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Milwaukee Public Theatre
Milwaukee Public Theatre's mission includes making the arts accessible, increasing awareness of current social issues, promoting diversity, and providing healing arts resources.
Description:
The Milwaukee Public Theatre (formerly Friends Mime Theatre) was founded in 1973-74 by Dr. Barbara Leigh and Michael Moynihan. As the area’s longest-running professional outreach theatre, the company has created and toured over 90 original productions, reaching over a million people throughout the community, state and region. Productions range from solo presentations to huge puppet parades. The company has a strong educational and healing arts component that includes workshops and artist residencies. MPT is unique in developing work which integrates persons with disabilities into the theatre arts. The company also provides employment and training opportunities to young Milwaukee performing and visual artists who come from a variety of cultural backgrounds.
Success Stories
MPT has a strong track record as a professional outreach company. Fiscally, the company has never been in debt; artistically, MPT programming continues to develop according to the needs of the community. For example, a strong and growing branch of MPT focuses on ways in which the arts intersect with healing. The company has worked with the Medical College and Children’s Hospital, as well as with MPS Office of Wellness and Prevention, the National Alzheimer’s Association and numerous community and national agencies that address health and social issues. MPT has toured extensively with this program, receiving rave reviews.
Contact person: Carolyn Mello, (email)
Main office number: (414) 347-1685Office fax number: (414) 347-1690
Address:
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Zeidler Union Square Park, 301 W. MichiganMilwaukee, WI 53208(See a map) |
Web Site: http://www.milwaukeepublictheatre.org
Directions:
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The parade will line up at 8:30 AM on the south side of Zeidler Park on Everett Street, between 2nd & 3rd St., just outside the Wisconsin Energies building. It will proceed down Wisconsin Avenue at 11 AM. . . (more)
Nearest Bus Stop: W. Wisconsin Avenue and N. 2nd St., 1.2 miles minute walk |
| Last updated on August 27, 2009 |
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