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2023-2024 season

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

2021-2022 season

Bestselling children’s book THE LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET comes to life in magical First Stage production

First Stage presents the world premiere production THE AMAZING LEMONADE GIRL

Final Two Weeks! THE LEGEND OF ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS Closes Sunday, April 3

First Stage's award-winning Young Company presents MACBETH

First Stage presents the triumphant return of THE LEGEND OF ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS

Milwaukee’s First Stage and Ko-Thi Dance Company in collaboration present THE DANCING GRANNY

First Stage announces Sensory Friendly Performance schedule for remainder of 2021/22 Season

First Stage announces Pay What You Choose schedule for remainder of 2021/22 Season

First Stage kicks off the New Year with THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM - 1963

First Stage's award-winning Young Company presents THE LARAMIE PROJECT

First Stage presents heartwarming holiday classic A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS

First Stage’s fall Amplify – BIPOC Short Play Series continues with THE TALE OF LA LLORONA AS TOLD BY CONSUELO CHAVEZ

First Stage’s Annual ImpACT Event Highlights Community Impact and Commitment

First Stage continues its Amplify – BIPOC Short Play Series this fall with STEP KIDS

First Stage announces a return to live performances in 2021/22 season

Amplify – First Stage’s second BIPOC Short Play Series kicks off with 'How to Actually Graduate in a Virtual World'

Second Season of Amplify – First Stage’s BIPOC Short Play Series – returns this fall

Samantha D. Montgomery is named Artistic Inclusion and Community Engagement Director at First Stage

2020-2021 season

In a year with challenges and uncertainty, First Stage shows resiliency and creativity

Amplify — First Stage's BIPOC Virtual Short Play Series continues with UNMUTED

First Stage's BIPOC Virtual Short Play Series kicks off with COPPER HORNS IN WATER

First Stage announces AMPLIFY – BIPOC Virtual Short Play Series

First Stage's Annual Fundraising event: Make Believe ... It's a Ball

Coming to Milwaukee's First Stage this February — THE CRUCIBLE

First Stage offers unique, engaging livestream performances in ESCAPE FROM PELIGRO ISLAND

First Stage And Betty Brinn Children's Museum Announce New Collaboration

CHRISTMASTOWN COMES TO FIRST STAGE

First Stage Streams Shakespeare's Adventurous, Romantic Comedy THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

First Stage's Virtual Season of Plays continues with comedic romp SHE KILLS MONSTERS

Milwaukee's First Stage Receives COVID-19 Cultural Organization Grant

First Stage presents THE GIRL WHO SWALLOWED A CACTUS (In Your Home)

A World Premiere Historical Adventure Series: The Quest for Solomon's Treasure

First Stage Announces New HOPE Fund

New Play Reading of APOLLO AND THE TRIALS OF HERCULES

First Stage Fall Theater Academy 2020

First Stage Announces Through Our Lens — A New Virtual Performance Series