Milwaukee Repertory Theate

About the Theatre

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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Review: AGATHA CHRISTIE'S AND THEN THERE WERE NONE at Milwaukee Repertory Theater

by Keith Gray-Dozal · May 30, 2026

What did our critic think of REVIEW: AGATHA CHRISTIE'S AND THEN THERE WERE NONE AT MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER at Milwaukee Repertory Theater?…

Review: RAISIN IN THE SUN at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre

by Cathy Jakicic · May 11, 2026

Passionate RAISIN IN THE SUN still relevant.…

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

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

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

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: A ROCKIN' MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Skylight Music Theatre

by Keith Gray-Dozal · April 11, 2026

What did our critic think of A ROCKIN' MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Skylight Music Theatre?…

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: CAMILLE'S RAINBOW at Milwaukee Opera Theatre

by Sofia Ascorbe · March 25, 2026

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

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…

Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song

27 Apr – 23 May 2021

Award-winning actress Alexis J Roston salutes Americas favorite jazz singer, Ella Fitzgerald. Roston was last seen at Milwaukee Rep in her mesmerizing star turn as...

VIRTUAL - A Christmas Carol (2016)

1 Dec – 24 Dec 2020

A Novel by Charles DickensAdapted and Directed by Mark ClementsWe are opening our video vault to bring you a never-before-seen recording of Mark Clements 2016...

VIRTUAL - Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol

10 Dec – 24 Dec 2020

By Tom MulaDirected by Mark ClementsThe fully realized production of Jacob Marleys Christmas Carol starring Lee E. Ernst with an original soundscape by foley artist...