
April 2022
October 2022
An Evening with John McGivern
Spend an evening with John McGivern—best known for his five-time Emmy Award-winning work on PBS—as he shares personal and funny winter stories of growing up on the east side of Milwaukee. He shares stories of snow days, parochial school lessons, and the long, cold nights of dreaming about the two-week summer vacation at the cottage up north. This show, presented in the Salutz Law Variety Series, and presented with support from Fricke Printing Service, will fondly recount memories of winter’s…
Find out more »December 2022
Kodachrome Christmas
A Kodachrome Christmas, written and directed by former Seinfeld writer, Pat Hazell, stars Milwaukee’s own John McGivern, best known for his Emmy® Award-winning work on PBS. John and Pat are also the producing team that brought the hit comedies, The Wonder Bread Years, Bunk Bed Brothers and Shear Madness. John’s likable delivery shines as the audience enters the colorful world of cable access TV hostess, Earlene Hoople, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Rural Media," while she records her Christmas special before a live studio audience. Fresh-baked Christmas…
Find out more »Kodachrome Christmas
A Kodachrome Christmas, written and directed by former Seinfeld writer, Pat Hazell, stars Milwaukee’s own John McGivern, best known for his Emmy® Award-winning work on PBS. John and Pat are also the producing team that brought the hit comedies, The Wonder Bread Years, Bunk Bed Brothers and Shear Madness. John’s likable delivery shines as the audience enters the colorful world of cable access TV hostess, Earlene Hoople, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Rural Media," while she records her Christmas special before a live studio audience. Fresh-baked Christmas…
Find out more »Kodachrome Christmas
A Kodachrome Christmas, written and directed by former Seinfeld writer, Pat Hazell, stars Milwaukee’s own John McGivern, best known for his Emmy® Award-winning work on PBS. John and Pat are also the producing team that brought the hit comedies, The Wonder Bread Years, Bunk Bed Brothers and Shear Madness. John’s likable delivery shines as the audience enters the colorful world of cable access TV hostess, Earlene Hoople, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Rural Media," while she records her Christmas special before a live studio audience. Fresh-baked Christmas…
Find out more »Kodachrome Christmas
A Kodachrome Christmas, written and directed by former Seinfeld writer, Pat Hazell, stars Milwaukee’s own John McGivern, best known for his Emmy® Award-winning work on PBS. John and Pat are also the producing team that brought the hit comedies, The Wonder Bread Years, Bunk Bed Brothers and Shear Madness. John’s likable delivery shines as the audience enters the colorful world of cable access TV hostess, Earlene Hoople, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Rural Media," while she records her Christmas special before a live studio audience. Fresh-baked Christmas…
Find out more »Kodachrome Christmas
A Kodachrome Christmas, written and directed by former Seinfeld writer, Pat Hazell, stars Milwaukee’s own John McGivern, best known for his Emmy® Award-winning work on PBS. John and Pat are also the producing team that brought the hit comedies, The Wonder Bread Years, Bunk Bed Brothers and Shear Madness. John’s likable delivery shines as the audience enters the colorful world of cable access TV hostess, Earlene Hoople, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Rural Media," while she records her Christmas special before a live studio audience. Fresh-baked Christmas…
Find out more »Kodachrome Christmas
A Kodachrome Christmas, written and directed by former Seinfeld writer, Pat Hazell, stars Milwaukee’s own John McGivern, best known for his Emmy® Award-winning work on PBS. John and Pat are also the producing team that brought the hit comedies, The Wonder Bread Years, Bunk Bed Brothers and Shear Madness. John’s likable delivery shines as the audience enters the colorful world of cable access TV hostess, Earlene Hoople, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Rural Media," while she records her Christmas special before a live studio audience. Fresh-baked Christmas…
Find out more »Kodachrome Christmas
A Kodachrome Christmas, written and directed by former Seinfeld writer, Pat Hazell, stars Milwaukee’s own John McGivern, best known for his Emmy® Award-winning work on PBS. John and Pat are also the producing team that brought the hit comedies, The Wonder Bread Years, Bunk Bed Brothers and Shear Madness. John’s likable delivery shines as the audience enters the colorful world of cable access TV hostess, Earlene Hoople, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Rural Media," while she records her Christmas special before a live studio audience. Fresh-baked Christmas…
Find out more »January 2023
John McGivern- Wisconsin’s Own
John McGivern is best known for his Emmy-award winning work on PBS. His one-man-shows, The Early Stories of John McGivern, Midsummer Night McGivern, and John McGivern’s Home for the Holidays tell the stories of being the third born of six kids in a working-class Irish Catholic Family in Wisconsin. Oshkosh was featured in Season Four of his Around the Corner with John McGivern where he traveled across the state exploring, living, working, and playing in Wisconsin’s unique communities. His stories are personal, funny, touching, and familiar. His themes…
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