The University of Iowa

Hancher Season 2024/2025

Mission Creek Festival 2025
Festival

Kim Gordon | LA LOM | Rachel Kushner

An evening of music and literature

Thursday, April 3, 2025
Festival

Kim Gordon | LA LOM | Rachel Kushner

An evening of music and literature

Thursday, April 3, 2025
For Mission Creek's opening day, Hancher will transform into a single-site festival venue and present a multidisciplinary program of music and literature with Rachel Kushner in conversation with Kim Gordon, LA LOM, and a musical performance by Kim Gordon

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Club Hancher: Gaby Moreno
Music

Gaby Moreno

Thursday, April 10, 2025
Music

Gaby Moreno

Thursday, April 10, 2025
Gaby Moreno’s approach to Latin Americana has won her an avid audience—and has opened doors for other voices that don’t necessarily sound like the mainstream. Moreno demonstrates just how astonishing those voices can be.

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Music

Sean Mason Quartet

Friday, April 11, 2025
Music

Sean Mason Quartet

Friday, April 11, 2025
Sean Mason composes and performs highly melodic, wholly infectious music. Branford Marsalis, a jazz legend, has praised Sean’s musicality. His debut record, “The Southern Suite,” is a roadmap to his music—a map that should lead you to his Club Hancher performances.

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Music

The Weather Station

Special Guest: Sister Ray

Saturday, April 12, 2025
Music

The Weather Station

Special Guest: Sister Ray

Saturday, April 12, 2025
Awash in both loss and hope, a distinctive singer-songwriter changes the weather in Club Hancher. 

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Davone Tines standing in center of image wearing all black with his eyes closed and open hands in front of his chest
Music

Davóne Tines & The Truth

Recital No. 1: MASS

Saturday, April 19, 2025
Music

Davóne Tines & The Truth

Recital No. 1: MASS

Saturday, April 19, 2025
In “Recital No. 1: MASS,” Tines offers a program of spiritual and intellectual exploration. Tines envisions his work as stretching the boundaries of what classical music can be—and what impact it can have on an audience.

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Iron & Wine
Music

Iron & Wine – Light Verse Tour 2025

With support by Jobi Riccio

Monday, April 21, 2025
Music

Iron & Wine – Light Verse Tour 2025

With support by Jobi Riccio

Monday, April 21, 2025
Iron & Wine has captured the emotion and imagination of listeners with distinctly cinematic songs. That cinematic quality is brought to life during this tour to support the album Light Verse with visuals designed and created by the shadow puppet masters of Manual Cinema.

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Third Coast Percussion on left standing holding instruments, Jessie Montgomery on right
Music

Third Coast Percussion and Jessie Montgomery

Strum, Strike, Bend

Thursday, April 24, 2025
Music

Third Coast Percussion and Jessie Montgomery

Strum, Strike, Bend

Thursday, April 24, 2025
The second opportunity of the season to experience Third Coast Percussion (performs with Twyla Tharp Dance) and Jessie Montgomery (performs with PUBLIQuartet), our 2024–2025 composer-in-residence. The dynamic program showcases Montgomery's enviable excellence as a visionary creator and virtuosic performer.

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Broadway | Dance

Riverdance

Friday–Sunday, May 9–11, 2025
Broadway | Dance

Riverdance

Friday–Sunday, May 9–11, 2025
Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide.

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Music

The Magnetic Fields

69 Love Songs 25th Anniversary Tour

Friday–Saturday, May 16–17, 2025
Music

The Magnetic Fields

69 Love Songs 25th Anniversary Tour

Friday–Saturday, May 16–17, 2025
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.

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Past Season Events

Hancher is for Hawkeyes

Hancher is for Hawkeyes

A ticket sale for UI Students

Thursday–Tuesday, August 29–3, 2024

Hancher is for Hawkeyes

A ticket sale for UI Students

Thursday–Tuesday, August 29–3, 2024
Hancher is for Hawkeyes sale offers our students $5 tickets to many amazing performances and 50% off select Broadway single tickets. 

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Free
Fall Welcome Concert - Outdoors on the Hancher Green
Music

Fall Welcome Concert

Cory Wong, Dawes, and Reyna Tropical 

Thursday, August 29, 2024
Music

Fall Welcome Concert

Cory Wong, Dawes, and Reyna Tropical 

Thursday, August 29, 2024
Hancher welcomes back our entire community for a free music festival-style event on our front lawn. The event opens with Reyna Tropica and ends with Cory Wong. Dawes is the headliner for this event.

