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• Continuing through May 29: "The Legend of Ochi." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. In a remote island village a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him home.
• Continuing through May 29: "Caught by the Tides." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Director Jia Zhang-Ke delivers a masterful portrait of romantic destiny over 20 years in the making. “Caught by the Tides” follows its perennial heroine, Qiaoqiao, over decades as she traverses the profound social transformation and turbulent changes of contemporary China.
• May 30-June 5: "Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. “Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted” is a wildly entertaining and fittingly unconventional documentary about convention-defying singer, songwriter and record producer Jerry Williams, aka Swamp Dogg, one of the great cult figures of 20th century American music.
• May 30-June 5: "Blue Sun Palace." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A sudden violent experience catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking labor that supports them, they journey through sorrow together in hopes of finding family.
• June 3: Jazz in June: Jumaane Smith. Free concert begins at 7 p.m. in the green space behind the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The Jazz in June Food Festival will be from 5-9 p.m. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket to enjoy free concerts from the top names in jazz from across the country. Smith is Michael Bublé’s legendary trumpet player. With sky-high notes on the trumpet with irresistible grooves, he’ll have the crowd on its feet.
• June 4: Made in Nebraska: Terms of Endearment. 7 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. “Terms of Endearment” dazzled critics and audiences alike with its believable, insightful story of two captivating people, widow Aurora Greenaway (Shirley Maclaine) and her daughter Emma (Debra Winger).
• June 6-12: "April." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. After a newborn dies during delivery, the morals and professionalism of an OBGYN comes under scrutiny in Dea Kulumbegashvili’s visceral and haunting drama.
• June 6-19: "We Were Dangerous." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. In 1954 New Zealand, three rebellious girls—Nellie, Daisy, and Lou—are sent to a remote island institution, where they form an unbreakable bond in defiance of their strict matron. But as cruel punishments escalate, their friendship is tested, forcing them to choose between resistance and survival.
• June 7-July 26: Family Film Fest. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. Join us on Saturday mornings at 11 a.m. for free weekly screenings of family-friendly films. Tickets available at the box office the day of the show. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For a list of films being screened this summer, visit https://theross.org/events/family-film-fest-25/.
• June 10: Jazz in June: Caity Gyorgy. Free concert begins at 7 p.m. in the green space behind the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The Jazz in June Food Festival will be from 5-9 p.m. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket to enjoy free concerts from the top names in jazz from across the country. Gyorgy makes her Nebraska debut performance on June 10. She is known for her silky vocals, playful swing style and fresh take on classic jazz. With three JUNO Awards to her name, Gyorgy brings the energy of old-school swing with a modern twist that appeals to everyone.
• June 11: Made in Nebraska: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo and Wesley Snipes star in this hilarious adventure about three transvestites on the cross-country road trip of a lifetime.
• June 13-26: "Friendship." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Suburban dad Craig (Tim Robinson) falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor (Paul Ruud), but Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their lives.
• June 17: Jazz in June: Pete Fucinaro. Free concert begins at 7 p.m. in the green space behind the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The Jazz in June Food Festival will be from 5-9 p.m. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket to enjoy free concerts from the top names in jazz from across the country. Come see one of our own as Nebraska native Peter Fucinaro brings his vibrant contemporary sound to Jazz in June. As a former member of the seven-time Grammy-nominated One O’Clock Band, Fucinaro is making a statement with his unique blend of traditional and innovative saxophonist styles.
• June 18: Made in Nebraska: Citizen Ruth. 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. In this satirical look at a controversial issue, unfit mother of four Ruth Stoops (Laura Dern) discovers while in jail that she’s pregnant again. The judge charges her with endangering the fetus, but tells her he’ll reduce the charges if she has an abortion. When word of this gets out, Ruth’s caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between anti-abortion and abortion rights activists who want to use Ruth to get their messages across.
• June 20-July 3: "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A desperately single bookseller finds herself forced to fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer in order to stop messing up her love life in this charming rom-com from Laura Piani.
• June 24: Jazz in June: Sam Greenfield. Free concert begins at 7 p.m. in the green space behind the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The Jazz in June Food Festival will be from 5-9 p.m. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket to enjoy free concerts from the top names in jazz from across the country. Jazz in June concludes with the multi-talented saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Sam Greenfield. He’s shared the stage with superstars including Ed Sheeran, Mariah Carey, and John Legend and brings a sound defined by his unique way of blending jazz, pop, and funk.
