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Milwaukee Arts Groups Suffer Federal Funding Cuts

NEA grants already awarded are cancelled, though not entirely for some.

Farewell Crossroads Collective

Plus: Milwaukee Milkmen celebrate opening day in Franklin.

Can Kevin Giglinto Save the Marcus Center?

Loss of the Milwaukee Symphony leaves deficit, questions about its future.

‘The Realness’ Captures Hip Hop Scene

Energetic Milwaukee Black Theatre Festival show deserves a bigger audience.

Milwaukee Arts Groups in Big Trouble

Huge declines in the percent of earned income are a very worrisome sign.

‘The Wolves’ Is Great Theater

Renaissance offers fast paced yet thoughtful staging of punchy new play by Sarah DeLappe about a girls soccer team.

Black Arts MKE Announces 10th Anniversary Production of Black Nativity, Directed by Local Theater Legend Sheri Williams Pannell

Black Arts MKE’s production celebrates a decade of joyful African American artistry and faith that compels audiences to sing, dance, and clap along to the Good News

First Stage Hatches Mo Willems’ Brand-New Holiday Musical, The Pigeon Gets a Big Time Holiday Extravaganza!

Milwaukee audiences will be among the first in the nation to experience the musical from the #1 New York Times best-selling children’s book author/illustrator

UPAF Raises $9.1 Million during its 2025 Campaign to Support Southeastern Wisconsin’s Performing Arts

Funding Day celebration spotlights Milwaukee’s national leadership in performing arts funding

Young Company Brings James Devita’s Timely the Rose of Treason Beyond the Stage

In partnership with Violins of Hope – Wisconsin, presented by the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra

United Performing Arts Fund Names Nicole Angresano as Development Director – Corporate Partnerships

UPAF adds nationally recognized community leader to development team

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