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Milwaukee Youth Theatre has been around for 30 years. MYT is a resident at Lincoln Center for the Arts. MYT’s mailing address is: P0 Box 510075, Milwaukee WI 53203. Our street address is: 820 E. Knapp St., Milwaukee, WI 53202 (414-390-3900). Milwaukee Youth Theatre’s Mission is to provide positive learning experiences in theatre arts. Students…
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Arielle Yanasak, age 13, and Camille Cole, age 10, may be young, but the theatre bug has already bitten them. Both girls were a part of Milwaukee Youth Theatre’s Fall Production: “Children’s Collection, The Sequel.” Camille, who is a 5th grader at Holy Redeemer Christian Academy, has been dancing since the age of 4. While…
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Film is one of the most powerful influences in society. If we see movies as either “harmless entertainment” or “completely corrupt,” we miss an opportunity. One view excludes a greater understanding of our culture. The other lets ungodly values become part of our society. “A film not made solely by or about Christians can still…
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Excerpts from Reviewing the Movies, Chapter 5 “The first rule in children and film is simple: Visual sophistication is the standard by which most young children evaluate what they watch. If a film is fresh and technically sophisticated, kids are more likely to find it entertaining. Practically speaking, this means that it may be hard to…
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For years, people in and out of Hollywood have argued whether films create cultural trends or simply mirror them. All such arguments tend to be rather simple-headed. Like the nature or nurture arguments of behavioral scientists, or the mind versus heart arguments of theologians, simple answers can only be drawn on paper. The realities are…
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Marketing Democratic Art to Working Class and Middle Class According to the “Music and Drama” section of the March 26, 1898, Milwaukee Journal, high-class vaudeville is recognized by the theater-going public as the most popular form of amusement now in vogue, nor is there any reason why this should not be so. A vaudeville programme…
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From the Greater Amusements, First and Oldest Motion Picture Trade Journal, Jan. 4, 1963: Building daily from the premise that “when you’ve got a winner everyone wants to get in on the act”, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s gigantic nationwide Showmanship 63 Campaign to Launch Billy Rose’s Jumbo is a large, all-inclusive advertising-promotion-exploitation-publicity campaign. The first public multi-facetted program…
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Motion Picture Exhibitor Magazine, March 15, 1961: KANSAS CITY, MO – A call for a joint exhibitor effort to “overcome the resistance to change and accept and adopt new ideas, new concepts, new approaches, new attitudes so that our great industry will flourish anew” was issued by at the United Theatre Owner Show-A-Rama Convention by Jerome…
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NEW YORK – Phil Harling, chairman of the Theatre Owners of America Anti Toll TV Committee, reported at a press conference following a trip to the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke to observe the Telemeter experiment in action, that he and his committee will continue to oppose the invasion of the rights of the public with…
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Motion Picture Exhibitor Magazine, March 23, 1960: One of the more unfortunate signs of a troubled business is the continuing practice of exhibitor under-reporting of grosses on percentage films and the resulting unpleasant and embarrassing legal wrangling. Sargoy and Stein represent distribution in such legal actions and the 30 years we have followed their activity have…
