I create to connect with others – to express delight, reveal shadows, search for answers and share common ground.

MAYBE WE’LL FLY Receives World Premiere

I am thrilled to announce that MAYBE WE’LL FLY will receive its World Premiere production with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre this fall – as part of World Premiere Wisconsin!

With music by Tony-nominated Josh Schmidt and directed by Jeff Award-winning Elizabeth Margolius, the play will run September 18 – October 11, 2026. The cast will feature Karen Estrada, Leslie Fitzwater, Emma Rosenthal, Amelia Sadjak, and Lainey Techtmann.

This theatrical and poetic play reimagines the life and work of Wisconsin outsider artist Mary Nohl (1914-2001). Nohl’s unique vision sparked her to transform cast-off materials she collected into one-of-a-kind creations in the yard of her lakeshore home. “I turn trash into treasure,” the play’s Artist proclaims joyously to her world. During the course of the play, the Artist experiences a reckoning with Time and re-examines the stages of her life.

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  • "...full of stories … It is a time capsule. It is an appreciation of the environment."

    WeAreGreenBay.com, July 2019, A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST

  • "...solidly conceived theater. Kohler's writing is as full of well-developed recurring themes as a finely-tuned symphony."

    Shepherd Express, May 1995, COUNTING DAYS

  • "… the work of a sure-handed and deft writer who succeeds where many better-known dramatists have stumbled..."

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 2000, MIDNIGHT AND MOLL FLANDERS

  • "…teeming with symbolism... [it] has many layers... a compelling mystery that Kohler builds quite skillfully..."

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 2009, THE DIG

  • “A fresh wind has swept in from the Midwest, by way of the 2019 Edinburgh Festival … With characters so witty, sparkling dialogue is all but guaranteed…"

    New York Stage Review, November 2022, BOSWELL

  • "The story is poignant and hopeful without being hokey. Its passionately pro-environmental message makes it very timely."

    The Capital Times, October 1993, A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST

  • "Marie Kohler has written a delicately funny play with a serious foundation and an upbeat ending."

    City Edition (Milwaukee), May 1995, COUNTING DAYS

  • "Kohler's work brims with intelligence, solid development, good language and colorful characters."

    Shepherd Express Metro, February 2000, MIDNIGHT AND MOLL FLANDERS

  • "...a must-see show that deserves to have a long life after this first production."

    Total Theater, January 2009, THE DIG

  • “Triumphant … historical eras artistically collide … The level of acting here is exceptionally high.”

    Shepherd Express, November 2022, BOSWELL