Coming in March

​A strict 19th century European school serves as a potent backdrop to one of the more intense and provocative contemporary rock musicals to come out of the past few years. There’s a raw intensity to the music. The show comes across like a rock concert that just happens to be telling a very powerful story. The music fuses with the story on a very deep emotional level. Skylight Music Theatre presents its production in the final days of winter March 1st - 17th at the Broadway Theatre Center on 158 N. Broadway. Michael Unger and Alexandria Wailes direct. For more information, visit Skylight online.

Sophocles' tragic tale of Antigone finds its way to the stage for two performances one night only this month as Vanguard Productions presents a new adaptation of the drama. Chantae Miller and Matt Daniels star in a reading that also features Leo Madson, Jake Badovski, Josie Trettin, Shanti Lleone, Maya Danks, and Elliott Brotherhood. The show. runs Monday, March 4th at 5pm and 8pm at Calvary Presbyterian Church on 628 N 10th St, For more information, visit the show's Eventbrite page.

​Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop is an intimate look at one of the most influential peacemakers of the last 100 years. Bryant Bemtley stars as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Hotel the night before his assassination. N’Jameh Russel-Camara plays a woman working the hotel who has a conversation with King. Dimonte Henning directs a close-up portrait of one of  the legendary figure on one of the smallest stages in Milwaukee.  The two-person drama makes the small stage at Broadway Theatre Center on 158 N Broadway. March 8th - 24th. For more information, visit Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Online.

He’s not as well-known for his earliest work...partially because it’s silent film-era stuff that has been lost to history. This month Theatre Gigante presents one of the acclaimed director’s few surviving silent films as it screens The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog. The 1928 film is the story of a serial killer who only kills young, blonde women on Tuesday evenings. The film is presented live with original scoring by the tiny, little orchestral powerhouse that is Frank Pahl’s Little Bang Theory. The show runs for one performance only: Sunday, March 10th at 3 pm at the Jan Serr Studio Theatre on 1925 E. Kenilworth Place. For more information, visit Theatre Gigante online.

Full Frontal Puppetry returns this month for World Puppetry Day. (It's a real thing. Look it up.) The 8-Bit Show is a one-performance-only variety show featuring the Full Frontal Puppets and its newest member: a fuzzy, brown guitarist named Deep Fried. Sounds like a fun show. Thursday, March 21st at the Brick House on 504 E. Center St, 

The Constructivists open a promising new 60-minute satire this month. Director Jaimelyn Gray welcomes audiences to an hour at the end of the world with the musical group Oconomowocapella.  A Cappocalypse! sounds like a deliciously absurd concept for an intimate, little burst of comedy early this Spring. Conceived by Andrew Hobgood and Joe Lino, the comedy features Andrea Ewald, Ekene Ikegwuani, Joe Lino, Logan Milway, Clayton Mortl, Anya Palmer, Matthew Scales, Kellie Wambold, and Ben Yela. The show opens just a couple of nights after the Spring Equinox at Zao Mke Church on 2319 E Kenwood Blvd. The show runs March 23rd - April 6th. For more information, visit  The Constructivists online.