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Neal Katyal head shot with UIowa Law logo in lower right corner
Discussion

Neal Katyal

Fall 2024 Levitt Lecture

Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Discussion

Neal Katyal

Fall 2024 Levitt Lecture

Tuesday, September 10, 2024
A former Acting Solicitor General of the United States and the only minority attorney to have argued as many as 45 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, Neal Katyal will share fascinating stories about the inner workings of the nation’s highest court.

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Chaka Khan in a black dress against a beige background.
Music

Chaka Khan

Friday, September 13, 2024
Music

Chaka Khan

Friday, September 13, 2024
Chaka Khan brings her irresistible charisma and her sparkling catalog of hits—including “Sweet Thing,” “You Got the Love,” “I Feel For You,” and “Tell Me Something Good”—to the Hancher stage for an unmissable night of celebration.

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Club Hancher: Julian Lage
Music

Julian Lage

Sunday, September 15, 2024
Music

Julian Lage

Sunday, September 15, 2024
Guitarist Julian Lage brings a top-shelf trio—including Dave King on drums and Rudy Royston on bass—to Club Hancher for two sets featuring music from Speak to Me, his fourth Blue Note album.

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Contrad Tao playing piano and Caleb Teicher dancing against Hancher's Infinite Dream flag treatment
Multidisciplinary | Festival

Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher

Counterpoint

Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Multidisciplinary | Festival

Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher

Counterpoint

Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Pianist/composer Conrad Tao and dancer/choreographer Caleb Teicher explore harmonic, rhythmic, and theatrical counterpoints through a striking blend of sound and movement.

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John Moreland headshot against Infinite Dream flag treatment
Music | Festival

John Moreland

Featuring Dave Moore

Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Music | Festival

John Moreland

Featuring Dave Moore

Wednesday, September 25, 2024
John Moreland's musical elixir of Americana and alt-country is spiced with flavors of country, the blues, and rock-n-roll. With lyrics at once introspective and universal, Moreland invites everyone to join him as he pursues elusive answers to timeless questions.

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Meshell Ndegeocello on Hancher's Infinite Dream flag treatment
Music | Festival

Meshell Ndegeocello

No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

Thursday, September 26, 2024
Music | Festival

Meshell Ndegeocello

No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

Thursday, September 26, 2024
Ndegeocello and her funky, bluesy, soulful, hip-hop inflected band delve deeply into the author’s message and spirit in his centenary.

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Hari Kondabolu headshot against Hancher's Infinite Dream colored flag treatment
Comedy | Festival

Hari Kondabolu

Featuring Courtney Pauroso, Vanessa 5000

Thursday, September 26, 2024
Comedy | Festival

Hari Kondabolu

Featuring Courtney Pauroso, Vanessa 5000

Thursday, September 26, 2024
Hari Kondabolu is a comedian you can find on all the best “best of” lists. His high-wattage intelligence, and his hard-hitting punchlines come together to hilarious effect each time he steps on stage.

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Free
Patti Smith black and white photo cut out in front of a microphone against Hancher's Infinite Dream colored flag treatment
Poetry | Festival

Patti Smith

A reading of selected poetry

Friday, September 27, 2024
Poetry | Festival

Patti Smith

A reading of selected poetry

Friday, September 27, 2024
As part of “Infinite Dream,” Patti Smith will read from her acclaimed poetry at The Englert Theatre.

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Stamptown's Zach Zucker with a thrilled expression on his face standing against Hancher's Infinite Dream colored flag treatment
Comedy | Festival

STAMPTOWN

Comedy Night

Friday–Saturday, September 27–28, 2024
Comedy | Festival

STAMPTOWN

Comedy Night

Friday–Saturday, September 27–28, 2024
A mix of comedy, cabaret, circus, drag, dance, music, and magic, Stamptown is completely different every time the troupe takes the stage. Hosted by Zach Zucker—a clown with a reputation—Stamptown is a see-it-to-believe-it spectacle.

