Madison Calendar
- Nov 21
Music
Chopper Fest 2: The Midwest Beat + The Hussy, The Gut Reactions, Bored Games, The Elephant Walk
Mickey's Tavern
10 p.m.
Wisconsin vintage-pop enthusiasts The Midwest Beat stretched the meaning of “retro” last year, tracking an album inside Madison’s...more
The United Sons Of Toil, High Hopes, and A Farewell To Silence
Memorial Union Rathskeller
9:30 p.m.
The United Sons Of Toil pretty much instantly became one of the best bands in Madison with the 2007 release of Hope Is Not A Strategy,...more
Anders Parker and This Bright ApocalypseKiki's House Of Righteous Music
9 p.m.
Singer-songwriter Anders Parker has always found non-flashy ways to explore mellow pop sounds and rustic twang alike. On the first half...more
Band From TVAlliant Energy Center7 p.m.
Not unlike the author "supergroup" The Rock Bottom Remainders (which has featured Dave Barry and Amy Tan, among others), Band...more
Delilah DeWylde And The Lost Boys, Brown Derby, and Cathouse DriftersCrystal Corner Bar
10 p.m.
Michigan’s Delilah DeWylde And The Lost Boys serve as a reminder that country music used to be a dress-up affair. DeWylde, who...more
Mason Jennings and Nathaniel Rateliff And The WheelMajestic Theatre
9 p.m.
Mason Jennings' mild-mannered appeal keeps him from blending in with the more hokey, polished singer-songwriters of his generation. If...more
Flatbear, Icarus Himself, El Valiente, and The Romantic DisasterThe Frequency
10 p.m.
Jentri Colello recently started billing herself and her band as Flatbear, presenting the music as more of a group effort than just a...more
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit and Juniper TarHigh Noon Saloon
9:30 p.m.
Jason Isbell surprised a lot of people when he announced that he was leaving Drive-By Truckers, but fans of his contributions to the...more
Larry Penn and Lil' RevCafe Carpe8:30 p.m.
Lil' Rev has been called “the Jewish Pete Seeger,” which is high praise whether you’re Jewish or a fan of traditional...more
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Afraid Of Dave, Voice Of Addiction, and Underculture Area 51Loading...
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Tim Holland and Joey Banks Harmony Bar & GrillLoading...
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Josh Harty and Blake Thomas Lazy Oaf LoungeLoading...
Pamela Means Mother Fool's CoffeehouseLoading...
The Northern Hooks Mr Roberts Bar And GrillLoading...
DJ The Real Jaguar NattspilLoading...
The Audition and DJ Vinnie Toma Orpheum Stage DoorLoading...
UW MadHatters Overture Center for the Arts - Capitol TheaterLoading...
Madison Symphony Orchestra Presents Cellist Ralph Kirshbaum Overture Center for the Arts - Overture HallLoading...
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Dale Kidd And The Hang Loueys TalulaLoading...
Joel Pingitore And The Playground Of Sound, The Trailer Kings, and The Mighty Joe White The AnnexLoading...
Lynette's Enchanted The Brink LoungeLoading...
DJ Chamo Candela and DJ Rumba The CardinalLoading...
We Are Beatrice The FrequencyLoading...
The Electric Road Kings The Locker Room Sports Bar And GrillLoading...
Kristy Larson and Mark Roeder Washington Hotel Coffee RoomLoading...
Comedy
Tommy Johnagin and Michael PalascakComedy Club on State
8 p.m. , 10:30 p.m.
St. Louis stand-up Tommy Johnagin proves it's possible to enjoy a night of observations about some dude's girlfriend, cat, and car, and...more
God's Pottery and Tim HarmstonProject Lodge
7:30 p.m. , 9:30 p.m.
Armed with an acoustic guitar and a daffy little glockenspiel, the duo of Gideon Lamb and Jeremiah Smallchild sing joyful praises to...more
Theater
The StopsBartell Theatre
8 p.m.
StageQ begins its 2009-10 season with a campy musical in which three female church organists—a Nazarene, a Southern Baptist, and...more
1 SW33T R1DEMercury Laboratory
8 p.m.
Prodigious local playwright and filmmaker Rob Matsushita has become notorious for penning challenging works that rarely shy away from...more
The Musical Comedy Murders Of 1940Bartell Theatre
4 p.m. , 8 p.m.
In Strollers Theatre’s production of The Musical Comedy Murders Of 1940, the tropes and plot devices found in '40s murder...more
The Comedy Of ErrorsEdgewood College - Regina Theatre
7:30 p.m.
Edgewood College reboots one of Shakespeare’s earliest works, a lighthearted play filled with gags and pratfalls. In the original,...more
McBethBroom Street Theater
8 p.m.
Broom Street Theater’s Artistic Director Callen Harty contemporizes Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Macbeth with a...more
Blood Wedding: University TheatreHemsley Theatre
7:30 p.m.
Blood Wedding is one of the three works in the great poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca’s “rural trilogy,”...more
Arts
Local Author Fair: Madeline Scherb, Jennifer Kitchell, Dr. John Brandenburg, Larry Shapiro And Steve Garrison Borders Books and Music - West MadisonLoading...
Urban Spoken Word Poetry Slam Hosted By David Hart Genna's Cocktail LoungeLoading...
Entities, Machines, And Nomadic Paintings Good Style ShopLoading...
From Nature: Realist Works In MMoCA's Permanent Collection Madison Museum Of Contemporary ArtLoading...
Signs Of The Times: Robert Rauschenberg's America Madison Museum Of Contemporary ArtLoading...
Cage And Cunningham: Chance, Time And Concept In The Visual Arts Madison Museum Of Contemporary ArtLoading...
Holiday Art Fair Madison Museum Of Contemporary ArtLoading...
Beasts In The Conservatory: Carnivorous Plants Olbrich Botanical GardensLoading...
Dreams Of Our Future: Glendale Elementary School Exhibition Overture Center For The Arts- Playhouse GalleryLoading...
The Fine Art Of Children's Book Illustration Overture Center for the Arts - James Watrous GalleryLoading...
Bucky Badger Mystery Book Signing University Book Store - Hilldale Shopping CenterLoading...
Nicola López: Urban TransformationsUniversity of Wisconsin Madison - Chazen Museum of ArtLoading...
Images Of The Ho-Chunk Wisconsin State Historical MuseumLoading...
Susan Marshall Wisconsin Union TheaterLoading...
Film
International Cinema: Days Of DarknessFrederic March Play Circle
7 p.m.
Trapped in a comfortable hell that might as well come complete with a forced regimen of sedatives, the homely civil servant (Marc Labreche)...more
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7:30 p.m.
Though its lineup is small—only five films this year—the annual Polish Film Festival makes a valiant attempt to survey the...more
International Cinema: Death BellFrederic March Play Circle
9:30 p.m.
The Japanese get so much credit (at least among audiences in the States) for pioneering fucked-up takes on horror, but there's plenty...more
Midnight Movies: OldboyFrederic March Play Circle
11:55 p.m.
If revenge is a dish best served cold, then Park Chan-wook’s deliriously unhinged Oldboy is an unthawed Hungry Man TV...more
