Doomsday for American Theater? Not at Milwaukee Rep, Where the Budget Just Doubled.
Much has been written about the crisis facing America's regional theatres. While much of the regional theater field has spent the past several years contracting, cutting seasons, shedding staff, and scaling back ambition, Milwaukee Repertory Theater has been doing something else entirely. Since 2020, the company has nearly doubled its operating budget from roughly $9 million to $17 million, grown ticket sales by 40 p…