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‘School Of Rock’ Is a Holiday Hit

Skylight's show is too long, but actor Joey Sanzaro and the ensemble of kids are tons of fun.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Presents Brent Hazelton’s LIBERACE! With Milwaukee Native And Off-Broadway Star Brett Ryback

Created in collaboration with the Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts

‘Laughs in Spanish’ Rarely Delivers It

Comic whodunit plot with telenovela echoes gets uneven MCT production.

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Cast, Creative Team for Leonard Bernstein’s Beloved Masterpiece Candide

Visionary New Production of Classic Operetta Opens 2023-24 Season

Meat on the Street Closes Operations

Filipino street food business closes food truck and Public Museum kiosk.

Public Museum Selects New Caterer

Noble Catering & Events will offer customized menus for Milwaukee Public Museum events.

Skylight Music Theatre Names Susan Varela Executive Director

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Raises $1,514,428 In Sustainability Campaign, Will Proceed With 23/24 Season

Challenge Match led by Caran and Joel Quadracci through the Windhover Foundation with support from Donna and Donald Baumgartner and the Herzfeld Foundation is Instrumental to Success

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Announces $150,000 Sustainability Campaign Challenge Match led by Caran and Joel Quadracci through the Windhover Foundation with support from Donna and Donald Baumgartner and the Herzfeld Foundation

Campaign Deadline Extended to Tuesday, March 7th

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Presents the World Premiere of HOOPS

Adapted by Eliana Pipes with Original Music by B~Free from The HOOPS Project by Nicole Acosta

Go Grocer Opens in Third Ward

Plus: Farewell to Flannery's, The Spice House, E&F Pizzeria and Gülden Room Cafe.

Noble Catering Will Operate Skylight Bar & Bistro

F Street's catering company starts Feb. 3, coinciding with opening night of 'Evita.'

Chamber Theatre Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Revival of Albee’s caustic classic is well acted, powerful and intriguing.

Skylight Music Theatre Receives Wispact Foundation Grant to Support American Sign Language (ASL) Programming

Chamber Theatre’s ‘Misery’ Is Intense

Production more intimate than famous movie but dramatically spotty.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Announces Departure of Managing Director

Skylight Music Theatre Announces New One Night Only Concerts

Series Launches with Pop Icon Tributes to James Taylor, Prince & Michael Jackson, and ABBA

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Announces New Production Manager!

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Early Career Professional Internship Program

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Skylight in the Park with Sondheim

Outdoor Concert & Picnic to Benefit Skylight Music Theatre Saturday, June 18, 2022, 6 p.m.

Skylight Music Theatre Announces 2022-2023 Season

Exciting Premieres, Dynamic Partnerships and Unexpected Twists

Rach Meets Rachmaninoff

Milwaukee Opera Theatre’s "Preludes" is a unique yet disappointing musical theater work about the composer.

“Babel” Offers Disturbing View of Future

Uneven production by The Constructivists imagines society with genetic laws that decide who lives and dies.

‘Indecent’ Offers Tangy Slice of Theater History

But Paula Vogel’s play about playwright Sholem Asch’s travails bogs down in over busy Chamber Theatre staging.

MCT’s ‘Mala’ Is Good Family Drama

Rána Roman shines in one-person show, but staging is uneven.

Skylight Premiere of Raisin Rescheduled to April 8-24

Shift in Skylight Calendar Due to Impact of Covid on Season

Skylight Music Theatre Presents Free Screening of Documentary South

Saturday, January 29 at 3:45 p.m. Presented in Conjunction with Skylight’s Musical Ernest Shackleton Loves Me

Skylight Music Theatre’s Little Shop of Horrors Raises Funds for Sojourner Family Peace Center

Regional Premiere of Ernest Shackleton Loves Me Postponed One Week Due to Breakthrough Covid-19 Cases

New Dates January 21 – February 6, 2022

Darkly Funny Solo-Performer Tour De Force!

Sabrosa Now Runs Skylight’s Restaurant

Sabrosa offering pre-show food service and catering for events at Broadway Theatre Center.

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Cast, Creative Team for Regional Premiere of Award-Winning Off-Broadway Musical Ernest Shackleton Loves Me

January 14-30, 2022

Skylight Night Fundraiser Starring Tony Award Winner Stephanie J. Block Raises Record Amount

Chamber Theatre Offers Home Cooking

‘Stew’ mixes a Black family’s conflicts and musings on Shakespeare, with uneven results.

