World Premiere Wisconsin

The Heart Sellers
2023-02-24 20:00, 2023-02-25 15:00, 2023-02-25 20:00, 2023-02-26 14:00, 2023-02-26 19:00, 2023-02-28 19:30, 2023-03-01 19:30, 2023-03-02 19:30 (America/Chicago) and 21 more dates | Stiemke Studio, 108 East Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER
— By Lloyd Suh —
Finding Direction in the Land of Opportunity.
Funny and deeply moving, this World Premiere by Lloyd Suh (“The Chinese Lady”) gives voice to the Asian immigrant experience in the 1970s when the landmark Hart-Celler Act granted thousands of professional workers a new path to citizenship. But for new Americans Jane and Luna, life in the USA with their workaholic husbands has left them feeling isolated and invisible. One Thanksgiving – over sips of wine and a questionable frozen turkey – they reminisce and dream of spreading their wings together in the land of opportunity: disco dancing, learning to drive and even a visit to Disneyland. With grace and dignity, this powerful play asks: “Would you give up your heart to make a new home?”

SHOW DATES & TIMES:
Tuesday February 7 @ 7:30PM
Wednesday, February 8 @ 7:30PM
Thursday, February 9 @ 7:30PM
Friday, February 10 @ 8PM
Saturday, February 11 @ 3PM
Saturday, February 11 @ 8PM
Sunday, February 12 @ 2PM
Sunday, February 12 @ 7PM
Tuesday, February 14 @ 6:30PM
Wednesday, February 15 @ 7:30PM
Thursday, February 16 @ 7:30PM
Friday, February 17 @ 8PM
Saturday, February 18 @ 3PM
Saturday, February 18 @ 8PM
Sunday, February 19 @ 2PM
Sunday, February 19 @ 7PM
Tuesday, February 21 @ 7:30PM
Wednesday, February 22 @ 7:30PM
Thursday, February 23 @ 7:30PM
Friday, February 24 @ 8PM
Saturday, February 25 @ 3PM
Saturday, February 25 @ 8PM
Sunday, February 26 @ 2PM
Sunday, February 26 @ 7PM
Tuesday, February 28 @ 7:30PM
Wednesday, March 1 @ 7:30PM
Thursday, March 2 @ 7:30PM
Friday, March 3 @ 8PM
Saturday, March 4 @ 3PM
Saturday, March 4 @ 8PM
Sunday, March 5 @ 2PM
Sunday, March 5 @ 7PM
Wednesday, March 8 @ 1:30PM
Wednesday, March 8 @ 7:30PM
Thursday, March 9 @ 7:30PM
Friday, March 10 @ 8PM
Saturday, March 11 @ 3PM
Saturday, March 11 @ 8PM
Sunday, March 12 @ 2PM
Sunday, March 12 @ 7PM
Tuesday, March 14 @ 7:30PM
Wednesday, March 15 @ 7:30PM
Thursday, March 16 @ 7:30PM
Friday, March 17 @ 8PM
Saturday, March 18 @ 3PM
Saturday, March 18 @ 8PM
Sunday, March 19 @ 2PM
Sunday, March 19 @ 7PM

Finder and the North Star [ASL]
2023-02-25 14:30 | The Starlight Theater at MYArts, 1055 E. Mifflin St., Madison, WI, 53703, United States
By Erica Berman
A silent wish sparks a spectacular adventure. Join Finder and North Star on a magical journey of self-discovery and personal triumph. Together they travel around the world and beyond – a journey that ultimately leads them to a surprising end. This brand new play by CTM’s own Erica Berman makes its debut on the MYArts stage – be the first to see it!
SHOW DATES & TIMES:
Saturday, February 18 @ 2:30 PM
Saturday, February 18 @ 7 PM
Sunday, February 19 @ 3PM
Saturday, February 25 @ 2:30PM – ASL
Saturday, February 25 @ 7PM
Sunday, February 26 @ 3PM – SENSORY-FRIENDLY/RELAXED
Saturday, March 4 @ 2:30PM
Saturday, March 4 @ 7PM
Sunday, March 5 @ 3PM

