Talk Theatre

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 12:00 PM

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 12:00 PM

An opportunity to participate in informal pre-show discussions with MCT's Producing Artistic Director and other show-specific theatre artists.

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ViewPoints

Wednesday, October 7, 2015 6:30 PM

Experience in-depth, pre-show presentations led by engaging guest experts who offer insights into show-related issues and field questions from knowledge-hungry patrons.

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Talkbacks

Thursday, October 1, 2015 7:30 PM

Thursday, October 8, 2015 7:30 PM

Thursday, October 15, 2015 7:30 PM

After select Thursday evening performances, you can meet the artists involved in a production, ask questions about the creative process and discuss your theatergoing experience.

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Media Coverage

MCT Romances Friendship and Poetry in Ruhl's DEAR ELIZABETH

Monday, October 5, 2015

by Peggy Sue Dunigan, Broadway World; The romance of letter writing centers Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's Midwest premiere of Dear Elizabeth.

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Two poets’ lives artfully captured in ‘Dear Elizabeth’

Thursday, October 1, 2015

by Julie McHale, Waukesha Freeman; Anchored by a strong script by Sarah Ruhl and stellar performances by Norman Moses and Carrie Hitchcock, the lives of poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop are brought to light in the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s second offering of the 2015-16 season.

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The Personal and the Poetical

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

by Selena Milewski, Shepherd Express; Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s Dear Elizabeth explores that least understood and most necessary of human relationships, friendship. Sarah Ruhl’s play, adapted from Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, centers on the relationship between two giants of 20th-century American poetry with courage and depth.

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Love (Sort Of) Between Poets

Monday, September 28, 2015

by Dominique Paul Noth, Urban Milwaukee; More than words in the air are needed – and fortunately delivered – to portray two Pulitzer Prize-winning poets whose correspondence and intellectual bonds fashion the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s Dear Elizabeth

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Total Theater review

Monday, September 28, 2015

by Anne Siegel, Total Theater; A carefully selected collection of letters between two of America’s well-known poets opens the fall theater season at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre.

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Poets' letters make sweet rhymes in 'Dear Elizabeth'

Sunday, September 27, 2015

by Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; In the preface to "Dear Elizabeth" — her moving play about the friendship between American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell — Sarah Ruhl admits that "it's difficult to write about friendship."

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"Dear Elizabeth" is an intellectual win for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre

Sunday, September 27, 2015

by Dave Begel, OnMilwaukee.com; Many days and evenings of live theater ask for an audience to bring both heart and head to the theater in equal measure, ready for everything from tears to fears to gales of laughter.

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'Dear Elizabeth' brings a storied poetic friendship to life at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre

Saturday, September 26, 2015

by Matthew Reddin, Wisconsin Gazette; Dear Reader, Marvelous news! I have just returned from the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s production of Dear Elizabeth — a play told through the letters of esteemed American poets and friends Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. And it is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

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News

TWO POETS, ONE ART

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

by Trevor Kearns; If one were to look for two poets to represent two strikingly different faces of American poetry in the twentieth century, one could hardly do better than Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. The two faces in question are two aspects of The Poet, that semi-mythical figure of vapors and swoons, the dusk and the dawn, into whose ear the Muses whisper or remain devastatingly silent, when the bottle starts to call instead . . .

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