Overture Center Foundation

Overture Center hosts hundreds of ticketed events with our box office selling approximately 300,000 tickets annually. Overture Center presents a wide variety of artistic offerings that patrons would not otherwise have the opportunity to experience in madison, ranging from up-and-coming dance companies to children's theater performances to nationally touring broadway hits. In fulfilling its mission of access to the arts, Overture Center strives to keep ticket prices affordable. The average top ticket price for non-broadway performances is typically under $48. Additionally, Overture Center subsidizes and supports the work of nine local, nonprofit resident arts companies who annually sell over 82,000 tickets to their performances. Overture Center fulfills the core of its mission through fourteen community engagement and educational programs. As a result of these programs, over 188,000 people annually see a free performance or visual exhibit. The programs included 'Overture onstage' that annually attracts more than 22,000 elementary and high school students to daytime performances during the school year and 'kids in the rotunda' that annually attracts approximately 21,000 children and parents to free performances. Various unique spaces within the Overture Center are available for rent to the public to hold special events and meetings. Overture Center's nature as a community arts Center provides for the kind of experience unavailable to other event venues.