WINEKE: Colbert is Funnier Out of his Bathtub
Stephen Colbert is usually one of the funniest men on television but, this week, he is delivering his monologue from his New Jersey home and it pretty much falls flat.
Author: Bill Wineke, Special to Channel3000.com
Wineke: American Players Theatre plays for those who love APT
Tennessee Williams' 1978 play, "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur," is a nice work of drama highlighting the unlikely dreams of Depression-era women and is well worth a trip to American Players Theatre to enjoy.
Wineke: Ibsen's "Doll House" may be even more modern than it seems
Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play, "A Doll's House," seems a century before its time, raising issues of a woman's place in society and in the family decades before they became known issues in western society.
Wineke: August Wilson's 'Fences' is a major APT achievement
August Wilson's
Wineke: 'Counterpunchers' shouldn't lead countries
President Donald Trump is a
Wineke: APT's Macbeth is Shakespeare as you like It
Watching American Players Theatre's production of
Wineke: Trump is worse than a racist
The nation seems to be going through another bizarre argument about whether President Donald Trump is a racist.
Wineke: Napoleon takes the APT stage, minus grandeur
It takes the cynical insight of George Bernard Shaw to cut Napoleon Bonaparte down to size and it no doubt takes a culture like our own to appreciate the effort.
Wineke: Trump plans for migrants shame America
President Trump's incessant tweets have the tendency to put those of us who are sick of him in a moral bind.
Wineke: Church must do this to prove sincerity
The nation's Roman Catholic bishops have launched yet another program to prove they are sincere about ending the church's sex abuse crisis.
Wineke: John DeMain ends year 25 with extravaganza
The Madison Symphony Orchestra's final concert of the season promised to be spectacular and it more than delivered.
Wineke: The world is changing for the better
It is easy to look at all the challenges in our nation and in the world and become discouraged.
Wineke Review: Hometown days at Madison Symphony
Each year the Madison Symphony Orchestra brings in a variety of world-class musicians to highlight the organization's monthly subscription concerts.
Wineke: Ordination may be the religious problem
An Australian court has convicted Roman Catholic Cardinal George Pell of child abuse.
Wineke: Fitzgerald and Vos might like to shut up
You'd think that if you were a legislative leader who convinced Wisconsin lawmakers to promise subsidies of more than $4 billion for a project that may never happen you would consider lying low when it appears it won't happen.
Wineke: Donald Trump Is No MLK
Just about the time I thought the political world couldn't become more surrealistic, Vice President Mike Pence compared President Donald Trump to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wineke: The Catholic record on abuse seems hopeless
At some point, I think we have to accept the growing conclusion that the Roman Catholic Church is not serious about sex abuse, never has been and, most likely, never will be.
Wineke: The president is a multitasker
You have to give one thing to President Donald Trump: The guy knows how to multitask.
Wineke: Why are the Republicans doing this?
It appears as if the Walker era in Wisconsin politics will end the way it began, with Republicans in power vandalizing the state's institutions and its spiritual traditions.
Wineke: Bishop Morlino failed in one big goal
Bishop Robert Morlino, who led the Madison Catholic Diocese for 15 years until his death Saturday, came to Madison with several big goals.
Wineke: We overpaid for Foxconn
Amazon has chosen New York City and Crystal City, Virginia, as sites for its new headquarters, and already critics are complaining about the subsidies being offered to the giant online retailer.
Wineke: 100 years of Leonard Bernstein
Had he lived, legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year.
Review: MSO crowd cheers guest conductor
During the past 30 years or so I have rarely missed attending a Madison Symphony Orchestra concert.
Wineke: Do we really need a war on the pope?
When I began my career in journalism a half-century ago, I decided to focus not on electoral politics but on religion.
