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Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony® Award-winning masterpiece Into the Woods brings together everyone’s favorite fairy-tale characters in a darkly funny, heartfelt adventure. A baker...
"Happily Ever After" has never been so complicated.The musical Into the Woods, by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapinetakes everyone’s favorite storybook characters Little Red Riding Hood,Jack...
A world premiere musical! Experience a bold new take on Shakespeare’s beloved comedy. Journey from ancient Athens into an enchanted forest where lovers, mischievous spirits,...
New York City. The 1960s. A brilliant psychiatrist and his mistress have devised what seems to be a perfect- and murderous- plan. But will they...
RG Productions and Theatre Gigante have come together in an historic collaboration for the world premiere of “Sparrows Fall” written and directed by Richard Gustin...
Wisconsin Classic Stage presents The Persians, the oldest surviving play in recorded history, and the explosive inaugural production of its bold new season.
U.S. Premiere!At the end of a storied career, violin virtuoso Margaret gives her final interview to a young reporter. As the evening wears on, Margaret...
The world of Dreamwork’s Shrek is coming to the Rhode stage! "Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek...." And thus begins...
What happens to a dream deferred?Lorraine Hansberry’s trailblazing classic—the first play produced on Broadway written by a Black woman and still one of the American...
Salmon-a-Rama: The Sketch Comedy Puppet Musical that Your Children Won’t UnderstandIt’s the big one! With plenty of puppets, parodies, and punchlines. Sure to be a...
CREATED BY THE EMMY®-WINNING WRITER FROM “SCHITT’S CREEK,” this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told. & Juliet asks:...
In 2005, Spamalot won the Tony Award for best musical comedy. Lovingly ripped off from the classic film "Monty Python and The Holy Grail," this...
Love's Labour's Lost, directed by Eva Breneman in her Door Shakespeare debut, runs Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 7:30 p.m. from June 29 through August...
Door Shakespeare presents The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Suzanne Graff, running June 29 through August 22, 2026. Graff returns to Door Shakespeare with...
Time to crank out the accordions and unleash some polka pandemonium; it’s time to be completely out there! Comedy Rock Legend “Weird Al” Yankovic brings...
Gypsy, a musical fable of ambition and family, kicks off at Skylight Music Theatre this season. Directed by Michael Unger, the show follows a determined...
Big The Musical brings the beloved 1987 film to the stage at Skylight Music Theatre, showcasing the story of Josh Baskin, an awkward kid whose...
Dear Evan Hansen is a Tony Award-winning musical that explores themes of truth, identity, and belonging through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Evan Hansen, who becomes...
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a Tony Award-winning musical that combines humor and intrigue as it follows Monty Navarro, a low-born heir...
Set in the vibrant backdrop of the late 1980s, Rock of Ages explores the dreams of aspiring rock star Drew and small-town girl Sherri as...
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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...
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...
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�...
by Keith Gray-Dozal - April 11, 2026
What did our critic think of A ROCKIN' MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Skylight Music Theatre?...
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....
by Sofia Ascorbe - March 25, 2026
What did our critic think of REVIEW: CAMILLE'S RAINBOW AT MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE at Milwaukee Opera 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...
by Cathy Jakicic - March 22, 2026
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK at Renaissance Theaterworks does credit to the classic Neil Simon comedy....
by Sofia Ascorbe - March 16, 2026
In McNeal, Jacob McNeal (Peter Bradbury) is a successful and arrogant novelist who flies too close to the sun of Artificial Intelligence when he experiences the very human struggles of his mental and physical health, his addictions, and his relationships....
by Kelsey Lawler - March 03, 2026
The Piano Lesson marks The Milwaukee Rep’s ninth production in Wilson’s American Century Cycle. For those unfamiliar, this stunning feat is Wilson’s magnum opus: a ten-part series of plays showcasing the African-American experience set in every decade of the 20th century....
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