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Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird against Hancher's Infinite Dream colored flag treatment
Music | Festival

Cunningham/Bird

Madison Cunningham & Andrew Bird

Friday, September 27, 2024
Music | Festival

Cunningham/Bird

Madison Cunningham & Andrew Bird

Friday, September 27, 2024
A new collaboration connecting two top-flight musicians. 

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aja monet headshot against Hancher's Infinite Dream colored flag treatment
Multidisciplinary | Festival

aja monet

Saturday, September 28, 2024
Multidisciplinary | Festival

aja monet

Saturday, September 28, 2024
aja monet will be joined by a top-tier jazz quartet as she brings her words reflecting and reimagining reality to “Infinite Dream.”

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Music | Festival

Patti Smith and Her Band

Saturday, September 28, 2024
Music | Festival

Patti Smith and Her Band

Saturday, September 28, 2024
Patti Smith stoked the spirit of punk music, pulling out soul and guts and complexity and landscape and language. As part of “Infinite Dream,” Smith will read from her acclaimed poetry at The Englert Theatre (Friday, September 27) and perform with her band (Saturday, September 28) at Hancher Auditorium.

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Brooklyn Rider four members standing staggered facing the camera.
Music

Brooklyn Rider

Temples of Resonance: The String Quartets of Philip Glass

Thursday, October 3, 2024
Music

Brooklyn Rider

Temples of Resonance: The String Quartets of Philip Glass

Thursday, October 3, 2024
Brooklyn Rider rode into the universe of exceptional string quartets 20 years ago, bringing rock star energy to classical and contemporary music. The quartet’s “Temples of Resonance” program features four of Philip Glass’s sparkling works, including String Quartet No. 5.

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Free
Steven Schick standing in front of percussion instruments
Music | Lecture

Steven Schick Born in Iowa: The Iowa Legacy of Contemporary Music

Part of the Steven Schick Residency (Lecture & Recital) 

Friday, October 4, 2024
Music | Lecture

Steven Schick Born in Iowa: The Iowa Legacy of Contemporary Music

Part of the Steven Schick Residency (Lecture & Recital) 

Friday, October 4, 2024
Schick reflects on the rich history of contemporary music at the University of Iowa. Alongside this rumination, he'll play virtuosic solo percussion pieces that received early and important performances here in Iowa City. 

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Free
Steven Schick playing percussion instruments
Lecture

INUKSUIT pre-concert talk

Part of the Steven Schick Residency

Sunday, October 6, 2024
Lecture

INUKSUIT pre-concert talk

Part of the Steven Schick Residency

Sunday, October 6, 2024
Steven Schick will explore the music of John Luther Adams and the ways contemporary music engages the natural world and works to raise climate-consciousness.

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Free
Steven Schick playing percussion instruments
Music

John Luther Adams's INUKSUIT

Part of the Steven Schick Residency

Sunday, October 6, 2024
Music

John Luther Adams's INUKSUIT

Part of the Steven Schick Residency

Sunday, October 6, 2024
Inuksuit comes to Iowa City where Schick will be joined by nearly a hundred percussionists from around the Midwest to celebrate this music and its legacy.  

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Dance

Dance Gala: Agile

Thursday–Saturday, October 17–19, 2024
Dance

Dance Gala: Agile

Thursday–Saturday, October 17–19, 2024
The University of Iowa Department of Dance presents a rich program of both new and restaged works by faculty members and creative collaborators. Co-produced by the University of Iowa Department of Dance and Performing Arts Production Unit.

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Free
Marc Ribot - Iowa City Book Festival
Literature

Marc Ribot

Reading from "Unstrung: Rants & Stories of a Noise Guitarist"

Saturday, October 19, 2024
Literature

Marc Ribot

Reading from "Unstrung: Rants & Stories of a Noise Guitarist"

Saturday, October 19, 2024
Ribot will read from his book Unstrung: Rants & Stories of a Noise Guitarist as part of the Iowa City Book Festival. Note: the Iowa City Book Festival event will be free and open to the public.

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Renée Fleming with her hands on her hips facing the camera
Music

Renée Fleming

Soprano

Bradley Moore, piano

Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene

Thursday, October 24, 2024
Music

Renée Fleming

Soprano

Bradley Moore, piano

Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene

Thursday, October 24, 2024
Spanning classical, romantic, and contemporary music, Flemming offers a live and affecting soundtrack to a film about life itself. In the second half of the program, Fleming will perform music by Fauré, Grieg, Puccini, Jerome Kern, and Andrew Lippa. 

