Arts

Sculpture Milwaukee’s 2023-24 season will begin June 30. Here are the exhibiting artists

May 18, 2023

Sculpture Milwaukee is the best. The nonprofit organization has been filling Downtown Milwaukee (and nearby neighborhoods) with outdoor (and sometimes indoor) art pieces from artists both world-renowned and loc...

Hunt and peck your way to typewriter-tastic QWERTYFEST MKE, June 23-25

Matt Wild

May 9, 2023

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A guide to Bay View Gallery Night 2023

Tyler Maas

May 3, 2023

Since 2011, Bay View Gallery Night has organized “Milwaukee’s largest annual celebration of art, local business, music, and community.” The massive neighborhood-wide event brings together talented area artists ...

After 3-year pause, Lakefront Festival of Art will return to Milwaukee Art Museum in June

Matt Wild

April 20, 2023

It's going to be the summer of "After a three-year pause..." As we previously reported, Locust Street Festival will (officially) return after a three-year pause on June 11. Also returning after a three-year pau...

“Never lose your identity behind the opinions of others.” Happy Milwaukee Day, Milwaukee

Matt Wild

April 14, 2023

Happy Milwaukee Day, Milwaukee. Or MKE Day. Or 414 Day. Or 414 Milwaukee Day. Or 414MKEDay. Or Milwaukee Cyber Monday. It's all the same. It's all about Milwaukee.In that spirit, please enjoy this year's "l...

Murder meets Jiu Jitsu in new novel from Milwaukee’s Zhanna Slor, ‘Breakfall’

Matt Wild

April 6, 2023

Murder, countless true crime podcasts and episodes of Dateline tell us, can happen anywhere. Big cities, small towns, where you least expect it. But in Breakfall, a new novel from Milwaukee author Zhanna Slor, ...

Help Scout renovate its gallery space by buying art, drinks

Tyler Maas

April 6, 2023

Originally based on Historic Mitchell Street, Scout Gallery relocated to a space in the Hide House during the pandemic, where it has been an ardent supporter of area artists throughout its Bay View existence. T...

My Saturday at the 2023 Midwest Gaming Classic: A minute-by-minute report

Matt Wild

April 3, 2023

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes—or, more accurately, like Phoenix being summoned by Cloud in Final Fantasy VII—the Midwest Gaming Classic returned to its full glory this past weekend. A few years of COVID-...

The Show on Riverwest Radio: Everyday Drew

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 2, 2023

Hosted by Kyle & Chris, The Show can be heard every day on WXRW 104.1 in Milwaukee. We interview people with stories to tell. Follow The Show on Twitter, Instagram, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.Drew ...

8 weirdly specific things I’m looking forward to at this weekend’s Midwest Gaming Classic

Matt Wild

March 29, 2023

This weekend, March 31 - April 2, the 2023 Midwest Gaming Classic will take over all three floors of the downtown Wisconsin Center. Once again, MGC will deliver a jaw-dropping, near-overwhelming amount of gamin...

Marcus Performing Arts Center announces 2023-2024 Broadway season, MPAC Presents Jazz and Dance series

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2023

Milwaukee’s famed Marcus Performing Arts Center has it all: A snow pile! Rapidly-spinning advertising cubes! World-class musicals! Though the multi-faceted venue ably wears a lot of different hats, let’s focus ...

Break out those shoe boxes! 2023 Diorama-Rama is coming to Amorphic Beer April 25

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 20, 2023

Among its many oddities—beer, the Bronze Fonz, Bob Uecker—Milwaukee is home to the world’s first museum diorama. In 1890, Carl Akeley, a.k.a. the “father of modern taxidermy,” created a muskrat colony diorama f...

Lion’s Tooth 2-year birthday bash will feature art, music, raffles, grimoire cookbooks, more

Matt Wild

March 15, 2023

Look up the term "Milwaukee gem" in a dictionary and you'll find an impeccably illustrated picture of Lion's Tooth. Cris Siqueira and Shelly McClone-Carriere launched the local company in late 2019 as a graphic...

Highland Community Players tackle groupthink, shadow puppets in ‘Don’t Wake The Dragon’

Matt Wild

March 3, 2023

"This play briefly uses a fog machine, and will occasionally play loud music and sound effects. Audiences are encouraged to sing along and make the 'metal sign' where applicable."It's a program note that co...

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents the World Premiere of HOOPS

Press Release

February 20, 2023

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Presents the World Premiere of HOOPS Adapted by Eliana Pipes with Original Music by B~Free from The HOOPS Project by Nicole Acosta March 10 – April 2, 2023 Studio Theatre, Broadway ...

Next Act Theatre hires Kerri Kilbourne as Managing Director

Press Release

February 20, 2023

Next Act Theatre Hires Kerri Kilbourne as Managing Director Former Board Member, Corporate Leader is Theatre’s First Managing Director in Eight Years Milwaukee, WI – Next Act Theatre announced today that Kerr...

Milwaukee Rep is doing a ‘Run Bambi Run’ musical with songs from Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano

Matt Wild

February 14, 2023

Today in peak '80s/'90s Milwaukee news, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater announced that its upcoming 2023/24 season (its 70th) will include "an original World Premiere musical on the mainstage commissioned by Mi...

18 pictures from The Sugar Maple’s Wes Anderson pop-up and art show

Matt Wild

February 3, 2023

Everyone knows themed pop-up events don't fly in the middle of winter in Milwaukee. What The Sugar Maple's weekend-long Wes Anderson pop-up and art show presupposes is...maybe they do?Yes, Thursday was Day ...

22 pictures of the “Lightfield” installation at Cathedral Square Park

Matt Wild

January 21, 2023

This week and weekend saw the opening of "Lightfield" in Milwaukee's Cathedral Square Park. The immersive art installation by Ukrainian and Canadian artist duo HYBYCOZO features eight geometric ground sculpture...

Green Gallery celebrates Gallery Night with psychedelic tapestries, Green Gallery IPA in cans

Matt Wild

January 20, 2023

The winter edition of Milwaukee's ever-popular Gallery Night kicks off tonight. And while there are approximately 8,000 options for your Gallery Night itinerary, we'd be remiss if we didn't give a shout-out to ...