- Black Box Productions
- Guest Act
In this RayDar Production you will encounter Shondra and David, who are on the brinks of losing their home, when they receive an eviction notice for late rent payment. To accompany them is their daughter Traci as they plan to stay with the blunt and witty Granny Damn (Shondra’s mother) for awhile to get things sorted out. What this family doesn’t foresee are the obstacles and challenges that lie ahead when they meet next door neighbors Shondell and his substance abusing mother Tammy, who will change their lives forever.
- Black Box Productions
- Mainstage
During a time of personal turmoil, Angela is miraculously offered the opportunity to participate in a bold project tasked with colonizing Mars but soon she discovers that the real challenge of going to a new planet is confronting the things she’s leaving behind.
- Guest Act
Spend an evening with John McGivern—best known for his six-time Emmy Award-winning work on PBS—as he shares personal and funny stories of growing up the third of six kids in a working-class Irish Catholic Family in Milwaukee Wisconsin. His stories are personal, funny, touching, and familiar. His themes are based in family and remind us that as specific as we might believe our experiences are, we all share a universal human experience. The evening is guaranteed to generate loads of laughs
- Community Partner Event
- Guest Act
How much do you know about Wisconsin’s despicable, harrowingly haunted past? Author and historian Anna Lardinois, creator of Gothic Milwaukee, knows it all! She’ll entertain us with stories from her books and share tales from her time working as the Pfister Hotel’s Narrator in Residence. Anna will bring to life legends that seem as mythical as the story of Mexican Gothic’s Noemí Taboada but are entirely (or allegedly) true. A Q&A and book signing will follow. Copies of Anna’s books will be available for purchase. Anna Lardinois is an award-winning tour guide and the author of 13 books of regional history and lore, including Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes, Storied and Scandalous Wisconsin, Milwaukee Ghosts and Legends, and Madison Ghosts and Legends.
- Mainstage
Cut off from the outside world by its remote location and shunned by all who know its forbidding and sinister reputation, Hill House has remained empty and silent except for the daily visits of its grumbling caretaker, Mrs. Dudley. An investigator of supernatural phenomena and three guests arrive at Hill House, and they soon is presented through special witness strange and eerie events.