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
The Color Purple: The Novel, The Movie, The Musical | By Sandra Adell on SAT, FEB 22, 2020 at 6 PM
In this presentation, Professor Adell will discuss how Alice Walker’s 1982 novel helped to bring national attention to African American women writers and the controversies that continue to plague it regarding subjects that have caused it to be banned in numerous libraries throughout the country. She will trace its evolution from a novel to a major movie and now an award-winning musical. Each medium has its own aesthetic criteria which Adell will comment on as she shows how the musical’s creative team took difficult topics such as domestic violence and presented them in such a way that the dignity and courage of the women who are at the center of the story are never compromised for the sake of entertainment.
Sandra Adell is a literature professor in the Department of Afro American Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She has written extensively on African American literature and Black theater history. Her books include Double Consciousness/Double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Black Literature and Confessions of A Slot Machine Queen: A Memoir. She is also the editor of Contemporary African American Literature: Ten Complete Plays, and the editor of a special issue of Continuum: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama, Theatre and Performance.
RSVP is helpful but not required. Please click here to RSVP.
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.