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Brian Quijada and Nygel Robinson
Music

Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson

Unplugged, including excerpts from Mexodus

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Music

Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson

Unplugged, including excerpts from Mexodus

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
In this Club Hancher performance, Quijada and Robinson will play an acoustic concert that includes songs from a hip-hop remix highlighting Black and Brown unity and telling the story of those who used the Underground Railroad to escape to Mexico rather than the northern United States.

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Complexions Contemporary Ballet male dancer mid leaping pose
Dance

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Star Dust: From Bach to Bowie

Friday, November 1, 2024
Dance

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Star Dust: From Bach to Bowie

Friday, November 1, 2024
The company’s Hancher debut will feature “Bach 25,” set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and “STAR DUST,” a dazzling love letter to David Bowie set to his music and reveling in his colorful and energetic imagination.

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Free
Shadowed dancer partially bent at the waist with cupping arms raised to the side
Dance | Literature

E/Merge

Moving Words, Moving Worlds

Saturday, November 2, 2024
Dance | Literature

E/Merge

Moving Words, Moving Worlds

Saturday, November 2, 2024
A time-honored tradition connecting writers from around the world with Department of Dance students. This fall, the writers will join UI dance-makers with new works in performance

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Music | Film

Encanto

The Sing-Along Film Concert

Sunday, November 3, 2024
Music | Film

Encanto

The Sing-Along Film Concert

Sunday, November 3, 2024
“Encanto: The Sing-Along Film Concert” will include all the music of the Academy Award-winning film, including iconic hits like “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” and “Surface Pressure,” all performed by a live band.

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Straight No Chaser
Music

Straight No Chaser

Thursday, November 7, 2024
Music

Straight No Chaser

Thursday, November 7, 2024
Hancher audiences love to bring in the holiday season with the inimitable style of Straight No Chaser. Unwrap the gift of impeccable a cappella as the guys sing not only holiday favorites but their beautifully blended arrangements of popular hits.

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Rudy Francisco on left and Outspoken Bean on right performing poetry. Club Hancher text treatment in upper left corner
Poetry

Rudy Francisco

Featuring Outspoken Bean

Friday, November 8, 2024
Poetry

Rudy Francisco

Featuring Outspoken Bean

Friday, November 8, 2024
Part of Mic Check Poetry Fest. Club Hancher hosts day one of a two-day celebration of spoken word and its power to bear witness, create community, and inspire change. 

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Comedy

Gary Gulman

featuring Dante Powell

Saturday, November 9, 2024
Comedy

Gary Gulman

featuring Dante Powell

Saturday, November 9, 2024
Misfit comedian Gary Gulman welcomes you to Club Hancher with his "Misfit Stand Up Tour."

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Nduduzo Makhathini standing against grey background with Club Hancher text treatment in upper left corner
Music

Nduduzo Makhathini Trio

Friday, November 15, 2024
Music

Nduduzo Makhathini Trio

Friday, November 15, 2024
Nduduzo Makhathini creates ambitious music that is at once an act of cultural reclamation and a revelatory blending of technique and creativity. A leading light of South African jazz infuses the sounds of his culture with the influence of McCoy Tyner.

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La Dona
Music

La Doña

Saturday, November 16, 2024
Music

La Doña

Saturday, November 16, 2024
A Mexican-American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist sings of love, heartbreak, and rising rents. As La Doña, San Francisco-born Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea composes songs that explore radical brown femininity and blend the sounds of the Caribbean, reggaeton, and hip-hop.

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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Music Director Stéphane Denéve standing in center of musicians with left arm out
Music

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

with Stéphane Denève, music director & Behzod Abduraimov, piano 

Sunday, November 17, 2024
Music

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

with Stéphane Denève, music director & Behzod Abduraimov, piano 

Sunday, November 17, 2024
America’s second oldest symphony orchestra—and one of its finest—presents an exploration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music under the baton of self-described “bon vivant” Stéphane Denève.

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Old Crow Medicine Show
Music

Old Crow Medicine Show

with special guest Willie Watson

Saturday, November 23, 2024
Music

Old Crow Medicine Show

with special guest Willie Watson

Saturday, November 23, 2024
Old Crow Medicine Show continues to explore sounds both old and new, foreign and familiar, and keep bringing audiences to their feet night after night.

