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McNeal at Milwaukee Repertory Theater

Dates: 10/2/2026- 22/3/2026

Theatre:

Milwaukee Repertory Theater


108 East Wells Street
Milwaukee,WI 53202

Phone: 414-224-9490

Tickets: Starting at $25


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Direct from a sold-out Broadway run, Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar’s thrilling and darkly comic new work follows Jacob McNeal — a brilliant yet dangerously charming novelist obsessed with his own genius. On the eve of his greatest achievement, his thirst for whiskey, fractured relationships, and curious fascination with artificial intelligence threatens to unravel everything.You’ll experience jaw-dropping projections and special effects at this opening production in the new Herro-Franke Studio Theater, asMcNealexplores the price of greatness and raises vital questions about art, truth and originality in the not-too-distant future. 

 

“A brilliant and transfixing new play... Akhtar goes to a place that few writers have visited so effectively.” – The Atlantic 

 

By Ayad Akhtar 
Directed by Mark Clements 



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Milwaukee Repertory Theater is at 108 East Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI.

Milwaukee Rep is the largest performing arts organization in Wisconsin in terms of audiences served and one of the largest professional theaters in the country. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Mark Clements and Executive Director Chad Bauman each year Milwaukee Rep welcomes up to 300,000 people at just 700 performances of 15 productions ranging from compelling dramas, powerful classics, new plays and full-scale musicals in its three unique performance venues – the Quadracci Powerhouse, Stiemke Studio and Stackner Cabaret. For over 65 years, Milwaukee Rep has gained a national reputation as an incubator of new work, an agent of community change and a forward-thinking provider of vital arts education programs.

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