The Boy is Back in Town
July 13, 2012Events

The Boy is Back in Town

Photo by Barry J. Holmes With a new baby and a wedding in the works, Rufus Wainwright is a family man now. But it’s pretty clear our own Pabst Theater is his gilded mistress. Wainwright started his serious wooing in 2007, when he came with a production and film crew to record Milwaukee At Last!!!, a live album and concert DVD released in 2009. Two years ago, his Pabst concert included quirky performance art in which he entered in a long cape and played a solo piano “song cycle” dedicated to his late mother, folk singer Kate McGarrigle. This time,…

BY Paul Kosidowski


Photo by Barry J. Holmes

With a new baby and a wedding in the works, Rufus Wainwright is a family man now. But it’s pretty clear our own Pabst Theater is his gilded mistress. Wainwright started his serious wooing in 2007, when he came with a production and film crew to record Milwaukee At Last!!!, a live album and concert DVD released in 2009. Two years ago, his Pabst concert included quirky performance art in which he entered in a long cape and played a solo piano “song cycle” dedicated to his late mother, folk singer Kate McGarrigle. This time, Wainwright will feature material from his latest album, Out of the Game, which is saturated with luxurious melodies and reflects on his recent life changes with both fervor and humor. 

Rufus Wainwright (Aug. 10). Pabst Theater. 144 E. Wells St., 414-286-3663, pabsttheater.org.

Paul Kosidowski
Paul Kosidowski is a freelance writer and critic who contributes regularly to Milwaukee Magazine, WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio and national arts magazines. He writes weekly reviews and previews for the Culture Club column. He was literary director of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater from 1999-2006. In 2007, he was a fellow with the NEA Theater and Musical Theater Criticism Institute at the University of Southern California. His writing has also appeared in American Theatre magazine, Backstage, The Boston Globe, Theatre Topics, and Isthmus (Madison, Wis.). He has taught theater history, arts criticism and magazine writing at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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