Scott Emmons, dean of the Peck School of the Arts, talks about the support from the community after fire struck the theater building. (UWM Photo/Pete Amland)
Shorewood High School Principal Tim Kenney talks about offering use of his school’s facilities to build the set for “Arcadia.” (UWM Photo/Pete Amland)
Senior Thorin Ketelsen, who plays Bernard Nightingale in “Arcadia,” said he was thrilled that the production will be at the Rep. “I didn’t know it’d be as great a place as the Rep. That was an amazing surprise,” he said. (UWM Photo/Pete Amland)
Mark Clements, artistic director at the Rep, said staff began calling soon after the fire to ask how they could help. “We at the Rep have the responsibility to hold up our citizenship,” he said. (UWM Photo/Pete Amland)
Michelle Lopez-Rios, who is directing the UWM production of “Arcadia,” talks about the effects of the fire during a news conference. “We didn’t stop rehearsing,” she said. “We thought even if we have to perform on the beach at the lake, the show will go on.” (UWM Photo/Pete Amland)
Several students attended the news conference. (UWM Photo/Pete Amland)
Numerous offers of help poured in soon as news spread that fire had damaged UWM’s theater building, imperiling among other things the Mainstage Theatre’s production of “Arcadia.”
But the show will go on, thanks to the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, which will host the performances in its Stiemke Studio, and Shorewood High School, where students will work until the Rep becomes available.
Officials talked about the fire and the production at a news conference.
