Events Calendar

The Hancher Guild offers public tours of Hancher Auditorium occasionally on Wednesdays, starting at 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. The 2023 tour schedule is listed at https://hancher.uiowa.edu/PublicTours. Meet in the lobby prior to a tour's starting time, and your tour guide will greet and guide you or your small group through Hancher's facilities. A tour takes approximately one hour and usually includes Smith Lobby, Strauss Rehearsal Hall, backstage, Hadley Stage and Hancher Auditorium, and St...

Public Tours of Hancher Auditorium

Oct 4, 2023

12:30 PM

Oct 5, 2023

serpentwithfeet, Heart of Brick

Oct 5, 2023

7:30 PM

The Englert, The Englert Theatre / Auditorium Seating

TICKETS Adults $25 Student & Youth $10 A Joyce Theatre Production Presented in collaboration with The Englert Theatre A Hancher co-commission! Directed by Wu Tsang, Choreography by Raja Feather Kelly, Co-written by serpentwithfeet & Donte Collins. The New York Times says, "The music serpentwithfeet makes is immediately distinctive, harnessing his gospel and classical training to a startling emotional openness." The musician brings that sensibility to an ambitious new project. Tell...

Oct 11, 2023

RECONSTRUCTING: Who & How Are We Together?? A Conversation on?Process with?Jillian Walker & Emma?Orme featuring?Johanna Kasimow

Oct 11, 2023

5:00 PM

FREE Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival The TEAM is a Brooklyn-based ensemble dedicated to creating new work about the experience of living in America today. Currently led by artistic director Rachel Chavkin and producing director Emma Orme, the group was originally founded in 2004 by six NYU alumni and has grown to involve an expanding list of collaborators. Orme and TEAM writer/artist Jillian Walker will discuss their creative process, the thrills and challenges of making theater ...

Sphinx Virtuosi

Oct 11, 2023

7:30 PM

The Englert, The Englert Theatre / Auditorium Seating

Stanley Museum of Art, lobby

TICKETS Adults $25 Students & Youth $10 Presented in collaboration with The Englert Theatre Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival The Sphinx Virtuosi is a dynamic self-conducted chamber orchestra that serves as the flagship performing entity of the Sphinx Organization—the leading social justice nonprofit dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Compromising 18 accomplished Black and Latinx artists, a critical aim of the Sphinx Virtuosi is to evolve...

Oct 12, 2023

Herein Lies the Truth: A Work-In-Progress Conversation Aaron Pang, Christopher-Rasheem McMillan, Tisa Bryant, and Adam Knight 

Oct 12, 2023

5:00 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

FREE Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival Writer/performer Aaron Pang is an MFA candidate in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. His in-development thesis Herein Lies the Truth traverses a range of disciplines: creative nonfiction, stand-up comedy, and theatre arts. The work also reckons with complex questions about disability, race, and sexuality. The conversation will include a short presentation of work-in-progress as well as a conversation with faculty members fro...

Love in Exile and In These Times

Oct 12, 2023

7:30 PM

Old Capitol Museum, Senate Chamber / General Admission Seating

TICKETS Adult $35 Students & Youth $10 Presented in collaboration with Feed Me Weird Things Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival This double bill brings together two astonishing projects for one evening of gripping artistry.Love In Exile is the daring new collaboration from Grammy Award-winning singer Arooj Aftab, multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, and iconic pianist Vijay Iyer. Occupying a space between jazz, creative music, and unflinching curiosity, Love In Exile is describe...

Oct 13, 2023

Regarding The Continuum: An Exploration of Dreams Fulfilled Featuring LaTasha Barnes and Rebekah Kowal

Oct 13, 2023

5:00 PM

FREE Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival 2021 Bessie Outstanding Performer award winner and New York Times-lauded “Best Dance & Breakout Star,” LaTasha Barnes is an internationally awarded and critically acclaimed dance artist, choreographer, educator, and tradition-bearer of Black American Social Dance from Richmond, Virginia. She is globally celebrated for her musicality, athleticism, and joyful presence throughout the cultural traditions she bears: house dance, hip-hop, waacking, ...

