English moors, two sisters and a dog pass their days dreaming of love and power. However, when a hapless governess and a moor-hen appear, the trio's lives take a strange and dangerous turn. A new contemporary classic sweeping stages across the country, The Moors is a wild, romantic, vicious and frighteningly funny black comedy that pitches camp in the dark romantic world of 1840s England, then increasingly blows that world apart in a genre-busting mix of Gothic revenge, existential philosophy and quantum physics.
Join the combined UWM choirs and symphony orchestra for performances of three major works exploring the changeable and unchangeable.
UW-Milwaukee’s Department of Dance presents an evening of deeply engaging dances that will surprise, uplift, and inspire the audience. These dances, choreographed by the department’s graduating seniors, incorporate a range of dance styles, from Modern/Contemporary to Ballet, Hip Hop, and Jazz.
Join UWM's Opera Workshop for a performance of opera scenes featuring talented UWM singers in a variety of roles.
The UWM Theatre Department's second stop on their journey across the mysterious moors of Britain takes us to Scotland with Shakespeare's dark masterpiece and gothic love story gone awry, Macbeth. Combining elements of a ghost story, a horror movie, and a revenge tragedy, this Western Art landmark invokes the supernatural and the deeply psychological as it navigates the collapse of a power couple's souls into darkness, ravaged by the malignant rot of the ultimate sin of murder. Highly theatrical, hard-hitting, and fast-paced, this production showcases some of Shakespeare's most stunning poetry and a love story for the ages – the dark ages.
UWM Symphony Orchestra concert with viola professor Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff, who will be performing a recently discovered Viola Concerto by J.S.Bach with a guest harpsichordist, David Schrader.
Join UWM's Concert Chorale, Bella Voce, Kameraden, Alta Voce, and Kameraden Plus choirs for the final concert of the semester. Enjoy a fun and varied evening of choral music!
The Vocal Arts Festival provides an opportunity for talented singers to interact with, perform for, and join their voices with peers from around the region as they learn and grow as both soloists and choral artists. The festival also includes the UWM Vocal Showcase Recital and the Final Concert with UWM Concert Chorale.
This final performance of the Vocal Arts Festival features the UWM Concert Chorale and the VAF Festival Choir of 120 of the finest high school singers from around Wisconsin and Illinois.
Winterdances 2024 features four world premiere dance works, where artists present their newest ideas made with their casts and collaborators. These artists share visually evocative and kinetically fierce works as imaginative spaces, where futures are created with tenderness, passion, and hope. Featuring works from UW-Milwaukee Department of Dance faculty Maria Gillespie, Dan Schuchart, Dawn Springer, and guest artist, "Hip Hop Dipolomat" Aysha Upchurch.
The UWM Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band will perform on respective halves of this concert.
UWM Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition Winners' Concert.
The UWM Percussion Area hosts World Percussion Night in the beautiful Jan Serr Studio, featuring a special community guest alongside the UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band and other student ensembles. Audiences will love the upbeat, exciting energy of Brazilian Samba and Puerto Rican bomba in addition to traditional and arranged music for ensembles consisting of Guatemalan marimba doble and Trinidadian steel pans performed by UWM students and faculty and vibrant community ensembles.
The UWM Theatre Department's exploration of the moors culminates with an imagined reunion of 19th-century heroines from Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Little Women. Only this time around, these heroines resolutely decline the advances of their famous suitors and grapple with the challenge of reconciling historical romantic ideals with their contemporary perspectives on courtship. This clever play offers an empowering perspective on a group of women who not only reject their passionate suitors but also defy the conventions and societal norms expected of them.
Compassionate and lyrical, Pipeline brings an urgent, powerful conversation to the intimacy of the Kenilworth Five-0-Eight stage. Written by Dominique Morisseau, one of America’s most thoughtful and widely produced contemporary playwrights, Pipeline raises challenging questions about race, class, parental responsibility and the state of American education in a profoundly moving story of a mother's struggle to secure a brighter future for her son while remaining loyal to the community that molded him.
Join us for an evening of an evening of inspiration and music.
Join us for UWM's Spring Opera Production featuring two performances!
Once Upon a Mattress, a comic masterpiece based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Princess and the Pea, propelled Carol Burnett to stardom as Winnifred the Woebegone, a simple swamp princess hoping to win the hand of the prince despite all odds. This hilariously wacky romp is filled with witty, charming, and wonderfully romantic songs and dance numbers composed by Mary Rodgers. It serves as a delightful bookend to a season that began with a neglected gem by her father, Richard Rodgers.
The UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will share a concert that celebrates the end of the academic year and feature a performance of the winning entry from the UWM Bands annual Concerto Competition.
Springdances 2024 presents an evening of premieres from guest artist Vershawn Sanders Ward, artistic director of Chicago-based Red Clay Dance Company and Dance faculty choreographers Daniel Burkholder, Mair Culbreth, and Rich Ashworth. Join us in an evening that dances with the elemental forces of nature, ancestry, hope, and tenderness.
UWM Symphony Orchestra's Season Finale Concert will feature three guest soloists - Violinist Dr. Bernard Zinck, Cellist Adrien Zitoun and Pianist Jean-Louis Haguenauer. The three soloists will perform the TRIPLE Concerto by L.V. Beethoven.
You are cordially invited to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts graduation convocation for Fall 2023, Winterim 2024, Spring 2024 and Summer 2023 baccalaureate and master’s degree recipients.
Join MFA in Dance students for an evening of original, experimental choreography developed in collaboration with MKE dance artists and mentored by UW-Milwaukee Dance faculty. These dance works explore diverse choreographic interests that range from surrealism and world building, to identity and memory. UpStart is a unique opportunity to experience choreography from dance artists from across the nation.