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 – 2019/20 Season
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on WED, NOV 13 at 6 PM
Come early for a free preshow concert featuring Wisconsin Jazz Orchestra with Darren Sterud starting at 6 PM – included with your ticket price! Dancing is encouraged and drinks/snacks are available for purchase.
Duck Soup Cinema: Hypocrites on THU, NOV 14 at 7 PM
Stay after the show for a free talkback with Tami Williams, associate professor of film studies and English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, president of the Domitor—the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, and area coordinator for the Women Film Pioneers Project (France). Williams is the author of “Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations,” the first in-depth historical study of a trailblazing filmmaker and feminist.
See the documents woven throughout HAMILTON. Read the salacious Reynolds Pamphlet, experience Washington’s Farewell Address in its original newspaper printing, or get up close and personal with original autographs of Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, George Washington, and others. Stop by the exhibit to view items from the outstanding collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library & Archives. Archivists will invite attendees to learn more about these documents and experience them as Alexander and the rest of the crew did. In partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society Library & Archives.
On display in the Promenade Lobby for the following performances:
- TUE, NOV 19
- THU, NOV 21
- SUN, NOV 24, 1 PM
- FRI, DEC 6
National Geographic Live: Designed by Nature with Kakani Katija on TUE, JAN 14, 2020
Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.
THE COLOR PURPLE on SAT, FEB 22, 2020 at 6 PM
Come early for a special preshow event featuring special speakers to explore themes of the show. Stay tuned for more details.
Stay after the show on THU, FEB 20 for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.
Sweet Honey in the Rock on SAT, FEB 29, 2020
Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.
The Chieftains: The Irish Goodbye on TUE, MAR 3, 2020, 6 PM
Come early for a free preshow concert featuring The Kissers starting at 6 PM – included with your ticket price! Dancing is encouraged and drinks/snacks are available for purchase.
The Flying Karamazov Brothers present 4PLAY on SAT, APR 4, 2020
Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.
National Geographic Live – From Summit to Sea with Andy Mann on TUE, APR 21, 2020 at 6 PM
Come early for a free preshow concert featuring Halo O Malo starting at 6 PM – included with your ticket price! Stay after the National Geographic Live show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the Capitol Theater with the artist.
My Fair Lady on THU, APR 23, 2020
Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.
Air Play on TUE, APR 28, 2020 at 6 PM
Explore circus, science and movement at 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.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet: Figures of Speech on WED, MAY 6, 2020
Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.
The Play That Goes Wrong on THU, MAY 14, 2020
Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.
National Geographic Live: The Anatomy of Deceit with Yudhijit Bhattacharjee on TUE, MAY 26 & WED, MAY 27, 2020
Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.
The Second City’s Laughing (For All The Wrong Reasons) on SAT, JUN 13, 2020
Come for a special interactive improv event between shows. Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.
Come From Away on THU, AUG 6, 2020
Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.
