by Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but can it ever do justice to the ghosts caught in the frame? Should we even care, as long as the resulting images entertain - and sell?

by Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; "A Thousand Words," Gwendolyn Rice's new play inspired by the great photographer Walker Evans, takes place in Kansas and New York, and involves Cuba. But the Madison playwright's Wisconsin work experiences raised crucial questions she pursues in the play.

WUWM's Bonnie North interviews A THOUSAND WORDS playwright Gwendolyn Rice!

Watch John McGivern's "Footlights Minute" interview with actress Molly Rhode!

by Jenna Kashou, Inside Milwaukee.com; Just as life can be unexpected, inspiration can also happen at serendipitous or seemingly irrelevant moments. Like reading a newspaper, for example. An article about a set of old photographs by a Depression-era photographer, propelled Madison-based playwright Gwen Rice into a research frenzy back in 2004.

Check out this new preview video for A THOUSAND WORDS featuring footage from the Madison production and interviews with director Jennifer Uphoff Gray and actors Georgina McKee & Molly Rhode. (Click more info to watch)

2004: Playwright Gwendolyn Rice stumbles upon “a newspaper account of when the photos were found amongst (Ernest) Hemingway’s possessions. I had never heard of Walker Evans, but the story really intrigued me.”

“There is no single work of art or literature that summarizes the deep concern with poverty in the 1930s. The work of documentary photographers like Walker Evans may come the closest, in part because the unvarnished humanity of their subjects seemed to transcend its historical moment.” ~Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, by Morris Dickstein

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by Lindsay Christians, 77 Square; For Madison writer Gwendolyn Rice, there’s always one character in each of her plays with whom she’s a little infatuated. In “A Thousand Words,” that character is Walker Evans.

by Lindsay Christians, 77 Square; How an artist changes the people around him, whether it's with a photograph, a compliment or a famous legacy, is at the core of Gwendolyn Rice's insightful play "A Thousand Words,"

by Jennifer A. Smith, Isthmus; ...the production (which moves to Milwaukee Chamber Theatre after its Overture run) is entertaining, thought-provoking and a very welcome chance to see new work.

by Andrew Winistorfer, A.V. Club; In A Thousand Words, photographer Walker Evans accepts a government job documenting the lives of dustbowl farmers in 1930s Kansas. At the same time, he also accepts a partner: a reluctant writer named Shirley Hughes who will supply the narrative to accompany his images. Eighty years later, some of Evans's photos are discovered in the personal effects of another writer: Ernest Hemingway.

by Kate Vaughn, Madison Magazine; Juxtaposing the present day with the 1930s, stories unfold to pose the question: How much is a photograph truly worth?

Wisconsin State Journal; How "A Thousand Words" came about: The play was conceived after I read a small newspaper article about the owner of a bar in Key West, Fla. He stumbled upon a treasure trove of books, fishing gear, and personal effects from one of the bar's most famous patrons — Ernest Hemingway. Among these items were a collection of black and white photos taken by Walker Evans.

An interview with C. Michael Wright & Jacque Troy; Michael & Jacque were recently interviewed about MCT's involvement in the development of A THOUSAND WORDS and our mission to support emerging playwrights.

Sharp and funny performances from Ruth Schudson, Michael A. Torrey and Jonathan West allowed director C. Michael Wright and the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre to rescue "Driving Miss Daisy" from the overly sentimental cul-de-sac in which "Daisy" - and too many other dramas about race - often find themselves.

by Russ Bickerstaff, Shepherd Express; "Heroes, is sheer pleasure from beginning to end."

WUWM's Bonnie North interviewed HEROES cast members Richard Halverson, Daniel Mooney & Robert Spencer for Lake Effect.

by Matthew Reddin, Third Coast Digest; "...Spencer, Mooney and Halverson flesh out their characters with details lesser actors might omit..."

by Paul Kosidowski, Inside Milwaukee.com; ...But in Stoppard’s and Sibleyras’s hands, a kind of beautiful and comic chamber music unfolds.

by Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; ...Under C. Michael Wright's direction, the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre opened a production of "Heroes" on Friday night featuring three Milwaukee stage veterans: Richard Halverson, Daniel Mooney and Robert Spencer.

by Peggy Sue Dunigan, PostScript Performing Arts; "Halverson, Mooney and Spencer absolutely shine"

Visit www.mkechamber.blogspot.com for behind-the-scenes details about HEROES and more!

