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Jan 26, 2025
2:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Welcome to Hadestown, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated singer-songwriter A...
Jan 26, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Spring Semester! Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry....
Jan 27, 2025
7:30 PM
Faculty Recital: "This Floating World"- Nicole Esposito, flute; Réne Lecuona, piano Nicole Esposito, flute Réne Lecuona, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31234 This concert is free and open to the public.
Jan 27, 2025
7:30 PM
Guest Artist Recital: Ilan Morgenstern, bass trombone This concert is free and open to the public. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31241
Jan 29, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Get ready to unleash your inner engineer and artist! In this exciting workshop, children will use a variety of materials, including wire, beads, and Legos, to create their own unique sculptures. From towering skyscrapers to whimsical creatures, the possibilities are endless. Kids will develop their problem-solving skills, creativity, and fine motor skills while having a blast. Space is limited; please reserve your spot at https://uiowa.doubleknot.com/event/schools-out-at-the-stanley-january...
Jan 29, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Adults $85 / $65 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season A master choreographer’s acclaimed Hancher-commissioned work is part of the 60th anniversary celebration. In 1999, the American premiere of Twyla Tharp’s Diabelli — choreographed to Beethoven’s thorny and thrilling Diabelli Variations and commissioned by Hancher — took place on the stage of the original Hancher Auditorium. Now, as part of the 60th anniversary tour of Twyla Tharp Dance, the work returns home so ...
Jan 31, 2025
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
DATE: Friday, January 31 TIME: 4:30-5:30pm The Gym will be open from 4pm for warmups. LOCATION: Gym Studio in Halsey Hall Audition Signup: Click here for audition signup Chafin Seymour will be joining us early next semester for a residency of teaching and setting a work to be presented at the Faculty/Graduate Concert, performing April 24-26. Chafin will hold an audition for his work, "Suite Donuts," (originally choreographed on the José Limón Dance Company) on Friday 1/31 4:30-5:30pm ...
Jan 31, 2025
7:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher Steeped in history, a first-rate storyteller offers music that is sometimes urgent and sometimes playful. Leyla McCalla’s music — including her latest record, Sun Without the Heat — is a potent amalgam of history and mastery. That history includes three centuries of influences from all around the world, while the mastery...
Jan 31, 2025
7:30 PM
DMA I Recital: Yestyn Griffith, violin Yestyn Griffith, violin Henrique Rabelo, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Jan 31, 2025
8:00 PM
Day Fades Into Night Fades Into Day By Bridget Dieden Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, 2 p.m A wealthy couple in the 1940s are struggling to conceive but can’t. Their only daughter, Jillian, died 3 years ago when she was 7 and the household has never been the same since. Unbeknownst to her husband, the bereaved mother has resurrected Jillian as a specter Jillian’s old toy room, but when a...
Jan 31, 2025
9:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher Steeped in history, a first-rate storyteller offers music that is sometimes urgent and sometimes playful. Leyla McCalla’s music — including her latest record, Sun Without the Heat — is a potent amalgam of history and mastery. That history includes three centuries of influences from all around the world, while the mastery...
Feb 1, 2025
1:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Hosted by students and faculty of the School of Music of the University of Iowa, “Jane and Her Music” will provide a unique window into Austen and her times. Festivities will take place in the historic Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol, evoking the sort of space where Austen herself might have attended a concert. All events are FREE and open to all! Please register HERE. View the program: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31235 Schedule of Events: 1:30 p.m.: Check-...
Feb 1, 2025
7:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher When it comes to passionate innovators pushing music in new directions, this artist is chief among them. Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah contains multitudes. “[J]ust because it can be said that my work is inherently jazz does not mean that it is exclusively jazz,” the musician has posited. Perhaps best known as a trumpeter, he ...
Feb 1, 2025
7:30 PM
Masters Recital: Lauren Kundel, soprano Lauren Kundel, Soprano Katie Fang, Piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31236 This event is free and open to the public.
Feb 1, 2025
8:00 PM
Day Fades Into Night Fades Into Day By Bridget Dieden Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, 2 p.m A wealthy couple in the 1940s are struggling to conceive but can’t. Their only daughter, Jillian, died 3 years ago when she was 7 and the household has never been the same since. Unbeknownst to her husband, the bereaved mother has resurrected Jillian as a specter Jillian’s old toy room, but when a...
Feb 1, 2025
9:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher When it comes to passionate innovators pushing music in new directions, this artist is chief among them. Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah contains multitudes. “[J]ust because it can be said that my work is inherently jazz does not mean that it is exclusively jazz,” the musician has posited. Perhaps best known as a trumpeter, he ...
Feb 2, 2025
2:00 PM
Day Fades Into Night Fades Into Day By Bridget Dieden Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, 2 p.m A wealthy couple in the 1940s are struggling to conceive but can’t. Their only daughter, Jillian, died 3 years ago when she was 7 and the household has never been the same since. Unbeknownst to her husband, the bereaved mother has resurrected Jillian as a specter Jillian’s old toy room, but when a...
Feb 3, 2025
7:30 PM
DMA I Recital: Danyun Zhao, piano This is free and open to the public.
Feb 4, 2025
7:00 PM
Our Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session, joined by students, alumni, community members, and musicians passing through Iowa City. All members of the community are welcome for this free community event, hosted the first Tuesday of each month during the school year at the Wilder — a restaurant and bar located on the ground floor of the Graduate Hotel, on Iowa City's downtown pedestrian mall. To learn more or if you are interested in jamming, get in touch wit...
Feb 4, 2025
7:00 PM
Tramaine Suubi will read from her debut book of poetry, phases. Tramaine Suubi is a multilingual writer from Kampala, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has published creative writing in 16 literary anthologies, magazines, journals, and reviews — and counting. Her debut full-length poetry collection titled phases, was published in January 2025 by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins. Her second full-length poetry collection titled stages, is forthcoming in January 2026. Trama...
Feb 4, 2025
7:30 PM
Guest Artist Recital: Dr. Alison Robuck, oboe This concert is free and open to the public. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31238
Feb 6, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Join the 2024-2025 Grant Wood Fellows artists for an evening of discussion about their work and research. The event will be accompanied by light refreshments. Panel members: Rush Baker IV (Painting & Drawing) Matthew Willie Garcia (Printmaking) Lyndsey Scott (Interdisciplinary Performance—Music) The Grant Wood Art Colony seeks to provide a creative home for the next generation of artists and continue Grant Wood’s creative advocacy in the School of Art & Art History and the Division o...
Feb 6, 2025
7:00 PM
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum, Caitlin Roach will read from her new book of poetry, Surveille, in conversation with Rachel Yoder. Caitlin Roach is a queer poet from Southern California. Her poems have appeared in Narrative, jubilat, Colorado Review, Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Daily, Tin House, and The Iowa Review, among other journals. Her work has received prizes and recognition from the Granum Foundation, the W.B. Yeats Society of New York for the Yeats Poetry Prize, Narrative...
Feb 6, 2025
7:30 PM
Guest Chamber Recital: JACK Quartet This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31239 This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 6, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa Director's Festival This year's Iowa Director's Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Performance Schedule: Thursday, Feb. 6 – Far Away and Dutchman Friday, Feb. 7 – Tom & Eliza and And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens Saturday, Feb. 8 – Far Away and Dutchman Thursday, Feb. 13 – Tom & Eliza and And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens Friday, Feb. 14 – Far Away and Dutchman Saturday, Feb. 15 – Tom & Eliza and A...
Feb 6, 2025
8:00 PM
Far Away By Caryl Churchill Directed by Meredith G. Healy Part of this year's Iowa Directors Festival–four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. There is an intermission, followed by the performance of Dutchman. Ever since Joan’s childhood, she has witnessed people doing horrific things in the name of doing what is “right.” Caryl Churchill’s Far Away examines what happens in a world when no one, not even the cats and the rivers, can be trusted. Far A...
Feb 6, 2025
8:00 PM
Dutchman By LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Directed by Josh Turner Part of this year's Iowa Directors Festival–four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. This performance begins after the performance of Far Away and intermission. Traveling on the city subway, everything seems innocent in the conversation between Clay and Lula, but things quickly escalate. Dutchman, by Amiri Baraka, a highly influential and provocative storyteller of the Black experience, ex...
Feb 7, 2025
6:30 PM
Conversation with Emanuel Ax and anthony McGill This event is free and open to the public.
Feb 7, 2025
6:30 PM
Free and open to the public Hancher favorites Emanuel Ax and Anthony McGill will engage in a special conversation at the University of Iowa School of Music, moderated by University of Iowa's own Benjamen Coelho. This engagement will take place in the Recital Hall of Voxman Music Building and is free & open to the public. We hope you will join us for a conversation and peek behind the keys with Manny Ax and Anthony McGill as they prepare for their Hancher performance the following evening!
Feb 7, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa Director's Festival This year's Iowa Director's Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Performance Schedule: Thursday, Feb. 6 – Far Away and Dutchman Friday, Feb. 7 – Tom & Eliza and And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens Saturday, Feb. 8 – Far Away and Dutchman Thursday, Feb. 13 – Tom & Eliza and And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens Friday, Feb. 14 – Far Away and Dutchman Saturday, Feb. 15 – Tom & Eliza and A...
Feb 7, 2025
8:00 PM
Tom & Eliza By Celine Song Directed by Kayla Adams Part of this year's Iowa Directors Festival–four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Approximate run time is 50 minutes. There is an intermission, followed by the performance of And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens. Please be advised this performance includes strong sexual language. Tom and Eliza are moving persistently toward the future in their own fantastically twisted journeys. Written b...
