The Madison Repertory Theatre's 'Permanent Collection' will shed light on the political issues of race when it comes to the Overture Center this weekend. '
The Wisconsin Repertory Theatre will give a fresh portrayal of \Anne Frank"" at the Overture Center this weekend'
Lombari/The Only Thing, now playing at the Madison Repertory Theatre, is the story of legendary Packer coach Vince Lombardi.'
Following its success with the spring performance of 'The Price,' the Madison Repertory returns with another Arthur Miller classic, 'Death of a Salesman.'
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.
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.""
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.
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.""
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 ' ¦'
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 ' ¦'
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