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It’s an exciting time here at Milwaukee Rep! We recently announced our upcoming 70th Anniversary Season, which will include the groundbreaking world premiere rock musical Run Bambi Run written by Gordon Gano of Milwaukee’s own Violent Femmes and Academy Award-winning writer Eric Simonson. Additionally, we are thrilled to bring the third production in our Classics Initiative, Little Women, to the Quadracci Powerhouse stage. To view the full season and purchase your subscription, visit www.MilwaukeeRep.com.

While we are looking forward to next season, there are still plenty of opportunities to engage with our current productions, thanks to our Education & Engagement Department. For our world premiere production of The Heart Sellers by Lloyd Suh, we assembled an oral history display in the Stiemke Studio lobby that provides a glimpse into aspects of emigrating from Asia to the United States in the 1960s and 70s from four different AAPI elder storytellers, adapted for and recorded by a youth voice. All of the oral history recordings are available on our website. Our production of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars includes several engagement opportunities, including TalkBacks following the performances on March 23 and 30, along with a Dinner Dialogue on March 27 at Sam’s Place Jazz Café. The final opportunity of our Dinner Dialogue series will be May 3 at Café del Sol featuring a discussion about God of Carnage.

We are now 60% of the way toward our $75 million goal for the Powering Milwaukee Capital Campaign to transform our current home into a state-of-the-art theater complex. We recently announced the $5 million transformational gift from the Herzfeld Foundation — the largest in the foundation’s history — to build The Herzfeld Foundation Education & Engagement Center, creating a dedicated space for Milwaukee Rep’s growing education and engagement programming. Read more about the new space and how it will expand our programming on page 4.

Finally, a huge congratulations to our two Milwaukee regional winners of the Next Narrative Monologue Competition: Ryon Davis from Pius XI High School and Sanaiah Hibbler from Oak Creek High School. These two will join other winners from across the country at the national competition in New York City May 6-8, 2023.