Overview Music by Engelbert Humperdinck Original Text by Adelheid Wette English Translation by Cori Ellison Critical Edition Materials by Hans-Josef Irmen Join the Viterbo University music department as they present a modern day version of Hansel and Gretel, the Grimm brothers’ fairytale turned full-length opera by Engelbert Humperdinck. The hungry brother and sister head out […]
I’m Not Running is an explosive new political drama exploring personal choices and their public consequences, written by Academy Award-nominated writer David Hare (The Reader, The Hours, NT Live: Skylight). The cast includes Siân Brooke (BBC Sherlock, BBC Doctor Foster), Joshua McGuire (NT Live: Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, About Time) and Alex Hassell […]
She's always relied on the kindness of strangers... Blanche du Bois is a desperate woman whose life has been undermined by romantic illusions. When she goes to New Orleans to live with her sister, Stella, and her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley, she is forced to face the past that she has tried so hard to ignore. […]
The temple dancer Nikiya and the warrior Solor fall deeply in love, giving way to heated passions, and murderous intrigues when the Rajah and his daughter Gamzatti discover their forbidden love. La Bayadere is one of the greatest works in classical ballet history - A MUST-SEE! Presented by the Weber Center for […]
Wisconsin Singers set to “Razzle Dazzle” Audiences at the Weber Center for one night only!! UW-Madison’s nationally renowned Wisconsin Singers promises to entertain audience members of all ages with a Broadway-caliber revue its brand-new show, Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now! Featuring American pop from the past 50 years of music this show is an explosive […]
A new look at Van Gogh, through the legacy of the largest private collector of artworks by the Dutch painter: Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939), who, in the early 20th Century, ended up buying nearly 300 of his works, paintings and drawings included. The story unfolds of a woman who, in Van Gogh’s spiritual torment could […]
The princess Aurora falls under the curse of the Evil Fairy Carabosse on her sixteenth birthday, falling into a deep slumber of one hundred years. Only the kiss of a prince could break the spell. A resplendent fairy-tale ballet performed by Olga Smimova, a "truly extraordinary talent" (the telegraph). Presented by the Weber Center for […]
When Mars and Venus collide... the adventures are earth-shatteringly hysterical! The Off-Broadway hit comedy Men Are From Mars – Women Are From Venus LIVE!, is a one-man fusion of theatre and stand-up, and is a light-hearted theatrical comedy based on the New York Times #1 best-selling book of the last decade by John Gray. Moving […]
15 OF DANE COUNTY’S FINEST MUSICIANS UNITE TO PERFORM THE STEELY DAN AND DONALD FAGEN SONGBOOK. The songs of Steely Dan form the soundtrack for so many of our lives. The band, more than any other, brought together Jazz, Rock, and R&B sensibilities to form a whole new kind of pop music. These are […]
Ballet La Crosse is proud to present “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” for our Spring 2019 production. Join us for a captivating evening of classical and contemporary ballet featuring “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” choreographed by Miss CiCi Houston of St. Louis Ballet. Demonstrating that “The course of true love never did run smooth,” this Shakespearean […]
The Fantasticks is a funny and romantic musical about a boy, a girl, and their two fathers who try to keep them apart. The narrator, El Gallo, asks the audience to use their imagination and follow him into a world of moonlight and magic. The boy and the girl fall in love, grow apart and finally […]
Now is the time to seize the day! Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of ‘newsies’, who dreams only of a better life. But when publishing titan Joseph Pulitzer raises distribution prices at […]
