Broom Street in the News

Coleman’s COMMITTED to be Presented at Broom Street TheatreBroadway World (January 12, 2026)

The semi-improvised parameters of “Inertia Follies” engender its subtly and radically transformative scenes Tone Madison (November 19, 2025)

Gip Hoppe, Who Transformed Cape Cod Theater, Dies at 69The Provincetown Independent (October 15, 2025)

Jan Levine Thal’s inner and outer theatrical livesTone Madison (September 29, 2025)

Broom Street’s “Bloody Aftermath” Explores Horror-AdjacentWORT FM (April 14, 2025)

‘Wicked’ actor flies into Madison to share ‘the change I want to see’The Cap Times (February 6, 2025)

‘Are We Dell’Arte?’ is a clever rompIsthmus (November 16, 2024)

‘Paul Blart 3’ steers his Segway across the Midwest this summerThe Cap Times (July 20, 2024)

Director Matt Reines Talks about Race in Da Classroom Ain’t EnufWORT FM (April 15, 2024)

Broom Street Theater Presents Our Home States Vol. 2WORT FM (July 8, 2024)

Broom Street Theater debuts Sean Langenecker first playWORT FM (May 17, 2024)

‘Paul Blart 3: Blart of Darkness’ delivers a mall cop for a new generation Madison Magazine (Nov 11, 2023)

Broom Street Theater expands horizons with ‘Our Home States’The Cap Times (July 20, 2023)

Broom Street Theater – “Our Home States”WORT FM (July 17, 2023)

A Broom Street evolutionIsthmus (June 26, 2023)

Show Biz Buzz with Bruno featuring Broom Street Theatre!Show Biz Buzz with Bruno (YouTube) (April 29, 2023)

Performing arts company’s upcoming presentation includes a nod to film noirMadison Magazine (January 16, 2023)

Broom Street Theater’s “Totally Not Haunted” Backstage TourWORT FM (October 31, 2022)

Google Doodle celebrates trailblazing Oneida comedian, UW alum Charlie HillThe Cap Times (July 6, 2022)

“Genealogy,” a comedic drama about reparations, opens at Broom Street Theater tonightMadison 365 (November 5, 2021)

GENEALOGY Comes to Broom Street Theater Next MonthBroadway World (October 19, 2021)

The hero we need now Isthmus (November 23, 2020)

Stuart Gordon, legend of off-Loop theater and horror films, dies at 72Chicago Reader (March 26, 2020)

Stuart Gordon, Broom Street Theater founder and horror movie icon, dies at 72The Cap Times (March 25, 2020)

Broom Street stages a Broadway production of ‘Hamilton’ (not that one)Wisconsin State Journal (November 19, 2019)

Nice timing!Isthmus (November 14, 2019)

A radical experimentIsthmus (October 17, 2019)

Life with JoelIsthmus (October 17, 2019)

The Timelessness of Broom Street Theater’s “Lysistrata”Brava (May 23, 2019)

Madison’s Enduring Institutions of 1969WORT FM (April 10, 2019)

Our History, On TapeOur Lives (November 21, 2018)

Experimental overlordIsthmus (August 17, 2017)

Review: DUMPSTER FLOWER entertains at Broom Street TheatreBroadway World (April 09, 2017)

A timely statementIsthmus (March 2, 2017)

‘Lamentable Tragedie’ author Doug Reed to take over Broom Street TheaterThe Capital Times (December 19, 2016)

Local theater director Dana Pellebon demonstrates power of theater in new playThe Badger Herald (November 1, 2016)

Front and centerIsthmus (June 30, 2016)

Experimenting playwrights find home at Broom Street TheaterThe Badger Herald (March 28, 2016)

After nearly 40 years on Madison stages, Ray Olderman still has ‘Big Expectations’The Cap Times (October 28, 2015)

Still Broom StreetIsthmus (September 4, 2015)

An unlikely pairingIsthmus (July 23, 2015)

A captivating new musicalIsthmus (May 30, 2015)

Comedian, Dina Nina Martinez to perform one woman show “Confessions of A Wannabe Soccer Mom: An Unconventional Journey Into Womanhood” at Broom Street TheaterOur Lives (March 19, 2015)

Broom Street Theater once again skewers state GOP leaders with ‘Greetings from Fitzwalkerstan’The Cap Times (February 7, 2015)

Broom Street Theater’s “The Waiting Room” peeks behind the scenes of a concert venueIsthmus (September 13, 2013)

Broom Street Theater’s “Not the Artist” pits love against creativityIsthmus (March 1, 2013)

Theater review: Broom Street’s ‘Class’ feels like a lectureThe Capital Times (January 11, 2013)

Getting the hell out of Heaven in ‘Tales for Another Millennium’The Daily Cardinal (December 6, 2012)

Two different films about two different menOnMilwaukee (April 24, 2012)

Wisconsin Film Festival: Joel Gersmann made ‘Filthy Theater’ his life’s workWisconsin State Journal (April 18, 2012)

Broom Street Theater tries to sweep away old perceptionsWisconsin State Journal (January 11, 2012)

Written in Stone: Madison paves a sidewalk with poetryVolume One (October 5, 2011)

Capitol Report: Risser can take Broom Street joke, even a salacious oneThe Cap Times (August 18, 2011)

Set thy sights on Broom Street’s absurd, witty ‘Lamentable Tragedie’The Cap Times (August 13, 2011)

Broom Street’s “The Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker” is smart, funny and moving Isthmus (July 30, 2011)

Broom Street Theater’s latest is heavy on the hate speechIsthmus (April 25, 2011)

Thirty-five for 35: Joel GersmannIsthmus (April 7, 2011)

Broom Street Theater’s witty “Maya and Me” tries to do too muchIsthmus (January 24, 2011)

Broom Street’s “Invisible Boy” explores childhood sexual abuseIsthmus (September 30, 2010)

Still Dancing After All These YearsOurLives (September 1, 2010)

Scene change at Broom Street TheaterIsthmus (July 1, 2010)

Broom Street Theater’s often funny “Television! (The Play)” spoofs the tubeIsthmus (June 21, 2010)

A Decade from NowMadison Magazine (June 16, 2010)

Family dysfunction is funny in Broom Street Theater’s “Cattywompus”Isthmus (January 16, 2010)

Broom Street Theater’s “McBeth” brings Shakespeare’s king to the corporate worldIsthmus (November 14, 2009)

Broom with a view: four decades of Broom Street TheaterThe Capital Times (September 24, 2009)

Madison community theater people are in it for loveIsthmus (November 21, 2008)

Cultural inferiority is just a Midwest state of mindMilwaukee Journal Sentinel (September 14, 2008)

Sex isn’t too sexy in Broom Street Theater’s “Multiple O”Isthmus (May 12, 2008)

Joel Gersmann, Director of Experimental Theater Company, Dies at 62The New York Times (July 6, 2005)

Joel Gersmann: Rebel without a pauseIsthmus (July 1, 2005)

Fringe DwellersChicago Reader (November 17, 1994)