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
National Geographic Live: Life on the Vertical on TUE, OCT 23, 7:30 PM
Come early to explore patterns in strata of stone and the beauty and abstraction in ice at a special gallery exhibit on the 2nd floor. Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.
Ajax on MON, NOV 12, 7 PM
Prior to the show there will be an opening reception of the Veteran Print Project’s new exhibit, The Transience of Narrative, in the Playhouse Gallery. Also, please join us to discuss the ideas and themes of the play at the post-performance talkback with Director Martin McClendon and the cast.
Soweto Gospel Choir – Songs of the Free on WED, NOV 14, 7:30 PM
Come early for a special pre-show concert at 6 PM featuring the Fall Gospel Fest Choir and enjoy delicious snacks and cocktails for sale.
School of Rock on FRI, NOV 23, 2 PM
Join us for Kids Night On Broadway starting at 1 PM featuring youth and teen band performances presented by Madison Music Foundry, rock band petting zoo with Ward-Brodt Music, Photo ops and more.
The Second City’s Dysfunctional Holiday Review on SAT, DEC 1, 8 PM
Make your own dysfunctional holiday card and more with local artists and special guests starting at 6:30 PM on the Promenade Terrace.
The Rainbow Fish on SUN, JAN 13, 3 PM
Stop by the Children’s Room in the Central Library from 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM for free art activities inspired by the show!
National Geographic Live: View from Above on TUE, JAN 15, 7:30 PM
Come early to explore special exhibits from UW Space Place and a hands-on exploration of IceCube, the biggest and strangest telescope in the world 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM in Promenade Terrace. Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.
Abba Mania on SAT, FEB 2, 8 PM
Get warmed up for the show with a special pre-show event at 6:30 PM in Overture Hall Lobby. Listen Local and dance with V05, enjoy a groovy costume photobooth and more. Drinks and snacks available for purchase.
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 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 THU, APR 4, 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.
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.
