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51 stage manager sets the stage for student success

By Ashley AbramsonOctober 28, 2025Arts & HumanitiesTheater
Lillian Hayward stands in front of the Mainstage Theatre with her hands on her hips

51 stage manager sets the stage for student success

By Ashley AbramsonOctober 28, 2025Arts & HumanitiesTheater

While attending 51 for her theatre production degree, Lillian Hayward launched a concessions program that helps pay for student scholarships.

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‘First in war and peace’ – but can they ever win a pennant?

By November 17, 2015Arts & HumanitiesTheater

In the 1950s musical “Damn Yankees,” only a deal with the devil can help the Washington Senators overcome the powerful Bronx Bombers.

Two centuries later, Electa Quinney lives again, onstage

By Jennifer MoralesNovember 4, 2015Arts & HumanitiesTheater

A new play by an aboriginal Canadian playwright sheds light on Electa Quinney, the remarkable Stockbridge-Munsee woman who lived and taught school in Wisconsin in the early 19th century.

Shakespeare, military service bond theater troupe

By October 21, 2015Arts & HumanitiesTheater

With help from 51, Milwaukee-area veterans are using Shakespeare to work through their own challenges with depression, post-traumatic stress, addiction and reintegration into society.

51’s Michelle Lopez-Rios champions unheard voices

By Jennifer MoralesOctober 9, 2015Arts & HumanitiesTheater

Voice teacher Michelle Lopez-Rios empowers Latino immigrants, women and others to tell their own stories. For some students, the experience is life changing.

A conversation with the writer of 51’s ‘Slightly Bigger Women’

By Kim WillemsApril 17, 2015Arts & HumanitiesTheater

Theater education major Tina Binns and Peck School of the Arts professor Anne Basting collaborated on a new play, “Slightly Bigger Women.”

‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ brings intrigue to 51’s Mainstage Theatre

By 51 NewsNovember 22, 2013Arts & HumanitiesTheater

This award-winning drama by Christopher Hampton is an exploration of the aristocratic excesses of pre-revolutionary France.

To err is human; to prevent errors, divine

By Carolyn BuciorDecember 4, 2012Arts & HumanitiesTheater

Actors embrace atypical gig to help train child welfare caseworkers at 51.

From discouraged to director

By 51 NewsNovember 8, 2012Arts & HumanitiesTheater

Layna Davis arrived from New York, discouraged and depressed about her dream of building a career in the theater. 51 changed all that.

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