Feb 7, 2025
8:00 PM
And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens By Tennessee Williams Directed by Michael C. Flores Part of this year's Iowa Directors Festival–four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Approximate run time is 60 minutes. This performance begins after the performance of Tom & Eliza and intermission. Please be advised this performance includes strong language, sexual language, onstage violence including the depiction of an assault, themes of gender identi...
Feb 8, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $65 / $45 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Top-flight musicians — each a Hancher favorite — perform a perfect program for piano and clarinet. Emanuel Ax — one of the world’s most revered musicians — has been performing for Hancher audiences since he was a Young Concert Artist. How deep is the relationship? When Hancher needed a new piano for our new facility, we turned to Manny ...
Feb 8, 2025
7:30 PM
"Amore": DesChamps Studio Voice Recital Élise DesChamps, mezzo-soprano; Kate O’Connell, soprano; Foo Chen Gui, tenor; Elizabeth Cerrito, soprano; Lauren Kundel, soprano; Tatum Calderwood, soprano; Finley McVay, soprano; Nathan Brow, tenor; Jesse Reeds, tenor; Rai Martin, tenor; Derek Thorn, tenor; Sarah Hachtman, soprano; Sophie Good, soprano This concert is free and open to the public. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31237
Feb 8, 2025
7:30 PM
Emanuel Ax and anthony McGill Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Top-flight musicians — each a Hancher favorite — perform a perfect program for piano and clarinet. Emanuel Ax — one of the world’s most revered musicians — has been performing for Hancher audiences since he was a Young Concert Artist. How deep is the relationship? When Hancher needed a new piano for our new facility, we turned to Manny knowing he would select the ideal instrument. Meanwhile, Anthony McGill — principal clarinetist...
Feb 8, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa Director's Festival This year's Iowa Director's Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Performance Schedule: Thursday, Feb. 6 – Far Away and Dutchman Friday, Feb. 7 – Tom & Eliza and And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens Saturday, Feb. 8 – Far Away and Dutchman Thursday, Feb. 13 – Tom & Eliza and And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens Friday, Feb. 14 – Far Away and Dutchman Saturday, Feb. 15 – Tom & Eliza and A...
Feb 8, 2025
8:00 PM
Far Away By Caryl Churchill Directed by Meredith G. Healy Part of this year's Iowa Directors Festival–four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. There is an intermission, followed by the performance of Dutchman. Ever since Joan’s childhood, she has witnessed people doing horrific things in the name of doing what is “right.” Caryl Churchill’s Far Away examines what happens in a world when no one, not even the cats and the rivers, can be trusted. Far A...
Feb 8, 2025
8:00 PM
Dutchman By LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Directed by Josh Turner Part of this year's Iowa Directors Festival–four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. This performance begins after the performance of Far Away and intermission. Traveling on the city subway, everything seems innocent in the conversation between Clay and Lula, but things quickly escalate. Dutchman, by Amiri Baraka, a highly influential and provocative storyteller of the Black experience, ex...
Feb 9, 2025
1:30 PM
Master's Recital: Matthew Dulas, euphonium This event is free and open to the public.
Feb 10, 2025
7:30 PM
The Crossing - Solo Recital w/UI Alum Anika Kildegaard This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 10, 2025
7:30 PM
Free and open to the public Four singers from The Crossing, including University of Iowa 2020 alumna, Anika Kildegaard, will present a shared solo recital. The shared solo recital will feature: Anika Kildegaard, soprano Michaël Hudetz, tenor Maren Montalbano, mezzo-soprano Rebecca Myers, soprano PROGRAM: Rebecca Myers, soprano Jean-Phillipe RAMEAU: Viens, Hymen from Les Indes Galantes Benjamin CS BOYLE: Zelda’s Dream J. S. BACH & Narcis BONET: Vocalis sobre el Preludio en si men...
Feb 11, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Join us for another installment of Night at the Museum, a series of monthly events for UI students that occurs on Thursday nights, when the museum is open late. This month, we're celebrating Valentine's Day for a whole week! We're giving students the chance to show what artworks they love in our galleries, as well as the opportunity to make their own art. Visit the Stanley Museum of HeARTs anytime during the week — we'll have paper hearts available at the front desk for students to leave on...
Feb 11, 2025
11:00 AM
School of Music Convocation This event is free and open to the public.
Feb 12, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Join us for another installment of Night at the Museum, a series of monthly events for UI students that occurs on Thursday nights, when the museum is open late. This month, we're celebrating Valentine's Day for a whole week! We're giving students the chance to show what artworks they love in our galleries, as well as the opportunity to make their own art. Visit the Stanley Museum of HeARTs anytime during the week — we'll have paper hearts available at the front desk for students to leave on...
Feb 12, 2025
7:30 PM
Free and open to the public Donald Nally, conductor of the Crossing and David Lang, composer and University of Iowa alum, will be in conversation moderated by Ann Howard Jones (BM ‘64, MM 66’, DMA ‘84) as part of the Creative Matters lecture series. The Creative Matters lecture series, launched in Fall 2015, seeks to demonstrate that creativity and innovation are not only at the core of all research and discovery, but also central to our human experience. Speakers include artists, thinker...
Feb 13, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Join us for another installment of Night at the Museum, a series of monthly events for UI students that occurs on Thursday nights, when the museum is open late. This month, we're celebrating Valentine's Day for a whole week! We're giving students the chance to show what artworks they love in our galleries, as well as the opportunity to make their own art. Visit the Stanley Museum of HeARTs anytime during the week — we'll have paper hearts available at the front desk for students to leave on...
Feb 13, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Join us for the opening of the exhibition, it's a fine thing This exhibition explores the rich and often overlooked landscape of the Black Midwest, challenging conventional narratives and celebrating the resilience and creativity of Black Midwestern artists. Program begins at 6 p.m. with opening remarks, followed by refreshments and music. Event concludes at 8 p.m. Learn more: https://stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/its-a-fine-thing it’s a fine thing is generously supported by the Terra Foundat...
Feb 13, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Adults $25 Students and youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Creative Matters, a program of the Office of the Vice President for Research, presented in collaboration with the University of Iowa School of Music with support from the Larry G. and Ann Howard Jones Vocal Ensemble Residency Program A stirring work by a UI alum — sung by a peerless choir — asks what the words we speak in prayer say about us. The Crossing, an acclaimed 18-voice choir, will be in residence a...
Feb 13, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa Director's Festival This year's Iowa Director's Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Performance Schedule: Thursday, Feb. 6 – Far Away and Dutchman Friday, Feb. 7 – Tom & Eliza and And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens Saturday, Feb. 8 – Far Away and Dutchman Thursday, Feb. 13 – Tom & Eliza and And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens Friday, Feb. 14 – Far Away and Dutchman Saturday, Feb. 15 – Tom & Eliza and A...
Feb 13, 2025
8:00 PM
Tom & Eliza By Celine Song Directed by Kayla Adams Part of this year's Iowa Directors Festival–four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Approximate run time is 50 minutes. There is an intermission, followed by the performance of And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens. Please be advised this performance includes strong sexual language. Tom and Eliza are moving persistently toward the future in their own fantastically twisted journeys. Written b...
Feb 13, 2025
8:00 PM
And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens By Tennessee Williams Directed by Michael C. Flores Part of this year's Iowa Directors Festival–four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Approximate run time is 60 minutes. This performance begins after the performance of Tom & Eliza and intermission. Please be advised this performance includes strong language, sexual language, onstage violence including the depiction of an assault, themes of gender identi...
Feb 14, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Join us for another installment of Night at the Museum, a series of monthly events for UI students that occurs on Thursday nights, when the museum is open late. This month, we're celebrating Valentine's Day for a whole week! We're giving students the chance to show what artworks they love in our galleries, as well as the opportunity to make their own art. Visit the Stanley Museum of HeARTs anytime during the week — we'll have paper hearts available at the front desk for students to leave on...
Feb 14, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa Director's Festival This year's Iowa Director's Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Performance Schedule: Thursday, Feb. 6 – Far Away and Dutchman Friday, Feb. 7 – Tom & Eliza and And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens Saturday, Feb. 8 – Far Away and Dutchman Thursday, Feb. 13 – Tom & Eliza and And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens Friday, Feb. 14 – Far Away and Dutchman Saturday, Feb. 15 – Tom & Eliza and A...
Feb 14, 2025
8:00 PM
Grown Backwards Written and Directed By James Gulden Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, 8 p.m. EFFECT: 1976, The world is forever changed, and a scientist named Emmett's life is turned backwards. CAUSE: 1972, Emmett's family life is on the verge of collapse. He then discovers that time flows against our perception; effect precedes cause. Please be advised that this show contains strong language, derogatory terms, dis...
Feb 14, 2025
8:00 PM
Far Away By Caryl Churchill Directed by Meredith G. Healy Part of this year's Iowa Directors Festival–four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. There is an intermission, followed by the performance of Dutchman. Ever since Joan’s childhood, she has witnessed people doing horrific things in the name of doing what is “right.” Caryl Churchill’s Far Away examines what happens in a world when no one, not even the cats and the rivers, can be trusted. Far A...
Feb 14, 2025
8:00 PM
Dutchman By LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Directed by Josh Turner Part of this year's Iowa Directors Festival–four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. This performance begins after the performance of Far Away and intermission. Traveling on the city subway, everything seems innocent in the conversation between Clay and Lula, but things quickly escalate. Dutchman, by Amiri Baraka, a highly influential and provocative storyteller of the Black experience, ex...
