World Premiere!
MAYBE WE'LL FLY
A New Play with Music Inspired by the Life of Mary Nohl
by Marie Kohler
Music by Josh Schmidt
Marie Kohler
Directed by Elizabeth Margolius
Featuring Karen Estrada, Leslie Fitzwater, Emma Rosenthal, Amelia Sajdak, Alicia Storin, Lainey Techtmann, and more to be announced
September 18 – October 11, 2026
Broadway Theatre Center | Studio Theatre
Josh Schmidt
From renowned Milwaukee artists award-winning playwright Marie Kohler (BOSWELL, MIDNIGHT AND MOLL FLANDERS) and Tony-nominated composer Josh Schmidt (The End, THE ADDING MACHINE, THE MINISTER’S WIFE) comes this wildly theatrical and richly poetic world premiere play with music inspired by the life and work of legendary Wisconsin outsider artist Mary Nohl. Propelled by an evocative score for solo cello as well as a contemporary approach to movement from award-winning director Elizabeth Margolius, MAYBE WE’LL FLY will engage hearts and spark imaginations as it celebrates outsiders everywhere.
Milwaukee Premiere!
A GIFT OF THE MAGI
A Musical Inspired by the Short Story by O. Henry
Music by Josh Schmidt
Lyrics by James DeVita and Josh Schmidt
Book by James DeVita
Featuring Dimonte Henning, Jamie Mercado, and more to be announced
November 13 – December 6, 2026
Broadway Theatre Center | Studio Theatre
Dimonte Henning
Jamie Mercado
Hailed as “a Christmas delight” (The Isthmus), James DeVita and Josh Schimdt’s original musical based on O. Henry’s classic tale of love and generosity rings in the holidays in its Milwaukee debut. Newlyweds Della and Jim—accompanied by a beautiful live violin and cello score—search turn-of-the-20th-Century New York with full hearts and empty pockets for the perfect gift for one another.
Locally-Grown New Play!
SONGS WITHOUT WORDS
(Or, The Mendelssohn Play)
by Jennifer Vosters
Brent Hazelton
Winner of the 2024 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award
Directed by Executive Artistic Director Brent Hazelton
Featuring Jennifer Vosters
January 22 – February 7, 2027
Broadway Theatre Center | Studio Theatre
Musical genius siblings Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn were each other’s chief supporters, deepest inspirations, and best friends—but a rigid world immortalized only one in the canon. Featuring a tour de force solo performance from Jennifer Vosters (A DOLL’S HOUSE) and presented for the first time with live music, SONGS WITHOUT WORDS wrestles enduring questions of gender and genius, family and fame, and siblinghood and the power of art.
Jennifer Vosters
In partnership with the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music
Milwaukee Premiere!
SKELETON CREW
by Dominique Morisseau
Dimonte Henning
Directed by Dimonte Henning
Featuring James Carrington and more to be announced
March 19 – April 4, 2027
Broadway Theatre Center | Studio Theatre
James Carrington
2022 Tony Award Nomination for Best Play
One of Detroit’s last auto stamping plants stands on shaky ground, and a close-knit crew of four factory workers must face a future without the steadiest employment they’ve ever known. Milwaukee’s own Dimonte Henning—Director of MCT smash hits THE MOUNTAINTOP and CLYDE’S—brings to life this poetic, powerful, and profoundly American play described by The Financial Times as “not so much state-of-the-nation as state-of-the-world.”
SKELETON CREW is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Rachael Zientek
Featuring Rachael Zientek and more to be announced
May 7 – 23, 2027
Broadway Theatre Center | Cabot Theatre
1970. Ohio. Six women determined to shake up their lives and change the world form a consciousness-raising group in a community center gym. Fifty years later, one of their daughters tries to understand where things fell apart. Fresh from a celebrated 2025 Broadway run, this provocative, funny, refreshingly irreverent, and intensely relevant powerhouse of a production poses vital questions about what we inherit, what we forget, and what we’re still fighting to understand.
This production includes nudity.
LIBERATION is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Dramatists Play Service. www.concordtheatricals.com.
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