Author: Jocelyn Slocum

In our increasingly polarized world where identities have become enmeshed with an “Us vs. Them” mentality, does there exist any such place where politics, religious affiliation, and so-called social standing have no role? Where the only prerequisite is sympathizing with the motto “In Arte Voluptas” … pleasure lies in art? Indeed, such a place exists, and one can play a part in it without leaving Milwaukee, so long as you are a man who speaks German. Founded by a group consisting predominantly of actors and artists in Prague in 1859, in a mocking response to societal structures of the...