The wonderful dancers of American Ballet Theatre are hopping on a bus and touring America—and they’ll stop at Hancher on the Fourth of July! Gather up your friends and family (and lawn chairs!) for a performance by one of the world’s greatest ballet companies.
Past Season Events
Visual Art
Visual Art
Hancher Illuminated: Student Night
For University of Iowa students
Friday, August 27, 2021
To celebrate the start of a new school year, we invite UI students to experience Hancher Illuminated for just $5. Journey around the outside of Hancher to take in wondrous sights created by the artists of Quixotic.
Our friends from Quixotic return to light up the exterior of Hancher and create beautiful spaces for captivating performances.
Step Afrika! returns with a tale of resistance, resilience, and reclamation. Grounded in the Stono Rebellion of 1739, which led to the banning of drums among enslaved Africans, Drumfolk celebrates the beat entering the very bodies of persecuted people.
An influential, thought-provoking observer of happiness and human nature, Gretchen Rubin will deliver a talk drawn from her runaway bestseller The Happiness Project.
Cancelled
Music
CANCELLED: Boston Pops On Tour
Lights, Camera…Music! Six Decades of John Williams
Keith Lockhart, Conductor
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Music
CANCELLED: Boston Pops On Tour
Lights, Camera…Music! Six Decades of John Williams
Keith Lockhart, Conductor
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
The Boston Pops celebrate a nearly forty-year association with John Williams in an evening featuring excerpts from his best-loved scores—as well as some lesser-known gems.
Beloved clown and Tony award-winner Bill Irwin applies his sensibility to the words of Samuel Beckett.
The Washington Post praises the Hermitage Piano Trio for performing with “…such power and sweeping passion it [leaves] you nearly out of breath.”
Music
Club Hancher: Jazz at Lincoln Center Quintet
Let Freedom Swing
Thursday–Friday, November 18–19, 2021
Music
Club Hancher: Jazz at Lincoln Center Quintet
Let Freedom Swing
Thursday–Friday, November 18–19, 2021
Hear top-flight jazz musicians in the intimate Club Hancher setting—the perfect spot for a swinging night of the sound of America.
Hear Storm Large take on the holidays in her third Hancher performance. An undeniable force of nature, she’ll light up the holidays with a tempest of seasonal favorites.
Unwrap the gift of impeccable a cappella as the men of Straight No Chaser sing not only holiday favorites but their beautifully blended arrangements of popular hits.
Hancher’s holiday tradition—and Santa himself!—returns with a festive brunch for the whole family.
An Officer and a Gentleman is a new musical based on the Oscar-winning film.
Roomful of Teeth can fit just about any musical tradition into its collective mouth. The Grammy-winning vocal project is versed in every sort of singing you can imagine.
Mark Morris meets The Beatles! Pepperland is replete with Mark Morris’s blend of wit, musicality, and ingenuity.
In 2018, the Castalian String Quartet was the recipient of the inaugural Merito String Quartet Award & Valentin Erben Prize and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award. The quartet followed that up by being named the 2019 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist of the Year.
Music
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Nathalie Stutzmann, principal guest conductor
David Kim, violin
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Music
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Nathalie Stutzmann, principal guest conductor
David Kim, violin
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
The Philadelphia Orchestra is among the world’s preeminent ensembles—and a Hancher favorite as well.
Music
A Tribute to Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul
Featuring Damien Sneed and special guest Karen Clark Sheard
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Music
A Tribute to Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul
Featuring Damien Sneed and special guest Karen Clark Sheard
Thursday, March 10, 2022
In 2004, Aretha Franklin brought the house down in the original Hancher Auditorium. Now, we invite her towering spirit into the new Hancher with a multi-media tribute performance by created by Damien Sneed and featuring legendary vocalist Karen Clark Sheard.
Hancher welcomes perhaps the most in-demand string quartet in the world today.
The winner of the 2018 Tony Award winner for Best Musical (along with nine additional Tonys), The Band’s Visit is set in a town way off the beaten path where a band of musicians arrive lost, out of the blue.
Steve Kroft joined 60 Minutes in May 1989 and delivered his first report that fall. Few journalists have achieved the impact and recognition that Kroft’s work has generated on the most watched news program on television.
They had so much fun at Club Hancher in the fall, they asked to add two shows in the spring! Hear top-flight jazz musicians in a club setting—the perfect spot for a swinging night of the sound of America.
It’s time to get the kids to the club for a celebration of America’s music that highlights its connection to American democracy.
Committed to a creative combination of musical heritages—and to social justice—this band from East LA is a Hancher favorite of the first order. Their performances are always a joyous celebration.
Lecture | Music
Lecture | Music
Swing University: All Rise, Part 1
A Four Part Series with Seton Hawkins
Thursday, May 19, 2022
All Rise, a composition by Wynton Marsalis, will be a centerpiece of Hancher’s 50th anniversary season. Taught by Seton Hawkins, Director of Public Programs and Education Resources at Jazz at Lincoln Center, this free four-week online course will introduce All Rise and explore its many joys and influences.
All Rise, a composition by Wynton Marsalis, will be a centerpiece of Hancher’s 50th anniversary season. Taught by Seton Hawkins, Director of Public Programs and Education Resources at Jazz at Lincoln Center, this free four-week online course will introduce All Rise and explore its many joys and influences.
All Rise, a composition by Wynton Marsalis, will be a centerpiece of Hancher’s 50th anniversary season. Taught by Seton Hawkins, Director of Public Programs and Education Resources at Jazz at Lincoln Center, this free four-week online course will introduce All Rise and explore its many joys and influences.
All Rise, a composition by Wynton Marsalis, will be a centerpiece of Hancher’s 50th anniversary season. Taught by Seton Hawkins, Director of Public Programs and Education Resources at Jazz at Lincoln Center, this free four-week online course will introduce All Rise and explore its many joys and influences.