Audience Engagement
Dive deeper into your arts experience—all included with your ticket price! Special opportunities for select shows bring ticket holders, local artists, cultural organizations and touring professionals together for unique experiences you’ll find only at Overture including:
• Listen Local: Our popular MadCity Sessions series transforms to reach new audiences this year with special performances featuring local musicians!
• Meet the Artist: Touring artists share their process and host open Q & A sessions. Events take place in the performance venue immediately following the show.
• Plus lectures, interactive art projects, drop-in workshops and more for select shows!
Upcoming Events
Cirque Mechanics: 42 Feet – A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels on THU, MAR 14, 7:30 PM
Explore the movement and mechanics of the show with hands-on demos and more with The Wonders of Physics from UW Madison at 6:30 PM THU in Wisconsin Studio! Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists on THU, MAR 14.
Miss Saigon on TUE, APR 2 – SUN, APR 7
Special event on MON, APR 1!
Explore how music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans—black and white, Latinx and Native American, men and women, officers and “grunts.” Vietnam veteran and author Doug Bradley will share songs, images and stories from the men and women who fought the Vietnam War tied together with music which would have been relative to Kim and the patrons of “Dreamland” bar at 6:30 PM in Promenade Hall.
Seats are limited for this event! REGISTER NOW
There’s more! Meet the Artist on THU, APR 4!
You’re invited to Meet the Artist — included with your ticket price! Stay after the show on THU, APR 4 for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists. Free and open to all ticket holders, as well as the general public. Events take place in the performance venue immediately following the show.
B – The Underwater Bubble Show on SUN, APR 14, 2 PM & 8 PM
You are invited to a special hands-on underwater bubble party! Make a bubble wand or a fish for an aquarium, “swim” in an underwater photobooth and more from 1 PM – 6 PM in Wisconsin Studio.
An Evening with Bernadette Peters on FRI, APR 19, 8 PM
Come early for a special pre-show Broadway sing-along at 6:30 PM in Overture Hall Lobby featuring the Jerry Ensemble and Patrick Christians on piano. Enjoy delicious snacks and cocktails for sale.
A Bronx Tale on THU, MAY 16, 7:30 PM
Come early for a special interactive preshow event. Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists. Stay tuned for more details.
