Programs

Original and Adapted Theatreworks

Special Events & Custom Programs

Educational Workshops & Arts Residencies

Healing Arts

Artists & Performers Include:

musicians: classical, jazz, hip hop, pop, world cultures, drummers, Broadway, opera, operetta
dancers: all styles
actors: classical characters, historical impersonators, improv performers
scriptwriters
craft & workshop artists
jewelry makers
face and body painters
dollmakers
caricaturists
chalk artists
muralists
martial artists
flag & fire spinners
puppeteers
fortunetellers
magicians
storytellers
clowns and balloon clowns
mimes
ventriloquists
jugglers
stiltwalkers
designers, costumers, wigmasters

Healing Arts and Wellness Programming

MPT has a strong commitment to increasing access to effective healing arts and wellness programming. We develop workshops for artists working with special needs populations. We create new touring shows and workshops for children, families and seniors with a focus on health education. We also work each year with many Milwaukee County organizations on Tap the Potential, scheduling a series of performing art events during October Disabilities Awareness Month.

Thanks to support from the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Center, Faye McBeath Foundation, the Helen Bader Foundation, Children’s Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin. Read a 2006 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on our healing arts focus.

Our healing arts and wellness programming includes:

• UNCLOTHED…the naked truth: Survivors’ Stories of Sexual Abuse—A play written by La’Ketta Caldwell based on real interviews with women who have been sexually assaulted, about their experiences and ways they have been able to find healing.
  
• CAPAZ—Interactive and bilingual theatreworks designed to reach and empower Latino families of children with disabilities in Milwaukee.
  
• TASAWARI—Interactive theatreworks that focus on health care issues faced by African American families of children with disabilities.
  
• STORYBRIDGE—A project begun in 2009 that offers storytelling workshops for seniors, developing a core group of storytellers of multicultural tales who work with primary school children to encourage a love of stories and increase reading and writing skills.
  
• FAQS (Facing Adolescent Questions about Sex) —An original show with music by and for young people that deals with HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. Created in collaboration with MPS, Fighting Back and Running Rebels.

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• SURVIVAL REVIVAL REVUE—Barbara Leigh’s one-woman musical comedy about the healing process. Dr. Leigh also gives keynotes and workshops for people suffering from serious injury or illness as well as for health care professionals, teachers and the general public.
  
• APPLIED THEATRE TROUPE—Five interactive plays developed by a multicultural troupe under the direction of Mark Weinberg and Jenny Wanasek dealing with violence, bullying, ATODA, staying in school, and pressures to have sex.
  
• HUMOR AND HEALING—Humorous monologue/performance on the value of humor and the arts in the healing process following a serious accident. Performances are 20-60 minutes and are suitable for audiences high school thru adult.
  
• FAIRYTALE SHADOWS—A new work for children and general audiences as well as seniors to help counter stereotypes of the elderly through shadow puppets, comedy and a new take on old stories to show how growing older can become growing more full of stories.
  
• DRUM CIRCLES AND RHYTHM WORKSHOPS—Involve people of all ages and abilities in the listening, leadership, team-building and empowering experience of making music together.
  

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