Press Releases
2025-2026 SEASON
2024-2025 season
- FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGE: First Stage presents World Premiere of ESPERANZA RISING
- FATE, HUMOR & HEART: First Stage invites audiences on a theatrical roller coaster ride with RIDE THE CYCLONE (High School Edition)
- FROM THE BIG SCREEN TO THE STAGE: First Stage brings Disney & Pixar’s FINDING NEMO TYA to Milwaukee this spring
- Travel back in time for a prehistoric adventure with First Stage!
- Romance, Revenge, and Raucous Comedy Abount in THE TEMPEST, Young Company Performance Project
- The Most Famous Reindeer of All Returns to First Stage!
- Get Ready for a Toe-Tapping Time: Fist Stage Kicks off its 2024 - 2025 season with PETE THE CAT!
- HEROES ASSEMBLE: First Stage Soars to New Heights with its 2024-25 Season!
2023-2024 season
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First Stage’s 2023/24 Amplify Reading Series season concludes with a play
reading of EMILY SONG AND THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT - First Stage proudly presents ESCAPE FROM PELIGRO ISLAND: A Create Your Own Adventure Play
- First Stage’s award-winning Young Company presents AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
- First Stage announces date for next year’s Make Believe Ball
- First Stage introduces new Access for All program for 2024/2025 Season
- First Stage celebrates spring with fun production of DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE MUSICAL
- First Stage and Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra announce: 3.5 Millions Dollars Awarded for Two Endowments for Advanced Theater and Music Training
- A fun-filled, friendship-packed musical ELEPHANT & PIGGIE’S “WE ARE IN PLAY!” comes to Milwaukee Youth Arts Center this month
- First Stage's 30th Annual Make Believe Ball on Saturday, February 24, 2024
- First Stage presents action-packed, mythical adventure THE LIGHTNING THIEF: The Percy Jackson Musical
- Media Alert: Amplify Reading of ESPERANZA RISING on December 13
- First Stage’s award-winning Young Company presents HENRY IV, PART 1
- THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER: THE MUSICAL returns to First Stage this holiday season!
- MEDIA ALERT: First Stage's 2023/24 season of the Amplify Reading series begins with a reading of BIG CITY HARMONY by Ty Defoe on November 4
- First Stage Announces Sensory Friendly Performance Schedule for 2023/24 Season
- First Stage Announces New Managing Director Daniel Grambow
- First Stage proudly presents the world premiere production THE FORGOTTEN GIRL
- First Stage to host 14th Annual Wine Tasting & Dinner in early November
- First Stage Announces Pay What You Choose Schedule for 2023/24 Season
- Uplifting world premiere production DREAM, QUICKIE! DREAM! opens at Marcus Performing Arts Center’s Todd Wehr Theater this October
- First Stage announces Artistic and Creative Teams for 2023/24 season
- Michelle LoRicco joins First Stage as new Associate Artistic Director
- Amplify BIPOC Play Series returns to First Stage for fourth season
- First Stage’s 2023/24 season filled with fun, excitement and adventure
2022-2023 season
- First Stage Managing Director Betsy Corry to Retire Following 2022/23 Season
- First Stage proudly presents the world premiere production THE GRACIOUS SISTERS
- Bob Marley’s THREE LITTLE BIRDS brings Jamaican good vibes to First Stage this spring
- First Stage raises over $150,000 at 29th Annual Make Believe Ball
- First Stage's award-winning Young Company presents LITTLE WOMEN
- First Stage presents THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
- First Stage brings Tolkien's epic tale THE HOBBIT to the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center
- First Stage kicks off the new year with hopeful production of CARMELA FULL OF WISHES
- First Stage Breaks Fundraising Record at Annual Wine Tasting & Dinner Event
- First Stage's award-winning Young Company presents A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
- First Stage celebrates the holidays with RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER™: THE MUSICAL
- First Stage welcomes new Board President Chris Marschka
- First Stage announces Sensory Friendly Performance Schedule for the 2022/23 Season
- First Stage's announces Pay What You Choose Schedule for the 2022/23 Season
- First Stage kicks off 2022/23 season with fun, family-friendly musical: ARTHUR™ AND FRIENDS MAKE A MUSICAL!
- First Stage announces third season of AMPLIFY BIPOC PLAY SERIES
- First Stage's Summer Theater Academy classes begin Monday, June 13, 2022
- First Stage announces a season filled with music, joy and adventure for 2022/23
PLAYBILLS
2024-2025 Season
Pete the Cat
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer™: The Musical
The Tempest
The Dinosaur Play
Emily Song and the Queen of the Night
Disney & Pixar's Finding Nemo TYA
Ride the Cyclone
Esperanza Rising
2023-2024 Season
Dream, Quickie! Dream! by Gloria Bond Clunie
The Forgotten Girl adpated by Idris Goodwin
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever the Musical
Henry IV Part 1
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
Elephant & Piggie's "We Are In A Play!"
Diary of a Wimpy Kid the Musical
An Enemy of the People
Escape from Peligro Island by Finnegan Kruckemeyer
2022-2023 Season
Arthur™ & Friends Make a Musical!
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer™: The Musical
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Carmela Full of Wishes
The Hobbit
The SpongeBob Musical for Young Audiences
Little Women
Bob Marley's Three Little Birds
The Gracious Sisters