Feb 15, 2025
3:00 PM
Iowa Percussion: Arts Share Community Concert This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 15, 2025
7:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A world of musical influences and ideas come together in this vocalist’s combo of style and substance. A teenaged Cyrille Aimée used to sneak out of her bedroom window to mingle with the jazzers performing at the Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-sur-Seine, France. Since then, she has perfected the intermingling of a h...
Feb 15, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa Director's Festival This year's Iowa Director's Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Performance Schedule: Thursday, Feb. 6 – Far Away and Dutchman Friday, Feb. 7 – Tom & Eliza and And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens Saturday, Feb. 8 – Far Away and Dutchman Thursday, Feb. 13 – Tom & Eliza and And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens Friday, Feb. 14 – Far Away and Dutchman Saturday, Feb. 15 – Tom & Eliza and A...
Feb 15, 2025
8:00 PM
Grown Backwards Written and Directed By James Gulden Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, 8 p.m. EFFECT: 1976, The world is forever changed, and a scientist named Emmett's life is turned backwards. CAUSE: 1972, Emmett's family life is on the verge of collapse. He then discovers that time flows against our perception; effect precedes cause. Please be advised that this show contains strong language, derogatory terms, dis...
Feb 15, 2025
8:00 PM
Tom & Eliza By Celine Song Directed by Kayla Adams Part of this year's Iowa Directors Festival–four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Approximate run time is 50 minutes. There is an intermission, followed by the performance of And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens. Please be advised this performance includes strong sexual language. Tom and Eliza are moving persistently toward the future in their own fantastically twisted journeys. Written b...
Feb 15, 2025
8:00 PM
And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens By Tennessee Williams Directed by Michael C. Flores Part of this year's Iowa Directors Festival–four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Approximate run time is 60 minutes. This performance begins after the performance of Tom & Eliza and intermission. Please be advised this performance includes strong language, sexual language, onstage violence including the depiction of an assault, themes of gender identi...
Feb 15, 2025
9:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A world of musical influences and ideas come together in this vocalist’s combo of style and substance. A teenaged Cyrille Aimée used to sneak out of her bedroom window to mingle with the jazzers performing at the Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-sur-Seine, France. Since then, she has perfected the intermingling of a h...
Feb 16, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Drawing Salon focuses on drawing artworks from the museum's collection. Each session will focus on a different artwork. The sessions will begin with an introduction and discussion of the selected work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue their own visions and to take inspiration from the artworks in the gallery. Pencils and sketchbooks/paper are the only artmaking materials allowed in the galleries. The museum has golf pencils with erasers and clipboards for participants to use. S...
Feb 16, 2025
7:30 PM
Center for New Music Ensemble III More concert details can be viewed here on the Center for New Music website: https://cnm.uiowa.edu/ This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 16, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $30 / $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Presented in collaboration with University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program The Schumann Quartet relishes the connection between artists and audiences. “A work really develops only in a live performance,” the members of the German quartet say. “That is ‘the real thing,’ because we ourselves never know what will happen. On the st...
Feb 17, 2025
7:00 PM
Emily Mester, alum of the Nonfiction Writing Program will read from her new debut essay collection American Bulk at Prairie Lights Books on Monday, Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. American Bulk introduces readers to a striking new literary talent from the American heartland, one who dares to ask us to regard consumption not with guilt but with grace and empathy.
Feb 17, 2025
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
What does it look and sound like for a School of Music to make and hold space for Indigenous sound practices? Using a few personal case studies, Alexa Woloshyn will discuss the limits and possibilities of anti-colonial solidarity, especially through collaboration with Indigenous nations and organizations such as powwow drum group Thunder Nation and the Cold Spring Dancers from the Seneca Nation of Indians. She will highlight themes of joy, resistance, and resurgence while also acknowledging ...
Feb 17, 2025
7:30 PM
Faculty Solo: Ksenia Nosikova, Piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 18, 2025
1:00 PM
Schumann Quartet plays Beethoven Tuesday, Feb. 18 | 1 p.m. Presented by Hancher and the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program This event is featured in Iowa City's Free Week Winter Arts & Culture Festival. Presented by X Marks the Arts, Free Week showcases a celebration of music, theater, film, literature, visual arts, and more. FREE & Open to the Public | Limited Capacity During the hour-long free concert, the Schumann Quartet will be playing excerpts from their upcom...
Feb 19, 2025
7:30 PM
UI Symphony Orchestra This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public, and is featured in Iowa City's Free Week Winter Arts & Culture Festival. Presented by X Marks the Arts, Free Week showcases a celebration of music, theater, film, literature, visual arts, and more.
Feb 20, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Join us for an inspiring conversation with acclaimed choreographer and disabled artist Jerron Herman, an artist compelled to create images of freedom. Jerron has premiered works at Danspace Project, PSNY, and The Whitney Museum. Jerron has activated museums like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum and Guggenheim with daring interdisciplinary installations. Jerron is also the choreographer and co-director of Sensorium Ex, a new opera composed by Paola Prestini with li...
Feb 20, 2025
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Interested in learning about the ancient art practice of weaving? The Stanley has partnered with ICDD for the upcoming Free Week – a winter festival offering free programming at over 15 venues, celebrating Downtown Iowa City’s Cultural & Entertainment District from February 18 - 22, 2025. Weaver and Graduate Assistant at the Stanley Museum of Art, Melanie Landsittel, will lead a workshop featuring many types of DIY looms and demonstrate the process of weaving. Visitors will be shown how to...
Feb 20, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A regular at the comedy clubs of Los Angeles and New York City, a comic adds Club Hancher to her list. Zainab Johnson’s comedy is based on her unique point-of-view, which was shaped as she was growing up in Harlem as one of 13 siblings in a black Muslim family. Johnson’s first special, Hijabs Off, premiered on Amazon Pri...
Feb 20, 2025
7:30 PM
Optional Recital: Natalie Roth, trumpet This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 20, 2025
8:00 PM
Ten-Minute Play Festival by Undergraduate Playwrights This year's festival is featured in Iowa City's Free Week Winter Arts & Culture Festival. Presented by X Marks the Arts, Free Week showcases a celebration of music, theater, film, literature, visual arts, and more. February 20, 21, 22 at 8:00 p.m. February 23 at 2:00 p.m. Alan MacVey Theatre Theatre Building The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 28th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for ...
Feb 21, 2025
7:00 PM
The Nonfiction Writing Program presents a reading with Dodie Bellamy, NWP Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor and author of numerous books including When the Sick Rule the World. Join us at the Nonfiction Writing House (530 N. Clinton St.) on Friday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. for the reading, which is part of the Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction.
Feb 21, 2025
7:00 PM
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum, Steven Duong will read from his debut book of poetry, At the End of the World There is a Pond. Steven Duong is a writer from San Diego. He is the author of At the End of the World There is a Pond, published by W. W. Norton in January 2025. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Guernica, and the Yale Review. His short fiction is published in Catapult, The Drift, and The Best American Short Stories 2024. The recipient of fellowships from The Acad...
Feb 21, 2025
8:00 PM
Ten-Minute Play Festival by Undergraduate Playwrights This year's festival is featured in Iowa City's Free Week Winter Arts & Culture Festival. Presented by X Marks the Arts, Free Week showcases a celebration of music, theater, film, literature, visual arts, and more. February 20, 21, 22 at 8:00 p.m. February 23 at 2:00 p.m. Alan MacVey Theatre Theatre Building The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 28th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for ...
Feb 22, 2025
6:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $50 Students & Youth $10 (includes the performances and a catered dinner) Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Presented in collaboration with Feed Me Weird Things Hancher and Feed Me Weird Things present a totally unique evening of music and food. Witness two distinct sets of music that track Chicago's broad and visonary jazz tradition; in between musicals sets, the audience will enjoy a community di...
Feb 22, 2025
6:30 PM
UI School of Music Showcase Concert - Iowa Symphony Band & Concert Band This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public, featured in Iowa City's Free Week Winter Arts & Culture Festival. Presented by X Marks the Arts, Free Week showcases a celebration of music, theater, film, literature, visual arts, and more.
Feb 22, 2025
8:00 PM
Ten-Minute Play Festival by Undergraduate Playwrights This year's festival is featured in Iowa City's Free Week Winter Arts & Culture Festival. Presented by X Marks the Arts, Free Week showcases a celebration of music, theater, film, literature, visual arts, and more. February 20, 21, 22 at 8:00 p.m. February 23 at 2:00 p.m. Alan MacVey Theatre Theatre Building The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 28th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for ...
Feb 23, 2025
1:30 PM
Iowa Honor Band Concert This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 23, 2025
2:00 PM
Ten-Minute Play Festival by Undergraduate Playwrights This year's festival is featured in Iowa City's Free Week Winter Arts & Culture Festival. Presented by X Marks the Arts, Free Week showcases a celebration of music, theater, film, literature, visual arts, and more. February 20, 21, 22 at 8:00 p.m. February 23 at 2:00 p.m. Alan MacVey Theatre Theatre Building The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 28th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for ...
Feb 23, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Spring Semester! Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry....
Feb 23, 2025
5:30 PM
DMA Qualifying Recital: Wendi Griffiths, voice This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 23, 2025
7:30 PM
Composers' Workshop III More concert details can be viewed here on the Center for New Music website: https://cnm.uiowa.edu/ This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 25, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Join us for a reading and discussion, co-sponsored by Prairie Lights, to celebrate recent works from Brady G’Sell and Meena Khandelwal, faculty in the University of Iowa Department of Anthropology and the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Program. After the reading, Elana Buch, associate professor of anthropology, will join G’Sell and Khandelwal for a conversation and Q&A with the audience. Light refreshments will follow. 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubu...