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by Jacque Troy, Education Director/Literary Manager; ...To quote the astute summation of his work by one journalist, “Stoppard is always written about as if he were an intellectual acrobat. But behind the intellectual high jinx there lurks an often passionate humanist whose writing betrays an increasing concern both with the abuse of freedom and the nature of love.”

Often while I’m playing host in the lobby before a show, patrons will come up to me with thoughts about plays for future production. I always try to listen politely and take in their ideas, even when some suggestions are quite beyond our means. But every so often, someone comes forward with a recommendation that is a little piece of gold. Such is the case with HEROES.

by Russ Bickerstaff, Shepherd Express; In a way, human history could be described as a collection of stories of people being forced to meet each other.

by Russ Bickerstaff, Shepherd Express blog; Seeing three shows a week, I often tend to forget the sheer joy of the most basic elements of theatre. C. Michael Wright hands you a tiny matchbox.

by Damien Jaques, OnMilwaukee.com; Actress Ruth Schudson has had 65 opening nights with the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, the company she co-founded with Montgomery Davis in 1975. Along the way she became Milwaukee's Judi Dench.

by Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Trusting a stellar cast and the script they're charged with interpreting, Wright and the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre give us a "Daisy" worth driving downtown to see.

WUWM's Bonnie North interviewed Ruth Schudson for Lake Effect

by Paul Kosidowski, Inside Milwaukee/Milwaukee Magazine; In the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s beautifully tender new production, the scenes flit by with a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it brevity – almost as if they were glimpsed through the window of Daisy Werthan’s passing car

by Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Ruth Schudson, stepping into her 65th role for the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, has played in Shaw and Shakespeare, "Arsenic and Old Lace" and "Hay Fever," T.S. Eliot and Neil Simon. But she will tell you flat out there is one part she hates to play: the role of Ruth Schudson in the spotlight.

Jonathan West returns to MCT after appearing in TALLEY'S FOLLY in 2008. He is currently the managing director of Sunset Playhouse in Elm Grove. An actor, director and theatre administrator, he has worked at companies including Bialystock & Bloom, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Skylight Opera Theatre and Next Act Theatre. To gain further insights about Jonathan, we asked him a few questions about himself and his upcoming performance as Boolie.

Michael Torrey makes his MCT debut in DRIVING MISS DAISY as Hoke Coleburn. Past Milwaukee appearances include shows at Next Act Theatre and First Stage Children’s Theater. A Chicago resident, Michael has performed with numerous Chicago companies and other regional theatres. To gain further insights about Michael, we asked him a few questions about himself and his upcoming performance as Hoke.

by Nancy Weiss-McQuide, Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle; Many actors — and painters and musicians — have felt that their art was somehow “in my blood.” Actor Ruth Schudson, co-founder of the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, is one of them.

Director C. Michael Wright shares details about his collaboration with scenic designer Steve Barnes to create the world of DRIVING MISS DAISY.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) presents Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic DRIVING MISS DAISY, October 13-30, 2011. MCT co-founder Ruth Schudson will perform the title role – which also marks her 65th production with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. DRIVING MISS DAISY performs in the Broadway Theatre Center’s Cabot Theatre in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.

Every year, I’m grateful to be on the final reading panel for Wisconsin Wrights. This five-year-old organization, created and sustained by UW-Madison faculty and staff, provides opportunities for emerging Wisconsin playwrights, which is reason enough to applaud their efforts. But through MCT’s four-year partnership with them, we’ve had even more reasons to cheer.

When MCT co-founder Ruth Schudson takes the stage in DRIVING MISS DAISY this fall it will mark her 65th production with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre! This occasion is a great opportunity to tell you more about our remarkable co-founder.

