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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!
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
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 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
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 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
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
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