Midori and Festival Strings Lucerne
Midori, recognized as one of the most outstanding violinists of our time, will play alongside the 39 piece Swiss chamber orchestra, Festival Strings Lucerne.
Dance Gala
Dance Gala 2023 celebrates its return to the Hancher stage with new and restaged works by faculty members and creative collaborators as well as a work by distinguished guest choreographer Aaron Samuel Davis.
Takács Quartet
Presented at The Englert Theatre
The Takács Quartet garnered international attention by winning first prize and the critics' prize at the International String Quartet Competition. The Takács is renowned for "marrying aristocratic elegance and red-blooded energy to everything they play."
The Takács Quartet garnered international attention by winning first prize and the critics' prize at the International String Quartet Competition. The Takács is renowned for "marrying aristocratic elegance and red-blooded energy to everything they play."
Sun Ra Arkestra and Theon Cross
Presented at The Englert Theatre
Sun Ra Arkestra has been at the forefront of exploring new horizons in creative music and inspiring the ever-evolving tenets of Afrofuturism. Opening act Theon Cross has reinvented the tuba as the low-voiced leader of innovative and explosive—and hard to define—ensembles.
Sun Ra Arkestra has been at the forefront of exploring new horizons in creative music and inspiring the ever-evolving tenets of Afrofuturism. Opening act Theon Cross has reinvented the tuba as the low-voiced leader of innovative and explosive—and hard to define—ensembles.
Danez Smith and Denice Frohman
Iowa City's Mic Check Poetry Fest is a much-loved two-day celebration of spoken word poetry. Hancher is proud to host the opening showcase featuring teen poets from IC Speaks and headliners Danez Smith and Denice Frohman.
Disney/Pixar's COCO live-to-film concert
Coco takes 12-year-old Miguel to the Land of the Dead as he implores his great-great-grandfather to help him reverse his family's ban on music. The full movie will be presented on the big screen at Hancher while the score is performed live by Orquesta Folclórica Nacional de México.
Samara Joy
Samara Joy's "buttery vocals melt across the warm grooves of whatever songs she's singing, conjuring the greats of yore while simultaneously forging her own effervescent stye" (The Old Grey Cat blog).
serpentwithfeet
Presented at the Englert Theatre in collaboration with the Englert Theatre
Heart of Brick is a theatrical dance and music performance that celebrates the multi-generational spirit of the Black queer community.
Heart of Brick is a theatrical dance and music performance that celebrates the multi-generational spirit of the Black queer community.
N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars)
N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) is a remarkable immersive installation work by theater, video, and arts technologist Andrew Schneider. You will walk through a room, secluded in total darkness punctuated by 4,000 reactive points of light and 496-channel sound design.
Kurt Vile and The Violators
Kurt Vile is an essential American psych-pop songwriter and guitarist. His music, veering between flashes of lightning and hazes of dense fog, captures our emotional and collective landscape like few other artists in the modern era.