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, [...]
“… 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, [...]
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 [...]
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.