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This last weekend, Pete Holmes performed two sold-out stand up sets at the Majestic Theater and recorded his podcast "You Made It Weird" for the Madison Comedy Festival. Attending both the stand up and podcast recording as an avid fan of Holmes, I noticed how the crowds were drawn to his presence just as much as the self-proclaimed super fan.
In support of the first annual Madison Comedy Festival on his “Under No Influence” tour, comic Chris D’Elia performed in front of a packed crowd of college-aged fans who eagerly anticipated his material. D’Elia’s set pandered mainly to the Dane Cook repertoire of sex jokes, gender and race observations and wild movement.
This past Monday, amongst the long hours of studying for midterms, a vivacious and spirited concert took place at the Orpheum. Students and locals alike made their way down State Street to see Timeflies perform. Despite the pouring rain, this concert continued to fill up with devotees by the minute. With the scent of fresh rainfall around me, I was ready for the concert to begin.
The Orpheum Theater will undergo facade improvements to update the decades-old exterior while still maintaining its iconic old fashioned style after Madison’s Board of Estimates approved a $20,000 grant to the owner Monday.
Ásgeir gave a captivating performance at the Fredric March Play Circle Theater Saturday night, blending deep, layered synth tracks with more conventional guitar and keyboard sounds to produce the fascinating semi-folk rock, semi-electronic feel that his native island of Iceland seems to champion.
In a world dominated by main stage dance music, where the success of an electronic musician is too often defined by their ability to make a crowd “rage,” a select few artists have been making strides to break out of the EDM prototype and bring fresh, meaningful ideas to the table. Porter Robinson is one of them. This Saturday, the Orpheum Theater will host Porter Robinson’s “Worlds” tour, an extravagant and cohesive live show centered on Robinson’s new album Worlds, which dropped worldwide last month.
Snarky Puppy made their first appearance in Madison in five years Sept. 18 for an electrifying pair of sets at the new Wisconsin Union Theater.
With influences as diverse as the musicians that comprise the band, Snarky Puppy will bring their world tour to Madison on Sept. 18 to the Wisconsin Union Theater. With a roster of musicians stretching into the dozens, this collective knows one thing: how to bring the party.
If you’re an avid fan of all classic horror films—even or especially the ridiculously cliched ones—your weekend probably included taking in "Evil Dead: The Musical" at the Overture Center. When my editor sent out the email for someone to cover the musical, let’s just say I have never pounced that fast on anything. So come Thursday night, my friend and I headed on over to the Overture, to take in our very first show there. Needless to say, we could not have possibly picked a better one.
In honor of World Suicide Prevention Day, the Majestic Theater hosted a Robin Williams tribute screening of the movie “Good Will Hunting” this past Thursday. The movie played as part of the Majestic’s Brew n’ View series, which as the name suggests provides a rare opportunity for die-hard movie fans to get soused while watching their favorite classic films on a big screen.
University of Wisconsin-Madison staff will host an open house at Memorial Union’s new west wing Friday and Saturday nights to celebrate the space’s completed two-year redesign, according to a university release.
As a freshman, I attended a trio of shows at what is now called Shannon Hall, packed tight into the chilled and straightened annals of February and March: the Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (Feb. 4, 2012), Gaelic Storm (Feb. 17, 2012) and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (March 1, 2012). Three acts so wholly dissimilar that, upon reflection, it seemed absurd that (as a student) I was afforded the opportunity to see them all under one roof. For cheap! Such an experience (in retrospect) was not to be taken lightly.
If you’re reading this, congratulations! You’re bona fide Badger material! Now, I’m sure you’ve got a million questions swirling around your mind about college and the future and all that business. SOAR is a good place to answer some of those questions, but come September, you’ll not only be in school, you’ll also be in a city bustling with people and life and art! Especially the third one! And to ensure you’re up to speed on every bit of music, movie, painting, theater and literary opportunity in town, The Daily Cardinal is proud to present this short guide to the Arts in Madison.
In the middle of a tour that winds its way from one side of the country to the next and then back again, Simon Posford, the man behind the mask of Shpongle, took some time out to answer some questions for The Daily Cardinal.
Friday, Feb. 21, a sold-out Majestic Theater was ready to escape the brutal reality of this midwestern winter with a triple bill featuring New Beat Fund, RDGLDGRN and Aer. Starting at 8:00 p.m., the standing room filled with fans in Hawaiian shirts and flowered dresses, eager to forget about the negative wind-chill outside.
Economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the primary architects of a health care plan that influenced the creation of “Obamacare,” will give a lecture Thursday on current national issues of health care reform.
It took me a while to start writing this review. I had to sit in the middle of the floor and hug myself, rocking back and forth and muttering “It was just a movie, I should really relax” over and over. I’m at an ideological stalemate here; I usually only reserve the Mystery Science Theater 3000 mantra for movies that I actively dislike because they’re poorly made. But “Prisoners” isn’t poorly made. It’s actually one of the better films I’ve ever seen. But—and imagine now that I’m tugging at my shirt collar and swallowing nervously—that’s the problem.
Coordinators for the Memorial Union Reinvestment project formally released plans for the second phase of the Union construction Monday and held an open forum to receive input from the public about the potential designs.
Ben Rector will be making a stop in Wisconsin as he is beginning to wrap up his tour, titled “The Rectour,” which has been going since March. He’ll be playing at The Majestic Theater with Alpha Rev on Thursday, May 2 at 8:30 p.m. This will be Rector’s third time in Madison.
Alpha Rev will open for Ben Rector Thursday, May 2 at 8:30pm at The Majestic Theater, where they’ll be showing off their classic American rock style, with just a hint of violin and cello. Their new album, Bloom, was released recently. According to frontman Casey McPherson, it spotlights a lot more mandolin than their other albums and features live recordings.
Solutions by The State News