Feb 25, 2025
7:30 PM
Faculty Oboe Recital, Dr. David Cyzak David Cyzak, oboe Alan Huckleberry, piano Jean-François Charles, electronics David Cyzak, narrator Volkan Orhon, narrator This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 26, 2025
7:30 PM
Optional Recital: Nathan Carterette & Neil Krzeski, piano Nathan Carterette, piano Neil Krzeski, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 27, 2025
7:00 PM
Authors, Lewis Robinson and Aaron McCollough will read from their newest books. Lewis Robinson is the author of Officer Friendly and Other Stories and Water Dogs. His newest book, The Islanders was published by Islandport Press in 2023. He is a Writers' Workshop alum and winner of a Whiting Award, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Book Review, and on the Nationa...
Feb 27, 2025
7:30 PM
Guest Chamber Recital: Lawrence Graduate Bayreuth Tuben Quintet Lydia van Dreel, Wagner tuba Leander Staff, Wagner tuba Maddy Tarantelli, Wagner tuba Ann Ellsworth, Wagner tuba Kyra Sims, Wagner tuba This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 27, 2025
7:30 PM
The University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program is pleased to announce that writers Grace Glass and Sasha Tycko have won the 2024 Krause Essay Prize for their essay “Not One Tree,” which appeared in n+1. Sasha and Grace will be honored at the Krause Essay Prize award ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Iowa Old Capitol Senate Chambers, where they will present their winning essay. There they will receive the Prize’s $10,000 award and each will receive an inscri...
Feb 28, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Adults $25 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Reframing the boxing ring as a site for a duet rather than a duel, Touch of RED bring vulnerability to the fore. Shamel Pitts — a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in choreography — founded the multidisciplinary arts collective TRIBE in 2019. Touch of RED is the beautiful new entry in Pitts’s and TRIBE’s ongoing Red Series, which explores Black multiplicity and human connection. Touch of RED is a duet for Black men who come toge...
Feb 28, 2025
7:30 PM
UI Jazz Combos Feat. Marion Hayden This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 28, 2025
8:00 PM
The Indoctrination of Bananas By Søren Olsen Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 2, 2025, 8 p.m. When two groups of humanoids stumble upon a delightful fruit — a banana — their lives genuinely seem to improve. However, one group’s obsession with this newfound fruit soon overtakes their intellect. What began as one of life’s simple joys is sucked into a vacuum of “rights and wrongs.” Rituals form, rel...
Mar 1, 2025
11:30 AM
DMA III Recital: McKenna Blenk, percussion Anabel Perez-Brennan, percussion Ava Chopskie, percussion Jenna Springer, percussion This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 1, 2025
1:30 PM
Senior Recital: Larissa Myers, trombone This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 1, 2025
5:30 PM
Senior Recital: Ben Copeland, trombone This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 1, 2025
5:30 PM
DMA III Recital: R. Nathan Brown, tenor R. Nathan Brown, tenor Halie Augustus, piano Lily Schloss, soprano Presley Pritchett Peterson, soprano Allison Wright, mezzo-soprano This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 1, 2025
7:30 PM
Johnson County Landmark This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 1, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Adults $25 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Reframing the boxing ring as a site for a duet rather than a duel, Touch of RED bring vulnerability to the fore. Shamel Pitts — a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in choreography — founded the multidisciplinary arts collective TRIBE in 2019. Touch of RED is the beautiful new entry in Pitts’s and TRIBE’s ongoing Red Series, which explores Black multiplicity and human connection. Touch of RED is a duet for Black men who come toge...
Mar 1, 2025
8:00 PM
The Indoctrination of Bananas By Søren Olsen Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 2, 2025, 8 p.m. When two groups of humanoids stumble upon a delightful fruit — a banana — their lives genuinely seem to improve. However, one group’s obsession with this newfound fruit soon overtakes their intellect. What began as one of life’s simple joys is sucked into a vacuum of “rights and wrongs.” Rituals form, rel...
Mar 2, 2025
1:30 PM
Key Change: Piano Revolutionaries Series, Concert #4 This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 2, 2025
2:00 PM
The Indoctrination of Bananas By Søren Olsen Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 2, 2025, 8 p.m. When two groups of humanoids stumble upon a delightful fruit — a banana — their lives genuinely seem to improve. However, one group’s obsession with this newfound fruit soon overtakes their intellect. What began as one of life’s simple joys is sucked into a vacuum of “rights and wrongs.” Rituals form, rel...
Mar 2, 2025
3:30 PM
Senior Recital: Ani Perez-Brennan, percussion This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 2, 2025
5:30 PM
Masters Recital: Keelie Kruse, horn This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 3, 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Criticism Today presents Professor Larry Scanlon (Rutgers University) as he explores the power and relevance of medieval realism in literature. Drawing on ideas from theorists like Roland Barthes and Marxist thinkers Fredric Jameson and Anna Kornbluh, Scanlon will discuss how late medieval texts — especially the poem Cleanness and its retelling of the Sodom story — offer fresh insights into realism and culture.
Mar 3, 2025
7:30 PM
Black Pop Music Ensemble This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 3, 2025
7:30 PM
DMA Qualifying Recital: Erik Lopez, bassoon This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 4, 2025
7:00 PM
Our Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session, joined by students, alumni, community members, and musicians passing through Iowa City. All members of the community are welcome for this free community event, hosted the first Tuesday of each month during the school year at the Wilder — a restaurant and bar located on the ground floor of the Graduate Hotel, on Iowa City's downtown pedestrian mall. To learn more or if you are interested in jamming, get in touch wit...
Mar 4, 2025
7:30 PM
Guest Artist Recital: Kristin Leitterman, oboe and voice This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 5, 2025
7:30 PM
Telegraph Quartet The University of Iowa String Quarter Residency Program presents the Telegraph Quartet. Learn more about the Telegraph Quartet here: https://www.telegraphquartet.com/ This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 7, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Children are invited to build their very own tin box robots using tin boxes, bolts, and a variety of other hardware. This inventive artmaking program encourages young artists to explore their imaginations and transform everyday materials into whimsical robot sculptures. Perfect for kids of all ages and skill levels, this hands-on activity promises a day of fun, creativity, and discovery. Space is limited; please reserve your spot at https://uiowa.doubleknot.com/event/schools-out-at-the-stan...
Mar 7, 2025
7:00 PM
Authors, Alyssa Perry and Daisy Atterbury will read from their newest work. Alyssa Perry is a writer, editor, and teacher from Iowa. She is the author of Oily Doily (Bench Editions, 2024). Her writing appears with Annulet, The Canary, Coma, Fence, Mercury Firs, River Styx, the Experimental Sound Studio, and other venues. Perry is poetry editor at the Cleveland Review of Books and an editor at the small press publisher Rescue Press. She is an alum of the Writers' Workshop and lives in Ohio, ...
Mar 7, 2025
7:30 PM
Kantorei Concert: Dr. Timothy Stalter, conductor This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 7, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Direct from Broadway, Mean Girls is the hilarious hit musical from book writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde), and original director and choreographer Cas...
Mar 7, 2025
8:00 PM
Side Show Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Henry Krieger Vocal and Dance Arrangements by David Chase Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler Directed by Paul Kalina Daisy and Violet Hilton, a pair of conjoined twins, have lived their lives in the spotlight, excelling from Freak Show oddities to Vaudeville stars. As the sisters struggle to navigate their new path beyond the Freak Show, Daisy and Violet face outside forces and new desires that threaten to tear them apart — figuratively ...
Mar 8, 2025
11:30 AM
Senior Recital: Jun Le, Piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 8, 2025
1:30 PM
Optional Recital: Sarah Zhang, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 8, 2025
2:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Direct from Broadway, Mean Girls is the hilarious hit musical from book writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde), and original director and choreographer Cas...
Mar 8, 2025
3:30 PM
Senior Recital: Madison Brady, cello Madison Brady, cello Adeleine Hitchman, cello This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 8, 2025
5:30 PM
Masters Recital: Rebekah Webster, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 8, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Direct from Broadway, Mean Girls is the hilarious hit musical from book writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde), and original director and choreographer Cas...
Mar 8, 2025
7:30 PM
Honors Recital: Sara Sample, clarinet This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 8, 2025
8:00 PM
Side Show Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Henry Krieger Vocal and Dance Arrangements by David Chase Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler Directed by Paul Kalina Daisy and Violet Hilton, a pair of conjoined twins, have lived their lives in the spotlight, excelling from Freak Show oddities to Vaudeville stars. As the sisters struggle to navigate their new path beyond the Freak Show, Daisy and Violet face outside forces and new desires that threaten to tear them apart — figuratively ...
Mar 9, 2025
1:30 PM
Piano Sundays at the Old Capitol Piano Sundays returns for the 2024-25 season! The University of Iowa School of Music, in partnership with the Old Capitol Museum and West Music, is proud to host this annual tradition. Performances will be held in the beautiful Old Capitol Museum Senate Chamber this year, performed on their historic, rebuilt Steinway grand piano “Rose.” This is an incredible opportunity for the community to see and hear the university’s talented piano students and faculty in...
Mar 9, 2025
2:00 PM
Side Show Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Henry Krieger Vocal and Dance Arrangements by David Chase Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler Directed by Paul Kalina Daisy and Violet Hilton, a pair of conjoined twins, have lived their lives in the spotlight, excelling from Freak Show oddities to Vaudeville stars. As the sisters struggle to navigate their new path beyond the Freak Show, Daisy and Violet face outside forces and new desires that threaten to tear them apart — figuratively ...