• June 25: Made in Nebraska: Lovely, Still. 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. With the approach of Christmas causing him to feel lonely in life and love, Robert Malone (Martin Landau) arrives home to find a stranger (Ellen Burstyn) standing in his house. What begins as an odd and awkward encounter quickly blossoms into what appears to be a romantic late-life love affair in this heartfelt and beautifully crafted holiday fable.
• June 27-July 10: "The Life of Chuck." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. From the hearts and minds of Stephen King and Mike Flanagan comes "The Life of Chuck," an unforgettable, genre-bending tale of love, loss, and life starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
• July 1: Tickets on sale for the 2025-2026 Nebraska Repertory Theatre season. Visit https://nebraskarep.org for details. Next year’s season includes “Eurydice” by Sara Ruhl, Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express,” Kim Rosenstock’s “Tiger Be Still” and the musical “Bright Star” by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell.
• July 1: Made in Nebraska: Vino Veritas. 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. On Halloween night, the lives of two suburban couples unravel forever under the influence of a Peruvian wine brewed from the toxic skin of a tree frog. This elixir reduces all inhibitions and soon friendships and relationships are revealed to be not quite what they seemed.
• July 8: Made in Nebraska: Take Me to the River. 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. Matt Sobel’s assured directorial debut is the story of Ryder, an artsy California teen who travels to Nebraska for a family reunion. Planning to come out to his conservative relatives, Ryder makes a showy entrance at the cookout with his short shorts and his eye-catching shades. No one seems particularly impressed except his nine-year-old cousin Molly, who likes to follow him around. When they go to the barn to look for birds and she comes back screaming and inconsolable, Ryder comes under suspicion and, in the process of clearing his name, learns that some family secrets are better kept that way.
• Continuing through July 13: "Infinite Hopper: An Algorithmic Journey Through Light and Space." Sheldon Museum of Art. Free admission. This exhibition uses cutting-edge generative technology to produce an endless flow of Edward Hopper–inspired imagery that never repeats or loops. Integrating works by the artist from Sheldon's collection, "Infinite Hopper" creates a dialogue between the traditional and the contemporary, exploring how modern technology can reinterpret and honor fine art. "Infinite Hopper" was created by Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Dan “NovySan” Novy.
• July 15: Made in Nebraska: American Honey. 7 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. Star (Sasha Lane), a teenage girl from a troubled home, runs away with a traveling sales crew that drives across the American Midwest selling magazine subscriptions door to door. Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia LaBeouf), she soon gets into the group’s lifestyle of hard partying, law-bending and young love.
• July 22: Made in Nebraska: Oceans of Grass. 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. “Oceans of Grass” is an experiential, immersive documentary capturing a year in the life of a 130-year-old Nebraska Sandhills ranch. It presents the intriguing personalities of the individuals who choose this sparse, rugged lifestyle, from old-school patriarchs to artistic ranchers to young guns pushing the ranch operations into the future.
• July 29: Made in Nebraska: Ballad of Buster Scruggs. 7 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” tells six stories, united by their dark, offbeat takes on traditional tales from the American West. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
• Aug. 5: Made in Nebraska: Nomadland. 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland” features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration of the American West.
• Aug. 12: Made in Nebraska: Bones and All. 7 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. Based on the novel by Camille DeAngelis, “Bones and All” is a story of first love between Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee (Timothée Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter. It is a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.
• Aug. 19: Made in Nebraska: Snack Shack. 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. Inseparable best friends A.J. (Conor Sherry) and Moose (Gabriel LaBelle) seize the opportunity to run the local pool’s rundown snack shack after their plan to gamble on dog races and sell home-brewed beer goes down the drain. Dreaming of striking it rich, things take an unexpected turn when they meet summer visitor Brooke (Mika Abdalla), an effortlessly cool lifeguard who puts their big summer plans, and their friendship, at risk.
• Aug. 26: Made in Nebraska: Daft State. 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. Easton’s mysterious psychological destruction drives him to the edge of sanity and possible self-harm by those who love him most…his wife and daughter. Will Easton succumb to their increasingly traumatizing pressure, or will he conquer the dark forces at play?
• Sept. 2: Made in Nebraska: My Friend Norman. 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/made-in-nebraska/. Take a journey with Norman Geske, Nebraska’s Father of the Arts, with this feature-length documentary about the impact one man has had on the artistic and cultural heritage of Nebraska and beyond. Directed by Laurie Richards.