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JACK Quartet sitting in half circle in all black clothing playing their instruments on stage
Music

JACK Quartet

Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Music

JACK Quartet

Wednesday, December 4, 2024
The members of JACK Quartet—champions of contemporary music and musicians of prodigious talent—return to play compositions by John Luther Adams and Elliott Carter.

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Dear Evan Hansen card image: Torso of young man with an arm in a cast bent in front of him. Text "you will be found" on cast
Broadway

Dear Evan Hansen

Friday–Sunday, December 6–8, 2024
Broadway

Dear Evan Hansen

Friday–Sunday, December 6–8, 2024
DEAR EVAN HANSEN is the first musical to take a groundbreaking look—from the point of view of both the parents and young people—at our complex, interconnected, and social media-filled lives. 

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Broadway

Hadestown

Friday–Sunday, January 24–26, 2025
Broadway

Hadestown

Friday–Sunday, January 24–26, 2025
Intertwining two mythic tales—that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone—HADESTOWN is a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience that grabs you and never lets go.

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Twyla Tharp dancers
Dance

Twyla Tharp Dance

Featuring Third Coast Percussion 

Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Dance

Twyla Tharp Dance

Featuring Third Coast Percussion 

Wednesday, January 29, 2025
As part of the 60th anniversary tour of Twyla Tharp Dance, Twyla Tharp’s “Diabelli” returns home so Hancher patrons can once again revel in the composer and choreographer’s conversation, which includes vocabulary from an array of dance styles including ballet, jazz, modern, social, and street.

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Leyla McCalla sitting in a pink dress against greenery holding her guitar to her left side. Club Hancher text treatment in upper left corner
Music

Leyla McCalla

Friday, January 31, 2025
Music

Leyla McCalla

Friday, January 31, 2025
Leyla McCalla’s music is a potent amalgam of history and mastery. Her music balances the heavy and the light and draws from sources across the African diaspora—including Afrobeat, Ethiopian modalities, Brazilian Tropicalismo, American blues, and Haitian folk music.

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Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah wearing gold outfit against a gold background. He is standing facing right, but looking straight on at the camera. Club Hancher text treatment in upper left corner
Music

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah

Saturday, February 1, 2025
Music

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah

Saturday, February 1, 2025
Perhaps best known as a trumpeter, Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer who has not only rethought the foundations of music, but also the techniques for making that music.

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Free
Emanuel Ax and Anthony McGill in Conversation
Residency | Discussion

Conversation with Emanuel Ax and Anthony McGill

Moderated by Benjamin Coelho of the UI’s School of Music

Friday, February 7, 2025
Residency | Discussion

Conversation with Emanuel Ax and Anthony McGill

Moderated by Benjamin Coelho of the UI’s School of Music

Friday, February 7, 2025
At Voxman Music Building 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. 

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Free
The Crossing Shared Solo Recital
Residency | Music

The Crossing | Shared Solo Recital

featuring UI Alum Anika Kildegaard

Monday, February 10, 2025
Residency | Music

The Crossing | Shared Solo Recital

featuring UI Alum Anika Kildegaard

Monday, February 10, 2025
At Voxman Music Building, four singers from The Crossing, including University of Iowa 2020 alumna, Anika Kildegaard, will present a shared solo recital. 

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Free
The Crossing Conversation
Residency | Discussion

Creative Matters Conversation with Donald Nally and David Lang

moderated by Ann Howard Jones

Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Residency | Discussion

Creative Matters Conversation with Donald Nally and David Lang

moderated by Ann Howard Jones

Wednesday, February 12, 2025
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 held at Voxman Music Building.

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The Crossing Music Director Donald Nally with his back to the camera in motion conducting standing choir
Music

The Crossing

Donald Nally, Music Director

Featuring the University of Iowa's Kantorei

Thursday, February 13, 2025
Music

The Crossing

Donald Nally, Music Director

Featuring the University of Iowa's Kantorei

Thursday, February 13, 2025
At Voxman Music Building the Crossing and the UI choir Kantorei will perform together at the top of concert and music director Donald Nally will lead The Crossing in the performance of Lang’s “poor hymnal."