Finder and the North Star
2023-02-25 19:00, 2023-03-04 14:30, 2023-03-05 15:00 | The Starlight Theater at MYArts, 1055 E. Mifflin St., Madison, WI, 53703, United States
CHILDREN’S THEATER OF MADISON
— By Erica Berman —
A silent wish sparks a spectacular adventure. Join Finder and North Star on a magical journey of self-discovery and personal triumph. Together they travel around the world and beyond – a journey that ultimately leads them to a surprising end. This brand new play by CTM’s own Erica Berman makes its debut on the MYArts stage – be the first to see it!
SHOW DATES & TIMES:
Saturday, February 18 @ 2:30 PM
Saturday, February 18 @ 7 PM
Sunday, February 19 @ 3PM
Saturday, February 25 @ 2:30PM – ASL
Saturday, February 25 @ 7PM
Sunday, February 26 @ 3PM – SENSORY-FRIENDLY/RELAXED
Saturday, March 4 @ 2:30PM
Saturday, March 4 @ 7PM
Sunday, March 5 @ 3PM

Shining in Misery - A King-Size Parody
2023-02-25 19:30, 2023-02-26 14:00, 2023-03-03 19:30, 2023-03-04 14:00, 2023-03-04 19:30, 2023-03-05 14:00 | Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State St, Madison, WI, 53703, United States
CAPITAL CITY THEATRE
— Music by Andrew Abrams, Lyrics by Mark-Eugene Garcia, Book by Colleen Duvall and Mark-Eugene Garcia —
Experience a musical parody of KING size proportions! During the MISERY of a blizzard, five people are drawn to THE SHINING lights of the Overlook Hotel. The group includes Jack: the hotel’s new caretaker, Wendy: his unhappy wife, Danny: their clairvoyant son, Annie: a quick to anger nurse, and Paul: the mysterious unconscious man she drags up to room 217. As the storm grows so do the mysteries of the hotel and the new guests sing and vocalize while hacking an onslaught of visitors — human, animal, and supernatural. Will this group be able to harmonize through IT, take a STAND, or fade into THE MIST?
SHOW DATES & TIMES:
Thursday, February 23 @ 7:30PM
Friday, February 24 @ 7:30PM
Saturday, February 25 @ 7:30PM
Sunday, February 26 @ 2PM
Friday, March 3 @ 7:30PM
Saturday, March 4 @ 2PM
Saturday, March 4 @ 7:30PM
Sunday, March 5 @ 2PM

Finder and the North Star [Sensory Friendly/Relaxed]
2023-02-26 15:00 | The Starlight Theater at MYArts, 1055 E. Mifflin St., Madison, WI, 53703, United States

Bad in Bed (A Fairy Tale)
2023-03-03 20:30, 2023-03-04 19:30, 2023-03-05 14:00, 2023-03-08 19:30, 2023-03-09 19:30, 2023-03-10 19:30, 2023-03-11 14:00 | Bartell Theatre, 113 E Mifflin St, Madison, WI, 53703, United States
MADISON THEATRE GUILD
— By Karen Saari —
Charles’ third wife has just informed him she’s leaving. As he reels from the news and the reason she gives, he spends a weekend with his best friend Jack and their college friend Betsy, an up-and-coming author. Betsy, who once dabbled in witchcraft, reveals a secret from their college days that could be the reason for Charles’ failed relationships. Can Betsy help Charles win back his wife? Maybe, with the help of a Finnish coven.
SHOW DATES & TIMES:
Friday, March 3 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, March 4 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, March 5 @ 2pm
Wednesday, March 8 @ 7:30pm
Thursday, March 9 @ 7:30pm
Friday, March 10 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, March 11 @ 2pm

Finder and the North Star
2023-03-04 19:00 | The Starlight Theater at MYArts, 1055 E. Mifflin St., Madison, WI, 53703, United States

Hoops [Preview]
2023-03-10 20:30 | Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway Theatre Center, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States
MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE
— By Eliana Pipes with original music by B~Free from the HOOPS Project by Nicole Acosta —
Local art begets local art as multi-disciplinary Milwaukee artist Nicole Acosta’s internationally acclaimed HOOPS Project comes to the stage.
Hoop earrings express complex, layered, and beautiful individual and community identities across cultures and generations. Through in-depth interviews crafted into an evening of monologues in the tradition of theater documentarians like Anna Deavere Smith, Eve Ensler, and KJ Sanchez, HOOPS centers stories of visibility and individuality, community and collectivism, and survival and transcendence in a space to celebrate culture as it explores the potent resonance of these symbols to those who identify most strongly with them.

