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Theater student blends signing with singing in Skylight production

By Kathy QuirkFebruary 29, 2024Arts & HumanitiesTheater

Theater student blends signing with singing in Skylight production

By Kathy QuirkFebruary 29, 2024Arts & HumanitiesTheater

Aidan Black took an ASL course to fulfill a language credit at UWM. Now he’s performing in an intriguing play that incorporates sign language into the show.

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UWM production brings actors and ASL interpreters together on stage

By Laura OttoApril 14, 2023Arts & HumanitiesTheater

Many performances put sign language interpreters to the side. But a new theater production puts signing actors fully within the action. The show opens April 19 and runs through the 23rd.

An actor’s homecoming: Willem Dafoe returns to where it all started

By John SchumacherJune 17, 2022Arts & HumanitiesTheater

As a small-town kid studying at UWM in the 1970s, Willem Dafoe never dreamed of becoming a star. But he’s gone on to become one of the most acclaimed and in-demand actors in the business.

Facing a pandemic, Peck reimagines play as a radio drama

By UWM NewsApril 22, 2021Arts & HumanitiesTheater

Faced with the obstacles of staging a performance of “Playboy of the Western World” amid continuing pandemic protocols, Peck decided to do something radical — to reconfigure the production as a radio play.

UWM associate professor selected as playwright-in-residence at First Stage

By Allison BeebeJune 25, 2019Arts & HumanitiesTheater

During his residency, the theater will stage Alvaro Saar Rios’ most recent play “On the Wings of a Mariposa,” which will debut in October.

Theater prof directs neighborhood revival on city’s south side

By Angela McManamanMay 17, 2019Arts & HumanitiesTheater

Associate theatre professor Rebecca Holderness is collaborating with a team that is planning for the Modjeska Theater’s renovation from a vacant theater and parking lot to a community center with green space and an indoor, all-seasons playground.

Feast of Crispian directors to host National Veterans Theatre Festival

By Angela McManamanMay 17, 2019Arts & HumanitiesTheater

James Tasse, senior lecturer, and William Watson, associate professor in the Peck School of the Arts theatre department, host the first-ever National Veterans Theatre Festival May 23-26 at the Milwaukee Rep’s Stiemke Studio.

Opera teaches lessons in life and career for UWM music students

By UWM NewsApril 4, 2019Arts & HumanitiesTheater
Two women sing while on stage.

Staging an opera isn’t easy, but it’s worth the effort for the valuable lessons it teaches UWM music and theater students, say those involved. This year’s production is Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito.”

Stoner, Theatre Department honored at Kennedy Center regional event

By January 11, 2019Arts & HumanitiesTheater

Red velvet and gold medals will greet the Peck School of the Arts Department of Theatre when its faculty and students participate in the 50th Annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s Midwestern-region event on Jan. 12.

Feast of Crispian helps traumatized veterans, with assistance from Shakespeare

By Tony RehagenNovember 8, 2018Arts & HumanitiesTheater
Veterans perform Feast of Crispian.

The program created by UWM theater faculty has spurred interest from schools and veterans’ organizations nationwide.

UWM grad designs theater fight scenes that look and feel real

By Maren OrlowskiSeptember 5, 2018Arts & HumanitiesTheater
A man and women engage in an onstage sword fight.

Christopher Elst has carved out a niche in southeastern Wisconsin’s theater world: He’s one of the few who helps create fight scenes so real that the audience worries about someone getting hurt.

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