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Christmas Spirit (and a Funny Scrooge!) in The Rep’s Holiday Classic
In The Rep’s 44th production of ‘A Christmas Carol,’ the ageless tale of loss and redemption is made appropriate for all ages with plenty of songs and gags. Read more
Performing Arts Weekly: Sept. 12-18, 2019
This week, West Side Story, a still highly relevant musical story about forbidden love, comes to the Milwaukee Rep’s Quadracci Powerhouse. Read more
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'Things I Know to Be True' Not to be Missed
Through Things I Know to Be True, the Milwaukee Rep touches on topics such as family, peer pressure, expectation and being transgender. Read more
How Broadway 'Rose Up' and Advocated Change in America
Theater critic Chris Jones, author of Rise Up! Broadway and American Society from ‘Angels in America’ to ‘Hamilton,’ in conversation about theater history with Milwaukee Rep artistic director Mark Clements at Bowell Books on Feb. 25. Read more
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Milwaukee Rep's Superb Production of 'Junk'
Ayad Akhtar’s Junk is a thought-provoking and superbly produced look into the economics of corruption. Read more
Wall Street Raiders on The Rep's Stage
Ayad Akhtar has continued to polish the script of Junk. Working with Mark Clements, he’s just finished a newly updated version that will premiere in Milwaukee Jan. 16-Feb. 17. Read more
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The Milwaukee Rep Crosses Borders in 'One House Over'
The world premiere of One House Over, directed by the Rep’s Mark Clements, looks at immigration, aging and the need for us to come together as a nation. Read more
Milwaukee Rep Crosses Borders with 'One House Over'
The Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s new John (Jack) D. Lewis New Play Development Program presents Catherine Trieschmann’s One House Over, Feb. 27-March 25. Read more
The Milwaukee Rep's 'Animal Farm'
“The play gives great homage to the book, but we’re setting it as a fable, in a mythical time and space. We want to make it as universal as possible,” says May Adrales of her production of Animal Farm at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Read more
The Rep's Spectacular 'Guys & Dolls'
The Milwaukee Repertory Theater rolled the dice last weekend and came up a big winner with its spectacular production of the classic 1940s New York underworld musical, Guys & Dolls. Read more
Performing Arts Weekly: Sept. 14, 2017
Performing Arts Week spotlights shows opening mid-September, including the Milwaukee Rep’s Guys and Dolls, Racine Theatre Guild’s Boeing Boeing and a chamber concert by the Prometheus Trio at the Conservatory of Music. Read more
Milwaukee Rep's 'Glass Menagerie' a Gritty Portrait of Mental Illness
The Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s staging of Tennessee Williams’ classic “memory play," The Glass Menagerie, is an ambitious portrait of mental illness and tortured familial love. It runs through April 9 in the Quadracci Powerhouse Theat... Read more
Performing Arts Weekly 3.2.17
The Boulevard Theatre presents the Midwest premiere of John Murrell’s dramatic comedy Taking Shakespeare; The Milwaukee Rep presents American playwright Tennessee Williams’ classic, five-character memory play, The Glass Menagerie; Rebecca H... Read more
It’s Time for ‘A Christmas Carol’!
A newfound interactive levity helps to balance the Milwaukee Rep’s new A Christmas Carol as director Mark Clements has made the darkness visible and menacing and the spaces small and confining; it all works wonderfully amid the sets by Todd... Read more
‘A Christmas Carol’ Retold
This year, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater continues the holiday tradition with a new adaption of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol by Artistic Director Mark Clements. Read more
Rep Kids’ Auditions for A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Once again The Milwaukee Rep is looking for kids to perform in its long-running annual production of A Christmas Carol at the Pabst Theater. They’re looking for children all over the state to perform in the show, which is being directed and adapte.. Read more
'We Need to Live the Creed’
Bronzeville Arts Ensemble Producing Artist Director Malkia Stampley and Milwaukee Repertory Theater Artistic Director Mark Clements have a dialogue about the goals of their company’s new partnership. Read more
‘The Invisible Hand’ at the Milwaukee Rep
With its production of The Invisible Hand, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater begins a four-year relationship with leading American playwright Ayad Akhtar. Only Shakespeare had more productions in the United States last season than Akhtar whos... Read more
Saint, Sinner, Pope: The Inconsistent Narrative of Video Game Outrage
On Friday morning, the video game Internet community was, unsurprisingly, angry. Angry over the recent “censorship” of Nintendo’s Xenoblade Chronicles X, the removal of a boob size adjuster for a 13 year old girl protagonist. Angry at Electroni.. Read more
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A Dream of a Show
The Milwaukee Repertory Theater launched its season last weekend by conjuring up a dazzling dream of a production, Dreamgirls, the successful Broadway musical now delighting Milwaukee audiences. Read more
