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Changing channels at Wisconsin Public Radio
on 07/22/10 at 9:00 am | On July 1, Phil Corriveau, director of Wisconsin Public Radio, resigned. Still recovering from a 2008 stroke, he's been moved out of the network's campus headquarters and given a Beltline job. Officially, he's "director emeritus," leading research and collaboration at the Educational Communications Board and the University Wisconsin-Extension. In some ways, it's a step up. But Corriveau's heart is, frankly, breaking. It's difficult for him even to find the words. |
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Arts Beat: More room to revel at UW Memorial Union Terrace
on 07/08/10 at 1:07 pm | One of Madison's most popular summer music venues has been expanded. The Terrace at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Memorial Union is bigger than ever. |
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Madison Public Library surprised by art donation
on 07/08/10 at 9:00 am | The Madison Public Library recently received a major gift: 23 works by "Wisconsin's first couple of painting," Schomer Lichtner and Ruth Grotenrath. |
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Arts Beat: Vintage posters offer window on UW-Madison history
on 07/02/10 at 9:57 am | A charming exhibit of the Memorial Union's historic silk-screened posters is on display this summer. The elegant hand-made posters, dating at least as far back as 1950, were created in the Union's art lab, the Craftshop. |
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Arts Beat: Music Theatre of Madison faces shortfall
on 06/16/10 at 3:23 pm | One of the city's most ambitious theater companies, Music Theatre of Madison, needs $3,000. The company is making a plea for donations. |
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Arts Beat: Film series gives viewers a look at the Madison Masonic Center auditorium
on 06/10/10 at 10:18 am | This weekend you can watch John Wayne on the big screen, "taming a woman the way you tame the land," according to the original poster for North to Alaska. The real attraction, though, is where the 1960 film will be shown: one of the city's most unusual venues, the auditorium of the Madison Masonic Center. |
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Arts Beat: Program rents out Madison Repertory Theatre's costumes, props and sets
on 06/10/10 at 9:00 am | Madison Repertory Theatre may have died in 2009, but a great part of it lives on as the Madison Arts Production Cooperative. The Rep's collection of costumes, props and set pieces form the core of the cooperative program, a subsidiary of Children's Theater of Madison. The project recently won a grant of $35,000, spread over two years, from the Madison Community Foundation. |
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Arts Beat: Under plan, Overture Center would be owned by city, privately run
on 06/08/10 at 1:04 pm | Plans for a revamped Overture Center for the Arts are being made. They include city ownership of the building and privatization of administration. It sounds great, and work could begin soon, but one question remains: what to do with Overture's union-represented city employees? |
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Arts Beat: Girls Rock Camp starting in Madison
on 05/27/10 at 9:00 am | This summer, while some kids are toasting marshmallows, learning archery and making lanyards, another group will be rocking out. Girls Rock Camp launches in Madison next month. |
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The Lion King brings surge of money to downtown Madison businesses, Overture Center
on 05/21/10 at 1:59 pm | The Lion King has provided a $15 million boost to the downtown economy, according the Madison Central Business Improvement District. |
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'Then and Again' placards mark iconic, defunct businesses
on 05/20/10 at 9:00 am | "Then and Again: A Public Project by Nicolas Lampert" will be on exhibit around the city through Sept. 26. It was unveiled April 24 by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. The pieces are essentially historic markers honoring past Madison businesses, now all defunct, including the Mifflin Street Co-op, which closed just four years ago, and Hotel Washington, a former home to Isthmus, destroyed by fire in 1996. |
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Awards ceremony will salute the Bartell Theatre's best
on 05/13/10 at 9:00 am | The first Bartell Theatre Awards will be held July 10. Dubbed "the Barties," the public gala will look back over the 2009-10 season and celebrate the best of the best in an awards ceremony. |
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Ancient words at Milwaukee Public Museum's 'Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible' exhibit
on 05/10/10 at 11:39 am | Religion aside, it is a miracle that the fabulous Dead Sea Scrolls are on exhibit in Milwaukee. It's also a miracle that you probably haven't heard the priceless antiquities are in the state. Madison needs to pay better attention. To paraphrase the vice president, this is a big freaking deal. |
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Protestors criticize UW School of Music's jazz policy
on 05/03/10 at 3:08 pm | Does jazz count? Not if you're a college student who wants to graduate as a music major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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Madison Ballet chief Valerie Dixon resigns
on 04/15/10 at 2:09 pm | Valerie Dixon, executive director of the Madison Ballet, will be departing after less than two years on the job. Her last day is July 31. |
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The Wisconsin Film Festival's new guy
on 03/18/10 at 9:00 am | Let's get one thing clear right at the start. Allen Ebert, Wisconsin Film Festival organizer, is no relation to film critic Roger Ebert. "Maybe way back," he laughs. "It would be a great story if that were the case. I get that a lot." Ebert is one of only two paid Wisconsin Film Festival employees; the other is director Meg Hamel. He accepted the new position of operations director last year. |
