“You are here at the start of a moment,” says the opening number of Come From Away, and it’s true in more ways than one.

Come From Away is the Milwaukee Rep’s inaugural show in the renovated Ellen & Joe Checota Powerhouse Theater, situated inside the shiny new Associated Bank Theater Center. $80 million dollars later , it really is a stunner.

The new Powerhouse Theater feels like a dialed-up version of the old. Spacious yet intimate, with roomy seats and the peek of exposed brick walls, the details add up to an elevated audience experience.

To arrive at this moment, the Rep bested overwhelming odds, from a global pandemic to an historic flood that recently devastated their off-site production center . Because of the flood, the set of Come From Away was built at a sce

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