Literary Legends: John Irving at Hancher

Oct 13, 2023

7:30 PM

Hear Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, renowned novelist, and Oscar award-winning screenwriter John Irving (67MFA) read from his latest novel, The Last Chairlift, during this special evening at Hancher Auditorium, which will include a chat between the author and Workshop Director Lan Samantha Chang. Irving studied under writer Kurt Vonnegut at Iowa and served as an Iowa Writers’ Workshop instructor from 1972 to 1975. While on campus, the avid wrestler struck up a lifelong friendship with fam...

Model/Actriz

Oct 13, 2023

9:30 PM

Space Place Theater, General Admission

TICKETS Adults $15 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival Model/Actriz is a noisy, alternative band from Brooklyn channeling post-punk influences, flashes of late-night dance clubs, and the angst of modern life. Dogsbody, the debut album by Brooklyn-based Model/Actriz, is a coming-of-age album set between the hours of dusk and dawn. It is as much an exploration of love and loss as it is a sharp, piercing, and violent ode to the explosive joy of being alive—the ove...

Oct 14, 2023

Uncharted Myths: Reckonings, Reflections, and Riffs on American Stories

Oct 14, 2023

2:00 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

FREE Presented in collaboration with the International Writing Program and Department of Dance  Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival Writers from the annual International Writing Program (IWP) fall residency will provide written texts as inspiration for University of Iowa dance students to choreograph new work, resulting in a performance at Infinite Dream. This longstanding collaboration between the IWP and Dance explores interdisciplinary practices across literature and movement an...

Kurt Vile and The Violators with Lonnie Holley and Mourning [A] BLKstar

Oct 14, 2023

7:30 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Stanley Café / General Admission

TICKETS Adults $35 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival Kurt Vile is an essential American psych-pop songwriter and guitarist. His music, veering between flashes of lightning and hazes of dense fog, captures our emotional and collective landscape like few other artists in the modern era. Esteemed visual artist and performer Lonnie Holley will play with the ensemble Mourning [A] BLKstar the same evening as Kurt Vile. Kurt Vile Website Lonnie Holley Website ...

Oct 17, 2023

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars): A Creative Matters conversation with Andrew Schneider and Jecca Barry Featuring Daniel Fine

Oct 17, 2023

6:00 PM

FREE Presented in collaboration with Creative Matters, a program of the Office of the Vice President for Research Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival Theater, video, and arts technologist Andrew Schneider and creative producer Jecca Barry will discuss the process of building and performing N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars), Schneider’s new performance installation work. Associate Professor Daniel Fine (Departments of Dance and Theatre Arts) will moderate this discussion that e...

Oct 18, 2023

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 18, 2023

8:30 PM

TICKETS Open Universe Adult $10 Open Universe Student & Youth $10 Guided Adult $40 Guided Student & Youth $10 Presented in collaboration with Creative Matters, a program of the Office of the Vice President of Research Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival Wednesday–Saturday, October 18–21 N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) is a remarkable immersive performance installation by theater, video, and arts technologist Andrew Schneider. Drawing inspiration from visions of the Mil...

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 18, 2023

8:45 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 18, 2023

9:00 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 18, 2023

9:15 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 18, 2023

9:30 PM

Stanley Museum of Art, lobby

Oct 19, 2023

Mobilizing Dancers for War in Irving Berlin’s 'This Is the Army,'  A Presentation and Discussion by Professor Rebekah Kowal

Oct 19, 2023

5:00 PM

FREE Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival Professor Rebekah Kowal is a widely recognized scholar across the dance field and is the executive officer of the University of Iowa’s Department of Dance. Her current research decodes a range of connections between dance practices and 20th century American culture. Irving Berlin’s 1943 hit movie, This Is the Army, depicted how a rag-tag company of civilians came together to produce a camp revue. Kowal's talk examines the role of dance in the ...

