Access to the Arts
From Broadway to Ballet, IRIS volunteers provide live Audio Description for performances and community events. Patrons hear this “play by play” of the visual elements of a performance on a headset provided by IRIS.
Audio Description is scheduled for the performance dates listed below. It can also be arranged by special request.
Upcoming
Audio Description Performances
Sunday, March 2 at 1:00pm – Life of Pi
Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 1:00pm – Some Like it Hot
Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 1:00pm – Hadestown
Sunday, May 11, 2025 at 1:00pm – & Juliet
Sunday, June 8, 2025 at 1:00pm – Hamilton
Sunday, August 3, 2025 at 1:00pm – Parade
Sunday, February 16, 2025 at 2:00pm – Men on Boats
Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 2:00pm – Jesus Christ Superstar
Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 2:00pm – Waitress
Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 1:30pm – Dear Evan Hansen
Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 1:00pm – Hadestown
Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 2:00pm – Mean Girls
Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 2:00pm – Tina
Friday, February 28, 2025 at 7:00pm – Yamato; Drummers of Japan
Saturday, April 26 at 7:00pm – Ballet Des Moines Romeo & Juliet
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 7:30pm – Book of Mormon
No AD Shows Scheduled at this time
Friday, February 7, 2025 at 8:00pm – Folsom Prison Experience
Information for Venues
With our portable portable equipment and awesome AD Team, we can set up and serve patrons in your facility. From Broadway to Ballet, opera to children's theater, our team can help you deliver equal access to the arts!
Through my participation here, I have come to realize what a valuable resource IRIS is for the people of Iowa who depend upon it. So, when we learned about this idea, and the need for funding, my husband and I felt this was something which we could help develop.
How better to enrich the lives of those we serve than to bring art, music and theater to them? We recommended to name the team “Sensation,” because it not only implies the sensational nature of the art forms we will be describing, but also ties into the feelings we all experience in our senses and emotions as we listen to and appreciate these performances.