![]() The side-by-side Main Street buildings share a wall, but that separation will be breached, allowing the old entryway to the retail store to become the lobby/rehearsal area during the first phase of the project, which begins March 1. "It really had everything to do with (Little Swiss Clock Shop owner) Karen White retiring and putting the building up for sale in 2019," Schmidt said. The opportunity to change that came suddenly and entirely by circumstance. It is bursting at the seams with classes, workshops, camps, auditions, rehearsals, movies and performances." "However, the demands and interest in the programs, events and services continue to increase. "WCT has outgrown its physical space," Schmidt said. More: Waukesha School Board candidates share their concerns on politicized races and the quality of education in the district More: Residents of the troubled Waukesha condo complex have appealed the city's raze order. It succeeded, perhaps too well for its current quarters. It acquired a church on Washington Avenue in 1962, setting the stage to create a program that not only included its own stage productions but assisting schools in generating their own.īut its move to the Pix, a historic downtown movie house, put those productions and programs into what Schmidt said is the heart of the community, playing its part in revitalizing the downtown area. ![]() Waukesha Civic Theatre, a company that started in 1957 more modestly with performances at Waukesha High School on Grand Avenue, has had a long first act. ![]() The face of the historic Pix theater, where WCT's stage plays now take place, will remain largely unchanged, as will part of the exterior of the Little Swiss Clock Shop, which closed in 2019, said WCT Executive Director Rhonda Marie Schmidt.īut inside, a $4.5 million two-phase project will entirely change the lobby area, add offices and other support areas, and create new space for more "intimate" live performances in addition to the existing large stage, Schmidt said. WAUKESHA - In Waukesha Civic Theater's future, no longer will all its world be presented on one stage.Ī major expansion, approved recently by the city, will transform a neighboring former clock shop into a facility that supports theater operations and widens its purpose, raising the curtain on more school performances as well as increasing its own entertainment programs. ![]()
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