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 19, 2023

8:30 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 19, 2023

8:45 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 19, 2023

9:00 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 19, 2023

9:15 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 19, 2023

9:30 PM

Oct 20, 2023

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 20, 2023

8:30 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 20, 2023

8:45 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 20, 2023

9:00 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 20, 2023

9:15 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 20, 2023

9:30 PM

Oct 21, 2023

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

5:15 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

5:30 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

5:45 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

6:00 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

6:15 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

6:30 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

6:45 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

7:00 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

7:15 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

7:30 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

7:45 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

8:00 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

8:15 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

8:30 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

8:45 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

9:00 PM

N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) | Open Universe

Oct 21, 2023

9:15 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

Oct 25, 2023

Samara Joy

Oct 25, 2023

7:30 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

TICKETS Adults $55 / $35 Students & Youth $55 / $20* *limited availability Part of Hancher's 51st season The Verve Records catalog includes a collection of celebrated female jazz vocalists who can each be defined by a single name—Billie, Sarah, Ella. The label's next mononymous jazz singing sensation may just be Samara Joy, whose "buttery vocals melt across the warm grooves of whatever songs she's singing, conjuring the greats of yore while simultaneously forging her own effervescent st...

Oct 27, 2023

Disney/Pixar's 'Coco' live-to-film concert

Oct 27, 2023

7:30 PM

TICKETS Adults $45 Students & Youth $20 (limited availability) Presented in collaboration with FilmScene Part of Hancher's 51st season Coco takes 12-year-old Miguel—and delighted audience members—to the Land of the Dead as he implores his great-great-grandfather to help him reverse his family's ban on music. The movie won Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song ("Remember Me"). In this can't-miss family event, the full movie will be presented on the big screen at...

Nov 4, 2023

Sun Ra Arkestra and Theon Cross

Nov 4, 2023

7:30 PM

The Englert, The Englert Theatre / Auditorium Seating

TICKETS General Admission $42 Students $23 Presented in collaboration with FEaST Festival and Feed Me Weird Things Part of Hancher's 51st season Iowa's premier avant-garde presenting series Feed Me Weird Things returns with its adventurous, multimodal FEaST festival. Hancher joins the celebration as a programmatic partner during the festival's closing event featuring Sun Ra Arkestra and Theon Cross. Originally founded in the mid-20th century by jazz composer Sun Ra—and now led by saxo...

Nov 9, 2023

Takács Quartet

Nov 9, 2023

7:30 PM

The Englert, The Englert Theatre / Auditorium Seating

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

TICKETS Adults $40 Students & Youth $10 Presented in collaboration with The Englert Theatre Part of Hancher's 51st season Formed in Budapest in 1975, the Takács Quartet garnered international attention two years later by winning first prize and the critics' prize at the International String Quartet Competition in Evian, France. Those were just the first of many, many accolades to follow. Now the quartet-in-residence at the University of Colorado, the Takács is renowned for "marrying ari...

Nov 10, 2023

Dance Gala 2023

Nov 10, 2023

7:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

TICKETS Adults $20 Youth & Non-UI Students $10 UI Students $5 Co-produced by the University of Iowa Department of Dance, Performing Arts Production Unit, and Hancher Auditorium The Department of Dance presents a rich program of both new and restaged works by faculty members and creative collaborators as well as a work by distinguished guest choreographer Aaron Samuel Davis. Davis is an African American choreographer, performer, and teaching artist who has worked with David Rousseve/R...

Nov 14, 2023

Midori and Festival Strings Lucerne

Nov 14, 2023

7:30 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Onstage Seating

TICKETS Adults $75 / $55 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 51st season Grammy Award-winning violinist Midori made her professional debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1982—when she was 11 years old. In 2021, she was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor for her lifetime artistic achievement. Rightly recognized as one of the most outstanding violinists of our time, she is also an activist and educator who is devoted to crafting connections between music and the human experience...

Nov 16, 2023

Roomful of Teeth and Gabriel Kahane

Nov 16, 2023

7:30 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

TICKETS Adults $25 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 51st season A Hancher co-commission! Founded to "mine the expressive potential of the human voice," Roomful of Teeth delivers performances that can be summed up in a single word: exquisite. The Grammy-winning ensemble—self-described as a "vocal band"—is dedicated to creating and performing meaningful and adventurous music that amplifies voices old and new. The Boston Globe says, "Experimentation may be this group's calling card,...

