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Warren Gerds/Extra! Memories of a stranger

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Pat Lyons loved his cherry red Pontiac GTO. And hunting rabbits with his brother, Mike. And using his dad’s tractor on the family dairy farm near Denmark. Pat was just a little shaver when he started driving the tractor. Farm life was in his blood. No matter what Pat was […] → Read More

Gerds/Review: How to go out big: Bring your own band

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – SNAP. On John Salerno’s birthday, his father would snap his fingers. “That’s how fast it goes,” the father would say. SNAP. “It does go fast,” John Salerno told an audience Wednesday night. He was speaking of his 30 years at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The audience was gathered in […] → Read More

Heritage Hill park to host local history series

ALLOUEZ, Wis. (WFRV) – A new offering is among attractions this summer at Heritage Hill State Historical Park, 2640 S. Webster Ave. According to a press release: History meets fiction with Hysterical (Historical) Players of Green Bay. Performers of Let Me Be Frank Productions present local history of northeastern Wisconsin with musical parodies of the […] → Read More

Big Mouth & the Power Tool Horns returns to its roots

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Part music, part “teacher talk,” a hybrid concert was held Wednesday night in Cofrin Family Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Admission was free, as is always the case with UW-Green Bay Music’s “6:30 Concert Series,” which looks at music in […] → Read More

Gerds/Review: ‘Choral Masterworks’ = Weidner fireworks

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Youth had its say Tuesday night at the Weidner Center – and so, certainly, did age. Kent Paulsen of the Dudley Birder Chorale put together a kind of “hits” concert for an entourage of performers nearly 250 strong. It can’t be said the effort filled the house, but the sound […] → Read More

Warren Gerds/Review: ‘A Rock Sails By’ is a gem

BAILEYS HARBOR, Wis. (WFRV) – News the other day said scientists discovered a star 13 billion light years distant from Earth. Implications of that are a challenge for meer mortals to wrap their head around. Astroscience and mortality and faith and much more are in a new play that was presented Monday night and is […] → Read More

Gerds/Review: ‘WROL (Without Rule of Law)’ weaves webs

DE PERE, Wis. (WFRV) – A backyard swimming pool without a fence is an attractive nuisance, ordinances say. In the play “WROL (Without Rule of Law),” five eighth graders get into something akin to that – a basement-like space that someone is using to dwell. The place is their object of mystery, myth and “truths” […] → Read More

Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Company’ opens Thursday in Marinette

MARINETTE, Wis. (WFRV) – Theatre on the Bay campus and community theater will present four performances of the musical “Company” starting Thursday, April 7, in Herbert L. Williams Theatre at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Marinette Campus. Performances are 7 p.m. April 7-9 and 2 p.m. April 10. Info: uwgb.edu/marinette-theatre. According to a press release: […] → Read More

Warren Gerds/Review: ‘WOMA Algoma, You’ve Struck Gold’

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – A Green Bay TV anchorman got into radio ownership and along the way purchased a station from a disc jockey/owner who then turned to the ministry. Thirty-seven years later, that has become the story for a comedy musical by a troupe that creates such shows and whose namesake attends the […] → Read More

Gerds/Review: Same plays get different takes in region

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Plays with the same name are popping into calendars of different theaters in our area. But the productions are the same in name and characters only. That keeps things interesting for folks who pay attention to the theater scene in Northeastern Wisconsin. Unlike movies, plays change from place to place, […] → Read More

Wisconsin plays large in new ‘Nova’ science program

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – An all-Wisconsin project, shot in Wisconsin with a Wisconsin crew, will be broadcast nationally on public television’s “Nova” starting Wednesday, April 6. A community screening is scheduled April 25 at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. According to press releases: The one-hour program […] → Read More

Gerds/Review: ‘Deadly Games at the Hotel Excelsior’ camp

DE PERE, Wis. (WFRV) – After two years of incarceration because of COVID-19, one-of-a-kind Cardboard Theatre is back in action with a new, original play loaded with whimsy. “Deadly Games at the Hotel Excelsior” had its merry premiere Friday night at ComedyCity Theatre, where improvisational theater rules and camp is king. Cardboard Theatre suits a […] → Read More

Gerds/Review: ‘She Kills Monsters’ clever in Sheboygan

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (WFRV) – Sometimes a place and players fit a play hand in glove. “She Kills Monsters” is way off the beaten path – full of “Dungeons & Dragons”-like fantasy, along with a loosey-goosey approach to a story. The ad-libbed performance space of Paradigm Coffee & Music fits “neatly” into the let’s-use-our-imagination style of […] → Read More

Week ahead: A variety of action all over the place

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Canceled or postponed performances have diminished in Northeastern Wisconsin, and schedules are usually maintained. However, some performances in Northeastern Wisconsin are affected by protocols due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Depending on protocols at some facilities, masks are recommended or required. A few facilities require proof of vaccination. However, the wearing […] → Read More

Large-scale ‘Choral Masterworks’ set at Weidner Center

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Dudley Birder Chorale of St. Norbert College will present its “Choral Masterworks” concert with a multitude of performers at 7 p.m. April 5 in Cofrin Family Hall of Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Info: snc.edu/tickets. The concert is made possible in part by […] → Read More

Gerds/Review: St. Norbert Community Band = vim & vigor

DE PERE, Wis. (WFRV) – Ukraine was a presence Monday night in an in-person and online concert by the St. Norbert Community Band: + A peace dove and the Ukraine flag on the printed program cover. + The first work of the evening, that country’s national anthem. + The introduction to that work, a quote […] → Read More

Gerds/Review: ‘Etty’ exudes of the power of theater

DE PERE, Wis. (WFRV) – A woman from the 1940s speaks. She is with a suitcase. The words are personal as she looks straight into the eyes of individual listeners in kind of truth to truth. First, she is in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The war is in its third year, and she wonders when it […] → Read More

Cardboard Theatre of De Pere returning with new comedy

DE PERE, Wis. (WFRV) – Cardboard Theatre will present a new play starting this week, “Deadly Games at the Hotel Excelsior.” Performances are in ComedyCity Theatre, 365 Main Ave., at 7:30 p.m. April 1-2; 2 p.m. April 3; and 7:30 p.m. April 8-9. Info: comedycity.fun. According to a press release, the teaser for the show […] → Read More

‘WROL (“Without Rule of Law”) starts Friday in De Pere

DE PERE, Wis. (WFRV) – St. Norbert College Theatre Studies will present the Michaela Jeffery play, “WROL (‘Without Rule of Law’)” starting this week. Performances in Webb Theatre of Abbot Pennings Hall of Fine Arts are at 7:30 p.m. April 1-2; 2 p.m. April 3; and 7:30 p.m. April 7-9. Info: snc.edu/tickets. A question-and-answer session with […] → Read More

Gerds/Review: Saxman Joe Lovano fuels UWGB Jazz Fest 52

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – For his encore, the guest star stands on the stage and makes up a tune. Filling in some blanks: The star is elite jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano. The stage is that of a place of aural ease, Cofrin Family Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts at the […] → Read More