Celebrating 20 years of storytelling through music and theatre, Four Seasons Theatre showcases local talent onstage and backstage in venues across Madison.
Four Seasons began in Fall 2004 as a dream of creating a company dedicated to producing musical theatre shows and workshops. Those conversations led to the development of a business plan and went from idea to reality with our first show, RAGTIME, a co-production with Middleton Players Theatre in Summer 2005. In the past two decades we’ve produced 60+ shows and offered hundreds of community outreach programs in libraries, retirements communities and schools. We’ve also mentored countless high school and college students through technical theatre internships and crew positions where they’re able to learn from and work side-by-side with professional designers, directors, and stage managers.
Through it all we’ve maintained our commitment to Madison audiences and Madison artists. The people who make it all happen – backstage and onstage – are your friends, colleagues, and neighbors. Your investment in FST – as a ticket buyer, as a donor, as a sponsor – is an investment in your community and we’re grateful for that support.
TICKETS on sale through the Overture Center Box Office at (608) 258-4141 or overture.org
Songs & Stories: Swissconsin
Friday, October 18, 2024 at 7 pm in The Playhouse
Ruth Marty, the daughter of Swiss immigrants, she grew up singing folk songs while helping her father, a cheesemaker, and playing accordion. Eventually settling in Green County, she worked as a homemaker, raised calves, and managed the books for The Big Farm. Through her 95 years, music has been a source of joy and community. Buy tickets!
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Songs & Stories: Moments of Happiness
Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 2 pm in The Playhouse
Mike Leckrone, accompanied by a trio of jazz musicians, will offer an afternoon of remembrances, anecdotes, trivia, Badger Band stories, and revelations about his 50 years as UW Band Director. A remount of his October 2022 cabaret show, Leckrone returns to the stage to celebrate the University of Wisconsin Press release of his book, co-written with Madison author Doug Moe. Buy tickets!
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Songs & Stories: Sirena
Sunday, October 20, 2024 at 6 pm in The Playhouse
An original story conceived by Filipina artist Leslie Damaso, Sirena is set within new compositions and contemporary arrangements of kundiman songs of love and freedom. Sirena blends a personal story, family secrets, a mythic love triangle ending in the beginning of a nation, the displacement of its people, and an individual’s search for identity and belonging. Buy tickets!
Saturday, November 10 | The Bur Oak
In 2018, Ken Fitzsimmons, Jason Fassl, and Sarah Marty partnered with John Wedge and Sean Michael Dargan to produce a rock ‘n’ roll history show, The Greatest War: World War I, Wisconsin, and Why It Still Matters. An electric, sold out show at The Barrymore led to a remount at the Wisconsin Union Theater in 2019 and a partnership with PBS Wisconsin who livestreamed and archived the show.
On Saturday 11/10 Ken Fitzsimmons and The Kissers will release their new album, “The Foe and the Fallen: Songs from The Greatest War” with a concert at the Bur Oak. Ken will share about the making of The Greatest War project and the subsequent album as well as the history and people that inspired the songs and concert goers will get a chance to hear a live performance of highlights from the album. On display will be the traveling exhibit WWI Beyond the Trenches: Stories from the Front by the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. Learn more.
December 5-15, 2024 | Thursdays & Fridays at 7:30 pm, Saturdays & Sundays at 2 pm | The Playhouse at Overture
The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence- a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into “No Man’s Land” singing Stille Nacht. This begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music, peace. A remarkable true story told in the words and song of the men who lived them.
Written and conceived by Peter Rothstein, graduate of the UW-Madison Department of Theatre & Drama and Co-founder and longtime Artistic Director of Theatre Latté Da, ALL IS CALM: The Christmas Truce of 1914 features a cappella choral arrangements by Erick Lichte and Timothy C. Takach. The show premiered at Theatre Latté Da in Minneapolis, MN in 2007, toured North America with Cantus Vocal Ensemble for several years, and ran off Broadway November-December 2018.
February 20–March 2, 2025 | Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 pm | Saturdays and Sundays at 2 pm | The Playhouse at Overture Center in Madison, WI
Winner of five Tony Awards, Company—Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s groundbreaking musical comedy—is at once boldly sophisticated, deeply insightful, and downright hilarious. It’s Bobby’s 35th birthday party, and all his friends keep asking, “Why aren’t you married? Isn’t it time to settle down and start a family?” An examination of the choices we make about life, love, and friendship, Company takes us through the gamut of emotions “sorry-grateful, regretful-happy.”
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS for all shows in our 2024-2025 season are on sale through the Overture Center Box Office at (608) 258-4141 and overture.org
Partial support for our 2024-2025 season is provided by the Great Performance Fund for Theater, a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation, which provides grants to help underwrite the venue costs associated with producing theatre at Overture Center for the Arts. Additional support provided by the Pleasant Rowland Foundation, Jerry Frautschi Foundation, Forest Foundation, and Friends of Four Seasons Theatre.