Audra McDonald, the winner of six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and an Emmy, will come to Madison for an unforgettable evening of music and artistry on Saturday, April 4, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at the Overture Center.
“A Juilliard-trained soprano with a voice that soars from the concert hall to the Broadway stage, McDonald brings her signature warmth, brilliance and humanity to every performance,” the Overture Center said in a press release announcing the event.
in 2015, she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts — America’s highest honor for achievement in the field — from President Barack Obama.
In addition to her Tony-winning performances in “Carousel,” “Master Class,” “Ragtime,” “A Raisin in the Sun,” The Gershwins’ “Porgy and Bess” and “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill,” she has appeared on Broadway in “The Secret Garden,” “Marie Christine” (Tony nomination), “Henry IV,” “110 in the Shade” (Tony nomination), “Shuffle Along, or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed,” “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune” (Tony nomination) and “Ohio State Murders” (Tony nomination).
McDonald is a Juilliard-trained soprano, whose opera credits include “La voix humaine” and “Send” at Houston Grand Opera and “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” at Los Angeles Opera, where the resulting recording earned her two Grammy Awards.
On television, she was seen by millions as the Mother Abbess in NBC’s “The Sound of Music Live!” She won an Emmy Award for her role as host of PBS’s “Live From Lincoln Center” and received Emmy nominations for “Wit,” “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.”
Tickets for ‘An Evening with Audra McDonald’ go on sale Friday, Nov. 7, 11 a.m.
