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Mar 28, 2023

Mar 28, 2023

7:30 PM

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One of the world’s most beloved musicians and his longtime collaborator come to Hancher for an unmissable concert. Yo-Yo Ma and world-renowned pianist Kathryn Stott have been collaborating since 1985, and their musical connection is simply unmatched. Program (pieces grouped together will be performed without pause) Felix Mendelssohn: Song Without Words, op. 109 arr. Stephen Hough: Scarborough Fair Carolyn Shaw: Shenandoah Jean Sibelius: Was it a Dream?, op. 37, no. 4 Ernest Bloch: From...

Mar 29, 2023

Mar 29, 2023

All Day

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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. You can make a difference by donating now: 1day.uiowa.edu Be a Hawkeye that gives back on One Day for Iowa. Support students, faculty, research, health care, athletics, and more.

Mar 29, 2023

11:00 AM

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The Hancher Guild offers public tours of Hancher Auditorium occasionally on Wednesdays, starting at 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. The 2022 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...

Mar 29, 2023

12:30 PM

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The Hancher Guild offers public tours of Hancher Auditorium occasionally on Wednesdays, starting at 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. The 2022 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...

Mar 30, 2023

Mar 30, 2023

6:30 PM

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Musical soulmates Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, and Brian Blade have long performed together as essential members of the Wayne Shorter Quartet. Embracing the message of their mentor and friend, these three virtuosos celebrate Shorter’s music and introduce new compositions with the Children of the Light trio. Their conversation is an intense collective improvisation, unfolding and constructing the music like a rhythmic and smoldering chamber recital. TICKETS ADULTS: $30 COLLEGE STUDENTS: $...

Mar 30, 2023

9:00 PM

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Musical soulmates Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, and Brian Blade have long performed together as essential members of the Wayne Shorter Quartet. Embracing the message of their mentor and friend, these three virtuosos celebrate Shorter’s music and introduce new compositions with the Children of the Light trio. Their conversation is an intense collective improvisation, unfolding and constructing the music like a rhythmic and smoldering chamber recital. TICKETS ADULTS: $30 COLLEGE STUDENTS: $...

Apr 1, 2023

Apr 1, 2023

7:30 PM

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Free tickets (limit two) will be available from the Hancher Box Office beginning Wednesday, March 1, at 10 a.m. Available in person, by phone, or online. THE SPRING 2023 LEVITT LECTURE A collaboration with the University of Iowa College of Law Moderated by IPR's Ben Kieffer James “The Ragin’ Cajun” Carville is America’s best-known political consultant. His long list of electoral successes evidences a knack for steering overlooked campaigns to unexpected landslide victories and for remak...

Apr 5, 2023

Apr 5, 2023

11:00 AM

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The Hancher Guild offers public tours of Hancher Auditorium occasionally on Wednesdays, starting at 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. The 2022 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...

Apr 5, 2023

12:30 PM

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The Hancher Guild offers public tours of Hancher Auditorium occasionally on Wednesdays, starting at 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. The 2022 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...

Apr 6, 2023

Apr 6, 2023

5:45 PM - 9:45 PM

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4:00 p.m. | Doors and café open to public 5:45–6:45 | Reading and Q&A with Michelle Zauner 7:15–7:50 | Performance by Black Belt Eagle Scout 8:30–9:45 | Performance by Cat Power (duo) Hancher Auditorium is thrilled to host the opening ceremonies of Mission Creek Festival 2023 on Thursday, April 6. This event marks a renewal of our collaboration with the festival after co-presenting comedian Bassem Yousef in 2018 and Andrew Bird, My Brightest Diamond, and Kelly Link in 2017. For Mission ...

Apr 14, 2023

Apr 14, 2023

7:30 PM

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Iowa City native Conor Hanick has been called the “soloist of choice for … thorny works” by The New York Times and is a champion of many composers of his own generation—as well as a brilliant performer of works by the full range of great composers. Hancher welcomes Hanick home for a performance that will feature solo, duo, and trio works. PROGRAM (subject to change) Alban Berg: Piano Sonata, op. 1 (Conor) Claude Debussy: L'Isle Joyeuse (Conor) Eric Wubbels: if and only if (Keir, Jay, Con...

Apr 21, 2023

Apr 21, 2023

7:30 PM

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Undeniably one of the finest string quartets of the last four decades, the Emerson String Quartet has announced it will disband in 2023. Hancher is proud to once again present these incomparable musicians as part of their final tour. Don’t miss your last chance to experience this essential ensemble live. Program Felix MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat Major, op. 12 Johannes BRAHMS: String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, op. 67 Antonín DVORÁK: String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat Majo...

Apr 22, 2023

Apr 22, 2023

7:30 PM

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A collaboration with the University of Iowa SCOPE Productions Dos Santos Performing everything from jazz-tinged psychedelia to dissonant cumbia, Chicago-based quintet Dos Santos—celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2023—is at the forefront of a new era of Latinx alternative music. Celebrated as one of Chicago's most important working bands, the members of Dos Santos pride themselves on the power of their live shows, as well as their ability to seamlessly distill progressive pan-Latin Americ...

Apr 26, 2023

Apr 26, 2023

11:00 AM

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The Hancher Guild offers public tours of Hancher Auditorium occasionally on Wednesdays, starting at 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. The 2022 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...

Apr 26, 2023

12:30 PM

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The Hancher Guild offers public tours of Hancher Auditorium occasionally on Wednesdays, starting at 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. The 2022 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...

Apr 28, 2023

Apr 28, 2023

7:30 PM

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With special guest: Tom Hambridge At age 86, Buddy Guy is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy Guy has received eight Grammy Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, 38 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished ...

May 6, 2023

May 6, 2023

7:30 PM

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Over the last several years, American Ballet Theatre has delivered astonishing performances for Hancher audiences—including the whimsical Whipped Cream and an incredible outdoor show on the Fourth of July in 2021. Now the Company returns to close Hancher’s 50th anniversary season with a mixed repertory program—including ZigZag, choreographed by Jessica Lang to music by Tony Bennett—that is sure to thrill and delight everyone who experiences it.PROGRAMSongs of Bukovina (Alexei Ratmansky; Leon...

May 17, 2023

May 17, 2023

11:00 AM

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The Hancher Guild offers public tours of Hancher Auditorium occasionally on Wednesdays, starting at 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. The 2022 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...

May 17, 2023

12:30 PM

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The Hancher Guild offers public tours of Hancher Auditorium occasionally on Wednesdays, starting at 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. The 2022 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...

May 31, 2023

May 31, 2023

11:00 AM

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The Hancher Guild offers public tours of Hancher Auditorium occasionally on Wednesdays, starting at 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. The 2022 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...

May 31, 2023

12:30 PM

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The Hancher Guild offers public tours of Hancher Auditorium occasionally on Wednesdays, starting at 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. The 2022 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...