SHOW DATES AND TIMES:
Friday, March 10 @ 7:30PM – Preview Night
Saturday, March 11 @ 8PM – Opening Night
Sunday, March 12 @ 2PM
Monday, March 13 @ 7:30PM (Pay What You Choose Night)
Wednesday, March 15 @ 7:30PM
Thursday, March 16 @ 7:30PM
Friday, March 17 @ 7:30PM
Saturday, March 18 @ 4PM
Saturday, March 18 @ 8PM
Sunday, March 19 @ 2PM
Wednesday, March 22 @ 7:30PM
Thursday, March 23 @ 7:30PM
Friday, March 24 @ 7:30PM
Saturday, March 25 @ 4PM
Saturday, March 25 @ 8PM
Sunday, March 26 @ 2PM
Wednesday, March 29 @ 1PM
Wednesday, March 29 @ 7:30PM
Thursday, March 30 @ 7:30PM
Friday, March 31 @ 7:30PM
Saturday, April 1 @ 4PM
Saturday, April 1 @ 8PM
Sunday, April 2 @ 2PM

Hoops
2023-03-11 22:00, 2023-03-12 14:00, 2023-03-15 19:30, 2023-03-16 19:30, 2023-03-17 19:30, 2023-03-18 16:00, 2023-03-18 20:00, 2023-03-19 14:00 and 13 more dates | Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway Theatre Center, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States

A PERLIOUS GAME by Michael Lucchesi
2023-03-12 15:00 | Interchange Theater, 628 N 10th St, Milwaukee, WI, United States
VILLAGE PLAYHOUSE
— by Michael Lucchesi —
A Perilous Game is the story of those who resisted the Nazis within Germany, including Wisconsin’s own Mildred Fish-Harnack. Imagine if Kurt and Sara Muller and de Brancovis from Watch on the Rhine and Rick Blaine, Ilsa Lund, Ugarte and Victor Lazlo from Casablanca all showed up to a party at Rob and Laura Petrie’s house from The Dick van Dyke Show.

Hoops [Pay What You Choose]
2023-03-13 19:30 | Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway Theatre Center, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States

Così fan tutte: REMIX
2023-03-17 19:30, 2023-03-19 14:30, 2023-03-24 19:30, 2023-03-26 14:30 | Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall at the Marcus Center for Performing Arts, 121 E State St, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States
FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY
— By Nicolas Lell Benavides and Kelley Rourke —
Debating the nature of attraction, fidelity, and perception of gender, events at a college party cause six college students to question everything they know about each other – and themselves. This English-language modernization of a Da Ponte and Mozartian classic will delight with a 1980s nostalgia and clever twist.

SHOW DATES & TIMES:
Friday, March 17 @ 7:30PM
Sunday, March 19 @ 2:30PM
Friday, March 24 @ 7:30PM
Sunday, March 26 @ 2:30PM

A Crooked French Affair
2023-03-23 19:30, 2023-03-24 19:30, 2023-03-25 19:30, 2023-03-26 14:00 | Goodrich Little Theatre, 72 W 9th St, Fond du Lac, WI, 54935, United States
FOND DU LAC COMMUNITY THEATRE
— By Kim Ruyle —
Perry, a wannabe playwright/director, has written his first play, A Crooked French Affair, ostensibly a dramatic romance set in the royal court of Louis the 15th. When he pitches his play to the dysfunctional Board of Directors of the Pity Falls Community Playhouse, it throws them into a conniption fit. Against all odds, Perry’s play is selected, and now the real work begins with the cast of amateur, inept actors, who work on a set and in costumes designed by recruits from the local junior high school. Complicating everything is an undercurrent due to the affair between Perry’s wife and the husband of Avis, a board member who is recruited to play a part in Perry’s play. On opening night, the production loses its way yet creates a stunning audience reaction and a fortuitous discovery for Perry.
SHOW DATES & TIMES:
Thursday, March 23 @ 7:30PM
Friday, March 24 @ 7:30PM
Saturday, March 25 @ 7:30PM
Sunday, March 26 @ 2PM

