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
That Golden Girls Show: a puppet parody on SUN, NOV 3 at 12:30 PM in Promenade Hall
Raise whatever’s in your glass to celebrate the girls and join us for an unforgetting pre-show spectacular featuring:
- A decked out lanai with games and plenty of photo ops
- Golden Girls themed drag performances from some of Wisconsin’s finest including Bianca Lynn Breeze, Miss Club Wisconsin and Miss Gay Madison
- Delicious and saucy brunch food, cheesecake and boozy drinks for sale
Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.
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.
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 THU, FEB 20, 2020 at 6 PM
Come early for a special preshow event featuring special speakers to explore themes of the show. Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists. Stay tuned for more details.
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.
Diary of a Wombat on SUN, APR 19, 2020, Time TBD
Come early for a special interactive preshow art and book event.
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 Halo O Malo show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the Rotunda with the artists.
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.