Mar 9, 2025
2:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Direct from Broadway, Mean Girls is the hilarious hit musical from book writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde), and original director and choreographer Cas...
Mar 9, 2025
3:00 PM
Guest Chamber Recital: Salley Koo, violin; and Alexander Solomon, piano Salley Koo - violin Alexander Solomon - piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 9, 2025
3:00 PM
The River Valley Chapter of The American Guild of Organists will honor local church musicians (Organists, Pianists, Vocal/Bell Choir Directors, Music Directors, etc.) who have served a combined 15+ years in any of these positions by presenting the “All Creation Sings” concert in the Voxman Music Building's Concert Hall. A gorgeous Klais organ, installed in 2016, is both a masterpiece and the centerpiece of Concert Hall. Learn more about the organ here.
Mar 9, 2025
5:30 PM
Optional Recital: Chaylie Lippert, Piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 9, 2025
7:30 PM
Center for New Music Ensemble IV More concert details can be viewed here on the Center for New Music website: https://cnm.uiowa.edu/ This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 10, 2025
7:00 PM
Writers' Workshop alum, Curtis Sittenfeld will read from her latest book, Show Don't Tell A funny, fiercely intelligent, and moving collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition—including a story that revisits the main character from Curtis Sittenfeld’s iconic novel Prep “[Sittenfeld’s] perfectly contained stories are a joy.”—Booklist, starred review Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of seven novels: Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland,...
Mar 10, 2025
7:30 PM
Jazz Repertory Ensemble This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 11, 2025
6:30 PM
Corridor Jazz Concert Eastern Iowa's biggest jazz event! The Corridor Jazz concert features the top jazz bands from City High, Clear Creek-Amana, Liberty, Lisbon, Mid-Prairie, Mt. Vernon, Solon, West Branch, West Liberty, and West High in their only joint performance of the year, performing with some of Iowa's top musicians, including several members of the UI faculty and jazz program. The Corridor Jazz Project is produced by KCCK-FM, Iowa's Jazz Station and hosted by the UI School of Music...
Mar 11, 2025
7:00 PM
Authors, GC Waldrep & Karen An-Hwei Lee will read from their latest work. G.C. Waldrep was born and raised in the South. He earned his BA from Harvard University, a PhD in history from Duke University, and an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. His collections of poetry include Goldbeater’s Skin (2003), which won the Colorado Prize for Poetry; Disclamor (2007); Archicembalo (2009), winner of the Dorset Prize; Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (2011), a collaborative book of poems wi...
Mar 11, 2025
7:30 PM
Faculty and Guest Artist Recital: Avita Duo: Ksenia Nosikova, piano; and Katya Moeller, violin This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 11, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Adults $95 / $75 Students & Youth $10 Program: Ronald K. Brown: Grace (1990) Lar Lubovitch: Many Angels (2024) Alvin Ailey: Revelations (1960) Part of Hancher's 52nd Season The company that carries forward the name of master modern dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey is — to put it simply — simply breathtaking. Whether performing work by today’s most innovative choreographers or performing work by its founder — including the timelessly relevant and breathtaking Revelat...
Mar 12, 2025
7:00 PM
Laura Julier, alum of the Nonfiction Writing Program will read from her new book Off Izaak Walton Road (University of New Mexico Press) at Prairie Lights Books on Wednesday, March 12 at 7 p.m. Laura Julier’s (PhD 1988) book, Off Izaak Walton Road, won this year’s River Teeth Nonfiction Book Award, judged by writer Lacy M. Johnson, and will be published by the University of New Mexico Press in March 2025.
Mar 12, 2025
7:30 PM
This event has been cancelled.
Mar 13, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join us for another installment of Night at the Museum, a series of monthly events for students that occur on Thursday nights, when the museum is open late. In honor of Women’s History Month, we're teaming up with the Women's Resource and Action Center (WRAC) and the Iowa Women's Archives (IWA) to host a collage night! We will provide copies of historical materials to pick through, along with journals to work in. If you're already an avid journaler (or junk-journaler), you are welcomed to b...
Mar 13, 2025
5:30 PM
Joint Recital - Music by Female Composers Cécile Chaminade - Six Pièces Romantiques Op. 55 for piano four hands Yi Chen - Memory, for solo flute Yuko Uébayash - Flute Sonata, mvmts I and IV This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 13, 2025
7:30 PM
Faculty Chamber Performance Jamie Clark, cello Scott Conklin, violin Alan Huckleberry, piano Doreen Lee, piano Kenny Lee, cello Elizabeth Oakes, viola Christine Rutledge, viola Katie Wolfe, violin Volkan Orhon, bass Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, by Franz Schubert (The Trout) Piano Quintet in C Minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 13, 2025
8:00 PM
Side Show Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Henry Krieger Vocal and Dance Arrangements by David Chase Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler Directed by Paul Kalina Daisy and Violet Hilton, a pair of conjoined twins, have lived their lives in the spotlight, excelling from Freak Show oddities to Vaudeville stars. As the sisters struggle to navigate their new path beyond the Freak Show, Daisy and Violet face outside forces and new desires that threaten to tear them apart — figuratively ...
Mar 13, 2025
8:00 PM
Death Surrogates By Cianon Jones Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Mar. 13, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 14, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 15, 2025, 2 p.m. Another tale: of stories & dreams; of reclamation & power; of existence & healing. Tickets: Tickets for workshops and galleries are free of charge; however, you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited.
Mar 13, 2025
8:00 PM
Thesis II Concert – Katelyn Perez, Mariana Tejeda, and Joshua Culbreath Joshua Culbreath will be performing on Friday, March 14. Thursday, March 13 and Saturday, March 15 will feature works by Katelyn Perez and Mariana Tejeda. All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Mar 14, 2025
5:00 PM
Have you been waiting all school year to make serious progress on your book manuscript, article, or grant application? Jump-start your summer writing project at the Obermann End-of-Year Writing Retreat May 12–16, 2025! Fifteen participants will enjoy a week of quiet productivity apart from the distractions of campus at the beautiful North Ridge Pavilion in Coralville. Daily catered lunches will provide an opportunity for exchange and discussion with other writers across campus. Each day wil...
Mar 14, 2025
8:00 PM
Side Show Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Henry Krieger Vocal and Dance Arrangements by David Chase Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler Directed by Paul Kalina Daisy and Violet Hilton, a pair of conjoined twins, have lived their lives in the spotlight, excelling from Freak Show oddities to Vaudeville stars. As the sisters struggle to navigate their new path beyond the Freak Show, Daisy and Violet face outside forces and new desires that threaten to tear them apart — figuratively ...
Mar 14, 2025
8:00 PM
Death Surrogates By Cianon Jones Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Mar. 13, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 14, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 15, 2025, 2 p.m. Another tale: of stories & dreams; of reclamation & power; of existence & healing. Tickets: Tickets for workshops and galleries are free of charge; however, you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited.
Mar 14, 2025
8:00 PM
Thesis II Concert – Katelyn Perez, Mariana Tejeda, and Joshua Culbreath Joshua Culbreath will be performing on Friday, March 14. Thursday, March 13 and Saturday, March 15 will feature works by Katelyn Perez and Mariana Tejeda. All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Mar 15, 2025
8:00 PM
Side Show Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Henry Krieger Vocal and Dance Arrangements by David Chase Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler Directed by Paul Kalina Daisy and Violet Hilton, a pair of conjoined twins, have lived their lives in the spotlight, excelling from Freak Show oddities to Vaudeville stars. As the sisters struggle to navigate their new path beyond the Freak Show, Daisy and Violet face outside forces and new desires that threaten to tear them apart — figuratively ...
Mar 15, 2025
8:00 PM
Death Surrogates By Cianon Jones Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Mar. 13, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 14, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 15, 2025, 2 p.m. Another tale: of stories & dreams; of reclamation & power; of existence & healing. Tickets: Tickets for workshops and galleries are free of charge; however, you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited.
Mar 15, 2025
8:00 PM
Thesis II Concert – Katelyn Perez, Mariana Tejeda, and Joshua Culbreath Joshua Culbreath will be performing on Friday, March 14. Thursday, March 13 and Saturday, March 15 will feature works by Katelyn Perez and Mariana Tejeda. All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Mar 16, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Drawing Salon focuses on drawing artworks from the museum's collection. Each session will focus on a different artwork. The sessions will begin with an introduction and discussion of the selected work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue their own visions and to take inspiration from the artworks in the gallery. Pencils and sketchbooks/paper are the only artmaking materials allowed in the galleries. The museum has golf pencils with erasers and clipboards for participants to use. S...
Mar 19, 2025
All Day
We are hosting the American Music Therapy Association Midwestern Region 2025 Conference in Voxman Music Building. The keynote is a therapeutic singing extravaganza bringing together over 100+ choir of people with disabilities and their music therapy directors, on Friday, March 21 at 12:30 in the Concert Hall. More info at https://mw-amta.com/conference/
Mar 23, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Spring Semester! Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry....
Mar 24, 2025
6:00 PM
Mary Jo Bang and Yuki Tanaka will discuss their translation of, A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi, the first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English. Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems—including A Film in Which I Play Everyone, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, a PEN Voelcker Award, and the Heartland Booksellers Award, A Doll for Throwing, and Elegy which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She’s pub...
Mar 25, 2025
10:00 AM
Have you ever wondered why so many animals were so large? How did humans hunt them for food or other resources? This presentation will examine what Iowa was like during the “Ice Age” nearly 13,000 years ago when people began moving into Iowa. Cherie Haury-Artz from the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist will talk about plants and animals that lived here and examine some samples of megafauna that have been excavated in Iowa. She will also show some of the tools that these e...
