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(03/27/08 6:00am)
The running motif in this year's presidential primary season is
change: change in foreign policy, change in the economy and change
in the attitude of government. If you stop by the Overture Center
to take in the Madison Repertory Theatre's newest offering,
Permanent Collection,"" you will see first-hand that change is
hard. However, ""Permanent Collection"" does not involve political
candidates vying for office, but museum administrators battling
over wall space in a play more about politics and race than art.
(01/31/08 6:00am)
The beginning of 2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the Nazis'
rise to power in Germany, and 4,000 odd miles away it also marked
the opening of the Madison Repertory Theatre's latest production
The Diary of Anne Frank.""
(11/14/07 6:00am)
It is football season. The Badgers and Packers both won last
weekend, and, more importantly (or perhaps equally importantly),
Vince Lombardi, legendary Packers coach, has been brought back to
life. Okay, he isn't really alive again, but you might be fooled if
you wander down to the Overture Center's Playhouse over the next
couple weeks.
(09/27/07 6:00am)
A recent opening at the Overture Center might lead you to
believe you are back in your high school English class. However, it
is doubtful your high school English classes took place in the mind
of a neurotic man who just wants to be well-liked.""
(05/01/07 6:00am)
Looking at The Playhouse stage for The Madison Repertory
Theatre's production of ""Home,"" one would think that the play is
about carpenters or lumberjacks. The setting is a farm home in
Crossroads, N.C. and, like a ship, everything is made with large
planks of wood. A ship is a good allusion for this play, which
centers around Cephus Miles (Patrick Sims), a man who spends a good
chunk of his life in transit. Luckily for director Ron OJ Parsons,
playwright Samm-Art Williams and the audience, he pauses long
enough to tell us about what he is thinking.
(03/25/07 6:00am)
Ever been to Lebanon, Mo.? Well, now you can spend 97 minutes
among ""the trees, the berries, the breeze, the sounds, frogs,
dogs, the light, the bees"" of Lebanon simply by walking up the
street to the Playhouse of the Overture Center. This is the setting
for the Madison Repertory Theatre's most recent production, Lanford
Wilson's 1980 Pulitzer Prize winning play, ""Talley's Folly.""
(02/08/07 6:00am)
Madison might not be next to an ocean, but that would be hard to
tell if you happened to have recently stopped by the Overture
Center's Playhouse.
(12/05/06 6:00am)
The lights are low, smooth jazz is coming out of the speaker,
and the seats are a plush purple. For the next few weeks, the hot
date spot around campus might become the Overture Center's
Playhouse Theatre. Why, you might ask? Well, because it is at this
venue that the Madison Repertory Theatre is putting on their
production of ""Bad Dates.""
(05/03/06 6:00am)
Last Friday night as legions of cops patrolled Mifflin Street,
one cop strolled onto the stage of The Playhouse at the Overture
Center, 201 State St., and turned on a phonograph. The cop was not
a member of the Madison Police Department, but New York City's, and
was standing in the attic of a Manhattan brownstone cluttered with
furniture and assorted knick-knacks in 1963. This was the opening
of the Madison Repertory Theatre's season-ending production of
Arthur Miller's The Price,\ a production that lived up to the
company's usual high standards under the direction of Richard
Corley.
(03/29/06 6:00am)
The Madison Repertory Theatre added a number of recent
books-turned-plays into its catalogue as of late. Such plays
usually have one solid advantage over others, in that the books'
readers are likely to be interested in the play. Millions of people
had read the book versions of Tuesdays with Morrie\ and ""The
Santaland Diaries,"" and the Madison Rep did a fantastic job
bringing them to stage.
(02/23/06 6:00am)
This year is Madison's sesquicentennial, and last week the
Madison Repertory Theatre got the party started. They opened their
new playhouse at the Overture Center with a production of Thornton
Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece 'Our Town.'
(01/26/06 6:00am)
One-person shows have always been very popular in professional
theater for one reason'they're cheap. The main reason why we go to
the theater is to be there and see a good story. In a one-man show,
you are usually just listening to a storyteller. But in the Madison
Repertory Theatre's current production of 'I am My Own Wife,' one
man (David Adkins) plays 40 different characters; he is not simply
telling a story, but becoming one.
(11/22/05 6:00am)
Winter has come to Wisconsin, but it has yet to arrive on a
certain park bench on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland. This is
the setting for the Madison Repertory Theatre's production of 'A
Walk in the Woods,' a wooden bench, two rocks, grass and a
background of what one character refers to as 'neutral trees.' The
play, written by Lee Blessing during the 1980s, concerns arms
negotiations between Russia and America during the Cold War.
(11/16/05 6:00am)
Thanksgiving is next week, which means in a little over a week
the holiday season will begin. This year, however, the holidays
come a little early at the Madison Repertory Theatre with their
production of David Sedaris' 'The Santaland Diaries.' It is a
sardonic little holiday comedy that takes a wry look at the holiday
hype, yet still plays sweeter than a candy cane.
(11/14/05 6:00am)
Actor John McGivern stars in the Madison Repertory Theatre's
production of 'The Santaland Diaries,' a play based on the writings
and experiences of David Sedaris when he worked as an elf at Macy's
Department Store. Aside from acting, McGivern is a comedian who has
appeared regularly on Comedy Central and HBO, performing in
incredibly successful shows like 'Sheer Madness,' 'Fully Committed'
and 'The Odd Couple,' as well as appearing in Disney's 'The
Princess Diaries.' He lives in Milwaukee, where he is a regular on
WKLH 96.5 FM's Dave and Carole Morning Radio Show.
(09/14/01 6:00am)
Defense Department officials announced plans to call several
thousand reservists to active duty in the next few days and tens of
thousands more in the weeks ahead on the same day that federal
officials said they had identified the hijackers of four
transcontinental flights and named Osama bin Laden as the target of
the U.S. investigation into Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon.