Mark Clements

Milwaukee Rep Reveals 2026/27 Season

An Expanded Lineup of 13 Bold Contemporary Plays, World Premieres, Musicals and Returning Favorites across the Checota Powerhouse Theater, Herro‑Franke Studio Theater, Stackner Cabaret, and Pabst Theater

Milwaukee Rep Announces Upcoming World Premieres and Commissions Expanding New Play Development Program

Ayad Akhtar’s Newest Play McNeal to Launch Milwaukee Rep’s New Herro Franke Studio Theater

‘Come From Away’ Becomes Milwaukee Reps All-Time Best-Selling Show, Surpassing ‘A Christmas Carol’

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Names Jewish Family Services Recipient of the A Christmas Carol Families Program

Plus, A Christmas Carol Community Tickets Participating Organizations Announced

“Come From Away” Breaks Milwaukee Rep Sales Record + Photos Now Available

Milwaukee Rep Honors 50 Years of A Christmas Carol with Special VIP Walk-Ons from City Leaders and Community Icons

Tony Award Winner Bernadette Peters Inaugurates Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s New $80M+ Associated Bank Theater Center

Modernized and Expanded Home for Milwaukee Rep Features Three State-of-the-Art Performance Spaces Including a Transformable Theater for Broadway-Scale Productions, a Dedicated Education and Engagement Center, and Increased Accessibility

Milwaukee Rep’s Season begins in the Stackner Cabaret with Festive and Heartwarming It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

Casting for Milwaukee Rep’s ‘Come From Away’ Announced

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Appoints Adam J. Peck Board President and Welcome Three New Trustees: Devin Hayes of Michael Best, Retired VP of MillerCoors Jim Meier, and Community Volunteer Cheryl Walker

Milwaukee Rep Regional Finalist Wins First Place at 2025 Next Narrative® Monologue Competition National Finals in New York City for the Second Year in a Row

Broadway Legend Bernadette Peters to Open Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Associated Bank Theater Center with Headlining Concert Performance October 11, 2025

Plus, a Series of Homecoming Events Planned Throughout the Inaugural Season to Welcome The Community to its New Home

Experience the Eletrifying Reunion of Rock Legends in Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Million Dollar Quartet this Spring

The Craic Shatters Records becoming the Stackner Cabaret’s Best-Selling Show

Now playing with limited availability through March 16, 2025

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents final show in the Stiemke Studio – Espejos: Clean, April 8 – May 11

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown March 21 – May 18 in the Stackner Cabaret

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Unveils Inaugural Season of the New Associated Bank Theater Cente

12 Productions total across 3 New State-of-the-Art Theaters and the 50th Anniversary of A Christmas Carol in the historic Pabst theater

Milwaukee Repertory Theater presents Romeo and Juliet February 25 – March 30, 2025 in the Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall Marcus Performing Arts Center

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Launches MKE Rep Arts Camp: A Creative Summer Experience for Kids

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Brings London’s West End Smash Hit The Woman in Black to Stiemke Studio January 21 – March 23, 2025

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents the World Premiere of The Craic By Mark Clements and Deanie Vallone

January 17 – March 16, 2025, in the Stackner Cabaret

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Names Community Advocates Recipient of the A Christmas Carol Families Program

Plus, A Christmas Carol Community Tickets Participating Organizations Announced

Joy to the World!

Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s A Christmas Carol returns to the Historic Pabst Theater with Matt Daniels as Scrooge and a Full Ensemble including 19 Young Performers from across Milwaukee, November 26 – December 24, 2024.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents Lumberjacks in Love November 8, 2024 – January 12, 2025 in the Stackner Cabaret

Milwaukee Rep’s A Christmas Carol Welcomes Special VIP Walk-On Guests

Milwaukee Repertory Theater awarded a $1.9M Non-State Grant for Local Projects from the Wisconsin State Building Commission

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents Marie and Rosetta

Starring Alexis J Roston and Bethany Thomas in the Stiemke Studio October 22 – December 22, 2024

Milwaukee Repertory Theater reaches $78 million Powering Milwaukee Campaign goal to make the Associated Bank Theater Center a reality thanks to nearly 600 individual donors

Associated Bank Theater Center on time and budget for Fall 2025 Opening with Inaugural Season Announced in early 2025

“The Coast Starlight” pulls into Milwaukee Rep, Sept 3-Oct 6

September 3 – October 6, 2024 in the Stiemke Studio

Celebrate Christmas in July and Save 25% to Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s A Christmas Carol on Thursday, July 25

Matt Daniels Returns as Scrooge!

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Announces Award-Winning Titles, World Premieres and More for 2024/25 Season

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Extends What the Constitution Means to Me By Heidi Schreck in the Stiemke Studio by One Week

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents Guys on Ice January 12 – March 17, 2024

Stackner Cabaret

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Names Safe & Sound Recipient of the A Christmas Carol Families Program

Plus A Christmas Carol Community Tickets Participating Organizations Announced

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Names Studio Theater in the New Associated Bank Theater Center for Philanthropists David Herro and Jay Franke

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

Young Performer Casting announced for Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s A Christmas Carol

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents the World Premiere Parental Advisory: a breakbeat play

By Idris Goodwin. September 26 – October 29, 2023. Stiemke Studio

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Announces Construction Timeline for New Associated Bank Theater Center

2024/25 Season to take place at Milwaukee Rep and Venues across the City

Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Powering Milwaukee Campaign Hits New Heights with Record Setting $1 Million Raised at Curtain Call Ball and $1.55 Million Gift from The Lubar Family

Sustaining Trustee Anthony Petullo and an Anonymous Donor pledge to match new or increased gifts up to $7.5 million through June 30, 2023 to reach a key financial milestone and greenlight construction.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Seeks the next Tiny Tim and other Young Performers Ages 8-13 for A Christmas Carol

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents the One Day Sale For TITANIC THE MUSICAL on Monday, June 20

Milwaukee Regional Finalist Alexandria Woods Wins Third Place at True Colors Next Narrative Monologue Competition In New York City

Jermaine Murry Joins Milwaukee Repertory Theater Leadership Team as Chief Diversity Officer

Former Loaned Executive Chief Diversity Officer Tammy Belton-Davis elected to Board of Trustees

Mary John Founder of Milwaukee Repertory Theater Passes away at 96

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Honors Milwaukee Area Hair Salons with Steel Magnolias Team Truvy Awards

Matt Leibham Joins Milwaukee Repertory Theater as Chief Financial Officer

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents Making the Invisible Visible: A Celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Culture, Art & Activism

With Series of Virtual Offerings in May

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Reopening in April with First In-Person Performance in Over a Year

Milwaukee Repertory Awards $60,000 to 80 Artists Through the Freelance Artist Relief Effort

Unions Clear Reopening of Milwaukee Repertory Theater for Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol Starting December 1 Pending Local Conditions

Health & Safety Webinar Hosted by Milwaukee Rep for Artists & Audiences on Wednesday, October 7 @7pmCT

Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Curtain Call Ball Goes Virtual to Aid the Rep Rising Emergency Fund on Friday, October 16, 2020

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Announces 2020/21 Season Reset Due to Covid-19 Challenges and an Emergency Relief Rep Rising Fundraising Campaign

Tammy Belton-Davis Joins Milwaukee Repertory Theater Leadership Team as Loaned Executive Chief Diversity Officer

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Raised $109,000

Through the Donald & Donna Baumgartner and The Elizabeth Quadracci Harned Family Matching Gift Double-Down for Artists Challenge

Donald & Donna Baumgartner and The Elizabeth Quadracci Harned Family Team Up for a Double-Down For Artists Challenge at Milwaukee Repertory Theater

Milwaukee Repertory Theater to Suspend all Performances and Public Events Through April 5, 2020

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Honors 12 Milwaukee SHEroes During Eclipsed

Dr. Lisa Edwards, Kai Gardner, Crystal Hearvey, Itzel Hernandez, Dasha Kelly, Katie Avila Loughmiller, Shayvon McCullum, Tina Nixon, Shavonda Sisson, JohnRaé Stowers, May Yer Thao and Diana Vang Brostoff

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Reveals New Brand Identity with Re-designed Logo, Website and Hashtag #WeRepMilwaukee To Support New Strategic Plan

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents Danai Gurira’s ECLIPSED March 3 – 29, 2020

With Ashleigh Awusie, Nancy Moricette, Jacqueline Nwabueze, Matty Sangare and Sola Thompson

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Announces Complete Cast and Creative Teas for The Legend of Georgia McBride and Chasin’ Dem Blues

Purchase tickets at www.MilwaukeeRep.com, by calling the Ticket Office at 414-224-9490 or in person at 108 E. Wells Street in downtown Milwaukee.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Announces Special Events and Guest Appearances for Milwaukee Holiday Tradition A Christmas Carol

Special VIP Walk-on Guests Include Sheldon Dutes, Ryan Jay, Michael King, Greg & Linda Marcus and Karen Dalessandro

A Milwaukee Repertory Theater Classic Returns! The Nerd November 12 – December 15, 2019

From the much-loved playwright of The Foreigner

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Announces 2019/20 Emerging Professional Residents (EPRs)

Residents Will Participate in the 10th Annual Rep Lab

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Holds One Day Sale for the Holiday Hit A Christmas Carol on Monday, July 22

Plus Casting Announced!

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Iconic American Musical West Side Story On Sale Event Broke Box Office Records with Nearly $300,000 in Sales

Several performances are nearly sold out and several performances only have individual seats left.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Everybody By Pulitzer Prize Finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Performed by the Professional Training Institute July 18 – 21, 2019 in the Stiemke Studio

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Searching to Cast a Young Performer in The Rep Classic The Nerd

Individual appointments will be assigned to candidates we would like to invite to come for an audition. No one will be seen without an appointment.

Complete Cast and Creative Team Announced for the American Premiere of THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE by Andrew Bovell

Milwaukee Repertory Theater March 5-31, 2019

Complete Cast and Creative Team Announced for Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s World Premiere of Mark Twain’s “River of Song”

Featuring several Hootenannies throughout the Run!

