About Take 10
Discounted tickets for students and their teachers
With the Take 10 program, K-12 students and educators connect with outstanding performers and eclectic art forms.
Each season, students and educators can get $10 tickets to selected Overture's performances. Some of these performances arel also part of Overture's Meet the Artist series, which provides audience members the chance to converse with the artists in informal Q & A sessions after their performances.
Take 10 tickets are available at the ticket office window. All students and educators have to do is present student or educator ID (or proof of age for students) at the ticket office window.
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
El Corazón del Flamenco
THU, NOV 12, 7:30 PM | Capitol Theater
For nearly 30 years, Carlota Santana has stunned and spellbound audiences with her company’s rich flamenco works. Calling upon the traditions born in Spain and bred in European, Caribbean, Latino and Afro-Latino cultures, the company creates “a mysterious and alluring vision,” says The New York Times. Founded on a mission to build bridges between cultures, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana captures the passion, precision and creativity of flamenco. Presented in cooperation with Madison Ballet.
Step Afrika!
FRI, DEC 04, 8 PM | Capitol Theater
Long before Stomp, there was step. Experience the heart-throbbing rhythms and pulse-pounding music of this long and proud African-American tradition. Washington,D.C.–based Step Afrika! and its founder, C. Brian Williams, stand among the nation\'s leading ambassadors of step and the use of its traditions in education and cultural exchange. “You feel it in your eardrums and elsewhere,” says the Washington Post. “Each jackhammer step stamps you.”
Sones de México
SAT, MAR 06, 4 PM | Capitol Theater
Chicago’s premier Mexican folk musicians return to the Capitol Theater to headline the 29th International Festival. Sones de México bring what the Chicago Reader calls “a dazzling array of Mexican folk-music forms with a preservationist’s care, bursting with energy.” In their own thoroughly modern way, they’ll transport you to a dusty village fandango to an urban barrio and back again. They sold out their show here last year, so get your tickets soon.
Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Broadway
SAT, MAR 13, 8 PM | Capitol Theater
100 Years of Broadway revives the greatest show-stoppers of the last century. Stars who lit up the Great White Way in shows like The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, CATS, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Jekyll & Hyde will shine again on the Capitol Theater stage. Revel in well-worn favorites by Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Frank Loesser, and Frankie Valli. This isn't just a taste of Broadway — it’s a full sampling of the century.
Danú
WED, MAR 17, 7:30 PM | Capitol Theater
It’s St. Paddy’s Day! What better way to celebrate than reveling in the music of Danú, one of the leading traditional Irish ensembles of today. For over a decade, their virtuosi players on flute, tin whistle, fiddle, button accordion, bouzouki and vocals have performed around the globe. Danú “stirs the blood and lifts the heart,” according to Irish Music Magazine. They’ll take you on a musical journey to their native Ireland, offering a moving and memorable St.Patrick’s Day experience.
Shidara
FRI, MAR 19 | Capitol Theater
From the ancient forests and mountains of Japan comes Shidara, one of the foremost Japanese drum companies in the world. With deep roots in their tiny Japanese village, Shidara’s performance carries a purity and devotion to the forest, a harmony between the human and spirit worlds. Blending masterful skill, blinding energy and breakneck speed, Shidara delivers a thunderous and powerful energy, sweeping the audience away to another place and time.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
THU, APR 1 | Overture Hall
Thirty years ago, they were plucky upstarts, shaking up the dance establishment. Now they define modern dance. Their eclectic style dazzles. Their inventive choreography entrances. Their versatility and virtuosity remain unparalleled. The Chicago Sun Times says Hubbard Street Dance Chicago delivers “a sublime blend of emotional intensity and technical brilliance.” It’s no wonder they fill Overture Hall with enthusiastic admirers year after year!
The American Bluegrass Masters Tour
featuring Bobby Osborne
FRI, APR 09, 8 PM | Capitol Theater
The American Bluegrass Masters Tour presents Grammy winner and Grand Ole Opry legend Bobby Osborne with the hottest bluegrass singers and pickers in the world. This fast-picking show features three generations of Osbornes and other talented players as Bobby passes the torch of America’s musical heritage to the unbridled talents of tomorrow. Old-timey tradition meets youthful exuberance in this concert of front-porch twang and infectious rhythms that define the American spirit.
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