Dec 2, 2023

Mavis Staples and The War And Treaty

Dec 2, 2023

7:30 PM

TICKETS Adults $55 / $45 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 51st season This is a double bill of vocal powerhouses whose roots run deep. Mavis Staples is an R&B singer, a soul singer, a gospel singer, and the very definition of a legend. Her records, both with the Staple Singers and as a solo artist, have provided a soulful soundtrack to decades of American life. In the last decade, she has enjoyed a resurgence with a string of albums produced by Jeff Tweedy, M. Ward, and Ben Harpe...

Dec 6, 2023

Public Tours of Hancher Auditorium

Dec 6, 2023

11:00 AM

Public Tours of Hancher Auditorium

Dec 6, 2023

12:30 PM

Old Capitol Museum, Senate Chamber / General Admission Seating

JACK Quartet plays John Zorn

Dec 6, 2023

7:30 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

TICKETS Adults $25 Students & Youth $10 Presented in collaboration with the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program, Feed Me Weird Things, University of Iowa Center for New Music, and the University of Iowa Old Capital Museum Part of Hancher's 51st season Composer John Zorn is undeniably a fount of creativity—who "has seemed for more than 40 years to be a freethinker who surpasses all genre boundaries." (Elbphilharmonie) The JACK Quartet is the perfect ensemble to engage wit...

Dec 7, 2023

Aparna Nancherla and Atsuko Okatsuka

Dec 7, 2023

7:30 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

TICKETS Adults $60 / $45 Students & Youth $10 Two of today’s hottest comedy talents take to Hancher’s Hadley Stage for a hilarious double-bill! Aparna Nancherla is an established comedian, actor, and writer who performs all over the United States and world. She’s written for Apple’s Mythic Quest as well as NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. She can currently be seen in Hulu's The Drop, Peacock’s Lopez Vs. Lopez, the final season of HBO Max’s Se...

Dec 9, 2023

The King's Singers, When You Wish Upon a Star

Dec 9, 2023

7:30 PM

TICKETS Adults $60 / $45 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 51st season One of the world's most beloved close-harmony vocal ensembles, The King's Singers return to Hancher to help you and your family celebrate the holidays! The Washington Post says, "Their vocal production was effortless, stylistically varied and beautifully blended." Undoubtedly the gold standard in a cappella singing, the ensemble will share a program filled with sounds of the season and other family favorites. PR...

Dec 13, 2023

Public Tours of Hancher Auditorium

Dec 13, 2023

11:00 AM

Public Tours of Hancher Auditorium

Dec 13, 2023

12:30 PM

Jan 19, 2024

To Kill a Mockingbird

Jan 19, 2024

7:30 PM

Part of Hancher's Broadway Series All rise for Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork. The New York Times Critic’s Pick To Kill a Mockingbird is “the most successful American play in Broadway history” (60 Minutes). Rolling Stone gives it 5 stars, calling it “an emotionally shattering landmark production of an American classic,” and New York Magazine calls it “a real phenomenon, Majestic and incandescent, it’s filled with breath and n...

Jan 20, 2024

To Kill a Mockingbird

Jan 20, 2024

2:00 PM

To Kill a Mockingbird

Jan 20, 2024

7:30 PM

Jan 21, 2024

To Kill a Mockingbird

Jan 21, 2024

1:00 PM

To Kill a Mockingbird

Jan 21, 2024

6:30 PM

Jan 26, 2024

Jeff Parker and The New Breed

Jan 26, 2024

9:00 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

TICKETS Adults $35 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 51st season Part of Club Hancher Jeff Parker is recognized as one of the contemporary music's most versatile and innovative electric guitarists and composers. His electric ensemble The New Breed plays "grooves that ooze and wend, sounding like a broken trance, or like experimental hip-hop as science fiction." (The New York Times) Working in a wide variety of mediums (including pop, rock, jazz, and new music) and drawing from a s...

Jan 27, 2024

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Jan 27, 2024

7:30 PM

TICKETS Adults $115 / $75 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 51st season The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London, U.K.) is uncompromising in its pursuit of excellence and inclusive in its appeal to music lovers of all stripes. Embracing a broad repertoire has allowed the orchestra to build a diverse live and online audience of more than 60 million people. In 2021, the orchestra welcomed Music Director Vasily Patrenko—and the chemistry between conductor and musicians has been palpabl...

