Overture News

Overture is looking for new community members to serve three-year terms on our Community Advisory Board (CAB). The CAB represents the community in terms of culture, ethnicity, geography, age and socio-economic level.

We’re loading up the bus for the second Cocktails with Tim theater trip to Chicago!

Spring is not quite in the air yet … but we’ll soon warm things up! Our jazz lineup is stronger than ever this year, and it’s all coming up in the next few months. Here are a five shows you won’t want to miss!

It’s been another wonderful year of connections through the arts across the Greater Madison community, and we have you, our patrons and friends, to thank.

What are you passionate about? That’s a pretty easy question to answer for yourself. And there’s a good chance we know and share at least one of those passions.

We Love Lucy — all Lucies — so much that we’re giving away tickets!

After a successful Madison debut a year ago, National Geographic Live! brings more tales of adventure and discovery. Learn from the explorers themselves what it means to answer fundamental questions, capture iconic images or come face-to-face with a man-eating pig. Tickets for each presentation start at $25, and the full four-show package starts at just $92. You’ve got smart friends and family, right? Talk about the perfect gift!

After you’re done busting down the doors on Black Friday morning, come on down to Overture! We’ve got a lot going on all weekend, including free performances, ticket discounts and a special Broadway performance. Here’s what’s on tap.

This is the first year Overture Center is presenting the annual gala, in partnership with Downtown Madison, Inc. It’s set for Saturday, January 31 and will no longer end at midnight! Stay for the all-new After Party from 11 p.m. – 2 a.m.!

With so much going on around here these days, it’d be easy for some real gems to slip through the cracks. Here are a few upcoming shows and events we want to make sure you don’t miss — most of them free!

For five years, Overture’s Tommy Awards have recognized the best and brightest in high
school musical theater around southern Wisconsin. Each June, several hundred of them take the Overture Hall stage in a gala award ceremony and performance.

When you get your Overture Center subscription brochure next spring, it’ll have some local faces in it.