Season 1 Ran from Aug 1986-May 1987 Counting The Ways The Wool Gatherer Virginia Season 2 August 87-May 88 Hello and Goodbye Funhouse/Rivkala’s Ring Season 3 Aug 88-May 89 A Mamet Manual The Government Inspector Old Times (Pinter) Season 4 Aug 89-May90 The Cherry Orchard (Chekov) The Benefactor (Michael Frame) Suddenly Last Summer (Tennessee Williams)…
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Feb 3 – March 7, 2010 Directed by: Mark Bucher This rare and wonderfully bittersweet romance tells the tale of a physician’s daughter, Helena (Shannon Nettesheim), who is deeply in love with the fickle, aloof Betram (Chad Laudonio). Betram, the son of the Countess of Rossillion (Karen Ambrosh), is far…
THE SAVANNAH DISPUTATION Nov 24, 2011 – Jan 16, 2011 Directed by: Mark Bucher The Milwaukee premiere of playwright Evan Smith’s comedy of “Biblical” proportions ”THE SAVANNAH DISPUTATION”. Evan Smith, the author of Boulevard’s smash scholastic comedy REMEDIAL ENGLISH (March, 2001), begets a comedy of two southern sisters beset by a Baptist beautician intent on saving…
THIS LIME TREE BOWER Feb 21 – April 1, 2012 Directed by: Mark Bucher This Midwest and Milwaukee premiere intertwines a trilogy of deliciously crafted monologues which reveal the lives of three inhabitants of a small seaside Irish town. Two of the speakers (the melancholy teenager “Joe” and the ‘stay at home’ “Frankie”) are siblings and work…
THE LAST ROMANCE Feb 20 – March 3, 2013 Directed by: Mark Bucher This charming and affecting comedy about discovering love later in life is by the author of numerous hit plays and books for smash musicals (OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS; MEMPHIS; I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE; and countless others)…
THE BALD SOPRANO April 26 – May 8, 2016 Directed by: Mark Bucher The Boulevard Theatre (Milwaukee’s premiere alternative theatre company) continues its 30th anniversary season with a staging of acclaimed playwright Eugene Ionesco’s absurd one-act comedy THE BALD SOPRANO at Milwaukee’s Plymouth Church (in the church’s cozy, welcoming second-floor Graham Chapel hall). THE BALD…
BEST BROTHERS Nov 27, 2021 Directed by: Mark Bucher Boulevard Theatre offers 2 free shows of a fraternal farce entitled THE BEST BROTHERS on Saturday, November 27 at two separate locations: @ 1 pm (@Sugar Maple Tavern’s back room, 441 E. Lincoln) & 5 pm (@COMEDYSPORTZ’s black box theatre, 420 South 1st Street). Admission is free, but all pandemic protocols will be observed…
ROSES IN DECEMBER Dec 26, 2008 – Jan 18, 2009 Directed by: Mark Bucher The Milwaukee premiere of playwright Victor L. Cahn’s tender two-person comedy ROSES IN DECEMBER. In Cahn’s delightful script, Milwaukee actress Anne Miller (last featured in Boulevard’s February, 2008 sold-out production of CATHOLIC SCHOOL GIRLS) is a graduate student who, in a series of charming…
SAY GOODNIGHT, GRACIE Jan 16 – Feb 3, 2008 Directed by: Jon Beidelschies The Milwaukee premiere of neglected playwright Ralph Pape’s comedy “SAY GOODNIGHT, GRACIE” tells of five friends meeting in a New York City cold-water flat and of their foiled attempts to attend their high school reunion. The motley crew of a failed actor, a…
Marion Bridge Dec 27, 2006 – Jan 14, 2007 Directed by: Mark Bucher Milwaukee actresses Carol Hirschi, Cheryl Ann, & Beth Monhollen portray three sisters (the failed actress “Agnes”, the responsible “Theresa,” & the recluse “Louise,” respectively) brought together by a family crisis. They arrive at their ailing mother’s house in a small rural town in Canada and, in turn,…
