RELEASE THE HOUNDS!

RELEASE THE HOUNDS! And bring them to the Come Back In for the 2^nd annual Dog Days of Summer! 

For the second year the Spass Platz (the 5 businesses on the corner of E. Wilson and Blair St., including the Essen Haus and Come Back In) host Dog Days of Summer, a benefit for Dane County Humane Society that celebrates all shapes and sizes of our best friends.

The free outdoor event boasts live music, games, contests, with participation from some of the best pet supply and care businesses in the Madison area.

Back by popular demand Live at Nine will entertain with their horn filled classic rock and blues. For the first time this year, performers from Teacher’s Pet Training Academy will show off their canine freestyle moves. 

Learn about the Madison Police Department’s  K-9 unit with demonstrations by K-9 Martie and Officer Rose Douglas.

If that’s not enough to get you down here, along with the great beer and excellent brats, the first 100 people and dogs to enter the gates receive free goodie bags.

Sponsors and participants include: Dawg Dayz Day Care, Mat Cat, The City of Madison Police Department, The Dog Den, Animart,  Exceptional Care for Animals, Tabby and Jacks, Talbot Photography, Don Miller, Dog Lovers of Madison, Lucky Dog Day Care, Mounds, Bad Dog Frida, Teacher’s Pet Training Academy, Galley 99.

Bringing Back Essen Haus Dinner Theater!

Dinner Theater Returns to Essen Haus

Once upon a time actors, instead of accordion players, stood on the Essen Haus stage and performed to diners feasting on fine food and drink.  Over the past couple years the Essen Haus began reinstating the dinner theater on Sunday nights.

This summer the Essen Haus welcomes JD Productions to the Essen Haus stage to begin the Summer Dinner Theater Series on Sun.  June 10.  Bringing Mary Miller’s Ferris Wheel, JD Productions is the first company to create a set for this play using an actual Ferris wheel car.  Another interesting aspect to this play is that while performed in theaters throughout the country, health professionals also utilize the play as a means of dealing with fears and phobias.  

The free performance begins at 7:30 and lasts only 10 minutes.   Essen Haus offers a complimentary bottle of wine with two dinner entrees on Sundays.  Reservations suggested.