The Children
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The Children
February 12, 2025 – March 3, 2025
Next Act Theatre’s Milwaukee premiere production of The Children addresses timely themes of nuclear power, physics, environmental issues, and personal responsibility. The production runs
Feb. 14-March 9 at 255 S. Water St., with previews Feb. 12-13 and a Pay What You Can performance March 3.
Written by Lucy Kirkwood, The Children debuted at London’s West End in 2016, and transferred to Broadway in 2017. Although she set the play in England, Kirkwood was inspired by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in Japan.
Directed by Marie Kohler, The Children features actors Mary MacDonald Kerr (Red Herring) as Hazel, Brian Mani (The Voice of the Prairie), who is married to Kohler, as Robin, and Shariba Rivers, appearing in her Next Act debut, as Rose.
Tickets can be purchased at nextact.org.
