Category: Performance
Door County is home to a selection of performance venues and ensembles unmatched by any other small communities in America. Birch Creek brings jazz and classical music to a rustic barn, Midsummer’s Music Festival tours the peninsula for intimate concerts, and the Peninsula Music Festival awes visitors and locals alike at the Door Community Auditorium each august. Find schedules for these and many other venues here.
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Peninsula Players’ Online Series Continues
Peninsula Players Theatre’s online interview series – Peninsula Players Presents – will continue its episodes beyond the mid-October closing of the theater’s regular performance season. The host of the series, Artistic Director Greg Vinkler, will shift from interviewing company members to exploring the theater’s history, and Audra Baakari Boyle, the theater company’s business manager and […]
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Join DCA’s Let’s Play! Drum Competition
Last week, Door Community Auditorium (DCA) and Jahmés Tony Finlayson – a Milwaukee-based percussionist, workshop facilitator and Reiki practitioner – hosted a Circle of Drums residency. Finlayson presented a concert and several educational segments, which will soon be available to the public. One of these activities is a video session about how to make a […]
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Door Shakespeare to Stream ‘The Comedy of Errors’
Door Shakespeare will stream its second virtual production, The Comedy of Errors, to homes Oct. 27 – Nov. 16. Purchase tickets ($16 per single, $30 per couple, $40 for a full house) online at doorshakespeare.com or by calling 920.854.7111. The Comedy of Errors tells the story of a farcical misadventure between two sets of identical […]
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Following a successful livestream debut of the Steel Bridge Songfest in June, the Steel Bridge Creative Foundation is moving forward in the same vein for its spooky-themed Dark Songs (EdgarAllanPolka.com), which will be streamed Oct. 23 and 24, 7 pm. Normally hosted in Sturgeon Bay’s Holiday Music Motel, the event – involving artists from around the […]
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Birch Creek Welcomes New Trustees
Birch Creek has welcomed Diane Taillon and Sam Carmen to its 18-member board of trustees. Taillon, owner/broker of Arbor Crowne Properties, joined the board for the first time during the October meeting. She’s been in the real estate business since 2003, and prior to that, she was a pediatric orthotist who developed the largest orthotic […]
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Washington Island Graduate Participates in Mystery Concert
The Wisconsin Music Ventures (WMV) will host its twelfth official Sunday Brunch Surprise Concert via the Zoom on Oct. 18, 11:30 am. The Sunday Brunch Surprise series is an online concert series featuring Wisconsin-based musicians via Zoom. The concerts are scheduled on the first and third Sunday of each month and last about 45 minutes. Audience members […]
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The Federal Theatre Project, Part One Following the greatest economic disaster this country had ever faced, the New Deal made funding for the arts one of its largest priorities. Five government-funded arts projects were born out of Federal Project Number One, and though these projects were slowly phased out and defunded over time, one of […]
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An ‘Existential Threat’: Report Details Challenges for State Arts and Cultural Organizations
During any other year, Door County’s theaters, live-music venues, museums and art galleries would be propping open their doors to usher in thousands of patrons to the final exhibits and performances of the peninsula’s high season. There would be the triumph of making it through the frenetic pace of summertime and the anticipation of the […]