Theater – November 2020

An Island of Creativity in a Sea of Crisis by Jim Romenesko   When the going gets tough, Stephanie Kapsa, a music teacher in the Appleton Area School District, gets going. When faced with what she describes as “the inequities caused by online learning” and...

Theater – October 2020

The End of an Era by Jim Romenesko Record-breaking Broadway blockbusters can’t hold a candle to the nearly sixty-year run of one of Appleton’s classiest acts, Marcia Fellows of Marcia’s School of Dance. Citing the effects of the Covid crisis on businesses in general...

Theatre – September 2020

Fox Cities Performing Arts Center’s Reimagined Season by Jim Romenesko When Joni Mitchell sang “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone,” no one could have predicted how sharply we’d feel the sentiment fifty years later during the Covid crisis. For many of us,...

Theater – August 2020

Live Theater During the Covid Crisis by Jim Romenesko Although remaining healthy is the highest priority for everyone during the Covid crisis, quality-of-life concerns loom large in the minds of many in the creative community. Broadway theatres are shuttered until...