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Tickets On Sale Saturday, August 20!
In person at 8 AM, online and by phone at 10 AM. Doors open at 7 AM.
Your Overture journey begins the moment you purchase your tickets. Let us carry you away with the best in music, kids shows, dance, comedy, theater, and a few shows that defy description!
The 2011/12 Overture season features a wide variety of extraordinary performances, including legendary virtuoso Itzhak Pearlman, the seminal Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and Broadway hits like Disney’s Beauty and Beast. Come with us to The Second City or let your kids fly to the moon and back in Twinkle Twonkle.
Take your arts experience to the next level through preshow talks, master classes and our Meet the Artist program. And don’t forget the 90+ free and low-cost shows and engagement events, including the Kids in the Rotunda, Overture After Work and Duck Soup Cinema series.
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Broadway at Overture Series
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
TUE, DEC 6 - SUN, DEC 11 | Overture Hall
An eye-popping spectacle!
Blue Man Group
TUE, JAN 24 - SUN, JAN 29 | Overture Hall
Experience the phenomenon!
The Addams Family
TUE, MAY 1 - SUN, MAY 6 | Overture Hall
The darkly delirious smash-hit musical comedy!
Billy Elliot the Musical
TUE, JUL 10 - SUN, JUL 15 | Overture Hall
The Tony-winning best musical
Single tickets on sale later this fall
Broadway Add-Ons
Fiddler on the Roof
FRI, FEB 24 - SUN, FEB 26 | Overture Hall
Relive a glorious tradition of the musical theater.
CATS
FRI, MAR 16 - SUN, MAR 18 | Overture Hall
The magic, the mystery, the memory.
Bell Laboratories Celebrity Series
Patti LuPone
WED, FEB 1 | Overture Hall
A Broadway powerhouse and legendary performer!
Herbie Hancock
THU, MAR 15 | Overture Hall
A true icon of modern music.
Itzhak Perlman
THU, APR 19 | Overture Hall
Undeniably the reigning virtuoso of the violin.
SupraNet Communications Dance Series
Ballet Maribor presents Radio and Juliet
TUE, OCT 25 | Capitol Theater
Radiohead, Shakespeare and ballet — an unlikely but thrilling combination.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
FRI, FEB 3 | Overture Hall
A sublime blend of emotional intensity and technical brilliance.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
TUE, MAR 27 | Overture Hall
Perhaps the defining company in modern American dance.
SVA Music Celebrations Series
The Miles Davis Experience
TUE, OCT 11 | Capitol Theater
An immersive, multimedia experience.
Straight No Chaser
WED, OCT 26 | Overture Hall
Twenty million YouTube viewers can’t be wrong, can they?
The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller
SUN, NOV 20 | Overture Hall
Extend your Christmas into a whole other dimension.
Jim Brickman: An Evening of Romance
TUE, FEB 14 | Overture Hall
No better way to spend a night with your Valentine!
Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles
FRI, MAR 2 | Overture Hall
The next best thing to seeing The Beatles!
Cabaret Dinner Series
The Memory of All That with Spider Saloff
THU, NOV 10 | Capitol Theater Stage
One of the finest jazz singers working today
The Sedaka Show with Jim Van Slyke
THU, FEB 9 | Capitol Theater Stage
Celebrate Sedaka!
Chanteur with Lee Lessack
THU, MAY 3 | Capitol Theater Stage
A little French flavor.
ProVideo Comedy and Theater Series
An Evening with David Sedaris
FRI, OCT 28 | Overture Hall
A connoisseur of human nature at its worst.
The Wonder Bread Years
SAT, JAN 28 | Capitol Theater
The funniest trip down Memory Lane you’ve ever taken!
The Second City: Laugh Out Loud
SAT, MAR 24 | Overture Hall
Chicago's favorite improv!
Frank Ferrante in An Evening with Groucho
SAT, APR 21 | Capitol Theater
Get carried away to the earliest days of American TV -- and maybe pulled onstage!
Whose Live Anyway?
SAT, MAY 19 | Overture Hall
The world's best improvisers.
World Culture Series
The Peking Acrobats
SUN, FEB 12 | Overture Hall
Fit for an emperor.
Ballet Folklórico De Antioquia, Colombia
TUE, FEB 21 | Overture Hall
Immerse yourself in the sensual, exotic rhythms of South America.
Celtic Nights: Journey of Hope
WED, FEB 29 | Overture Hall
The finest voices of the Celtic world.
TOMCAT Products Outside the Box Series
The Intergalactic Nemesis
FRI, NOV 4 | Capitol Theater
A live-action graphic novel - that’s the best way to describe it.
Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass
SAT, FEB 18 | Overture Hall
NPR's award-winning host of This American Life.
Simply Barbra: Live IN CONCERT!
FRI, MAR 30 | Capitol Theater
Unlike any performance you’ll see all season!
Luma Theater
SUN, APR 15 | Overture Hall
A rare show, bedazzling, truly magical…turns an audience of adults into a bedlam of kids!
American Girl's Fund for Children Family Series
John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean
SUN, OCT 16 | Capitol Theater
Hold your breath and dive in for an undersea adventure!
The Magic School Bus - Live!: The Climate Challenge
SAT, JAN 21 | Capitol Theater
A wild ride, certified!
A Brown Bear, A Moon and A Caterpillar
SAT, FEB 18 | Capitol Theater
Old favorites and new friends.
Tall Stories: Twinkle, Twonkle
SUN, MAR 11 | Capitol Theater
From the company that brought you The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom.