Yes, I know that I am late again. That seems to be my theme this spring! But read on and remind yourself to schedule your visits. Or, if you haven’t seen this yet, imagine what next year’s theater season is going to be like.
We’re thrilled to share MCT’s 2026-2027 season: five exceptional productions centering the excellence of Milwaukee and Wisconsin’s artists in stories that will open your heart, expand your thoughts, and leave you feeling more connected to your community.
MAYBE WE’LL FLY
A New Play with Music Inspired by the Life of Mary Nohl
By Marie Kohler
Music by Josh Schmidt
September 18 – October 11, 2026
BTC Studio Theatre
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 exploring 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 captivate and inspire as it celebrates outsiders everywhere.
A GIFT OF THE MAGI
A Musical Inspired by the Short Story by O. Henry
Music by Josh Schmidt
Lyrics by James DeVita & Josh Schmidt
Book by James DeVita
November 13 – December 6, 2026
BTC Studio Theatre
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.
SONGS WITHOUT WORDS
(Or, The Mendelssohn Play)
by Jennifer Vosters
A Locally-Grown New Play
January 22 – February 7, 2027
BTC 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 in this full-length world premiere, SONGS WITHOUT WORDS wrestles enduring questions of gender and genius, family and fame, and siblinghood and the power of art.
SKELETON CREW
by Dominique Morisseau
2022 Tony Award Nomination for Best Play
March 19 – April 4, 2027
BTC Studio Theatre
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.”
LIBERATION
by Bess Wohl
2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner
May 7 – May 23, 2027
BTC 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.
SKELETON CREW and LIBERATION are presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
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