Author: Ed Heinzelman

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PSA: Titanic The Musical Returns to the Milwaukee Repertory Theater This Fall!

From the morning’s email inbox!

As you may have read, we recently had to cancel 15 sold-out performances of Titanic The Musical due to break-through cases of COVID-19 within the cast and crew.

Although we take extensive measures to ensure we can continue to perform safely including testing frequently and engaging increased numbers of understudies, we unfortunately had a breakout affecting the majority of the cast. Luckily for us, as seems to be the case with the vast majority of people during this current spike, our cases appear to be relatively short-lived and mild.

We know how much our audiences looked forward to seeing this magnificent production, which was one of the finest of my career and garnered unanimous rave reviews from audiences and critics alike. Nearly 10,000 tickets went to waste and we heard from many of you about how disappointed you were when we had to cancel.

As we never want to disappoint, I’m pleased to share that we will be bringing Titanic The Musical back this fall for a limited five-week run!

This extraordinary company of artists cannot wait to return to finish this epic journey with you. With the addition of Titanic to the fall schedule, we will be postponing our previously planned production of Ragtime to a future season.

Tickets for Titanic are currently only available to our 2022/23 Subscribers. If you wish to secure your tickets to Titanic now, please contact our Ticket Office at 414-224-9490 about Season Ticket packages – we have options for every budget. Otherwise individual tickets for Titanic will go on sale later this summer.

We anticipate our phones will be very busy with questions, so we please ask for your patience as our Ticket Office staff does their best to get through as many calls as fast as possible.

Thank you for your incredible support and continued generosity for Milwaukee Rep,

Mark Clements,

Artistic Director


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A Place For A Muse: A New Series Coming To AIP!

My wife is a working artist and educator. I have dabbled in art most of my life. So vacations nearly everywhere we go includes visits to museums or other cultural sites. So this idea has been wandering around in the back of my brain for a month or two now. But it is finally starting to come into focus.

But basically the idea is to write about actual museums. When critics visit museums it is generally to review a particular seasonal or traveling show. All well and good and quite exciting to read. But unless a museum is opening or re-opening after a remix/remodel, nothing is written about the actual museum.

So my plan is to change that. As we travel and visit museums I certainly may continue to comment on significant shows…but I want to document the actual museum; its location, its physical appearance, its physical presence, its various amenities, and its collection(s) or specialties.

Sound like fun? I hope so.

But why the title, A Place For A Muse? Well one of the hang ups in putting this idea to work was a working title. And that all came to be apparent while attending a university class on mythology and the professor mentioned that museum comes from muse. And looking around the internet I found any number of fuller translations from the Latin or Greek…like seat of the muses, shrine to the muses, place for the muses, etc. So I pondered any number of these sources and definitions and went with a simpler and hopefully more apropos title.

Hope you come back to read about my discoveries and thoughts about museums!