Audio Description
From Broadway to ballet, RTBS volunteers provide live Audio Description for performances and community events. RTBS will partner with community venues to provide equal access to programming and events through audio description services. This service empowers attendees with a visual disability to join family and friends for an exhibit, performance, or event. Then, using a headset provided by RTBS, they listen to a trained audio describer relate the visual information in real time. This can include costumes and sets, artwork, the antics of a team’s mascot, animals in a zoo habitat, the spectacle of a parade, and so much more!
Audio Description makes arts and culture available for everyone. Imagine Cinderella dropping her slipper, a priceless ancient artifact, or the winning goal, all of these examples are visual moments. We work to make these moments available for everyone. The audio describer uses breaks in action to narrate the visual material for the attendee with a visual disability. This ensures that everyone can attend an event together and everyone can understand the action.
Upcoming Performances
Audio Description is scheduled for the performance dates listed below. It can also be arranged by special request.
Please reach out to the respective venues to purchase tickets and indicate you are requesting Audio Description. Additionally, you can contact RTBS at (402) 572-3003 to request the service at a performance or venue not listed below or if you have any questions at all about AD.
Orpheum Theater (402) 661-8501
- Funny Girl | Saturday, November 16, 2025 | 2pm
- Peter Pan | Saturday, December 7, 2024 | 2pm
- Clue | Saturday, January 11, 2025 | 2pm
- Kimberly Akimbo | Saturday, February 15, 2025 | 2pm
- Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock | Sunday, February 23, 2025 | 2pm
- Hadestown | Saturday, March 15, 2025 | 2pm
- Some Like It Hot | Saturday, March 29, 2025 | 2pm
- Hamilton | Saturday, May 10, 2025 | 2pm
- MJ | Saturday, June 14, 2025 | 2pm
The Rose Theater (402) 345-4849
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Musical | Saturday, September 14, 2024 | 2pm
- Coraline | Saturday, October 19, 2024 | 2pm
- A Christmas Story | Saturday, December 7, 2024 | 2pm
- Secret Kindness Agents | Saturday, January 25, 2025 | 2pm
- Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical | Saturday, February 22, 2025 | 2pm
- Milo Imagines the World | March 29, 2025 | 2pm
- Pete the Cat: The Musical | Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2pm
- Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo | Saturday, June 14, 2025 | 2pm
Omaha Community Playhouse (402) 553-0800
- Jersey Boys | Saturday, September 28 | 7:30pm
- Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches | Saturday, October 19 | 7:30pm
- A Christmas Carol | Saturday, November 30 | 7:30pm
- Waitress | Saturday, February 8 | 7:30pm
- Dot | Saturday, March 8 | 7:30pm
- The Old Man and The Old Moon | Saturday, March 22 | 7:30pm
- Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville | Saturday, April 26 | 7:30pm
- American Mariachi | Saturday, May 10 | 7:30pm
- Titanic The Musical | Saturday, June 21 | 7:30pm