Jeff Parker and The New Breed

Jan 27, 2024

9:00 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Strauss Hall / In the Round

Feb 15, 2024

Elias String Quartet

Feb 15, 2024

7:30 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

SOLD OUT! TICKETS Adults $25 Students & Youth $10 Presented in collaboration with the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program Part of Hancher's 51st season When it comes to the Elias String Quartet, we agree with BBC Music Magazine: The musicians are "simply astounding, in the freshness, intensity, assurance, and seeming spontaneity of their playing." Hancher will welcome back one of our favorite ensembles to introduce a new chamber music experience at Hancher. Join us in...

Feb 21, 2024

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Feb 21, 2024

7:30 PM

TICKETS Adults $55 / $45 Students & Youth $55 / $20* *limited availability Part of Hancher's 51st season We'll get straight to the pointe: The Trocks are exceptional ballet dancers. They are also exceptionally funny. From late-late shows in Off-Off Broadway lofts in the early 1970s to major dance houses around the world, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo—the world's foremost all-male comic ballet company—offers both homage and parody performed en travesti. The Sydney Star Observer...

Feb 23, 2024

Hairspray

Feb 23, 2024

7:30 PM

Part of Hancher's Broadway Series You Can’t Stop the Beat! Hairspray, Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon is back on tour! Join 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad in 1960s Baltimore as she sets out to dance her way onto TV’s most popular show. Can a girl with big dreams (and even bigger hair) change the world? Featuring the beloved score of hit songs including "Welcome to the ‘60s," "Good Morning Baltimore," and "You Can’s Stop the Beat," Hairspray is "fresh, winning, and delir...

Feb 24, 2024

Hairspray

Feb 24, 2024

2:00 PM

Hairspray

Feb 24, 2024

7:30 PM

Feb 25, 2024

Hairspray

Feb 25, 2024

2:00 PM

Mar 7, 2024

Haley Heynderickx and The Westerlies

Mar 7, 2024

7:00 PM

TICKETS Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Presented in collaboration with the University of Iowa Brass Chamber Music Program Part of Hancher's 51st season Part of Club Hancher Folk singer/songwriter and guitarist Haley Heynderickx's introspective songs are infused by her religious Filipino-American upbringing and call to mind the folk music of the 1960s and 1970s mixed with a love of jazz radio. Her vocals range from sultry to operatic, and her generosity of spirit always shines through ...

Haley Heynderickx and The Westerlies

Mar 7, 2024

9:00 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

Mar 19, 2024

Levitt Lecture Series: Judy Woodruff

Mar 19, 2024

7:30 PM

TICKETS Free tickets (limit two) will be available from the Hancher Box Office beginning Monday, Feb. 19, at 10 a.m. Part of the Spring 2024 Levitt Lecture Series Part of Hancher's 51st season Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff is the senior correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, after serving for 11 years as its anchor and managing editor. During 2023 and 2024, she is undertaking a reporting project, "America at a Crossroads," to better understand the country's political divide. She has co...

Mar 22, 2024

Y La Bamba

Mar 22, 2024

7:00 PM

TICKETS Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 51st season Part of Club Hancher World Café says of Luz Elena Mandoza Ramos, lead vocalist and producer of Y La Bamba, "[Her] inimitable songwriting is propelled by an earth-shaking voice and incisive lyrics that speak towards the duality of hurt and healing." And The Boston Globe said of the band's 2019 album, "Fusing psychedelia-dappled dreampop, south-of-the-border rhythms, and intricate guitar work with forthright lyrics of M...

Y La Bamba

Mar 22, 2024

9:00 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Onstage Seating

Mar 25, 2024

So Percussion and Caroline Shaw, Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part

Mar 25, 2024

7:30 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Onstage Seating

TICKETS Adults $25 Students & Youth $10 Presented in collaboration with Iowa Percussion at the University of Iowa School of Music Part of Hancher's 51st season Composer and vocalist Caroline Shaw returns for a second collaboration in this season after performing with the Attacca Quartet in September (a Shaw composition is also on the program for Roomful of Teeth's performance in November). This time, the collab is with the adventuresome So Percussion, a quartet that has truly redefined ...

