I gotcher theatuh right-chere!!

Milwaukee stages have not been completely quiet this summer. Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's Well was a funny and trenchant look at real life, and what theater can and can't do to capture and perhaps shape it. Ruth Schudson sat in the center of the production with great charm and gravitas.
Danceworks also hosted another great summer series of local and national choreography. The UWM Dance Department offered concerts as well.

But why am I thinking that everything this fall will be upstaged by McCain-Obama slapdown? It couldn't be the rhetorical circus surrounding Gov. Palin? Or the convention spectacles? I'm not quite ready to call it Shakespearean or Shavian. That would be a disservice to a world that is very much its own.