Tagged Highland Community Players

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...

"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...

"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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...