Tony Award Winner Stephanie J. Block Headlines Skylight Night 2021

Broadway Star to Perform at Skylight Night Gala November 6 Proceeds Support Skylight Music Theatre

The Brewery District Hosts Equinox Music Festival

Plus, a paranormal conference, Third Space Brewing Fifth Anniversary, Doors Open Milwaukee, the return of Skylight Theatre and more.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Elects New Trustees, Board Officers

Skylight Season Is Filled With Firsts

Including three shows never before performed in Milwaukee.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre is Wisconsin’s First Approved by Actors’ Equity Association to Proceed with In-Person Work to Create Virtual Productions

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Announces Virtual Holiday Program, Season’s Greeting from MCT

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Special Events to Launch Virtual Musical Being Earnest

Behind-the-Scenes Skylight Social Interview Oct. 13; Live Film Premiere and Talkback in the Cabot Theatre Oct. 17; Musical Available Streaming Online Oct. 16 - Nov. 12, 2020

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Revised 2020-2021 Season

Line-Up Adjusts Productions, Timeline to Present Outstanding Music Theatre while Addressing Safety Measures

Skylight Music Theatre Announces MKE Makes: A New Musical Works Series

2020-2021 Series to Launch with Focus on BIPOC Authors

Skylight Music Theatre Announces 2017-18 Season

Newly Named Artistic Director Ray Jivoff Launches Exciting Season With the Question: "Do You Want to Have Some Real Fun?"

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents The Montgomery Davis Play Development Series staged reading of Christmas in Babylon by James DeVita

Monday, March 20, 2017 – 7:30 p.m. at the Skylight Bar & Bistro in the Broadway Theatre Center.

Skylight Music Theatre Presents a Vibrant New Version of Andre Grétry’s Heartwarming Opera Beauty and the Beast (Zémire et Azor)

Featuring Larger-than-Life Puppetry and Direction by Obie Award-Winner James Ortiz. Seven Performances Only! March 17 - 26, 2017 in the Beautiful Cabot Theatre

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Skylight Music Theatre presents the Second-longest Running Off-Broadway Musical in History I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

Performances February 3 – 19, 2017 In the Beautiful Cabot Theatre

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Skylight Music Theatre presents the Second-longest Running Off-Broadway Musical in History I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

Performances February 3 - 19, 2017. In the Beautiful Cabot Theatre

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents LOBBY HERO by Kenneth Lonergan

November 23 – December 18 at the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre

The Loveliest of Meat Markets

Bavette La Boucherie is a butcher shop and restaurant with far more than meat to eat.

‘Drowning Girls’ Is Dry-Eyed Drama

Three brides victimized by serial killer tell their stories. It isn’t pretty.

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Cast for Tony Award-winning Musical La Cage Aux Folles (The Birdcage)

Cast led by Milwaukee favorites Ray Jivoff and Norman Moses, Project Runway's Chris March returns as costume designer. Performances November 18 - December 23, 2016

Final Poetry in the Park with Br!NK at Juneau Park, Sept. 13

The staged reading at Juneau Park is part of the tour culminating in a weekend reading festival at the Broadway Theatre Center.

Actresses Amuse in Chamber Theater Opener

Wanasek and Hitchcock anchor uneven staging of “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.”

MCT welcomes staff changes for 2016-17 season

Marcella Kearns becomes associate artistic director, and Matthew Reddin new marketing director

Skylight’s “Pirates” A Boatful of Laughs

Buoyed by nifty staging, fine singing, gags aplenty, it’s a huge hit with audiences.

Creative Alliance Milwaukee and Innovation in Milwaukee Announce Near West Side Neighborhood as Location for Walk the Talk TALK 2016, New Speaker Series

The partners today also announced the addition of a four-part Walk the Talk Speaker Series leading up to the fall conference.

Skylight Music Theatre Presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s Swashbuckling Comedy Pirates of Penzance

Performances May 20 - June 12, 2016 in the beautiful Cabot Theatre

Sex? We Are Shocked!

Chamber Theatre stages Coward's comedy, ‘Fallen Angels’, which once outraged viewers.

Skylight Music Theatre Announces 2016-17 Season

Tony Award Winners and Premieres Highlight Season

Local Collaboration Unveils Song From the Uproar

Milwaukee Opera Theatre and Wild Space Dance Company present Milwaukee premiere

Noel Coward friend & expert Geoffrey Johnson to speak at MCT on April 20

After graduating from the Yale School of Drama, Geoffrey Johnson began his theatre career briefly off and on Broadway as an actor and then became a stage manager where he worked with Noël Coward on two of his American productions.

