IS THIS A ROOM at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre
Dates: 20/03/2026- 05/04/2026 Milwaukee WI Premiere
📍 Theatre: Milwaukee Chamber Theatre
158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Phone: 414-291-7800
Tickets: $45 standard tickets, discounts for seniors, educators, military & veterans, students, and artists; Preview tickets $10 off
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Powerlifter. Pet parent. Pashto linguist. Pikachu fan. Reality Winner is many things, but is she a patriot—or a threat?
Drawn entirely from the real FBI transcript, IS THIS A ROOM chronicles one of the most controversial acts of whistleblowing in American history: Air Force veteran and NSA translator Reality Leigh Winner’s leak of documents detailing Russian interference in the 2016 election. This award-winning Broadway thriller stages an interrogation with every pause, cough, and contradiction intact—and leaves us to read between the lines. More than docudrama, IS THIS A ROOM is a timely, razor-sharp examination of power, the uneasy tension between truth and duty, and the responsibility of each citizen to shape the society in which they live.
Run Time: 65 minutes
Originally Conceived and Directed by Tina Satter | Directed by Executive Artistic Director Brent Hazelton | Featuring Mark Corkins, Rasell Holt, Isabelle Muthiah, and Jonathan Wainwright | Designed and Created by Stephanie K Brownell, KaiLee Evans, Jason Fassl, Adam Hastings, Bri Humke, Amaya Rockett, Josh Schmidt, and Emily Marie Wilke
KEY DATES + EVENTS
Here2Play: Wednesday, February 25, 6:00-8:00pm, location TBA
Preview: Friday, March 20 at 7:30 pm
Opening: Saturday, March 21 at 8 pm
Pay What You Choose: Monday, March 23 at 7:30 pm, walk-up tickets available starting one hour before the show
Talkbacks: Thursdays, March 26 and April 2 following the 7:30 pm performances
SipStudio: Saturday, March 28, open to attendees of that day's matinee and evening performances
Understudy Performance: Tuesday, March 31 at 7:30 pm
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March 23, 2026 Is This a Room is theater of a sort most people, including me, have never seen. It’s a one-act verbatim play drawn entirely (word-for-word, pause-for-pause, cough-for-cough) from the actual FBI transcript of the 2017 interrogation of Reality Winner, a former Air Force linguist accused of leaking intelligence.About the Theatre
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Milwaukee Chamber Theatre is at 158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202, Milwaukee, WI.
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Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's home is the Broadway Theatre Center (BTC) located at 158 N. Broadway in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward. The Broadway Theatre Center opened in 1993 and houses two theatre spaces, the 360-seat Cabot Theatre and the 99-seat Studio Theatre. Milwaukee Chamber Theatre performs five plays each season between the two spaces. The mission of the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre is to produce intimate, high-quality, professional theatrical works of literary merit that engage and challenge the audience, while employing and nurturing principally local theatre artists.
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