MCT's Montgomery Davis Play Development Series presents a staged reading of OCTOBER, BEFORE I WAS BORN, by Wisconsin-based playwright Lori Matthews, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 at 7:30 pm.

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by Jenna Kashou, InsideMilwaukee.com; It’s important to remember while your family may seem crazy, there is always another more dysfunctional. Take, for example, the Magrath sisters in Crimes of the Heart.

by Peggy Sue Dunigan, Postscript: Performing Arts; Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) opens their season by transforming "one very bad day" on the Cabot Stage into one thoroughly entertaining evening. This one chaotic day at the Broadway Theatre Center in the 1981 Pulitzer Prize production Crimes of the Heart presents the three McGrath sisters from Hazlehurst, Mississippi who attempt to make sense of their rural Southern dysfunction.

by Matthew Reddin, Third Coast Digest; ...That’s not what Crimes of the Heart is like. True, the season opener for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre is filled with moments like that, but director Mary MacDonald Kerr has crafted their collective tragicomic might into a strong, solid show...

by Mike Fischer; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...But hard as she tries to be solemn, Lenny can't stop laughing. Neither could Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's Friday night audience, as they watched this bittersweet tale of three sisters trying to make lemonade - literally, at one point - from a lifetime's worth of awfully sour lemons...

by Tom Strini, ThirdCoastDigest.com; After spending eight years establishing herself as an actor in Chicago, Mary MacDonald Kerr married, moved to Paddock Lake, Wis., and had a couple of kids. She assumed she would continue her Chicago career, but that proved impossible. In 1995, on a whim, she auditioned for a Milwaukee Chamber Theatre show. The late Montgomery Davis, MCT’s founding artistic director, cast her. After that, Milwaukee in general and MCT in particular have been her professional home. Kerr has acted in 20 MCT productions.

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by Jacque Troy, Education Director/Literary Manager; When Producing Artistic Director C. Michael Wright announced his plans for MCT to produce one Pulitzer Prize-winning play each season for five consecutive seasons, we all anticipated some truly captivating theatre. What not even Michael anticipated was just how difficult it would be to choose only five from the list of impressive contributions to our dramatic literature canon. As we’ve reached the end of his five-year plan, so gripping were the choices remaining that Michael decided we’d do two this season: CRIMES OF THE HEART by Beth Henley and DRIVING MISS DAISY by Alfred Uhry. Each had its own fascinating journey from new work to Pulitzer Prize winner to our stage.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre is looking for a talented new graphic designer to design our 2012-2013 Season Brochure! Click more info for details-

by Mark Hrywna, The NonProfit Times; When the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) announced its 2011-12 season, the 20-page program brochure obviously focused heavily on the five plays to be featured. There was a black and white square in the lower right corner of some pages. It almost looks like a miniature Rorschach test. But scan the 1x1-inch image with a smartphone and it takes you to a YouTube video featuring MCT artistic director C. Michael Wright discussing the upcoming shows.

Check out some of the great press MCT received throughout the 2010-2011 season!

by Paul Kosidowski, Milwaukee Magazine/Inside Milwaukee The Broadway Theater Center is earning its title these days. The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s production of The Lion in Winter is a bit of a throwback to the Golden Age of the Great White Way, when the flash and dazzle of a Broadway production was located in true star-power and snappy writing rather than computerized special effects or overblown rock-opera scores.

by Harry Cherkinian, Wisconsin Gazette Family gatherings at the holidays can be a tricky business, especially if family members haven’t seen each other for a while. For the holiday gathering that sparks playwright James Goldman’s black comedy “The Lion in Winter,” revenge ends up being the main course served.

by Anne Siegel, Shepherd Express Many people recall The Lion in Winter as a 1968 Oscar-winning film starring Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole as an aging king and queen who struggle to hang onto their royal positions.

