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
- The Outsiders | October 4, 2025 | 2pm
- The Wiz | November 22, 2025 | 2pm
- The Notebook | December 13, 2025 | 2pm
- Shucked | January 17, 2026 | 2pm
- A Beautiful Noise: the Neil Diamond Musical | February 14, 2026 | 2pm
- & Juliet | March 7, 2026 | 2pm
- Six | March 28, 2026 | 2pm
- Mama Mia | May 2, 2026 | 2pm
- Mrs. Doubtfire | May 16, 2026 | 2pm
- Wicked | June 20, 2026 | 2pm
The Rose Theater (402) 345-4849
- Dragons Love Tacos | September 13, 2025 | 2pm
- Goosebumps: Phantom of the Auditorium | October 18, 2025 | 2:30pm
- The Pigeon Gets a Big Time Holiday Extravaganza | December 13, 2025 | 2pm
- Mr. Poppers Penguins | January 24, 2026 | 2pm
- Morris Micklewhite | February 28, 2026 | 2pm
- Ada Twist | March 21, 2026 | 2pm
- The Great Race | April 25, 2026 | 2pm
- Disney’s Frozen | June 13, 2026 | 2pm
Omaha Community Playhouse (402) 553-0800
- The River Bride | August 23, 2025 | 7:30pm
- Grease | September 20, 2025 | 7:30pm
- Angels | October 18, 2025 | 7:30pm
- A Christmas Carol | November 29, 2025 | 7:30pm
- The Piano Lesson | January 24, 2026 | 7:30pm
- Hair | February 21, 2026 | 7:30pm
- Disaster | March 28, 2026 | 7:30pm
- Dial “M” For Murder | April 25, 2026 | 7:30pm
- Mary Poppins | June 6, 2026 | 7:30pm
