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Kinky Boots

Friday, January 23, 2026 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Everybody say “Yeah!” and let Kinky Boots lift your spirits to high-heeled heights! Winner of every Best Musical award, including the Tony, Grammy and London’s Olivier Award, Kinky Boots continues to captivate and entertain audiences around the world with a Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and original direction and Tony-winning choreography by Jerry Mitchell.

Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common — or so they think. The unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized ... and discover that you change the world when you change your mind.
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Kinky Boots

Saturday, January 24, 2026 2:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
Everybody say “Yeah!” and let Kinky Boots lift your spirits to high-heeled heights! Winner of every Best Musical award, including the Tony, Grammy and London’s Olivier Award, Kinky Boots continues to captivate and entertain audiences around the world with a Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and original direction and Tony-winning choreography by Jerry Mitchell.

Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common — or so they think. The unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized ... and discover that you change the world when you change your mind.
Kinky Boots promotional image

Kinky Boots

Saturday, January 24, 2026 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Everybody say “Yeah!” and let Kinky Boots lift your spirits to high-heeled heights! Winner of every Best Musical award, including the Tony, Grammy and London’s Olivier Award, Kinky Boots continues to captivate and entertain audiences around the world with a Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and original direction and Tony-winning choreography by Jerry Mitchell.

Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common — or so they think. The unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized ... and discover that you change the world when you change your mind.
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Kinky Boots

Sunday, January 25, 2026 2:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
Everybody say “Yeah!” and let Kinky Boots lift your spirits to high-heeled heights! Winner of every Best Musical award, including the Tony, Grammy and London’s Olivier Award, Kinky Boots continues to captivate and entertain audiences around the world with a Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and original direction and Tony-winning choreography by Jerry Mitchell.

Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common — or so they think. The unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized ... and discover that you change the world when you change your mind.

Longing: Stella Dayrit Roden, soprano and Amanda Arrington, piano

Sunday, January 25, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Faculty & Guest Artist Recital: Longing

Stella Dayrit Roden, soprano and Amanda Arrington, piano

This concert is free and open to the public.

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5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music--A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 3: Memes

Monday, January 26, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 3: Memes

Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the third presentation in this series of intergalactic music poetics. Drawing together ancient wisdom and modern science, this poetics aims at transmuting one’s experience of everything as music and living joyfully even as we work confidently toward an abundant future.

Featuring selections from Quartet for the End of Time

Katie Wolfe, violin
Jorge Montilla Moreno, clarinet
Carey...

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Grant Wood Fellows Artist Talks & Panel | 2026

Thursday, January 29, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art

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:

Ada Friedman (Painting & Drawing)

Elizabeth Claire Rose (Printmaking)

Kyle Marshall (Interdisciplinary Performance—Dance)

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 of Performing Arts...

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Thursday, January 29, 2026 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Wynton Marsalis and his eminent ensemble return with an inspired Ellington program.
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Stained Glass

Friday, January 30, 2026 8:00pm
Theatre Building

By Randy Jackson-Alvarenga

Part of Theatre Arts' Gallery Series

Tickets:
Tickets for workshops and galleries are free of charge; however, you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited.

Duo Battuto: Nick Miller and Hanna Rumora

Saturday, January 31, 2026 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Duo Battuto: Nick Miller and Hanna Rumora

Nick Miller, percussion
Hanna Rumora, cello

This concert is free and open to the public.