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BARTELL THEATRE

113 E Mifflin St
Madison, WI 53703



WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN to be Presented at Madison Shakespeare Company


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 26, 2025

Madison Shakespeare Company has revealed the full details of the kickoff of its second season as a Resident Company of the Bartell Theatre: a full-cast production of Women Beware Women. Learn more! ...

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS and More to Conclude Madison Shakespeare Company 2025 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 17, 2025

Madison Shakespeare Company has revealed the full details of its second-half 2025 programming, featuring works by the English playwrights William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton. Learn more! ...

HENRY THE FIFTH to be Presented at Madison Shakespeare Company


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 31, 2025

Madison Shakespeare Company has revealed the full details of its spring 2025 production at the downtown Bartell Theatre. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets. ...

A VALENTINE'S AFFAIR is Coming to Madison Shakespeare Company in February


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 13, 2025

Madison Shakespeare Company will present the upcoming premiere of A Valentine's Affair 2025, a collection of classic love scenes directed by Annie Jay. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets. ...

Winners Announced For The 2024 BroadwayWorld Madison Awards


by BWW Awards - January 14, 2025

Winners have been announced for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Madison Awards! The 2024 Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024....

Madison Shakespeare Company Joins Bartell Theatre as a Resident Company


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 30, 2024

Madison Shakespeare Company has joined the Bartell Theatre as a Resident Company, and will produce a full indoor season at the Bartell in 2024-2025 and beyond. The Bartell Theatre residency is the first permanent theatrical home for Madison Shakespeare Company in its 12-year history. Learn more abou...

Past Shows

Women Beware Women
Women Beware Women
10/31 - 11/8/2025


The greatest dark comedy of Shakespeare’s age wasn’t written by William Shakespeare. The young and beautiful Bianca thought she had it all when she married ...

Henry the Fifth
Henry the Fifth
5/2 - 5/11/2025


The young and wild Prince Hal is now King in his own right. His enemies and allies have something in common: they all underestimate him.

Wintertime
Wintertime
2/7 - 2/22/2025


Madison Public Theatre invites you to experience  Wintertime ! This show is the perfect romantic comedy for the Valentine's season. Jonathan loves Ariel. His mother, Maria, ...

The Blue Comet
The Blue Comet
11/1 - 11/9/2024


A United States stage premiere! The Bedale family of Hampstead has three big problems: Their expenses exceed income… …a rogue comet is about to crash ...

The Untold Story of the Collyer Brothers


Written and directed by Finn Gallagher. Madison Public Theatre and Oracular Studios invite you to experience “The Untold Story of the Collyer Brothers”! This is the ...

POTUS: Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive


Spend a night in the West Wing with Strollers and Xquisite Xploits production of Selina Fillinger's  POTUS, Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women ...

A Timely Intervention by the Former Barber of Seville (Figaro’s Final Adventure)


For fans of The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, and of romance, schemes, and narrow escapes. A devious schemer has infiltrated the home ...

Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
3/10 - 3/25/2023


Brilliantly innovative, moving, and wickedly funny, Hedwig is out to set the record straight about her life, her loves, and the operation that left her ...

Act A Lady
Act A Lady
11/4 - 11/19/2022


When the men of a small, Prohibition-era town decide to put on a play dressed in “fancy-type, women-type clothes,” the whole community is affected: gender ...

Hir
Hir
2/11 - 2/26/2022


The classic, dysfunctional family drama has just crashed through into a whole new place. Meet Paige, a wife and mother liberated from an oppressive and ...

Are We Delicious? Patchwork Puppets


Madisons own Are We Delicious? and Mercury Players Theatre team up to create fun night of crazy puppets within the Patchwork World of local designer ...

RAID! Attack on Stonewall
RAID! Attack on Stonewall
4/19 - 4/27/2019


By Malissa PettersonDirected by John SiewertRAID! Attack on Stonewall is an original work, commissioned by StageQ; this fully immersive experience will transport audiences back to ...

Are We Delicious? Puss in Boots


With only a pair of boots, wit, trickery and savoir faire a scraggly cat guides its hopeless owner from poverty to the Palace. Starting with ...

Are We Delicious? 5th Anniversary


Anniversary celebrates 5 years of abundant creativity. An all-star ensemble of Madison writers, performers and musicians join to create original plays with original music in ...

Videos


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Encore Studio for the Perfroming Arts (2/6 - 2/22)
Real Life in Madison Real Life
Encore Studio for the Performing Arts (5/15 - 5/31)
HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis - Live in Black River Falls, WI in Madison HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis - Live in Black River Falls, WI
Ho-Chunk Gaming - Black River Falls (2/14 - 2/14)
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Encore Studio for the Perfroming Arts (2/6 - 2/22)
Menopause The Musical 2: Cruising Through ‘The Change’® in Madison Menopause The Musical 2: Cruising Through ‘The Change’®
Pablo Center at the Confluence (3/7 - 3/7)
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