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You’re invited to an evening at the Mendota Lake House Salon. Secrets, shopping and wagering garden gnomes will take center stage in this intimate event. Morningwood Farm Nursery Along with TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater present: Dirty Little Garden Secrets & Scenes or Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Nursery Business – and Garden [...]

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2013 Summer Tap Class Schedule

The class schedule can be found here.

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You’re Invited to the Garden Party

Garden Party: A Comedy for Gardeners both Casual and Crazed Celebrate gardeners both casual and crazed with comedy, music, tap dance and garden slides. Wagering garden gnomes, battling plants, mustard researchers and members of Gardeners Anonymous explore the comic possibilities of America’s favorite hobby in this easy-traveling show.

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Back By Popular Demand! “Mangia, Mangia!” Returns

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, July 12, 7:30 PM and Friday, July 13, 8:00 PM.  Tickets are $15.00 for the show only or $35.00 for dinner 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.

“On Tap” Review Excerpted from On The Aisle/77 Square

“…Edgewood opened The Stream, as well as its overall theater season, on Saturday, Sept. 22, with “The COR Stories,” a series of seven short pieces including theater, tap dance, poetry and a musical revue. My favorite piece was easily Donna Peckett’s funny, irreverent “On Tap,” a mini-memoir about how tap dancing has changed her professional and creative [...]

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“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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