The performing arts community in Madison is full and flourishing. From theater to dance to improv, there is something for everyone in downtown Madison. Below are 15 local venues and groups that students, staff, community members and more should be looking forward to:
The Overture Center for the Arts hosted a performance of ‘Mean Girls’ worthy of a seat at the lunch table.
With performances like this, you better not throw away your shot to be in the room where it happens.
The traveling cat show is pawsitively delightful.
"Ain't Too Proud" uses the timeless music of The Temptations to tell the complex, compelling story of the group.
Hey, Westerburgers! There’s a new kid in town…
Broadway lovers and Madisonians alike had the chance to catch “Hairspray” at the Overture Center for the Arts from Feb. 22-27.
The DEIB Festival could be a big step towards diversity for the Mead Witter School of Music.
Adapting the life of playwright August Wilson to the screen, director George C. Wolfe captures the heart of Wilson’s story, creating a film with terrific performances that clearly feels like it’s in the wrong medium.
From Nov.14-23, the Undergraduate Theatre Association will be putting on a modernized version of the production, “Equivocation.”
“The Book of Mormon” fails to evolve, persisting racism in a controversial political climate. Is it time to pull the curtain?
The national tour of “Anastasia” stops in Madison for an eight-show run, filling the Overture Center with idyllic sets and songs.
Tony® Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters comes to Madison to dazzle the audience with some of her hit performances on stage and television.
Emma Hellmer, the Daily Cardinal's theater columnist, previews a few musical performances that are coming to Madison this summer.
After spending years on the stage, Cyra K. Polizzi is switching roles to create a sustainable, accessible, feminist theater practice — from play programs to accommodating tour locations.
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The King and I” might take the cake when it comes to virtually fossilized, ethnocentric, and downright offensive pieces of American theatre. Maybe its “white savior” narrative and hyperbolic representation of Thai culture were considered all fine and dandy when this show debuted in 1951. But in our wanting-to-be-woke society of today, there was no justifiable reason for this show’s revival tour and subsequent stent at the Overture Center from Feb. 26 to March 3.
UW-Madison alumna Lorraine Hansberry debuted her play "A Raisin in the Sun," making her the first African-American female playwright on Broadway.
The inaugural Black Arts Matter Festival will be held from March 3-9 at multiple locations throughout downtown Madison. The goal of the festival is both to provide a platform for black artists and to get the community thinking a little more about curing a noticeable lack of representation in a largely white city.
"Into the Woods" is a tremendous experience that combines the musical magic of different fairy tales into one theater performance that you will never forget.
Glorified 80s rock ‘n’ roll takes the audience back in time at the Overture Center on Feb. 7 as part of the Broadway’s tenth anniversay tour of the classic musical, “Rock of Ages.”
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