A Girl and her Dragon
Christopher Feiereisen as Troubadour in Lovabye Dragon at First Stage. Photo credit: Paul Ruffolo. A review of Loveabye Dragon by Kennedy Freiberg, age 12 Loveabye Dragon at First Stage is a musical about a lonely princess who longs to have a dragon and to go outside and see the world — but her overprotective parents won’t let her. She goes to bed one night and cries magical tears that bring a dragon to her. The musical follows her and her new dragon and all the adventures
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The Untold Stories of Shakespeare
Cory Klein as John Heminges (left) and Oliver Kuhtz as Henry Condell (right) in The Book of Will at Lake Country Playhouse. Photo credit: Mark Frohna. A review of The Book of Will by Meika Olson, age 17 Almost everyone knows of the characters that William Shakespeare left behind upon his death in 1616. To this day, actors across the world still study and portray iconic characters such as Romeo, Juliet, Prospero, Hamlet, and more. People everywhere are still familiar with so
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: A New Take on Austen’s Classic
Caitlyn Nettesheim as Lucy Steele (left) and Laura Kloser as Anne Steele (right) in Sense and Sensibility at Waukesha Civic Theatre. Photo credit: Anne Kenny Creative. A review of Sense and Sensibility by Sofia Gilson, age 16 Based on Jane Austen’s first novel, Sense and Sensibility contrasts the heartbreaks and romances of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, as their family struggles financially without their father. Going into Waukesha Civic Theatre’s play adaptatio
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Peter Pan and Wendy Fly to Neverland
From left to right, David Flores as Smee, J.T. Backes as Starkey, and Sawyer Felkey as Curly Lost One in Peter Pan and Wendy at First Stage. Photo credit: Paul Ruffolo. A review of Peter Pan and Wendy by Madelyn Verhyen, age 14 The best word to describe First Stage’s production of Peter Pan and Wendy is magical. In this show, Peter Pan flies Wendy and her two brothers to Neverland so the Lost Boys can have a mother. During her time in Neverland, she tells them stories and k
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