Editing Madison, Wisconsin (section)

===Performing arts===
[[File:Yost’s Department Store Building, State Street and Fairchild Street, Madison, WI (52734293705).jpg|thumb|[[Overture Center for the Arts]]]]

The [[Madison Opera]], the [[Madison Symphony Orchestra]], Forward Theater Company, the [[Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra]], and the [[Madison Ballet]] are some of the professional resident companies of the [[Overture Center for the Arts]]. The city is also home to a number of smaller performing arts organizations, including a group of theater companies that present in the Bartell Theatre, a former movie palace renovated into live theater spaces, and [[Opera for the Young]], an opera company that performs for elementary school students across the Midwest. Music Theatre of Madison is a professional musical theater company that performs new and lesser-known musicals in a variety of venues. The Wisconsin Union Theater (a 1,300-seat theater) is home to seasonal attractions and is the main stage for Four Seasons Theatre, a [[community theater]] company specializing in [[musical theater]], and other groups. The Young Shakespeare Players, a theater group for young people, performs uncut [[Shakespeare]] and [[George Bernard Shaw|George B. Shaw]] plays.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}

Community-based theater groups include Children's Theatre of Madison, Strollers Theatre, Madison Theatre Guild, the Mercury Players, and [[Broom Street Theater]] (which is no longer on Broom Street).{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}

Madison has one [[comedy club]], Comedy on State (which has hosted the Madison's Funniest Comic competition every year since 2010), owned by the Paras family. Madison has other options for more alternative humor, featuring several improv groups, such as Atlas Improv Company, Monkey Business Institute, and [[open mic]] nights.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}

Madison is home to a large entertainment industry archive at the [[Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research]], part of the [[Wisconsin Historical Society]].<ref>Directors Guild of America, [http://www.dga.org/Craft/VisualHistory/Resources.aspx Visual History Resources] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018175919/http://www.dga.org/Craft/VisualHistory/Resources.aspx |date=October 18, 2012 }}. Retrieved December 3, 2012.</ref>