Mar 26, 2025
7:30 PM
Iowa Symphony Band This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 27, 2025
5:30 PM
This event has been canceled.
Mar 27, 2025
6:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $30 / $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Intensity and refinement are hallmarks of one of the world’s most electrifying string quartets. Adept at balancing individual expression with respectful renderings of a composer’s work, the Jerusalem Quartet brings an evening of Dimitri Shostakovich’s searingly intense music to Hancher’s intimate onstage experience. The ensemble will pe...
Mar 27, 2025
8:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $30 / $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Intensity and refinement are hallmarks of one of the world’s most electrifying string quartets. Adept at balancing individual expression with respectful renderings of a composer’s work, the Jerusalem Quartet brings an evening of Dimitri Shostakovich’s searingly intense music to Hancher’s intimate onstage experience. The ensemble will pe...
Mar 28, 2025
7:30 PM
The Englert, Auditorium Seating
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $25 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season In cooperation with Riverside Theatre & the Englert Theatre Written by August Wilson and directed by Lili-Anne Brown. The Acting Company is the only professional theater principally dedicated to the development of young classical actors. Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley from the first graduating class of the Drama Division ...
Mar 28, 2025
8:00 PM
Thesis III Concert – Emily Culbreath All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Mar 29, 2025
12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Masterclass: Midwest Winds USAF This masterclass is free and open to the public.
Mar 29, 2025
3:00 PM
Key Change: Piano Revolutionaries Series, Concert #5 This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 29, 2025
3:30 PM
DMA II Recital - True Crime in Concert: Caleb Haselhuhn, baritone Caleb Haselhuhn, baritone Halie Augustus, piano Adam Griffiths, tenor This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This is free and open to the public.
Mar 29, 2025
7:30 PM
The Englert, Auditorium Seating
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $25 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season In cooperation with Riverside Theatre & the Englert Theatre Written by William Shakespeare, adapted by Christina Anderson, and directed by Devin Brain The Acting Company is the only professional theater principally dedicated to the development of young classical actors. Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley from the first gradua...
Mar 29, 2025
7:30 PM
Cello Dayz Concert This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 29, 2025
8:00 PM
Thesis III Concert – Emily Culbreath All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Mar 30, 2025
1:00 PM
Performing Arts at Iowa's Donor Recognition Performance This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 30, 2025
1:30 PM
DMA Viola Recital: Rebecca Vieker This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 30, 2025
5:00 PM
University Choir Concert: Dr. David Puderbaugh, conductor This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 31, 2025
7:00 PM
Stuart Nadler will read from his new novel, Rooms for Vanishing. Stuart Nadler is a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation, and the author of two novels, Wise Men and The Inseparables, and a story collection, The Book of Life. His work has been named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and an Amazon Book of the Year. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow and a Teachi...
Mar 31, 2025
7:30 PM
UI Symphony Orchestra This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 1, 2025
7:00 PM
Our Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session, joined by students, alumni, community members, and musicians passing through Iowa City. All members of the community are welcome for this free community event, hosted the first Tuesday of each month during the school year at the Wilder — a restaurant and bar located on the ground floor of the Graduate Hotel, on Iowa City's downtown pedestrian mall. To learn more or if you are interested in jamming, get in touch wit...
Apr 1, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Free tickets (limit two) will be available from the Hancher Box Office beginning March 3 at 10 a.m. Part of the Levitt Lecture Series Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Mara Liasson is the national political correspondent for NPR and a contributor to Fox News Channel. She joined Fox in 1997 and serves as a panelist on Special Report with Brett Baier and Fox News Sunday, Fox Broadcasting Company's public affairs program that airs nationwide each Sunday morning. Liasson joined NPR in ...
Apr 1, 2025
7:30 PM
Guest Oboe Recital: Dr. Andrew Parker, Louisiana State University This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 2, 2025
4:00 PM
Literary Agent William Callahan will be giving a Publishing Q&A at the Nonfiction Writing House on Wednesday, April 2 at 4 p.m. William Callahan is an Inkwell Management agent and editor based in New York City. He is responsible for representing and managing the careers of a diverse roster of authors and literary talents. Prior to his current role, Callahan received his degree from the University of Iowa, where he honed his skills and passion for the publishing industry. Join us at the Nonf...
Apr 2, 2025
7:00 PM
Karen Russell will read from her new novel, The Antidote, in conversation with Kaveh Akbar. Karen Russell is the author of five books of fiction, including the NYT bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the recipient of two National Magazine Awards for Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, the 2023 Bottari Lattes Grinzane prize, the 2024 Mary McCarthy Award, and selected for the National B...
Apr 2, 2025
7:30 PM
Joint Chamber Recital: Dolce Brass Bryson Kinnan, tuba Elliot Baughman, trombone Bradley Balster, euphonium Emily Bach, trumpet Natalie Roth, trumpet This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 3, 2025
7:30 PM
Guest Artist Recital: Yu Tamaki Hoso, trombone This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 4, 2025
7:30 PM
Live Fieldwork in Astromusicology This concert is free and open to the public. Ritwik Banerji is an experimental ethnographer, interactive media artist, and improviser. He is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Iowa State University. His scholarship appears in Jazz and Culture, Anthropology in Action, Jazz Perspectives, The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures, and Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, among other venues. As an artis...
Apr 4, 2025
7:30 PM
Optional Recital: Anna Marine, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 5, 2025
3:00 PM
Iowa Percussion Spectacular This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 5, 2025
3:30 PM
This event has been canceled.
Apr 5, 2025
7:30 PM
Oboe Studio Recital This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 6, 2025
1:30 PM
Piano Sundays at the Old Capitol Piano Sundays returns for the 2024-25 season! The University of Iowa School of Music, in partnership with the Old Capitol Museum and West Music, is proud to host this annual tradition. Performances will be held in the beautiful Old Capitol Museum Senate Chamber this year, performed on their historic, rebuilt Steinway grand piano “Rose.” This is an incredible opportunity for the community to see and hear the university’s talented piano students and faculty in...
Apr 6, 2025
5:30 PM
Joint Optional Recital: Finley Marie Rose McVay, soprano; Raimundo San Martin Montero, tenor Finley Marie Rose McVay, soprano Raimundo San Martin Montero, tenor Halie Augustus, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 6, 2025
7:30 PM
Clarinet Studio Recital This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 7, 2025
7:30 PM
Faculty Chamber Concert: Sanders, Rutledge, Arnone, and Lee Jeremiah Sanders, baritone Christine Rutledge, viola Anthony Arnone, cello Doreen Lee, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 8, 2025
7:30 PM
Guest Chamber Recital: Akropolis Reed Quintet This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 9, 2025
5:00 PM
Obermann Center Working Groups provide space, structure, and discretionary funding ($500 per year for 3 years) for groups led by faculty that may include advanced graduate students, staff members, and community members with a shared intellectual interest. Groups have used this opportunity to explore new work and to share their own research, to organize a symposium, and to develop grant proposals. This program allows participants from across the campus and beyond to explore complex issues at ...
Apr 9, 2025
7:00 PM
Chris Offutt will read from his new novel, The Reluctant Sheriff. Chris Offutt grew up in Haldeman, Kentucky, population 200, a former mining town in the Appalachian hills. His books include Shifty's Boys, The Killing Hills, Country Dark, Kentucky Straight, Out of the Woods, The Good Brother, The Same River Twice, No Heroes, and My Father the Pornographer. He wrote and produced scripts for True Blood, Weeds, and Treme. His television work was nominated for an Emmy. His work is in many ant...
Apr 10, 2025
5:30 PM
Masterclass: Faina Lushtak, Piano This event is free and open to the public.
Apr 10, 2025
7:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A Grammy Award-winning artist with a one-of-a-kind sound — whether she is singing in English or Spanish. When Gaby Moreno finished singing at the Premiere Ceremony of the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, host Justin Tranter had this to say: “Guys, that’s one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. Her voice is so beaut...
Apr 10, 2025
9:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A Grammy Award-winning artist with a one-of-a-kind sound — whether she is singing in English or Spanish. When Gaby Moreno finished singing at the Premiere Ceremony of the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, host Justin Tranter had this to say: “Guys, that’s one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. Her voice is so beaut...
Apr 11, 2025
5:30 PM
Senior Recital: Sophia Davis, voice Sophia Davis, voice Guoyi Fan, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 11, 2025
7:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A first-call pianist for Wynton and Branford Marsalis takes audiences to the American South via his insistent groove. When we get a text from Branford Marsalis, we pay attention. And when it comes to one of his favorite pianists working today, he told us: “Sean Mason: The real deal. Finally a concept based on actual musi...
Apr 11, 2025
7:00 PM
Writers' Workshop alum, Jonathan Thirkield will read from his latest book, Infinity Pool. Jonathan Thirkield's work explores the boundaries between the human language systems of poetry and code—as forms of expression and as structural models for being. His first collection of poetry, The Waker's Corridor, won the 2008 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His newest collection, Infinity Pool, was published by the University of Chicago Press' Phoenix Poets series in September ...
Apr 11, 2025
7:30 PM
Rita / La colombe Rita by Gaetano Donizetti and La colombe by Charles Gounod Directed by Abbigail Coté Conducted by Kenny Lee The 2024-2025 opera season will close with a spring production of French One Acts: La colombe and Rita. These obscure yet treasured pieces have enjoyed a recent resurgence in the opera canon. Gounod’s sparkling score accompanies a farcical tale of seduction, while Donizetti’s Rita takes a darkly comic look at power dynamics in relationships. Tickets: Adult - $2...
