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Tagged Highland Community Players

Money talks, rockets launch in Highland Community School’s ‘A Very Special Visit’

Matt Wild
March 4, 2025
More than two dozen 4th, 5th, and 6th graders dash around a dimly lit gymnasium. Discussions of money and morality are punctuated by the sounds of fire alarms and mid-period Styx. The richest person in the worl...

Click to Accept: Highland Community Players face ‘The Loathsome Fate Of Riley Faust’

Matt Wild
March 7, 2024
"Attention: This production will use a fog machine at three different moments. The performance will also have flashing lights and will play loud music and sound effects. There may also be references to chonky c...

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...

Highland Community Players cook up controversy in super-slice spoof, ‘Pizza Party!’

Matt Wild
March 8, 2022
A school wins a pizza party. What could go wrong? Oh, where to begin. In Pizza Party! the latest production from Milwaukee's Highland Community Players, it may be easier to list the things that don't go wron...

Co-opted activism, meddling adults get sent up in Highland Community School’s ‘Justice For Pluto’

Matt Wild
February 26, 2020
"The irony of this one is that it's all about using children as props to further your agenda. If I'm not careful, I could be doing the same thing." Those aren't the typical concerns of a performing arts dire...

Cast, crew, and crowd get messy in Nickelodeon game show-inspired ‘Winnerz Take All’

Matt Wild
March 6, 2018
A totally tubular game show host pumps up an already pumped-up crowd. Four teams slosh around in a super sloppy obstacle course stocked with buckets of popcorn, swimming pools of slime, and paper mache boulders...

Retro-game-inspired ‘Quest For The Sacred Orb’ reminds grade school adventurers it’s dangerous to go alone

Matt Wild
February 28, 2017
What does it mean when a theater troupe, having recently produced original plays inspired by the works of whacked-out directors like David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch, claims its latest production is its most expe...

Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Dead Man’ resurrected as grade school play ‘The Bully, The Liar & The Thief’

Matt Wild
February 29, 2016
// In Jim Jarmusch's 1995 "psychedelic Western" Dead Man, William Blake (Johnny Depp) travels to the dystopian town of Machine for a new job. Things don't go as planned, unfortunately, and Blake ends up sho...

The twisted world of David Lynch meets the grade school set in Judy Plays With Fire

Matt Wild
March 9, 2015
It’s a Saturday morning and a local theater group is running through a nightmarish dream sequence torn straight from the (secret diary) pages of seminal ’90s TV series Twin Peaks. A little person in a red suit ...
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