Mar 26, 2024

So Percussion and Caroline Shaw, Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part

Mar 26, 2024

7:30 PM

Mar 27, 2024

One Day for Iowa | The University of Iowa's 24-Hour Giving Day

Mar 27, 2024

All Day

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

Every year, thousands of Hawkeyes come together to make an important—and meaningful—impact for Iowa. All gifts made in March will count toward the One Day for Iowa total. Be a Hawkeye that gives back on One Day for Iowa. Support students, faculty, research, health care, athletics, and more.

Mar 29, 2024

Martha Graham Dance Company

Mar 29, 2024

7:30 PM

TICKETS Adults $65 / $45 Students & Youth $10 Presented in collaboration with University of Iowa Department of Dance and the UI Dance Company Part of Hancher's 51st season An indispensable dance company celebrates 100 years, bringing its founder's classic works to the stage alongside new work by contemporary choreographers. Martha Graham—an icon among 20th century artistic icons—radically expanded the dance vocabulary, and her work has captivated audiences worldwide while influencing ge...

Apr 12, 2024

Oumou Sangaré

Apr 12, 2024

7:30 PM

The Englert, The Englert Theatre / Auditorium Seating

TICKETS Adults $35 Students & Youth $10 Presented in collaboration with The Englert Theatre Part of Hancher's 51st season "The Songbird of Wassoulou" brings the music of Mali to The Englert's stage. Oumou Sangaré is an icon whose powerful music and fierce feminism have inspired artists from Alicia Keys to Aya Nakamura to Beyoncé. The songs on her most recent record, Timbuktu, were largely written in Baltimore during the lockdowns of the COVID pandemic. The album blends the sounds of tra...

Apr 19, 2024

La Dame Blanche

Apr 19, 2024

7:00 PM

TICKETS Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 51st season Part of Club Hancher Yaite Ramos Rodriguez—who performs as La Dame Blanche—is the daughter of Jesús "Aguaje" Ramos, trombonist with both the Buena Vista Social Club and Afro-Cuban All Stars. But that pedigree only scratches the surface of her approach to music and life. The singer, flautist, and percussionist blends the Cuban music of her childhood with the sounds of hip-hop, dancehall, and cumbia, and plenty more. He...

La Dame Blanche

Apr 19, 2024

9:00 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

Apr 26, 2024

Spring Opera: Fierce by William Menefield

Apr 26, 2024

7:30 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating

TICKETS Adults $20 Youth & Non-UI Students $10 UI Students $5 Music by William Menefield Libretto by Sheila Williams Directed by William Menefield Co-Produced by the University of Iowa School of Music, Performing Arts Production Unit, and Hancher Auditorium. Fierce marks a major moment in our Hancher season. This new opera—making its Iowa premiere—reflects the collaborative spirit of Performing Arts at Iowa and will be co-produced by the School of Music, the Performing Arts Productio...

Apr 27, 2024

Spring Opera: Fierce by William Menefield

Apr 27, 2024

7:30 PM

May 3, 2024

Chicago

May 3, 2024

7:30 PM

Part of Hancher's Broadway Series After 25 years, Chicago is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz, with one show stopping song after another and the most astonishing dancing you’ve ever seen. No wonder Chicago has been honored with 6 Tony Awards, 2 Oliver Awards, a Grammy, and thousands of standing ovations. As we celebrate our 25th anniversary—you’ve got to come see why the name on everyone’s lips is st...

May 4, 2024

Chicago

May 4, 2024

2:00 PM

Chicago

May 4, 2024

7:30 PM

May 5, 2024

Chicago

May 5, 2024

2:00 PM

Jun 4, 2024

Come From Away

Jun 4, 2024

7:30 PM

Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Broadway’s Come From Away is a Best Musical winner all across North America! This New York Times Critics’ Pick takes you into the heart of the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships. Don't miss this breathtaking musical written by Tony Award nomi...

Jun 5, 2024

Come From Away

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7:30 PM

Jun 6, 2024

Come From Away

Jun 6, 2024

7:30 PM