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Footlights 2021-2022 | ADVERTISING RATES Footlights is a 4-color, digest-size, professionally produced publication distributed to audience members who attend performing arts events such as musicals, plays, and concerts. It is also available to patrons in a digital format where all ads are clickable with a link to the advertisers’ website. Each Footlights contains performance specific information and content and a comprehensive entertainment guide. Print and Digital may not be purchased separately. 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Quarter Page Vertical .............................................2.25 x 3.75 IN 3/24/21 Milwaukee: 262.782.9751 | Chicago: 773.938.6681 | Madison: 608.257.4560 Footlights 2021-2022 | COMPANIES AND VENUES Uihlien Hall Den Theatre Saltbox Theatre Collective MILWAUKEE UWM Main Stage Theater Dennis Zacek Productions Season of Concern All In Productions UWM Peck School of Arts Devonshire Cultural Center Shattered Globe Theatre Cabot Theater Waukesha Choral Union DMT Entertainment Sideshow Theatre Company Cardinal Stritch University Waukesha Civic Theatre Eclectic Full Contact Theatre Skokie Heritage Museum Carroll Uni. Humphrey Chapel Waukesha North HS Ensemble Espanol Skokie Park - Devonshire Dance Cedarburg PAC Wisconsin Lutheran College Erasing The Distance Skokie Park - Devonshire Playhouse Chant Claire Chamber Choir Wisconsin Philharmonic Firebrand Theatre Company Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra Church of the Gesu First Folio Theatre Sounds Good! Choir Concordia University Theatre Gillian Theater Stage 773 Danceworks MADISON Glass Apple Theatre Strawdog Theatre Company Falls Patio Players Bartell Theater Good Memories! Choir The Comrades Festival City Symphony Blackhawk Church Gosz & Fotos The Edge Theater First Congregational Church Capitol Theatre Greenhouse Theater Center The Frontier Theater Forte Theatre Company Children’s Theater of Madison Griffin Theatre Company The Gift Theatre Co Frankly Music Diane Ballweg Theatre Haven Theatre The Richard Christiensen Theatre Greendale Community Theater Drury Stage Healy Theater Theater Wit Greendale HS Auditorium Edgerton PAC Howard Street Theatre Theatre School at DePaul University Hartford Players Edgewood College Interrobang Theatre Project Theo Ubique Theatre Company Helfaer Theatre Evjue Stage Intrinsic Theatre Co. Victory Gardens Theater Jan Serr Studio Forward Theater Co. Irish Theatre of Chicago Watts Stage Joan Steele Black Box Theater Kirk Denmark Theatre Jedlicka PAC Lake Country Playhouse Madison Ballet JLW Productions Marquette Theatre Madison Theatre Guild Lifeline Theatre HIGH SCHOOL Martin Luther HS Theater Middleton HS PAC Lookingglass Theatre Company Brookfield Central High School Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Middleton Players Theatre Loyola University Chicago Brookfield East High School Milwaukee Opera Theatre Music Theatre of Madison Mayslake Peabody Estate Brown Deer Middle/High School Milwaukee Repertory Theater Oregon School District PAC Mercury Theater Dale K. Hidde Theatre MYSO Oregon Straw Hat Players Merle Reskin Theater Dominican High School Next Act Theatre Overture Center Music Theater Works DSHA Fine Arts Theatre NO Studios Overture Hall NEIU Auditorium DSHA High School North Middle School Aud. Play Circle @ Memorial Union Newhart Family Theater Genslar Auditorium Oakwood Church Hartland Playhouse at Overture Nichols Concert Hall Hartford Union High School Oconomowoc Arts Center University of Wisconsin - Rock County Nichols Theater Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School Outskirts Theatre Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Niles West High School Nicolet High School Pabst Theater North Shore Center for the Parker High School Choir Philomusica String Quartet Performing Arts Parker HS Auditorium Quadracci Powerhouse CHICAGO Pewaukee Arts Center 16th Street Theater Northeastern Illinois University Renaissance Theaterworks Pewaukee High School American Blues Theater Northlight Theatre Rustic Manor Pius PAC AstonRep Theater Co Northshore Concert Band Schauer Arts Center Pius XI High School Athenaeum Theatre Oak Park Festival Theater Schwan Concert Hall Shorewood High School Austin Gardens Oil Lamp Theater Sharon Lynne Wilson Center St Ambrose Academy Ballet Chicago Otherworld Theater Shattuck Hall Treiber Theatre Blank Theatre Company Pegasus Theatre Chicago Skylight Music Theatre University Lake School Broadway @ Pride Arts Center Pick-Staiger Concert Hall St Paul Episcopal Verona Area High School Cahn Auditorium Porchlight Music Theatre St. Jude the Apostle Parish Waterford Union High School Cheney Mansion Pride Films and Plays St. Monica Catholic Church Waukesha South High School Chicago a cappella Raven Theater East Stage Stackner Cabaret Wauwatosa East High School Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus Raven Theatre Stiemke Studio Wauwatosa West High School Community House Raven Theatre Company Studio of Classical Dance Arts Wheeler Auditorium Compass Theatre Chicago RCT @ Victory Gardens Sunset Playhouse Whitefish Bay High School Congo Square Theatre Company Remy Bumppo The “Rita” at UW-Parkside WI High School Forensic Association Court Theatre Rivendell Theatre Ensemble Todd Wehr Auditorium Ruth Page Center for the Arts *Companies and venues are Courtyard Theatre based on the 2019-2020 season and are subject to change. 3/24/21 Milwaukee: 262.782.9751 | Chicago: 773.938.6681 | Madison: 608.257.4560.
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