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Great Performance Fund moves on from Madison Rep
on 03/09/10 at 10:47 am | Qualifications for applying to Overture's Great Performance Fund have loosened up considerably. Beginning this fall, grant money once set aside exclusively for Madison Repertory Theatre will be available to any professional theater company in Wisconsin. The change was announced March 4. |
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After 25 years, TAPIT/new works dances on
on 03/04/10 at 9:00 am | TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater turns 25 years old this season. It calls itself "Madison's oldest professional theater company." Certainly it's a rare troupe, producing works that often include tap dance. TAPIT celebrates its anniversary March 5 with the premiere of Help Wanted: A Comedy About the Search for Security, True Love or at Least a Decent Part-Time Job. It indeed includes tap dancing. |
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Forward Theater production is a fundraising success
on 02/26/10 at 9:00 am | The figures are in, and Forward Theater Company's first full-blown production was not only a critical success, it made a lot of money, too. Kind of. Ticket sales covered only a little more than half the cost of Forward's first big production, revealing how ambitious the company's business model is. |
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Arts teaching programs take a hit in the recession
on 02/19/10 at 9:00 am | The old saying is, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." Unless it comes to the arts; then those who can, also teach. Working as an instructor is one of the best ways for artists of all types to supplement their income. |
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Judging from Overture's books, the arts center is doing okay
on 02/12/10 at 9:00 am | During the first quarter of Overture Center's current fiscal year, ticket sales fell short by 48% of what was budgeted. Is the Overture Center for the Arts dying? Short answer: Nope. Long answer: Read on. |
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Fresco Opera Theatre repackages the genre
on 02/05/10 at 9:00 am | It ain't your grandparents' opera. Fresco Opera Theatre is opera as if P.T. Barnum had to reinvent it for Lady Gaga: fast, sexy, short and as snarky as possible. Madison's newest performance troupe looks forward to madly combining the fustiest of art forms with children's tea parties, game shows, puppet shows and pro wrestling. |
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The future of journalism
on 01/22/10 at 9:00 am | Let's say you write a blog. One day, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile pulls up in front of your house to give you a personal ride. That's what happened to the blogger Domestic Diva. "Today is perhaps the best day of my life," she breathlessly told readers of thedomesticdiva.org on Nov. 7. "I can't believe that the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile came to my house and picked my family and I up for a day of fun!" |
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Returning live theater to the Orpheum
on 01/22/10 at 9:00 am | It's been 41 years since the Orpheum Theatre saw a theatrical production. That changes Feb. 25, when The Rocky Horror Show opens live at the vaudeville and movie palace. Cabaret will follow in May. The productions represent the revival of what was once one of the city's most important stages. From a technical standpoint, however, it's going to be tough. |
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Dane County, month by month
on 01/08/10 at 9:00 am | For many of us, the new year cannot begin without a calendar from the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission. Over the last 11 years it's been an annual survey of the best in Wisconsin art, a daily reminder of the link between artist and space, and above all the holiday gift we send distant friends to remind them of home. |
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StageQ actors find depths in Random Harvest
on 12/30/09 at 9:00 am | We'll soon put Scrooge and his spirits back in their Christmas closet, but we're not quite done with ghost stories just yet. The redemptive Random Harvest kicks off with a New Year's Eve opening. |
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The Statue of Liberty goes for another dip in Lake Mendota in 2010
on 12/24/09 at 9:00 am | In February, Madison's iconic Statue of Liberty is returning to Lake Mendota. First displayed as a UW student-government prank in 1979, the submerged-looking Lady Liberty has returned to Lake Mendota only three times, in 1980, 1996 and 2009. It also appeared near the Alliant Energy Center in 2004. |
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Cieslewicz's landmarks stance draws fire
on 12/17/09 at 9:00 am | Mayor Dave Cieslewicz's call to strip the city Landmarks Commission of its power, relegating it to an "advisory" role, has done what Capital Neighborhoods Inc. could not: rally Edgewater Hotel opposition among neighborhood associations across Madison. |
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A leaner Madison Ballet returns after trying times
on 12/11/09 at 9:00 am | Each year at this time comes an impish Nutcracker to delight children -- and hopefully provide Madison Ballet with 25% of its gross annual income. It's the holidays, when people part with most of their annual arts dollars to enjoy pops concerts, A Christmas Carol and sing-alongs to Handel's Messiah. The money gathered via populist December programming is slowly disbursed the rest of the year, making this a critical time for performing arts groups. |
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Verveer 'fed up' with behind-the-scenes maneuvering on Edgewater
on 12/07/09 at 11:20 am | For much of the last year, Madison Mayor Dave Ciewslewicz and other city officials have been working in closed-door sessions to circumvent city commissions and the zoning code, so that Edgewater Hotel expansion can succeed, according to Ald. Mike Verveer. |
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