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Milwaukee Rep will reopen with the live in-person concert First Lady of Song: Alexis J Roston Sings Ella Fitzgerald in the Quadracci Powerhouse April 27 - May 23, 2021.

The Third Annual Marcus Performing Arts Center César E.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater will host a community talk, 'Let's Talk Vaccinations: A Conversation on COVID-19' on Wednesday, March 31 at 7pm CT on Facebook Live or YouTube Live @ MilwRep.

In a one-of-a-kind arts and culture event, Milwaukee-area business and community leaders will come together for the 16th Annual BASH on Friday, June 25 to raise funds for the Marcus Performing Arts Center's education and community engagement programs.

New West Symphony, with Grammy-winning conductor Michael Christie as Artistic and Music Director, continues its 2020-21 groundbreaking and reimagined season of “Global Sounds, Local Cultures” with A Tour of Iran.

First Stage Theater Academy, the nation's leading high-impact theater training program for young people, is offering its Summer Academy programs in-person this summer, with classes beginning Monday, June 14, 2021 at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center.

First Stage Theater Academy is offering its Summer Academy programs in-person this summer, with classes beginning Monday, June 14, 2021.

As part of a rolling release of their debut full-length collection of poetry Please Come Off-Book, Kevin Kantor (seen at Milwaukee Rep in Things I Know To Be True and The Legend of Georgia McBride) will be reading poems from their new book, joined by guest readers also working at the intersect

Milwaukee Rep selected 10 local high school students to participate in the regional finals of the 2021 August Wilson Monologue Competition (AWMC) to be held virtually on Monday, March 29, 2021.

First Stage has announced the creation of Amplify - First Stage's BIPOC Virtual Short Play Series, to be developed and produced throughout Spring 2021.

'We believe it's incredibly important not only in terms of protecting our staff in general, but also protecting our patrons and artists when they come to us and know that the highest number of employees that they see at the Rep will be vaccinated as well.

Tickets for Milwaukee Ballet's To The Point have sold out, for their limited, in-person event.

The On Demand experience is nicely handled and smoothly filmed.

THE WAY SHE SPOKE is a haunting, visceral piece that digs for the roots of an epidemic of violence that has resulted in the murders of thousands of women and gives voice to a community rendered silent by fear.

First Stage will hold their 27th annual Make Believe Ball virtually on Saturday, March 6, 2021 from 6:00 - 7:30 p.

 Milwaukee Rep will reopen with in-person performances of previously announced Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song with Alexis J Roston (Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill) beginning April 27 and running through May 23, 2021 in the Quadracci Powerhouse Theater.

The music video for The Sound opens with footage of 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests.

First Stage will hold the 27th annual Make Believe Ball virtually on Saturday, March 6, 2021 from 6:00 - 7:30 p.

Milwaukee Opera Theatre has announced, The Sound, featuring Zoom Soirees that the company is calling 'Zoirees'!

The production is helmed by Chicago-based director Mikael Burke and features the talents of Milwaukee natives DiMonte Henning as Winston and Sherrick Robinson as John.

Next up in First Stage's Through Our Lens 2021 Virtual Season of Plays will be Arthur Miller's powerful and timely drama THE CRUCIBLE.

This is a choose-your-own-adventure play, and First Stage rigged it so that audiences could vote by phone to help our hero Callaway Brown make key decisions: Should he pack his inhaler or his eyeglasses? Follow mysterious footsteps or radio for help? 

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre has introduced two new staff members who joined the organization this winter.

Milwaukee Ballet today announced it will open its doors to approximately 50 people per show for the first time in a year as it brings world-famous works back to the City later this month.

First Stage will be offering a free Facebook Live talkback reunion event in conjunction with their current virtual production THE QUEST FOR SOLOMON'S TREASURE.