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TAPIT/new works

Coming Soon: “Take Care: A Play for Our Times,” UW Marathon County Wausau, Wisconsin, Thursday, April 26, 2012; Overture Center, Promenade Hall, Madison, Wisconsin, Thursday – Sunday, May 3 – 6, 2012; The Last Frontier Theater Conference, Valdez, Alaska, Tuesday, June 12, 2012.

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Get The Food Connection!

Building healthy bodies and happy audiences Can you imagine children cheering for vegetables? They do when they’re watching The Food Connection: A BB Broccoli and Sweet Potato Adventure. This 45-minute musical adventure for children is full of action, humor and nutritional content; making it engaging entertainment for family series and school shows for kindergarten through [...]

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2012 Winter/Spring Tap Class Schedule

The class schedule can be found here.

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“Mangia, Mangia!” Returns in July

It’s time for seconds! Treat yourself to a heaping helping of humor, heart and genuine Italian food when “Mangia, Mangia!” returns for two evening performances at the Elks Club, 711 Jenifer Street, Thursday and Friday, July 12 and 13, 2012, at 7:00 PM.  Tickets are $15.00.  Please call Dianne Redsten at 608.221.3225 for reservations and [...]

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How to Contact Us

Producing Artistic Directors
Danielle Dresden
Donna Peckett

TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater
1957 Winnebago Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53704
Phone: 608.244.2938
e-mail: info@tapitnewworks.org

Mission Statement

TAPIT/new works creates, produces and performs original works, collaborating with theater, dance, music and visual artists; brings the arts to audiences of varied ages and backgrounds; encourages participation in the arts through outreach; and strives to enrich the lives of individuals and communities.

“Take Care” Takes Off

If getting old isn’t for wimps, neither is taking care of the elderly – and a sense of humor helps no matter where you are on the continuum of care. TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater explores the feelings, facts, heart and humor behind caregiving in Take Care, a new multi-disciplinary play set for performances in Madison, [...]

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“Bullying: The Musical” Review Excerpted from Booklist

“… Based on material gathered at more than 50 workshops (with school age students) … the production, filmed before a live audience, relies on music, clever dialogue and humor. The teenage cast presents a series of brief vignettes set in school hallways, cafeterias, and bus stops, touching upon such topics as body weight, race, cheating, [...]

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TAPIT/new works Receives Great Performance Fund Support

TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater will bring a compelling new play about caregivers and the Sandwich Generation to Promenade Hall in Madison’s Overture Center this spring, thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Pleasant Rowland Great Performance Fund for Theater, a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation. These funds, allocated to support professional theater in [...]

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Wisconsin State Journal

But despite the dark material, “Bullying: The Musical” has an “ABC Afterschool Special” quality to it, with a bouncing teen energy and injections of humor that its young audience — and their teachers — should be able to relate to. It is, after all, a musical.  

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