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Waitress
4/10 - 27/10/2024


Skylight Music Theatre opens its 65th season with the beloved musical Waitress, running from October 4 to October 27, 2024. The story centers on Jenna, ...


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Cast Announced for WAITRESS At Skylight Music Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - July 31, 2024

Skylight Music Theatre has announced the cast of Waitress, the hit Broadway musical, which will open their 65th season, October 4-27, 2024....

Cast Set for WAITRESS at Skylight Music Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 29, 2024

Skylight Music Theatre has revealed the cast of WAITRESS for their 65th season opener, featuring Julia Levinson as Jenna. See who else is starring and learn how to purchase tickets. ...

Review: SKYLIGHT Enlists Tim Rice's FROM HERE TO ETERNITY for Season Finale


by Kelsey Lawler - April 15, 2024

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY follows the lives of the soldiers of G Company based in Hawaii in the days leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. The story was inspired by author Jones’ own experiences during the war—but how does that story translate to the stage?...

First Stage's Young Company to Present AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE


by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 09, 2024

First Stage's Young Company, the Theater Academy's award-winning training program for advanced high school actors, will present its final production of the 2023/24 season, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Celebrate Spring With First Stage's Production Of DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE MUSICAL


by A.A. Cristi - March 06, 2024

Celebrate the arrival of spring with First Stage's entertaining production of DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE MUSICAL. A fun-filled show perfect for the entire family....

First Stage to Present DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE MUSICAL This Spring


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 06, 2024

First Stage will present DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE MUSICAL as the final production in their 2023/24 mainstage season. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets. ...

Review: SPRING AWAKENING at Skylight Music Theatre


by Sofia Ascorbe - March 05, 2024

At its best, Spring Awakening smartly and gut-punchingly calls out religious and bourgeois hypocrisy and shows the (very literal) grave dangers of society’s obsession with innocence and sexual purity on the very youth that this obsession claims to protect. Here, on Skylight Music Theatre’s stage, it...

Skylight Music Theatre Announces AN EVENING WITH SIR TIM RICE


by Joshua Wright - January 30, 2024

Skylight Music Theatre is thrilled to announce An Evening with Sir Tim Rice, a once-in-a-lifetime soirée featuring the legendary songwriter himself. On March 23, 2024, Sir Tim Rice will take the stage at Skylight Music Theatre for an unforgettable evening of music and stories, all in support of Skyl...

Review: The Infectious Joy of XANADU at Skylight Music Theatre


by Kelsey Lawler - January 29, 2024

What did our critic think of XANADU at SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE? Who’s having more fun: the audience or the cast of Xanadu at Skylight Music Theatre? ...

Winners Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Milwaukee, WI Awards


by BWW Awards - January 12, 2024

Winners have been announced for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Milwaukee, WI Awards! See who was selected audience favorite in Milwaukee, WI! Winners include Lake Country Playhouse, Waukesha Civic Theatre and more....

Past Shows

A Jolly Holiday: Celebrating Disney's Broadway Hits


Celebrating Disney's Broadway Hits Book by  Sandy Rustin Music & Lyrics by (in alphabetical order)  Kristin & Robert Lopez, Howard Ashman, Chad Beguelin, Phil Collins, ...

Fledermaus MKE
Fledermaus MKE
4/6 - 20/6/2021


Based on the original Die Fledermaus, which premiered in 1874 Vienna, a team of local writers have exchanged champagne for beer in this witty, contemporary ...

Raisin
Raisin
7/5 - 23/5/2021


This powerful, uplifting musical adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun was nominated for nine Tony Awards and won two, including Best ...

Evita
Evita
12/3 - 28/3/2021


This staged concert version is a special limited run of the seven-time Tony Award-winning megawatt musical. The story follows Eva Duarte and her meteoric rise ...

Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
13/11 - 27/12/2020


Little Shop of Horrors is a worldwide phenomenon, devouring the hearts of theatregoers for over 30 years. In this disarmingly funny and quirky love story, ...

Oklahoma!
27/9 - 13/10/2019



Kiss Me, Kate is a delightful musical that cleverly blends backstage drama with a classic Shakespearean comedy. Fred Graham, a narcissistic director and producer, is ...


This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum know as “the relationship.” Through sketches and songs, Act ...

Hair
Hair
16/5 - 8/6/2014


It’s the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, and Skylight couldn’t be more excited to close this historic season with Hair. This Tony Award-winning musical ...

I Hear America Singing
I Hear America Singing
9/5 - 25/5/2014


While most actors think of auditions as fearful and nerve-wracking events, these cast members seem to be experiencing an abundance of humorous and heartwarming epiphanies ...

Hydrogen Jukebox
Hydrogen Jukebox
14/3 - 30/3/2014


Philip Glass has been acknowledged for changing the face of western music, and Skylight is excited to be producing it’s first-ever Philip Glass work. Hydrogen ...

In the Heights
In the Heights
31/1 - 23/2/2014


In the Heights is a 2008 Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical about life in a tight-knit community where the coffee from the corner bodega is ...

El Cimarrón
El Cimarrón
3/1 - 12/1/2014


Skylight is immensely proud to be co-producing Hans Werner Henze’s theatre piece El Cimarrón with the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York. Subtitled “Biography ...

Les Misérables
Les Misérables
22/11 - 29/12/2013


Centerpiece to our season, Les Misérables is the show that inspired Skylight to focus on freedom and revolution as a conversation through the entire year. ...

Fidelio
Fidelio
20/9 - 6/10/2013


Our new Artistic Director, Viswa Subbaraman will open his very first production at Skylight with a unique staging of the tale of Fidelio by Ludwig ...


Hailed as a masterpiece of American Opera and set in Charleston’s fabled Catfish Row, beautiful Bess struggles to break from her scandalous past while Porgy, ...

Sing Me A Story
3/5 - 19/5/2013


Once upon a time, many years ago…well, twenty-five years ago, a girl and a boy met and fell in love with singing…with each other. Kay ...

Pump Boys and Dinettes
8/3 - 24/3/2013


Drive a ways outta town, somewhere between Frog Level and Smyrna, North Carolina and you’ll come to a filling station run by L. M. and ...

Edith Piaf Onstage
25/1 - 10/2/2013


Leslie Fitzwater brings legendary and celebrated French chanteuse, Edith Piaf to life in this dramatic and newly expanded theatrical experience. Piaf’s stormy life was paralleled ...

The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
16/11 - 31/12/2012


The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious ...

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