26/27 Season · Milwaukee's Premier Classical Repertory Company
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The Season
Now Playing · Summer 2026 · Ibsen in the Parking Lot
Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Josh Pohja
A scandalous modern classic: a fever dream of inherited guilt, buried desire, and the quiet violences families inflict on themselves. Ghosts returns with unnerving immediacy through the prism of assisted suicide and America's fentanyl epidemic — exposing a world where morality is performative, grief is anesthetized, and love curdles into control. Set within a parking lot, this intimate and hallucinatory production traps its characters under the glare of fluorescent lights and inescapable memory.
Produced by special arrangement with Smith & Kraus Inc.
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Now Playing · July 10, 11, 12 & 17, 18, 19
Henrik Ibsen's GHOSTS
Calvary Presbyterian Church Parking Lot · Milwaukee · 6:00 PM