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AVENUE Q
ABSOLUTELY NOT MEANT FOR CHILDREN
Puppets. Adult problems. Zero filter. Winner of the Tony® Award “Triple Crown” for Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book, Avenue Q is a wildly funny, puppet-filled comedy about growing up. When fresh-out-of-college Princeton moves to a shabby New York neighborhood, he meets quirky neighbors—both human and puppet—who are all trying to figure out life. With outrageous humor, catchy songs, and plenty of heart, Avenue Q shows that adulthood may be messy, but it’s a lot more fun with friends by your side.
NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE JIM HENSON COMPANY

Milwaukee Ballet’s biennial competition presents three brilliant world premieres from up-and-coming choreographers. See who wins the grand prize of $5,000 and a future commission and play your part by voting for “Audience Favorite”!

Direct from a sold-out Broadway run, Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar’s thrilling and darkly comic new work follows Jacob McNeal — a brilliant yet dangerously charming novelist obsessed with his own genius. On the eve of his greatest achievement, his thirst for whiskey, fractured relationships, and curious fascination with artificial intelligence threatens to unravel everything. You’ll experience jaw-dropping projections and special effects at this opening production in the new Herro-Franke Studio Theater, as McNeal explores the price of greatness and raises vital questions about art, truth and originality in the not-too-distant future.

“A brilliant and transfixing new play... Akhtar goes to a place that few writers have visited so effectively.” – The Atlantic

By Ayad Akhtar
Directed by Mark Clements

August Wilson’s explosive, award-winning play is a gripping story of family, legacy and the choices that define us. During the Great Depression, the Charles household reaches a boiling point over a decision that will define them: sell the family’s cherished heirloom piano to secure their fortune or preserve it as a testament to their ancestor’s spirit and struggle. The ghosts of the past collide with the promise of the future in this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning masterpiece. From the celebrated director Lou Bellamy, who brought Milwaukee Rep audiences the acclaimed August Wilson’s Fences, The Piano Lesson marks our ninth production in Wilson’s American Century Cycle.

“Like other Wilson plays, it seems to sing even when it is talking.” – The New York Times

By August Wilson
Directed by Lou Bellamy

Step into a jumpin’ jazz joint where the legendary music of Fats Waller takes center stage. Five extraordinary actor-musicians transform into a jubilant swing band for the ages in this Tony Award-winning musical — last seen in our 2013/14 Season — that brings the razzle-dazzle spirit of the Roaring Twenties to the 2020s. Get ready to sing, dance and let loose with this brilliant celebration of an iconic trailblazer and his lasting legacy.

“Classy and glamorous... a dose of old-school pizzazz.” – Chicago Tribune

Created and Originally Directed by Richard Maltby Jr.
Conceived by Richard Maltby Jr. & Murray Horwitz
Directed by E. Faye Butler

On New Year’s Eve 1999 in war-torn Uganda, two young lovers — one a local girl and the other the daughter of American missionaries — marry in secret. Their joy is shattered by violence in this powerful drama about hatred, forgiveness, and love.

A mistimed sneeze, a foolish drowning stunt, a helpful cuckold, an enthusiastic dentist, and a boy reluctant to face manhood—this is just a taste of what unfolds when Anton Chekhov’s short stories meet the wit and whimsy of Neil Simon. The Good Doctor is a clever “tour de farce” filled with absurdity, charm and deeply human foibles and follies. Blending Chekhov’s timeless observations with Simon’s comedic sparkle, this series of vignettes captures the unexpected tenderness of life’s missteps with humor and heart.

By Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov
Directed by Karen Estrada

Experimental electronic artist THE DEMIX releases ACTION BUILDING SYSTEM (ABS), a new mini album mixtape concept album built from multiple periods and states of attention assembled into a single moment of action, resisting clean resolution in favor of urgency, pressure, and motion. This project is about acting inside unstable systems where intelligence, belief, technology, and control overlap. ABS is committing to motion without waiting for certainty.

Sonically, ACTION BUILDING SYSTEM is comfortable with distortion and friction. Musical phrases fight their way through pressure and grit, with melody and feeling intact but stressed, bent, and reworked - resulting in four distinct songs and one piece that abandons song form almost entirely. The work unfolds in environments that feel unstable, urgent, and alive, demanding focused listening rather than passive consumption.

ABS isn’t asking “Is this real?”
It’s asking “What do you do now?”

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2026.03.13.
An Evening with THE DEMIX at CANNI
ABS LIVE + METAL, K-POP, WEIRD ROCK, ELECTRONIC SHOCK.

For over 10 years, we've been supporting local farmers, food producers and artisans, & creating a more sustainable community. Every week, the market is home to about 45 farmers and food producers, selling a first-class mix of produce, plants, cut flowers, bread and baked goods, award-winning cheese, coffee, waffles, popsicles, fish, meat and poultry, and prepared breakfast and dinner items. The first Saturday of each month, we also add a Makers Market, featuring a juried selection of local artisans selling handmade arts and crafts.

Learn how to improve your landscape to be more beneficial for wildlife biodiversity…out with the old, in with the good!

9-10:30 a.m., Invaders in our Native Landscapes: Learn About Invasive Species, presented by Emily Helm, Waukesha County Natural Resource Program Coordinator.

10:30-Noon, From Turf to Habitat, presented by Danielle Bell, Native Roots LLC.