Milwaukee Rep Announces Holiday Artisan Craft Fair

Sunday, December 16 - 11am to 7pm. Gallerie M, Intercontinental Hotel, 139 East Kilbourn Avenue

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Names Pillar Partner Safe & Sound Recipient of the A Christmas Carol Families Program

Plus Tiny Tim Ticket Program Participating Organizations Announced

Milwaukee Repertory Theater and Colectivo Coffee Present a Stackner Cabaret Preview on Saturday, October 13 and Saturday, February 9

Each Stackner Cabaret Preview concert will be 30mins followed by a brief Q&A.

Katherine Thomas Joins Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s The All Night Strut!

The All Night Strut!, an energy-filled revue of the music of the 1930s and 40s.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Newly Renovated Stackner Cabaret Opens Friday, September 7

The much needed renovation increases the seating capacity by over 35% to 186 seats.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Elects Northwestern Mutual President Gregory C. Oberland As Board President

Nine New Trustees Elected from Charles E. Kubly Foundation, Foley & Lardner LLP, Harley-Davidson, Inc., Husch Blackwell, JCP Construction, and Plunkett Family Foundation

Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Tony Award-Winning Musical In The Heights On Sale Event Broke Box Office Record with Over $200,000 in Sales

Several performances are now sold out and many more are nearly sold out.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Welcomes Feast of Crispian Shakespeare with Vets as New Resident Theater Company

Feast of Crispian pairs professional actors with military veterans to create powerful Shakespeare productions

Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Associate Artistic Director May Adrales Receives the 2018 Alan Schneider Director Award

May Adrales joined Milwaukee Rep as Associate Artistic Director in 2016 directing past season’s The Who & The What and Animal Farm.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Holds Special One Day Sale on Monday, June 18 for the Tony Award-winning Musical “In the Heights”

The Rep’s Ticket Office will be open from 9am – 6pm for the One Day Sale and the special pricing will be available online from 7am – 11:59pm.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents the World Premiere of Lost Girl

Performed by the Professional Training Institute July 19-22, 2018 in the Stiemke Studio

Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s 2018 Curtain Call Ball: A Night at the Cabaret

Saturday, May 12, 2018 • 5:30pm

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Seeks “Tiny Tim” and Other Young Performers For Milwaukee’s Favorite Holiday Tradition A Christmas Carol

All submissions are due by Friday, May 25 at 5pm.

“Our Town” By Thornton Wilder Begins Performances at Milwaukee Repertory Theater April 10

Featuring Some of Wisconsin’s Most Distinguished Actors

ACT II Programming Returns to Milwaukee Repertory Theater as Part of Until The Flooed Production

With Community Guest Responders and Facilitated Dialogues Lead by the Zeidler Center For Public Discussion

Artists to be featured at 2018 Veterans Light Up the Arts announced

Veterans Light Up the Arts will feature performances and art exhibition

Pulitzer Prize Winner Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish to be Adapted for the Stage with a Premier at Milwaukee Repertory Theater

$11.2 Million raised for “Created in Milwaukee” Capital Campaign

Second Annual Veterans Light Up the Arts to Highlight Local Veteran Artists

Veterans Light Up the Arts will feature performances and art exhibition

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Announces Final Casting For OUR TOWN

Featuring Some of Wisconsin’s Most Distinguished Actors

“Until The Flood” Begins Performances at Milwaukee Repertory Theater March 13 – April 22

Until The Flood explores the reactions of the St. Louis region to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Announces 65th Anniversary Season

Feature the largest season in a decade with five world, American and regional premiere productions including Ayad Akhtar's Play Junk.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Announces Keynote Speaker and Session Leaders for Intersections Summit

Carmen Morgan, founder of artEquity and faculty at Yale School of Drama will be the Keynote Speaker on March 23

Pulitzer Prize Winner Ayad Akhtar Joins Milwaukee Rep Board of Trustees

Joining Akhtar are Bladen Burns & Deborah Tomczyk

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Announces Casting for the World Premiere of One House Over

Part of the John (Jack) D. Lewis New Play Development Program

Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Rep Lap Short-play Festival Returns February 15-19 in the Stiemke Studio

Described by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as “fun-filled,” and “thoughtfully arranged,” Rep Lab showcases the work of The Rep’s Emerging Professional Residents.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Announces New Play Development Workshop Reading Series

This year’s workshop reading series includes new plays from national writers Martín Zimmerman, Larissa FastHorse, and Nathan Alan Davis, among others.

“Black Pearl Sings!” Begins Performances at Milwaukee Repertory Theater January 19

Black Pearl Sings! begins performances January 19 and runs through March 18 in the Stackner Cabaret.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Seeks Young Performers for Spring Production of Our Town

Milwaukee Rep will hold auditions for Young Performers between the ages of 8 to 17.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Names United Community Center Recipient of ‘A Christmas Carol’ Families Program

After each performance of 'A Christmas Carol', cast members will collect money from patrons for families from the United Community Center that are in need this holiday season.