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Riverside Theatre

Everything the open record has on Riverside Theatre, an event space in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — address, size, access and the events it carries. It seats a stated 2,450.

Price your eventWhat fits here
Stated capacity
2,450
people, as published
Opened
1928
98 years old
From MKE
10 km (6.2 mi)
Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport
From the centre
0.4 km (0.2 mi)
of Milwaukee

Figures as published in open data, retrieved 3 September 2026. Capacities vary by layout — confirm the one you want with the venue.

About this venue

It stands at 116 W. Wisconsin Avenue, right in the centre of Milwaukee.

Riverside Theatre was opened in 1928, which puts it at 98 years old.

The stated 2,450 is ballroom scale: a plenary, a gala dinner, or two tracks with a wall between them.

Address
116 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53201
Coordinates
43.0389, -87.9108
Classified as
event space

Travel to Riverside Theatre

Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE) is 10 km (6.2 mi) out, a standard transfer of twenty to forty minutes outside rush hour.

A central address is worth more than it looks: no shuttle, no parking plan, and evening sessions that people actually stay for.

Milwaukee has 124 venues mapped in total and a population of 563,531. The Milwaukee guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.

What fits in this room

A room for 2,450 is a plenary space in practice, whatever it is classified as. It ranks 14th among the 124 venues mapped in Milwaukee.

  • networking mixers

    An independent space with its own character, which a mixer benefits from more than a conference does.

  • fundraisers and galas

    A room with a personality is worth more at a gala than square footage is.

  • community meetings

    Room for 2,450 covers most community and member meetings.

A worked example for Riverside Theatre

Take 950 people through the door in Riverside Theatre — sized to the stated capacity of Riverside Theatre. The first 50 activated attendees are free on every event, so only the rest are billed, and the total stops moving at 1,000 however many more turn up.

activated attendees
950activated attendees
billable, after the first 50 are free
900billable, after the first 50 are free
for the whole event, at $5 each
$4,500for the whole event, at $5 each

You are billed for people, not for the room, so this figure does not change if you move the event down the road. event67 has no floor-plan or booking product — the venue handles the space, the app handles the people in it.

1,000
activated attendees at Riverside Theatre, and what each dot costsOne dot ≈ 10 attendees

If this one is booked

4 other venues in Milwaukee have enough published detail for their own guide. Worth a shortlist before you commit.

Where these numbers come from

event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

  • Wikidata, CC0
  • Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
  • Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Retrieved 3 September 2026. 8 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: street address, stated capacity, capacity sizing, year opened, official website, encyclopaedia entry, nearest airport with distance, photograph on Wikimedia Commons.

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What it costs

Free up to 50
activated attendees, on one live event
$5
per activated attendee beyond 50
$4,750
the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000

Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

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Questions people actually ask

How many people does Riverside Theatre hold?

Open data records a stated capacity of 2,450 for Riverside Theatre. That figure is what the venue or an encyclopaedia entry published, and it is usually the maximum seated number — theatre, banquet and reception layouts in the same room can differ by half. Confirm the layout you want directly with the venue.

Where is Riverside Theatre?

116 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53201. It is 0.4 km (0.2 mi) from the centre of Milwaukee. The nearest major airport is Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE), about 10 km (6.2 mi) away.

What does an event app cost for an event at Riverside Theatre?

950 activated attendees means 900 billable after the free 50, so $4,500 for the event. That example is sized to the stated capacity of Riverside Theatre. The rate is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

Is event67 affiliated with Riverside Theatre?

No. event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data — OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and public census sources — and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

What else is nearby if Riverside Theatre is booked?

Al McGuire Center (4,000), J. Martin Klotsche Center (3,500) and Engelmann Stadium (2,200) are in the same city and have their own pages here. 124 venues in total are mapped in Milwaukee.

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