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.
As we started planning this celebration, we wanted to bring people together through story and song and to find a way to celebrate our first two decades in meaningful ways. We start with a celebration of the lush melodies and beautiful music of Rodgers & Hammerstein with a gala concert in the Capitol Theater. We follow that with our annual holiday tradition - ALL IS CALM: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and close out the season with the first Madison production of new musical, The Hello Girls.
TICKETS on sale now through the Overture Center Box Office at (608) 258-4141 or overture.org
Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 2:30 pm | Capitol Theater at Overture
An unforgettable celebration of Broadway’s Golden Age, An Evening of Rodgers & Hammerstein Classics pays tribute to some of the world's best-loved musicals. Experience classic songs from Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, and more! Celebrating one of the most influential, innovative, and unstoppable duos of all time, the program will feature a cast of 26 singers accompanied by the 38-piece FST Orchestra. Four Seasons Theatre makes its Capitol Theater debut as we celebrate nearly two decades of showcasing local talent onstage and backstage.
Tickets ($25-$50) on sale through the Overture Center Box Office in person, at (608) 258-4141 or at overture.org.
December 7-17, 2023 | 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.
Tickets ($25-$38) on sale through the Overture Center Box Office in person, at (608) 258-4141, or at overture.org
February 22-March 3, 2024 | Thursday & Fridays at 7:30 pm, Saturdays & Sundays at 2 pm | The Playhouse at Overture
From New York to Paris, from ragtime to jazz: The Hello Girls chronicles the story of America’s first women soldiers in this new musical inspired by history. These intrepid heroines served as bilingual telephone operators on the front lines, helping turn the tide of World War I. They then returned home to fight a decades-long battle for equality and recognition, paving the way for future generations. Commissioned and premiered by NYC’s Prospect Theater Company, The Hello Girls celebrated the centennial of these groundbreaking women in its Off Broadway debut in Fall 2018, and was nominated for both Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle Awards.
Tickets ($25-$38) on sale through the Overture Center Box Office in person, at (608) 258-4141, or at overture.org
TICKETS on sale now through the Overture Center Box Office at (608) 258-4141 and overture.org
ALL IS CALM is a remount of the 2019, 2021, and 2022 production.
Auditions for THE HELLO GIRLS will take place in late October 2023 with additional details posted when they are available.
Partial support for our 2023-2024 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.