Arts & Theater News
With its Elizabethan costumes and setting, the 2015 Tony-nominated musical may look like "Masterpiece Theatre," but its heart is on the Great White Way. References to “West Side Story,” “Annie,” “Cats” and dozens of other musicals fly at the audience like a tsunami of Playbill magazines.
Retired curator invited to display new art project at Fermentation Fest's Farm/Art D'Tour
Evan Gruzis underestimated Madison’s love of tie-dye.
These Madison artists aren't just making art. They're making a community.
Wisconsin State Journal Youth Services Inc. is a charitable organization serving needy youth throughout Dane County.
The university may bring artists here, but it’s the community they find that makes them stay. The four artists profiled in this story — 4D grad student Anwar Floyd-Pruitt, queer artist and educator Alaura Borealis, new photography professor Tomiko Jones and painter/entrepreneur Evan Gruzis — are all relatively new to Madison’s art scene.
When photographer Tomiko Jones travels, she likes to make cyanotypes — a simple, alternative photo process that involves chemically treated paper and UV light — using the water from a local reservoir or river. The natural water can make the picture cloudy if it was a little muddy, but Jones …
On a spring day in 2016, artist Alaura Borealis loaded bookshelves, barstools and blankets into a U-Haul and drove it all to a gallery on Winnebago Street.
Anwar Floyd-Pruitt has made thousands of faces. Each one is a single, unbroken line tracing eyes, ears, lips and a nose in pen and ink or silicone caulk.
Friday marks two important occasions for Linda Leighton: The 20th anniversary of Higher Fire, her clay studio at 2132 Regent St., and the 30-year mark for Madison’s Fall Gallery Night.
When Ruth Draper was booked to wow audiences in Madison in 1924, a headline in the Wisconsin State Journal called her a “noted actress.”
The "Women Artists Forward Fund" has set a goal of raising $400,000.
"Fun Home" surpassed all previous first-day sales shows for Forward Theater, setting the all-time record with 462 tickets sold on the same day.
When “Joel Shapiro: The Bronzes” opens with a reception at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art on Saturday, even the artist himself will be seeing many of the monumental sculptures together for the first time.
The exhibit, featuring the work of 10 Midwest photographers, five men and five women, opens Friday, Sept. 7 at 5 p.m.
Forward Theater's 2018-19 season gets underway with the Wisconsin premiere of “Skeleton Crew,” set in 2008 in the break room of a failing Detroit automobile parts plant.
John Harbison, a renowned composer with a Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Fellowship and professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), turns 80 this December. He and Rose Mary started the Token Creek festival in 1989 in a renovated barn on 110 acres.
Melisa Pereyra as Isabella is furious and desperate, a Shakespearean Antigone, forced to appeal for her brother despite believing him a sinner herself.
“Little Miss Sunshine” is about a journey, in more ways than one. The musical play got its start as a movie – filmed with an $8 million budget, grossing more than $100 million and winning two Academy Awards in 2006 – then a few years later was retooled into a stage show by William Finn and J…
American Players Theatre will host a "pay what you like" performance and panel about "Blood Knot" on Sunday Aug. 12 to discuss a controversial casting choice.
Sandra Gajic will be the first woman to lead the Overture Center. She was most recently the director of Vancouver Civic Theatres.
Not too many 4- and 5-year-olds get to appear on Madison’s largest stage in the cast of a Broadway show.
The 60th annual Art Fair on the Square features nearly 500 artists on Capitol Square.
Coon was interviewed by Cap Times arts writer Lindsay Christians as part of the American Theatre Critics Association's annual conference.
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