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Programs
Original Theatreworks: Available for Touring
Past Original Theatreworks:
PIECES: In My Own Voice (2012, 2013)
FLOW: The Traveling Water Circus (2011) From the Start, Consider the Finish (2011)
Healing Arts: Other wellness programs
Healing Arts: Tap the Potential Disability Awareness Month
Educational Workshops & Arts Residencies
Special Events & Custom Programs
Cultivating Community through Public Art: Parades, Festivals, more
Milwaukee Public Theatre is one of the area's few professional nonprofit touring companies that increases awareness of current social issues, promotes cultural diversity, and provides healing arts and wellness resources.
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
balloon clowns
mimes
ventriloquists
jugglers
stiltwalkers
designers
costumers
Program Offerings
View our most recent Annual Report for updates and photos.
Milwaukee Public Theatre creates highly acclaimed theatreworks that celebrate our uniqueness and challenge us to reach our potential. Since 1976, MPT programming has included free-to-the-public musical/vaudeville/circus productions featuring artists representing many cultures. These shows present vital issues including recycling, social history, health, the economics and politics of food, illiteracy, homelessness, and other contemporary themes and social issues. Our spring 2013 featured production is PIECES: In My Own Voice.
Food for Thought is our new 2013 project under development. It will include workshops, resource guide and a new original touring production: Out to Lunch-the Fresh Food Variety Show.
FLOW: The Traveling Water Circus was presented in 2011. Read about currently available touring shows and some of MPT's past stage presentations.
Focusing on health and wellness education, MPT artists create and present effective programming for special-needs populations, community health care agencies, seniors, families, teens and children through workshops, residencies, and touring shows. An original production about teens and mental health issues, PIECES: In My Own Voice, toured to 10 high schools in 2012, and 5 additional schools in spring, 2013. From the Start, Consider the Finish toured 10 venues state-wide in 2011, including two in Milwaukee. Tap the Potential will celebrate 10 years in October, showcasing the talents of people with disabilities, featuring an art exhibit and performances throughout the area.
Special Events and Custom Programs
Superb quality, unique themes, thorough planning and skilled execution hallmark an MPT special event or custom program. Working with you or with your planning professional, MPT delivers an entertainment experience that will meet or exceed your expectations. Featuring a wide array of solo and ensemble musicians, actors, dancers, performance artists, street performers, and variety entertainers, MPT develops and produces programs for all audiences and ages at your choice of venue and facility – indoors or outdoors, in staged or strolling formats, featuring any culture, theme, and period of history. Discover more.
Learn more about our creativity skills training program for human resources professionals: SMARTCORPS.
Express the artist in you! Engage in hands-on learning through creative activities while having fun! Milwaukee Public Theatre workshops can be brought to any site and tailored to fit all ages and abilities and your business, school, community, or personal interests with over 50 professional artists offering a diverse range of activities from which to choose. Fees depend on artist, type, and duration of activity and supplies. Examples include, but are not limited to: multi-cultural visual arts and crafts, entrepreneurship, performing arts, circus arts, music and dance. See what we offer.
Workshop fees vary depending on the number of performers involved and distance traveled. Please call MPT at (414) 347-1685 for a detailed quote.
Cultivating Community Through the Arts
Create masks, banners, costumes, giant puppets and floats, and participate in Milwaukee Latino Carnaval, Summer of Peace, Dia de los Muertos Parade, National Night Out, Walnut Way Harvest Day and other community and neighborhood events.
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