THE LION IN WINTER is a collaboration between MCT & Marquette University. Check out this preview video!

by Russ Bickerstaff Express Milwaukee.com ...A joint production with the Marquette University Theatre program, this particular Lion mixes some of Marquette’s best young stage talent with inspired performances by a quartet of strikingly good Equity actors....

-Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "I could listen to you lie for hours," King Henry says to Queen Eleanor in James Goldman's "The Lion in Winter." Yes, but can we? If it entails watching Tracy Michelle Arnold play Eleanor in the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's just-opened production of "Winter" - a collaborative venture with Marquette University under C. Michael Wright's direction - the answer is a crowning "yes."

by Paul Masterson Third Coast Digest ...Marquette and MCT cleared the bar, with a traditional and well-executed staging...

WUWM Lake Effect Bonnie North interviews THE LION IN WINTER cast members Tracy Michelle Arnold, Alexandra Bonesho & Brian Mani

by Anne Bolger, Marquette Tribune This year, Marquette students and faculty will join the cast and crew of the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s season-ending “The Lion in Winter,” premiering tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Broadway Theatre Center in the Third Ward.

by Jackie Loohauis-Bennett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Plots, betrayals and assassination attempts. "Well, every family has its ups and downs," says Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of England.

The Lion in Winter media release

THE LION IN WINTER is presented in collaboration with Marquette University Theatre Arts. Twenty Marquette students and faculty will serve as actors, designers, understudies and various production personnel as part of MCT's "University Collaboration Series."

THE LION IN WINTER is the second production in Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s University Collaboration Series. We have partnered with Marquette University Theatre Arts for a multi-faceted collaboration that is larger in scope and complexity than any other project of its kind in MCT history. At least 20 Marquette students and faculty are serving as actors, understudies, designers and production personnel.

We have created YouTube preview videos for all five 2011-12 productions! Click "more info" for a link

Check out this MAURITIUS video preview!

Listen to Adam Carr's 88nine Radio Milwaukee interview with cast members Sara Zientek & Jonathan Wainwright!

by Paul Kosidowski, Milwaukee Magazine ...Theresa Rebeck’s 2009 play starts with a thing of value – a rare postage stamp rather than a buffalo-head nickel – and gives it the full Sierra Madre treatment. Handshakes become hand-to-hand combat as greed eats away at the thin veneer known as “our better selves.” ...

-by Russ Bickerstaff, Shepherd Express The collectors’ market can be very strange and intense, as evidenced by the fact that tiny scraps of paper can be worth a fortune to certain people. A well-written stage drama with brilliant flashes of comedy, Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius brings the intensity of the collectors’ market to Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s latest production.

by Mary OHara Stacy, Third Coast Digest The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre offers an escape, of sorts, but not to the island nation of Mauritius, as the title of Theresa Rebeck’s play would imply. The play is more like a rollercoaster ride through the “stuff that dreams are made of.”

by Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel In 1993, a pair of 19th-century stamps from Mauritius sold for nearly $4 million. Were they worth it? And who gets to decide?

by Tom Strini, Third Coast Digest “Stamps? Really!? Nobody thinks about stamps,” said Andrew Volkoff, who is directing a play about stamps for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre.

Winter 2011 Mauritius 2011-2012 Season Spring staged reading

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Download the PDF for more information on the staged reading of AMONG THE SQUIRRELS.

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by Damien Jaques, OnMilwaukee.com The kitchen sink drama is a category of theater that revolves around family problems and conflict. The action takes place in a home, and, yes, the set usually includes a kitchen sink. Frank D. Gilroy's 1965 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Subject Was Roses" defines the genre. The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's production of it that opened last weekend defines how to do it.

by Russ Bickerstaff, Shepherd Express Milwaukee Chamber Theatre brings a compelling, character-driven story to the stage with the Frank D. Gilroy drama The Subject Was Roses.A boy from the Bronx returns home from World War II to spend some time with his parents. Directed with compassion and precision by Milwaukee Chamber’s C. Michael Wright, the play isn’t as much about what happens to these characters as it is about who they are. It’s an opportunity for theatergoers to get to know three people quite intimately in the emotional proximity afforded by the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre.