MCT announces its 2016-2017 Season

The 2016-2017 Season will feature five exciting productions.

Whole World In a Hat

Skylight musical, ‘Crowns’ is dramatic musical about the role of hats in African American culture.

Skylight Music Theatre Presents Milwaukee Premiere of Acclaimed Gospel Musical Crowns

Jubilant Musical Celebrates Community, Heritage and Dazzling Church-Going Hats (aka Crowns). Performances March 4-26

Skylight Music Theatre Presents Milwaukee Premiere of Acclaimed Gospel Musical Crowns

Jubilant Musical Celebrates Community, Heritage and Dazzling Hats (aka Crowns)

Sex, Lies and Opera Arias

The Skylight presents steamy opera about the “dirty duchess” of Argyle.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents SLOWGIRL by Greg Pierce

Milwaukee Premiere! February 24 – March 20, 2016

The Mystery of “Agnes of God”

Renaissance Theater’s “dream cast” takes on ‘80s play about strange nun with a dead child.

Skylight Music Theatre Presents Wisconsin Premiere of Powder Her Face, Groundbreaking Chamber Opera about Duchess Margaret of Argyll

Inspired by Real-Life Tabloid Sex Scandal and 1963 Divorce Trial of ‘Dirty Duchess’

Skylight Music Theatre presents POWDER HER FACE

Inspired by Real-Life Tabloid Sex Scandal and 1963 Divorce Trial of 'Dirty Duchess'

Moses Scales the Mountain

Skylight’s sparkling staging of ‘My Fair Lady” paced by Norman Moses’ unforgettable Henry Higgins.

Three Kinds of Love

Chamber Theatre offers a real-life couple performing three different one acts about love.

My Fair Lady at Skylight Music Theatre Showcases High Fashion and Stunning Visual Design

Project Runway's Chris March Creates Show-Stopping, One-of-a-Kind Costumes

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents LOVE STORIES

November 25 – December 20, 2015 at the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre

My Fair Lady at Skylight Music Theatre Showcases High Fashion and Stunning Visual Design

Milwaukee Actor Norman Moses Celebrates Return to Skylight Stage as Henry Higgins

Present Music Has a Carnival

A daringly updated version of Schumann was among several crazy things at this concert.

Send In The Clowns

Present Music turns Schumann's Carnaval into a real circus, with help from Quasimondo theater.

Broadway, the Street of Tragedies

Three of the most tragic incidents in city history happened on Broadway.

From NYC to MKE

Wisconsin playwright brings Off-Off-Broadway short play to Milwaukee for one night only

Fire Your Imagination. Enter Present Music’s Carnival

8:00 p.m. Saturday, October 24, 2015 at the Broadway Theatre Center

On the Brink of Greatness

Renaissance Theaterworks picks two of the best women playwrights in the Midwest for staged readings.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents DEAR ELIZABETH

DEAR ELIZABETH by Sarah Ruhl. September 23- October 18, 2015

Renaissance Theaterworks Presents Second Annual Br!NK New Work Festival

New play staged readings September 8-14

Chamber Theater Presents Slapstick Romp

Boeing Boeing, once a runaway hit in London, lands here, and our photos capture the action.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents BOEING BOEING

August 13 - 30, 2015 at the Broadway Theatre Center’s Cabot Theatre

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents BOEING BOEING

August 13 - 30, 2015 at the Broadway Theatre Center’s Cabot Theatre

A City of Theaters

Since the 19th century’s German language playhouses, the city has built and renovated countless facilities for theater.

Going Crazy in Cleveland

Chamber Theatre deftly handles the antic farce, Lend Me a Tenor.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents Ken Ludwig’s LEND ME A TENOR

April 10-27, 2014

Renaissance Theaterworks Presents THE UNDERSTUDY

A bitingly witty backstage comedy

Milwaukee Arts Board recognizes Outstanding Artists of the Year

The Milwaukee Arts Board will honor the recipients of its Outstanding Artists of the Year award on Tuesday, March 12, 2013.

The Ghost Sign That Wasn’t

A bit of fake Milwaukee history, some questionable MATC ads, and debunking a war on pot.

MCT, Parkside unite for a complex, resonant “Bus Stop”

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's third university collaboration pays off, as students and professional give powerful performances.

Marquette/Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s “Lion in Winter”

Pointed comedy and royal rivalries, as succession to the British throne plays out against Christmas, 1183.