Sauk Prairie River Arts Center

06/13/2025

This is the look your friends will give when they find out you missed your chance to see Sauk Prairie's production of NEWSIES!

Hop over to www.riverartscenter.com/tickets/newsies to get yours before it's gone!

06/10/2025

Sauk Prairie School District boasts robust opportunities for all students. Additionally, many of our students can work out flexible schedules with coaches and advisors to take advantage of those overlapping opportunities. That is where we find ourselves with members of our Newsies cast.

Our women's soccer team is continuing their successful season on Thursday in the Sectional Semi-Final at Monona Grove High School. Originally scheduled for 7pm, Monona Grove and the WIAA, recognizing our conflict, have agreed to move that soccer match to 5pm to accommodate our actors. It is a wonderful display of sportsmanship as they had no reason to adjust other than our request.

Because of that good-faith move, we have decided to push our Thursday curtain to 7:30pm for opening night to allow those participants to arrive for their opening night.

Sauk Prairie is a wonderful place. We are thankful to each of you. We apologize for the late change and thank everyone for their flexibility.

Get your tickets for opening night -> www.riverartscenter.com/tickets/newsies

06/06/2025

06/01/2025

Congratulations to the Sauk Prairie High School class of 2025!

The River Arts Center provides the sound system for Sauk Prairie High School's Commencement Ceremony. This 23,000 watt portable sound system includes a lot of equipment previously owned by venues like Overture Center and the Monona Terrace.

A big thank you to SPSD staff and students who helped us scramble to cover and pack equipment when it looked like rain was coming.

A special thank you to Sauk Prairie Indy for their work on the livestream, and Jason's Voices for the fantastic voiceovers.

05/25/2025

So ends the 2025 spring dance season at the River Arts Center!

Over 5,000 people attended 16 performances, featuring nearly 700 dancers from 5 area dance schools over the last 5 weeks! That was 31 straight days of dance rehearsals and performances.

Tomorrow, we load in the set for Sauk Prairie Music's Newsies!

05/23/2025

What makes Leola Hall such a special space? It's the versatility! These images are just some of the events in the last 7 days, showing a few of the many ways this space can be used, such as for student testing, backstage space for dance recitals, reception space for senior scholarship night, and of course, performances!

A huge thank you to our staff, especially our custodian Austin for all the incredible work of setting up events! Leola Hall has been used daily since April 25th, sometimes with multiple different event setups in the same day. We couldn't do that without all that work!

05/23/2025

Wishing great recitals to Midwest Performing Arts this weekend at the River Arts Center!

This is the final weekend of our spring dance season, which featured 5 dance schools over the last 5 weeks from Sauk Prairie, Madison, Waunakee, and Middleton.

It’s officially Show Week! Midwest Performing Arts presents our Spring Concert of Dance on Friday, May 23rd and Saturday, May 24th at the River Arts Center in Prairie du Sac, WI. Performances times are Friday 7:00pm, Saturday 1:00pm, and Saturday 6:00pm. 🎶

Tickets: https://21424.recitalticketing.com/ 🎟️
$20 ADULTS | $16 FOR CHILDREN UNDER 12 (plus taxes and fees). There is no limit on the amount of tickets you can purchase. Tickets sold on a first come, first serve basis.

05/16/2025

05/05/2025

Wheelchairs, listening assistance, service animals and more! The River Arts Center's website has a page dedicated to all your accessibility questions!

Accessiblity Information

04/28/2025

Art exhibit opening day! The exhibit of High School, Middle School, & Advanced Placement High School student art opens today!

Come visit the River Arts Center Gallery from 8am - 8pm on school days, or on weekend days when events are happening. Check our website for the calendar of events, as well as what other things may be happening at www.riverartscenter.com.

The opening reception is Thursday from 3:30pm - 5:30pm.

04/25/2025

The River Arts Center is honored to host 5 area dance studios for their spring recitals! Yesterday began 31 days of dance rehearsals and performances, with only a one day break for the Dollars for Scholars Awards Ceremony (on My 21st).

We welcome Madison Professional Dance Center for two performances this weekend, 5:30pm on Saturday and 2pm on Sunday!

Did you know that dance is typically lit from the sides to highlight the dancers' movements? We add 40 lights on our "dance booms" to facilitate this, with half being modern color changing LED lights, and half being conventional 750 watt incandescent lights.