Apr 11, 2025
7:30 PM
Guest Artist Recital: Faina Lushtak, Piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 11, 2025
9:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A first-call pianist for Wynton and Branford Marsalis takes audiences to the American South via his insistent groove. When we get a text from Branford Marsalis, we pay attention. And when it comes to one of his favorite pianists working today, he told us: “Sean Mason: The real deal. Finally a concept based on actual musi...
Apr 12, 2025
11:30 AM
Joint Optional Recital: Brady McSperrin and Elliot Baughman, trombone Brady McSperrin, trombone Elliot Baughman, trombone This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 12, 2025
3:30 PM
Joint Optional Recital: Isabella Anderson and Ella Boesen, flute Isabella Anderson, flute Ella Boesen, flute This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 12, 2025
5:00 PM
Thesis IV Concert – Sophia McLaughlin This performance is free and open to the public. Rain date is April 13 at 5 p.m.
Apr 12, 2025
7:30 PM
Rita / La colombe Rita by Gaetano Donizetti and La colombe by Charles Gounod Directed by Abbigail Coté Conducted by Kenny Lee The 2024-2025 opera season will close with a spring production of French One Acts: La colombe and Rita. These obscure yet treasured pieces have enjoyed a recent resurgence in the opera canon. Gounod’s sparkling score accompanies a farcical tale of seduction, while Donizetti’s Rita takes a darkly comic look at power dynamics in relationships. Tickets: Adult - $2...
Apr 12, 2025
7:30 PM
Senior Recital: Lauren Carley, oboe This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 12, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Adults $20 Students & youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd season Awash in both loss and hope, a distinctive singer-songwriter changes the weather in Club Hancher. Emerging out of Toronto’s vibrant folk scene, Tamara Lindeman, who performs as The Weather Station, debuted a moody, introspective sound with her independently released East EP in 2008. Loyalty, released in 2015, was the first Weather Station album to receive both American and European release and became a critical break...
Apr 12, 2025
7:30 PM
DMA Percussion Chamber Recital: Miles Bohlman Miles Bohlman, percussion McKenna Blenk, percussion Evan Tanner, percussion Ani Perez-Brenna, percussion Sean Everson, percussion Eric Luminais, Flute This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 13, 2025
2:00 PM
Rita / La colombe Rita by Gaetano Donizetti and La colombe by Charles Gounod Directed by Abbigail Coté Conducted by Kenny Lee The 2024-2025 opera season will close with a spring production of French One Acts: La colombe and Rita. These obscure yet treasured pieces have enjoyed a recent resurgence in the opera canon. Gounod’s sparkling score accompanies a farcical tale of seduction, while Donizetti’s Rita takes a darkly comic look at power dynamics in relationships. Tickets: Adult - $2...
Apr 13, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $65 / $45 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season The champion of chamber orchestras and a virtuosic violinist come together for a program of Baroque and Classical masterworks. The violinist, countertenor, and early music specialist Dmitry Sinkovsky joins one of the finest chamber ensembles you’ll find anywhere. Sinkovsky’s technical ability, expressiveness, and sheer speed will be on ...
Apr 14, 2025
7:30 PM
Hawk Combo/Combo Workshop Curtis Taylor, director Michael D'Angelo, director This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 15, 2025
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Join the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Office of the Provost as we celebrate faculty who have published books since spring 2023. University leadership will make remarks at 5 p.m., followed by short readings by two early-career scholars who have recently authored books: Sarah E. Bond, associate professor in the Department of History, and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire (Yale University Press, 2025) Jill Wieber Lens, Dorothy M. Wi...
Apr 15, 2025
7:30 PM
Faculty and Guest Chamber Music Recital: Lisa Kozenko, Zoran Jacovcic, Réne Lecuona Lisa Kozenko, Oboé Zoran Jacovcic, viola Réne Lecuona, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 16, 2025
7:30 PM
Campus Symphony Orchestra This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 16, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets on sale to the general public: Monday, July 29, at 10 a.m. Adults $30 / $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Co-commissioned by Hancher Auditorium American bass-baritone Davóne Tines — heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the most powerful voices of our time” — brings together opera, art song, contemporary classical, spirituals, gospel, and songs of protest to tell his deeply personal story of perseverance in ways that embrace all of humanity....
Apr 17, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join us for our last installment of Night at the Museum this academic year, a series of monthly events for UI students that occurs on Thursday nights, when the museum is open late. This month we want to celebrate our student artists! Working with student artists across the University and the Undergraduate Art History Society, we have created our very own student gallery—gallery guide and all! Students are welcome to come in, grab a snack, and see what their peers have created! Interested ...
Apr 17, 2025
5:30 PM
DMA II Recital: Alicia Maiz Alonso, violin Alicia Maiz Alonso, violin Mariya Akhadjanova, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 17, 2025
7:00 PM
Sanjena Sathian will read from her new novel, Goddess Complex, joined in conversation by Ren Arcamone. Sanjena Sathian is the author of the Goddess Complex, published by Penguin Press, and the critically acclaimed novel Gold Diggers, which was named a Top 10 Best Book of 2021 by the Washington Post and longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. It won the Townsend Prize for Fiction. Her short fiction appears in The Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, Conjunctions, On...
Apr 17, 2025
7:30 PM
Iowa Steel Bands Spring Concert This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 17, 2025
7:30 PM
Honors Recital: Lucas Wiese Ibarra, saxophone This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 18, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Hop to it! In this fun and creative workshop, children will transform ordinary socks into adorable bunny friends. Using rice to fill their bodies and buttons for eyes and noses, kids will design and create their own unique and cuddly companions. Space is limited; please reserve your spot at https://uiowa.doubleknot.com/event/schools-out-at-the-stanley-april-18/3... Please arrive in time for children to settle in and begin the project at 2 p.m. School's Out at the Stanley is offered on day...
Apr 18, 2025
5:30 PM
Masters Recital: Jose Medrano, jazz studies Carson Parker, Piano Milo Savage-Webster, Drums Marvin Truong, Saxophone Vincent Malan, Saxophone This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 18, 2025
7:30 PM
Optional Recital: Cole Moorhead, saxophone Cole Moorhead, saxophone Casey Dierlam Tse, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 18, 2025
7:30 PM
Faculty Solo Performance: Benjamin Coelho Benjamin Coelho, bassoon Dunn String Quartet This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 18, 2025
8:00 PM
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a tenuous dialogue about truth and t...
Apr 19, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets on sale to the general public: Monday, July 29, at 10 a.m. Adults $30 / $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season American bass-baritone Davóne Tines — heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the most powerful voices of our time” — brings together opera, art song, contemporary classical, spirituals, gospel, and songs of protest to tell his deeply personal story of perseverance in ways that embrace all of humanity. In Recital No. 1: MASS, Tines offers ...
Apr 19, 2025
7:30 PM
Graduate Recital: Julia Holleman, Tracy Yu Qian, organ This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 19, 2025
8:00 PM
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a tenuous dialogue about truth and t...
Apr 20, 2025
2:00 PM
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a tenuous dialogue about truth and t...
Apr 20, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Drawing Salon focuses on drawing artworks from the museum's collection. Each session will focus on a different artwork. The sessions will begin with an introduction and discussion of the selected work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue their own visions and to take inspiration from the artworks in the gallery. Pencils and sketchbooks/paper are the only artmaking materials allowed in the galleries. The museum has golf pencils with erasers and clipboards for participants to use. S...
Apr 20, 2025
5:30 PM
Senior Recital: Sara Lyons, trumpet This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 20, 2025
7:30 PM
Center for New Music Ensemble IV More concert details can be viewed here on the Center for New Music website: https://cnm.uiowa.edu/ This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 21, 2025
7:00 PM
TICKETS Adults $65 / $45 Students & Youth $20* *Limited availablity Part of Hancher's 52nd season Iron & Wine and Manual Cinema present a beautiful blending of light and shadow. Sam Beam is a singer-songwriter who has been creating music as Iron & Wine for over a decade. Through the course of seven albums, numerous EPs and singles, and the initial volumes of an Archive Series, Iron & Wine has captured the emotion and imagination of listeners with distinctly cinematic songs. That cinem...
Apr 21, 2025
7:30 PM
University Band M. Cory Schmitt, conductor Jarrid Jaynes and Courtney Ridge, guest conductors This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 22, 2025
11:00 AM
School of Music Convocation This event is free and open to the public.
Apr 23, 2025
7:30 PM
Ariel Quartet with Orion Weiss, piano The University of Iowa String Quarter Residency Program presents the Ariel Quarter with Orion Weiss, piano. Learn more about the performers here: https://www.arielquartet.com/ https://www.orionweiss.com/ This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 24, 2025
5:30 PM
DMA Qualifying Recital: Eric Luminais, flute Eric Luminais- Flute Miles Bohlman- Marimba This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 24, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets on sale to the general public: Monday, July 29, at 10 a.m. Adults $30 / $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Featuring a Hancher co-commission It's a superstar team-up as a Hancher-favorite ensemble is joined by our composer-in-residence. The second opportunity of the season to experience Third Coast Percussion (performs with Twyla Tharp Dance) and Jessie Montgomery (performs with PUBLIQuartet), and our 2024–2025 composer-in-residence. The dynamic pr...
Apr 24, 2025
8:00 PM
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a tenuous dialogue about truth and t...
