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Review: GEORGE & GRACIE: A LOVE STORY at Milwaukee Rep

Review: GEORGE & GRACIE: A LOVE STORY at Milwaukee Rep

by Cathy Jakicic · May 4, 2026

Actor/writer Tami Workentin wrote the play (her first) for herself and her real life husband, James Pickering. The jokes (with a bit of music and history thrown in) can fast and furious,. You could almost hear the rim shot.…

Review: MRS. CHRISTIE at Milwaukee Repertory Theater

Review: MRS. CHRISTIE at Milwaukee Repertory Theater

by Cathy Jakicic · April 19, 2026

Heidi Armbruster brings heart and humor of real-life mystery of “Mrs. Christie.” Agatha Christie created more than 80 mysteries over her legendary career, but only one didn’t come with a solution. It’s the one she created when she disappeared for 11 days in 1926. Christie never explained her…

Review: FRIDA...A SELF PORTRAIT at Milwaukee Repertory Theater

Review: FRIDA...A SELF PORTRAIT at Milwaukee Repertory Theater

by Sofia Ascorbe · April 17, 2026

What did our critic think of FRIDA...A SELF PORTRAIT at MilwaaOn a cold April evening, I headed to the Milwaukee Repertory Theater to see FRIDA…A SELF PORTRAIT with my partner and both of my parents who were visiting from out of town. Moments earlier, we had just collectively witnessed live the Ar…

REVIEW: SPARROWS FALL At RG Productions & Theatre Gigante

REVIEW: SPARROWS FALL At RG Productions & Theatre Gigante

by Keith Gray-Dozal · April 17, 2026

RG Productions and Theatre Gigante have come together in a historic collaboration for the world premiere of Sparrows Fall, written and directed by Richard Gustin in conjunction with World Premiere Wisconsin. The result is one of those productions that stays with you long after you leave the theatre�…

Review: THE WIZ at Marcus Performing Arts Center

Review: THE WIZ at Marcus Performing Arts Center

by Sofia Ascorbe · March 29, 2026

Hilariously and smartly reimagined with the help of comedian Amber Ruffin, The Wiz debuts as an all-new tour but still carries a score filled with soul, gospel, rock, and 70s funk.…

Review: IS THIS A ROOM? at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre

Review: IS THIS A ROOM? at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre

by Cathy Jakicic · 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…

Past Shows

Elephant and Piggie We're in a Play!

Elephant and Piggie "We're in a Play!"

24 Feb – 17 Mar 2024

When Elephant Gerald and Piggie the Pig get together, anything is possible. These two pals and their devotion to each other through ups and downs...

The Quest for Solomon's Treasure

The Quest for Solomon's Treasure

8 Nov – 31 May 2021

Tune in to this seven-episode world premiere web series streaming exclusively for First Stage audiences. Directed by First Stage alum and Hollywood actor Jeremy Tardy...

UnMuted

UnMuted

30 Apr – 30 May 2021

UNMUTEDBy Alvaro Saar RiosMusic and Lyrics by Deborah Wicks La PumaDirected by Anna Skidis Vargas...

The Crucible

The Crucible

19 Feb – 7 Mar 2021

Inspired by the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s, THE CRUCIBLE takes us back to a fictionalized account of the Salem, Massachusetts witch trials. A tale...

Escape from Peligro Island

Escape from Peligro Island

29 Jan – 28 Feb 2021

Callaway Brown - an unlikely young hero - has been stranded on a desert island, and its up to YOU to decide what happens next!...

Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook

Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook

28 Apr – 4 Jun 2017

play by Allison Gregory Adapted from the books series by Barbara Park Meet the funniest girl in Room Nine – Junie B. Jones! A terrible...

Mockingbird

Mockingbird

24 Mar – 9 Apr 2017

Adapted by Julie Jensen Based upon the book by Kathryn Erksine Winner of the National Book Award This play was commissioned by The John F....

New play reading: Antarctica, Wisconsin

New play reading: Antarctica, Wisconsin

14 Mar

Join us for a new play reading of ANTARCTICA, WISCONSINTuesday, March 14, 2017 at 7 p.m.An Original Play by Finegan Kruckemeyer Young Lenny sees things...

Robin Hood

Robin Hood

17 Feb – 12 Mar 2017

A world premiere play by Joe Foust and John Maclay. A fresh look at the timeless tale of the legendary hero. When Robin, Little John...

The Boy Who Fell into a Book

The Boy Who Fell into a Book

21 Feb

Ten-year-old Kevin Carter falls into his book and meets his fictional hero, tough hard-bitten Private Investigator, RockfistSlim – 220 pounds of solid muscle and now...

Welcome to Bronzeville

Welcome to Bronzeville

13 Jan – 5 Feb 2017

A world premiere by Sheri Williams Pannell. 1957. The heart of Milwaukee’s Bronzeville pulses to the beat of jazz and doo-wop. Everyone expects Michael Jr....

Mole Hill Stories

Mole Hill Stories

5 Nov – 20 Nov 2016

Inspired by the work of Milwaukee author/illustrator Lois Ehlert, this collaboration with Danceworks returns to First Stage, bringing three of Ehlert’s most famous stories to...

Goosebumps: The Musical

Goosebumps: The Musical

14 Oct – 13 Nov 2016

Brooke and Zeke have been cast as the leads in the school's new production of an old play about a...Phantom. Strange things start disrupting rehearsals...

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