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Music

Cyrille Aimée

Saturday, February 15, 2025
Music

Cyrille Aimée

Saturday, February 15, 2025
Cyrille Aimée has perfected the intermingling of a host of traditions and styles—including the irrepressible dance rhythms of her mother’s Caribbean heritage, the vibrant and varied sounds of New Orleans and New York, the immediacy of pop music, and the accessible sophistication of jazz.

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Schumann Quartet
Music

Schumann Quartet

Sunday, February 16, 2025
Music

Schumann Quartet

Sunday, February 16, 2025
“The Schumann Quartet plays staggeringly well ... [and is] without doubt one of the very best formations among today’s abundance of quartets ... [The quartet impresses] with sparkling virtuosity and a willingness to astonish.” — Süddeutsche Zeitung

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Zainab Johnson sitting backwards in a chair with her arms crossed across the top. Club Hancher text treatment in upper left corner
Comedy

Zainab Johnson

featuring Dante Powell

Thursday, February 20, 2025
Comedy

Zainab Johnson

featuring Dante Powell

Thursday, February 20, 2025
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. She debuted on late night on NBC's “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and was one of “Variety's Top 10 Comics to Watch for 2019.”

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Touch of RED actors, two black men, sitting on the floor embracing each other chest to chest
Dance

Shamel Pitts | TRIBE

Touch of RED

Friday–Saturday, February 28–1, 2025
Dance

Shamel Pitts | TRIBE

Touch of RED

Friday–Saturday, February 28–1, 2025
“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 together in a boxing ring—not for a display of aggression but rather for an exploration of vulnerability, effeminacy, and healing.

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Mean Girls title against pink background
Broadway

Mean Girls

Friday–Sunday, March 7–9, 2025
Broadway

Mean Girls

Friday–Sunday, March 7–9, 2025
MEAN GIRLS is the hilarious hit musical from book writer Tina Fey. The story of a naïve newbie who falls prey to a trio of lionized frenemies, MEAN GIRLS “delivers with immense energy, a wicked sense of humor and joyful inside-jokery.” (USA Today)

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Discussion | Dance

Alvin Ailey, Homecoming, and the Black Midwestern Imagination

Sunday, March 9, 2025
Discussion | Dance

Alvin Ailey, Homecoming, and the Black Midwestern Imagination

Sunday, March 9, 2025
Ronni Favors, a former dancer and current rehearsal director for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, born and raised in Iowa City, will be in conversation with assistant professor of history and African American studies Ashley Howard, about artistic expression, home, and the Black Midwestern experience.

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Visual Art

Hancher Youth Art Show

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Visual Art

Hancher Youth Art Show

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Join us for a longstanding Hancher tradition as The Hancher Youth Art Show returns! This year, young artists from 27 area schools will have their work displayed in the Hancher lobby.

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Jerusalem Quartet members grouped closely together wearing black suits looking above the camera placed at a downward angle
Music

Jerusalem Quartet

Thursday, March 27, 2025
Music

Jerusalem Quartet

Thursday, March 27, 2025
The Jerusalem Quartet brings an evening of Dmitri Shostakovich’s searingly intense music to Hancher’s intimate onstage experience. The ensemble will perform two Shostakovich quartets in the first concert and two different quartets by the composer in the second concert.

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Two Trains Running: The Acting Company banner image with drawn poster
Theater

The Acting Company

August Wilson's Two Trains Running

Directed by Lili-Anne Brown

Friday, March 28, 2025
Theater

The Acting Company

August Wilson's Two Trains Running

Directed by Lili-Anne Brown

Friday, March 28, 2025
Founded in 1972, The Acting Company has launched the careers of some 400 actors, while bringing high quality professional theater to hundreds of communities from coast to coast. "Two Trains Running" will take place at The Englert Theatre.

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Comedy of Erros: The Acting Company
Theater

The Acting Company

William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors

Saturday, March 29, 2025
Theater

The Acting Company

William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors

Saturday, March 29, 2025
Shakespeare’s quintessential comedy, this farcical tale of separated families and mistaken identities delights audiences young and old. "The Comedy of Errors" will take place at The Englert Theatre.

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Lecture

Mara Liasson

The Spring 2025 Levitt Lecture

Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Lecture

Mara Liasson

The Spring 2025 Levitt Lecture

Tuesday, April 1, 2025
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.

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