Tidy [Preview]
2023-03-24 19:30, 2023-03-25 16:00 | Next Act Theatre, 255 S. Water St., Milwaukee, WI, 53204, United States
RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS
— By Kristin Idaszak —
A woman stands in the middle of a room. She is an island in a sea of stuff – her stuff. It’s a disaster. Fortunately, she’s a detective and she has just read Marie Kondo’s self-help book: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
As she excavates her mountain of possessions, she uncovers a terrifying mystery. Can she follow the series of clues and solve the puzzle in time to save the planet? TIDY examines the holes in our lives we try to fill with consumption, how we decide what to keep and what to leave behind, and who and what will survive mass extinction? And will it spark joy?
SHOW DATES & TIMES:
Friday, March 24 @ 7:30 PM – PREVIEW
Saturday, March 25 @ 4PM – PREVIEW
Saturday, March 25 @ 8PM – OPENING NIGHT & RECEPTION
Sunday, March 26 @ 2PM
Wednesday, March 29 @ 7:30 PM – Wine Wednesday
Thursday, March 30 @ 7:30 PM
Friday, March 31 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, April 1 @ 4PM
Saturday, April 1 @ 8PM
Sunday, April 2nd @ 2PM
Wednesday, April 5 @ 7:30 PM – Wine Wednesday
Thursday, April 6 @ 7:30 PM
Friday, April 7 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, April 8 @ 4PM
Sunday, April 9 @ 2PM
Wednesday, April 12 @ 1 PM
Wednesday, April 12 @ 7:30 PM Wine Wednesday
Thursday, April 13 @ 7:30 PM
Friday, April 14 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, April 15 @ 4 PM
Sunday, April 16 @ 2 PM

YOU DON'T DESERVE TO DIE by Art Kopischke
2023-03-25 19:00 | Jean Weidner Theatre, 2350 Weidner Center Drive, Green Bay, WI, 54311, United States
UW-GREEN BAY THEATRE & DANCE
— By Art Kopischke —
In Koepsell House, 5 college students who live together in a vegan co-op try to make a small difference as they plan their annual Earth Day party. But they begin to question the real effects of their actions when a food ethics discussion divides them. In Ephraim, Wisconsin, Kyle returns home to care for his dying father only to become trapped in his taxidermy basement workshop by a violent April snowstorm with his childhood friend, two hunters, and a mysteriously omniscient singing Dead Deer. Five actors play the characters of each distinct world as, through ultimate catastrophe, their lives begin to reflect each other’s.
On WPW Backstage by Mike Fischer
Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Fiddling While Rome Burns? – Art Kopischke’s Play Explores How Progressives Process Climate Change

Tidy [Opening Night & Reception]
2023-03-25 20:00 | Next Act Theatre, 255 S. Water St., Milwaukee, WI, 53204, United States

Tidy
2023-03-26 15:00, 2023-03-30 19:30, 2023-03-31 19:30, 2023-04-01 16:00, 2023-04-01 20:00, 2023-04-02 14:00, 2023-04-06 19:30, 2023-04-07 19:30 and 3 more dates | Next Act Theatre, 255 S. Water St., Milwaukee, WI, 53204, United States

THE BARBER AND THE UNNAMED PRINCE by Gavin Lawrence
2023-03-27 19:00 | American Players Theatre | Touchstone Theatre, 5950 Golf Course Road, Spring Green, WI, 53588, United States
AMERICAN PLAYERS THEATRE
— By Gavin Lawrence —
Winter Words, is returning to the Touchstone – in-person for the first time since early 2020! Its arrival is thrilling, and just in time to celebrate new works for a new year. A tradition for APT artists and guests alike, Winter Words provides room to explore stories that are new to us, with laser-focus on the language.
A local icon’s death signals the end of an era and the beginning of a new look for a once-predominantly African American neighborhood in Washington, DC. A world-premiere from the incredible Gavin Lawrence.
On WPW Backstage by Mike Fischer
Winter’s Content Makes Glorious Summer – American Players Theatre Previews Tomorrow’s Classics Today

Tidy [Wine Wednesday]
2023-03-29 19:30, 2023-04-05 19:30 | Next Act Theatre, 255 S. Water St., Milwaukee, WI, 53204, United States

New Works Festival
2023-03-31 20:00, 2023-04-01 14:00 | Otteson Theatre at Carroll University, 238 N. East Avenue, Waukesha, WI, 53186, United States
CARROLL UNIVERSITY
— By Multiple Playwrights —
ADULTS IN SPACE: Phillip Steenbekkers
COME, SIT, SPEAK: Isabella Salefski
ESTO TAMBIEN PASARA: Jessica Mayer
FUCKIN’ UMBRELLA: Skylar Campbell
LIGHT SWITCH: Anna-Christina Starszak
MRS. MOVING ON: Libby Miller
SEVEN: Ryan Rehak
STICKY: Grace Stormer
UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Bekah Sprouse
WHAT’S MINE IS YOURS: Lizzie Sage
The NEW WORKS FESTIVAL is a compilation of 10 student-written 10-minute plays. There is a little something for everyone featured here. From recent graduates of the Star Fleet Academy on their first mission to siblings discovering the horrors of real life.

SHOW DATES AND TIMES:
Friday, March 31st at 8 PM
Saturday, April 1st at 2 PM