by Paul Kosidowski, Milwaukee Magazine/Inside Milwaukee You don’t have to look very far to see the lengths to which theater has gone to attract attention in a media saturated world: Broadway-style spectacle, non-narrative performance, movie stars on stage. Thank goodness Milwaukee Chamber Theatre reminds us of the powerful connection that forms the core of dramatic storytelling. The Subject Was Roses is as simple as one can imagine: a couple, their son, two rooms, two acts. Frank Gilroy’s 1964 drama has us share the lives of three people over the course of 24 hours, and most of us will leave feeling like we understand ourselves a little better.

by Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel In the final scene of playwright Frank D. Gilroy's "The Subject Was Roses," John Cleary rehearses what he will say to persuade his son Timmy - a just-returned World War II soldier, determined to live on his own - to stay with his parents.

by Peggy Sue Dunigan, Third Coast Digest Timmy Cleary comes home from World War II as the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s The Subject Was Roses begins. His parents, Nettie and John, celebrate his homecoming as other families in their working-class New York neighborhood mourn lost sons.

by Mike Fischer, Special to the Journal Sentinel "Almost a half-century ago, playwright Frank D. Gilroy's "The Subject Was Roses" won theater's Triple Crown, capturing the 1965 Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Featuring a young and then largely unknown Martin Sheen, it also enjoyed a long Broadway run of more than 800 performances."

by Russ Bickerstaff, Shepherd Express "The post-World War II era is often viewed in a heavily romanticized light. But for many people living in the period right after WWII, civil rights remained decades away. And the wholesome image of America’s nuclear family, popularized by mid-20th-century TV and radio sitcoms, was grossly idealized, masking an emotional darkness behind closed doors. Frank D. Gilroy’s 1964 drama The Subject Was Roses was an early exploration of the American family beyond its wholesome faade. Milwaukee Chamber Theatre continues its season with a production of Gilroy’s drama in the intimate Studio Theatre of the Broadway Theatre Center. "

Fall 2010 WORDPlay newsletter: -Main-Travelled Roads -The Subject Was Roses -Young Playwrights Festival -and more!

Milwaukee, WI. … Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES by Frank D. Gilroy, November 18 – December 12, 2010. This humorous and poignant memoir about a son returning home to his parents after World War II is the fourth offering in MCT’s Pulitzer Prize series. C. Michael Wright directs MCT favorites Nicholas Harazin, James Tasse and Tami Workentin. THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES performs in the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward

Check out this great behind the scenes video for MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS!

There are many compelling reasons to see the achingly tender musical adaptation of Hamlin Garland's "Main-Travelled Roads" by Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. ...

Musical is based on works of Wisconsin native Hamlin Garland By Jim Higgins of the Journal Sentinel Oct. 13, 2010 The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre loves a show with a literary pedigree. With "Main-Travelled Roads," MCT has embraced a homegrown one. This musical is based on three stories from an early collection of the same name by Wisconsin native Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), a realistic chronicler of farmers and rural life.

by Tom Strini Third Coast Digest We know Molly Rhode as a superb, versatile actress. Alissa Rhode, a composer-pianist by trade, has found her way into the pit as music director for several theaters around the state. They’re together atop Main-Travelled Roads, which the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre previews at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and opens at 8 p.m. Friday (Oct. 15) in the Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center. The show marks Molly’s directorial debut in professional theater, but the two sisters have worked together often. ...

Musical is based on works of Wisconsin native Hamlin Garland By Jim Higgins of the Journal Sentinel Oct. 13, 2010 The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre loves a show with a literary pedigree. With "Main-Travelled Roads," MCT has embraced a homegrown one. This musical is based on three stories from an early collection of the same name by Wisconsin native Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), a realistic chronicler of farmers and rural life.

by Damien Jaques OnMilwaukee.com "Main-Travelled Roads" ...That makes me pleased that the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre will open "Main-Travelled Roads" at the Broadway Theatre Center tomorrow night. "Roads," which debuted in Door County in 2007, is a typical AFT musical -- folk music style with a Wisconsin connection and generous helpings of poignancy and humor. Its text is based on several short stories written by Hamlin Garland, who was born in 1860 in West Salem, Wis. and grew up on several state farms.