Apr 24, 2025
8:00 PM
Faculty/Grad Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Apr 25, 2025
5:30 PM
Master's Recital: Vincent Malan, saxophone This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 25, 2025
7:00 PM
Writers' Workshop alum, Michelle Herman will read from her latest book, If You Say So. Michelle Herman's newest book, If You Say So, an essay collection, will be out in spring 2025. The author of nine previous books — the novels Missing, Dog, Devotion, and, most recently, Close-Up; the story collection A New and Glorious Life; three earlier collections of essays, The Middle of Everything, Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Like A Song; and a book for children, A Girl’s Guide to Life — she taugh...
Apr 25, 2025
7:30 PM
This event has been cancelled.
Apr 25, 2025
8:00 PM
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a tenuous dialogue about truth and t...
Apr 25, 2025
8:00 PM
Faculty/Grad Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Apr 26, 2025
1:30 PM
Senior Recital: Anna Beth Johnson, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 26, 2025
3:30 PM
Masters Recital: Cal Mason, jazz Joe Shanks: Guitar Sam Ross: Saxophone Ben Williams: Bass This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 26, 2025
7:30 PM
Key Change: Piano Revolutionaries Series, Concert #6 This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 26, 2025
8:00 PM
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a tenuous dialogue about truth and t...
Apr 26, 2025
8:00 PM
Faculty/Grad Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Apr 27, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Spring Semester! Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry....
Apr 27, 2025
3:30 PM
Senior Recital: Maya St. Clair, organ This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 27, 2025
3:30 PM
DMA II Recital: Craig Jordan, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 27, 2025
5:30 PM
Senior Recital: Amanda Baker, organ This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 27, 2025
7:30 PM
Farewell Recital: Rachel Joselson, Voice This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 27, 2025
7:30 PM
Senior Recital: Sam Ross, saxophone Marvin Truong - Alto sax Carson Parker - Piano Jose Medrano - Bass Milo Savage - Drums This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 28, 2025
7:30 PM
Concert Band This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 29, 2025
5:30 PM
DMA Recital: Christina Leigh Stephenson, cello This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 29, 2025
7:30 PM
Johnson County Landmark This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 30, 2025
7:30 PM
DMA Qualifying Recital: Hyewon Lee, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 1, 2025
7:30 PM
Iowa Symphony Band This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 1, 2025
7:30 PM
Center for New Music Ensemble V - with guest Ligament More concert details can be viewed here on the Center for New Music website: https://cnm.uiowa.edu/ This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 2, 2025
7:30 PM
Black Pop Music Ensemble This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 2, 2025
7:30 PM
Masters Recital: Orson Sproule, jazz drum set Orson Sproule, Drum Set Jose Medrano, Bass Vincent Malan, Alto Saxophone Joseph Shanks, Guitar This concert is free and open to the public.
May 3, 2025
1:30 PM
Senior Recital: David Redhage, organ This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 3, 2025
1:30 PM
DMA Recital: Theresa Rukavina, violin This concert is free and open to the public.
May 3, 2025
7:30 PM
Composers' Workshop Concert IV More concert details can be viewed here on the Center for New Music website: https://cnm.uiowa.edu/ This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 3, 2025
7:30 PM
Senior Recital: Kolbe Schnoebelen, trombone Kolbe Schnoebelen - Trombone Casey Dierlam Tse - Piano This concert is free and open to the public.
May 4, 2025
1:30 PM
Senior Recital: Avery Arens, organ This concert is free and open to the public.
May 4, 2025
1:30 PM
Senior Recital: Zoe Dorr, percussion Zoe Dorr, percussion Shaun Everson, percussion This concert is free and open to the public.
May 4, 2025
3:30 PM
DMA III Recital: Ryan MacDonald, flute This concert is free and open to the public.
May 4, 2025
7:30 PM
Jazz Repertory Ensemble This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 5, 2025
7:30 PM
Double Bass Studio Recital This concert is free and open to the public.
May 5, 2025
7:30 PM
UI Band Concert This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 5, 2025
7:30 PM
DMA III Recital: Charmirose Lovelyn G. Durante, violin Charmirose Lovelyn G. Durante, violin Guoyi Fan, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
May 5, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa New Play Festival We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions and daily readings. Funding for the Iowa New Play Festival is provided by The David and Jean Schaal Fund for Theatre Arts.
May 6, 2025
5:30 PM
DMA Recital III - Michelle Monroe-Kettler, voice This concert is free and open to the public.
May 6, 2025
7:00 PM
Our Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session, joined by students, alumni, community members, and musicians passing through Iowa City. All members of the community are welcome for this free community event, hosted the first Tuesday of each month during the school year at the Wilder — a restaurant and bar located on the ground floor of the Graduate Hotel, on Iowa City's downtown pedestrian mall. To learn more or if you are interested in jamming, get in touch wit...
May 6, 2025
7:30 PM
Dunn Quartet Spring Recital with Professor Benjamin Coelho, bassoon This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 6, 2025
7:30 PM
Iowa Trombone Choir Jonathan Allen, Xiaoyu Liu, Brady Gell, Brady McSperrin, Ben Copeland, conductors. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 6, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa New Play Festival We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions and daily readings. Funding for the Iowa New Play Festival is provided by The David and Jean Schaal Fund for Theatre Arts.
May 7, 2025
7:30 PM
UI Symphony Orchestra This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 7, 2025
7:30 PM
Senior Recital: Allison Wright, voice This concert is free and open to the public.
May 7, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa New Play Festival We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions and daily readings. Funding for the Iowa New Play Festival is provided by The David and Jean Schaal Fund for Theatre Arts.
May 8, 2025
7:30 PM
Chamber Music Residency Program Recital I The students of the Chamber Music Residency Programs will give their final recitals. This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 8, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa New Play Festival We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions and daily readings. Funding for the Iowa New Play Festival is provided by The David and Jean Schaal Fund for Theatre Arts.
May 8, 2025
8:00 PM
BFA Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
May 9, 2025
7:30 PM
Voxman Chorale and Kantorei Concert Andrew Robinson (VC) and Jesse Reed (CS), graduate conductors This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 9, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy Award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerizing ch...
May 9, 2025
7:30 PM
Chamber Music Residency Program Recital II The students of the Chamber Music Residency Programs will give their final recitals. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 9, 2025
7:30 PM
Clarinet Studio Recital This concert is free and open to the public.
May 9, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa New Play Festival We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions and daily readings. Funding for the Iowa New Play Festival is provided by The David and Jean Schaal Fund for Theatre Arts.
May 9, 2025
8:00 PM
BFA Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
May 10, 2025
2:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy Award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerizing ch...
May 10, 2025
7:30 PM
Camerata Singers / University Choir Concert Christopher Ellerston and Katelyn Peterson, graduate conductors This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 10, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy Award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerizing ch...
May 10, 2025
8:00 PM
BFA Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
May 11, 2025
1:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy Award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerizing ch...
May 11, 2025
6:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy Award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerizing ch...
May 12, 2025
All Day
North Ridge Pavilion, Coralville
Have you been waiting all school year to make serious progress on your book manuscript, article, or grant application? Jump-start your summer writing project at the Obermann End-of-Year Writing Retreat May 12–16, 2025! Fifteen participants will enjoy a week of quiet productivity apart from the distractions of campus at the beautiful North Ridge Pavilion in Coralville. Daily catered lunches will provide an opportunity for exchange and discussion with other writers across campus. Each day wil...
May 13, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free coffee, lemonade, punch, and snacks available all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (10 a.m.–4 p.m.). Stop by for a few hours to study for your exams: grab a snack, replenish your study supplies (we'll have post-its, highlighters, and more) and take a quick break — either by exploring the galleries or playing with a fidget toy.
May 14, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free coffee, lemonade, punch, and snacks available all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (10 a.m.–4 p.m.). Stop by for a few hours to study for your exams: grab a snack, replenish your study supplies (we'll have post-its, highlighters, and more) and take a quick break — either by exploring the galleries or playing with a fidget toy.
May 15, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free coffee, lemonade, punch, and snacks available all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (10 a.m.–4 p.m.). Stop by for a few hours to study for your exams: grab a snack, replenish your study supplies (we'll have post-its, highlighters, and more) and take a quick break — either by exploring the galleries or playing with a fidget toy.
May 16, 2025
7:30 PM
The Englert, Auditorium Seating
TICKETS Two night ticket $100.00 Adults $55 / $45 Students & Youth $20 Presented in collaboration with The Englert Theatre Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Experience the magnetism of a legendary album played in its entirety over two nights. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the release of the album 69 Love Songs, the Magnetic Fields perform the album in its entirety over the course of two nights at The Englert. Written and recorded entirely by Stephin Merritt, 69 Love Songs gar...
May 17, 2025
7:30 PM
The Englert, Auditorium Seating
TICKETS Two night ticket $100.00 Adults $55 / $45 Students & Youth $20 Presented in collaboration with The Englert Theatre Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Experience the magnetism of a legendary album played in its entirety over two nights. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the release of the album 69 Love Songs, the Magnetic Fields perform the album in its entirety over the course of two nights at The Englert. Written and recorded entirely by Stephin Merritt, 69 Love Songs gar...
May 18, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Drawing Salon focuses on drawing artworks from the museum's collection. Each session will focus on a different artwork. The sessions will begin with an introduction and discussion of the selected work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue their own visions and to take inspiration from the artworks in the gallery. Pencils and sketchbooks/paper are the only artmaking materials allowed in the galleries. The museum has golf pencils with erasers and clipboards for participants to use. S...
May 25, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Spring Semester! Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry....
May 30, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series An uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, t...
May 31, 2025
2:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series An uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, t...
May 31, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series An uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, t...
Jun 1, 2025
2:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series An uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, t...