Milwaukee's Pabst Theater Group announces first show for new club, opening in 2024

Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Rapper MIKE will play the Pabst Theater Group's new venue on April 26, the first show announced for the club. Yet to be named, the venue will replace the Back Room at Colectivo Coffee.
Rapper MIKE will play the Pabst Theater Group's new venue on April 26, the first show announced for the club. Yet to be named, the venue will replace the Back Room at Colectivo Coffee.

The Pabst Theater Group still doesn’t have a name for its new club opening next year at 1818 N. Farwell Ave., but operators for the Milwaukee venue group announced its first show Friday.

Acclaimed indie rapper Mike will play the venue April 26 behind his latest album “Burning Desire.” Mike’s last Milwaukee gig was at the Cactus Club this past March.

Tickets for the show go on sale at 10 a.m. Oct. 23 at the Pabst Theater box office, 144 E. Wells St., and pabsttheater.org. Prices have yet to be announced.

The new live music club, designed by local firm Kubala Washatko Architects, will occupy a space that’s been vacant for four years. It’ll be a replacement for the Back Room at Colectivo, a 300-person-capacity venue that opened in 2015 at the local coffee chain’s Prospect Avenue location. That venue is slated to close in December.

Established in 2003, the Pabst Theater Group also operates the 4,087-seat Miller High Life Theatre; the 2,500-seat Riverside Theater; the 1,300-seat Pabst Theater; the 987-person-capacity Turner Hall Ballroom; and wedding and events venue the Fitzgerald. The group also promotes shows at other venues in town, including the Bradley Symphony Center and Fiserv Forum.

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