Listen to Bonnie North's Lake Effect interview with MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS composer Paul Libman, playwright/librettist Dave Hudson and director Molly Rhode

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) presents the Milwaukee premiere of the musical MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS by Paul Libman and Dave Hudson, October 14-31, 2010. Based on the short stories of Wisconsin-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hamlin Garland, MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS debuted at American Folklore Theatre in Door County in 2007. It went on to win the Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater in 2007. Milwaukee actor and theatre artist Molly Rhode makes her professional directing debut with this production. MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS performs in the Broadway Theatre Center’s Cabot Theatre in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.

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Translating a short story into a play, adding some characters of her own and maintaining the flavor and verve of the original is exactly what Margaret Raether accomplished in her exhilarating "Jeeves Intervenes," the season opener at the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre on N. Broadway.

Decades before television brought the term "situation comedy" into our vocabulary, P.G. Wodehouse was writing sitcoms as novels and short stories. The Englishman was a prolific author who also penned plays and lyrics for musicals during a career that spanned more than 70 years.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre opens its 2010-2011 season with Jeeves Intervenes, a light, precisely executed comedy based on characters created by P.G. Wodehouse.

In these days of comedy snark and short ideological fuses, P.G. Wodehouse is a welcome balm of wit and generosity.

Although he insisted otherwise late in life, a younger and less guarded P.G. Wodehouse was open about the inherently theatrical quality of his stories and novels. With its longstanding commitment to bringing page to stage, the Chamber Theatre is therefore ideally suited to mount playwright Margaret Raether's "Jeeves Intervenes," a loose adaptation of several Wodehouse stories featuring the foppish Bertie Wooster and his incomparable valet, Jeeves.

Crises! A British bachelor faces an undesired engagement. His best friend is to be forcibly sent to India. The living room needs dusting. Quick, ring for Jeeves!

Playing the world's most famous manservant means letting other people get the laughs.

Check out the MCT Blog! Get a behind-the-scenes look at JEEVES INTERVENES with posts from actors Matt Daniels, Chris Klopatek and Rick Pendzich.

JEEVES INTERVENES P.G. Wodehouse's beloved characters Bertie and Jeeves will come to life on the MCT stage this summer in JEEVES INTERVENES, by Margaret Raether, August 12-29, 2010.

Milwaukee, WI. …P.G. Wodehouse’s beloved comic characters will come to life on the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) stage this summer in JEEVES INTERVENES by Margaret Raether, August 12-19, 2010. Onstage favorite Tami Workentin makes her MCT directing debut with the Milwaukee premiere of this quick-witted British comedy. JEEVES INTERVENES performs in the Cabot Theatre, located at the Broadway Theatre Center in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre is thrilled to launch a new website, designed by Finn Digital.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) announces its 36th anniversary season. 2010-2011 will explore “the games people play” with five exciting productions.

When someone completely gives up on life, yet realizes that death isn’t an option, that person may find a remarkably fresh perspective on reality and identity. Rebecca Gilman does a brilliant job of presenting this state of mind in her dramatic comedy The Sweetest Swing in Baseball.

THE SWEETEST SWING IN BASEBALL The worlds of art and baseball comically collide when a down-on-her-luck painter tries to turn her career around in THE SWEETEST SWING IN BASEBALL, by Rebecca Gilman, April 15 – May 2, 2010.

Professional baseball players remember those rare 5-for-5 games all their lives. The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's dramatic final at-bat in its five-play season caps a 5-for-5 year with a walk-off home run.

On the night before cellist Jacqueline du Pré died, hurricane-force winds lashed her native England, uprooting trees and ravaging the land. As Elizabeth Wilson notes in her biography, du Pré's interior landscape was similarly stormy during her struggle with the multiple sclerosis that destroyed her career and then killed her.