First Stage

First Stage is Milwaukee's premiere non-profit theater for young people and families and has grown from a small theater group to a nationally acclaimed company drawing annual audiences of more than 135,000 people.

With a season including five family series plays, two First Steps shows, 2-3 Young Company Performance Projects and our Foundry New Play Development series comprised of one full production and four readings (more than 300performances annually), First Stage has become one of the largest programs in the nation.

First Stage offers arts-in-education programs, spending more than 2,000 hours annually in classrooms throughout southeastern Wisconsin, and the First Stage Theater Academy, a professional theater training program teaching "life skills through stage skills" to 3,000 enrollments of young people ages 3 - 18 each year. It is one of the largest and finest programs of its kind in the nation. For more information about First Stage visit www.firststage.org.