Marcus Performing Arts Center
Upcoming Shows
Sugar Skull! A Día de Muertos Musical Adventure
Sugar Skull! A Día de Muertos Musical Adventure is a touring bilingual and bicultural musical for young audiences and families that uses traditional regional music and dance from Mexico. The story follows twelve-year-old Vita Flores, who finds herself on a magical, musical...
Sean Heely's Celtic Christmas
US National Scottish Fiddle Champion Seán Heely and a cast of nationally acclaimed Celtic performers take audiences on a magical winter tour through the Scottish Highlands and across the rugged Irish coast. The show features kilts and tartan throughout its two performances on...
The Unauthorized Hallmark(ish) Parody Musical
A hilarious immersive Broadway style show blending favorite holiday movie tropes with high octane, original pop songs. The story follows Holly, an overworked city executive forced to return to her quirky hometown, where she reunites with an old flame named Mark, now the local...
43rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration
The Marcus Performing Arts Center has celebrated Dr. King's Birthday annually since 1984. This free celebration highlights youth in the community who interpret Dr. King's words through student contests, with winners showcased at the event.
Ballet Folklorico de Mexico, de Amalia Hernandez
Founded in 1952 by dancer and choreographer Amalia Hernández, the Ballet Folklórico de México revolutionized the concept of traditional dance and transformed the history of Mexican dance. The company laid the groundwork and set the tone for thousands of dance troupes in Mexico...
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The GRAMMY Award-winning New Orleans-based Dirty Dozen Brass Band, founded in 1977, has taken the traditional foundation of brass band music and incorporated it into a blend of genres including bebop jazz, funk, and R&B/soul. Described by the band as a musical gumbo, this unique...
Review: AGATHA CHRISTIE'S AND THEN THERE WERE NONE at Milwaukee Repertory Theater
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Review: RAISIN IN THE SUN at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre
Passionate RAISIN IN THE SUN still relevant.…
Review: GEORGE & GRACIE: A LOVE STORY at Milwaukee Rep
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
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
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
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: A ROCKIN' MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Skylight Music Theatre
What did our critic think of A ROCKIN' MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Skylight Music Theatre?…
Review: THE WIZ at Marcus Performing Arts Center
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: CAMILLE'S RAINBOW at Milwaukee Opera Theatre
What did our critic think of REVIEW: CAMILLE'S RAINBOW AT MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE at Milwaukee Opera Theatre?…
Review: IS THIS A ROOM? at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre
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
37 total · showing 31–37
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May 1, 1915. Nobel prize winning chemist Fritz Haber has finished hosting a dinner with officers of the German General Staff, celebrating his unique contribution to the Great War, for on April 22nd Fritz directed the release of chlorine gas into the Allied trenches. Fritz Haber...
WHO ARE YOU, FRITZ HABER?
English language premiere of Claude Cohen's award-winning French play. May 1, 1915. Nobel Prize winning chemist Fritz Haber has finished hosting a dinner with officers of the German General Staff, celebrating his unique contribution to the Great War, for on April 22nd Fritz...
Mirror Mirror
In a battle of beauty versus beauty, things are bound to get ugly. This is the case in Michael Pink’s world premiere ballet, presented by Donna and Donald Baumgartner. A pure young beauty goes up against her sinister seductress of a stepmother. The story is inspired by Snow...
Spring Series
Spring Series treats Milwaukee to choreographers with fans all over the country. In their much-anticipated returns, Matthew Neenan and Amy Seiwert will premier two new works tailored specifically to the strengths of the company dancers. Venezuelan choreographer Vincente Nebrada...
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is, in every way, like a dream. Clara, Fritz, and Marie’s journey is a magical mix of familiar feelings and fantastical spectacle. Everyone recognizes Tchaikovsky’s indelible score and the characters’ sense of childlike wonderment. But dancing flowers and...
Romeo & Juliet
When a story is retold as often as Romeo & Juliet, how it’s told is of utmost importance. And nobody tells a story quite like Milwaukee Ballet. This interpretation of the doomed lovers caught between feuding families forgoes prose for poses and couplets for choreography. Through...
Wicked
Back by “Popular” demand. Variety calls WICKED "a cultural phenomenon,” and when it last played Milwaukee in 2010, it broke box office records and sold out in record time. Winner of 35 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, WICKED is “Broadway’s biggest...
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WINNIE-THE-POOH: FOREVER FRIENDS First Stage (1/29-2/28) |
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Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights Wisconsin Classic Stage (10/30-11/08) |
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Churchill Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall (10/01-10/01) |
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Skylight Renaissance Theataerworks (3/21-4/11) |
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"Footloose the Musical" Milwaukee Repertory Theater (9/22-11/01) |
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Little Shop Of Horrors Lakeland Players (10/02-10/11) PHOTOS |
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Tony Award Nominated: Rock of Ages Skylight Music Theatre (4/16-5/02) |
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BROADWAY JUNIOR REVUE: PURE IMAGINATION First Stage (5/14-5/23) |
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Lend Me A Tenor Sunset Playhouse (9/10-9/27) |
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Gypsy Skylight Music Theatre (9/25-10/18) |