For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Continuing through Oct. 22: "Strange Journey." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A joyful and wild ride through the tale of the cultural juggernaut that is “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” From its humble origins as a London fringe theater play, the documentary tracks its meteoric rise, fall and resurrection to become the biggest cult film of all time.
• Continuing through Oct. 23: "Urchin." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Slyly funny and imbued with a warm humanity, Harris Dickinson’s thrilling directorial debut follows a young addict living on the streets of London.
• Continuing through Oct. 31: Ross Fright Fest. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. The third annual Ross Fright Fest returns in October with a month of classic, campy, thrilling, surreal and unsettling horror films. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/fright-fest-25/.
• Continuing through Nov. 7: Faculty and Staff Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, noon-5 p.m. Admission is free. Work from faculty and staff in the School of Art, Art History & Design will be on display. A closing reception will be held on Friday, Nov. 7 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.
• Oct. 23: Carson Tonight: Johnny's 100th Birthday with live comedy, magic and music performers. 7:30 p.m. Lied Center for Performing Arts. For more information or tickets, visit https://www.liedcenter.org/event/carson-tonight-100. Relive all the magic and laughter of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show with the talented artists who were featured guests during Johnny’s extraordinary 30-year late-night run. This special one-time event is hosted by Seinfeld writer, Pat Hazell with live performances by Master Magician, Lance Burton; comedians Wil Shriner and Carol Leifer; Singer, Marilyn Maye; Variety Acts, Mike Caveney & Tina Lenert and the full UNL Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Greg Simon, plus amazing highlights of Johnny’s most memorable moments and characters. Come join us in celebrating Nebraska’s favorite son on his centennial birthday. In partnership with Carson Entertainment Group.
• Oct. 24-Nov. 6: "Blue Moon." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”
• Oct. 24-Nov. 6: "The Mastermind." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor), an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.
• Oct. 26: Afternoon of Choirs. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 30: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lectures: Adrian Arleo and Jane Shellenbarger. Successive lectures begin at 5:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art. Sponsored by UNL Clay Club. For the last 32 years, Arleo has lived and worked in Missoula, Montana. Her ceramic work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is in numerous public and private collections. In 1995, she was awarded a Montana Arts Council Individual Fellowship. Shellenbarger is a professor and graduate program director at Rochester Institute of Technology in the School for American Crafts. She established her studio pottery, Mill Station Pottery, in rural Hale, Michigan, in 1997.
• Oct. 30: Guest Artist Jacob Chung, saxophone. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 116. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 30-31: The Anvil Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. each night. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. The Anvil Orchestra will perform live silent film accompaniment for two special Fright Fest screenings: "Phantom of the Opera" on Oct. 30 and "Nosferatu" on Oct. 31. For tickets and more information, visit https://theross.org/events/anvil-25/.
• Nov. 2: Guest Artist Xin Gao, saxophone. 5:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 5: Adolphe Sax Birthday Recital. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 6: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture: Julia Blaut. 5:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art. Blaut, the senior director of curatorial affairs at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, will present a lecture celebrating Rauschenberg’s centennial and enduring legacy with special attention to his prints. This lecture is presented in conjunction with Sheldon Museum of Art’s exhibition, “Robert Rauschenberg at the Flatbed Picture Plane.” The exhibition and related programs are supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
• Nov. 7: Visual Arts in Practice (VAP) hosts Open Studios. 5-7:30 p.m. Richards Hall and Woods Art Building. Free and open to the public. During the event, 18 graduate students from the Master of Fine Arts program in the School of Art, Art History & Design will open their studios to the UNL art community and the general public. Open studios is a chance for the community to get to know the graduate cohort’s creative endeavors, see behind the scenes and engage in meaningful conversations. There will also be a raffle to support VAP communal events throughout the year.
• Nov. 7-20: "Nuremberg." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. As the Nuremberg trials are set to begin, a U.S. Army psychiatrist (Rami Malek) gets locked in a dramatic psychological showdown with accused Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) in this gripping thriller.
• Nov. 8-9 and 12: Chamberfest Nos. 1-3. 7:30 p.m. each night. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 9: UNL Percussion Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 116. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 10: Paul Barnes and Teimuraz Janikashvili present "Toward Re Enchantment: Beauty as a Portal to the Sacred." 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. Free and open to the public. Barnes, piano and chanter, is the Marguerite Scribante Professor of Piano at Nebraska. Janikashvili is a world-class violinist and conductor.
• Nov. 10: UNL Low Brass Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 116. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 11: “In Flander’s Field.” 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. Free and open to the public. With Professor of Voice and Vocal Pedagogy Kevin Hanrahan and Hyun Kim, assistant professor of music at the University of Oklahoma.
• Nov. 13-23: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "Murder on the Orient Express." For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://nebraskarep.org. Ken Ludwig’s adapation of Agatha Christie’s classic mystery "Murder on the Orienct Express" is set aboard a luxurious train stranded by a snowstorm. The play follows the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot as he investigates the murder of a passenger, unraveling a web of secrets among an eccentric cast of suspects.
• Nov. 14-16: UNL Opera presents Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel.” Full production with orchestra Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 16 at 2 p.m. Family version (piano only) on Nov. 15 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets must be purchased in advance at https://go.unl.edu/hanseltickets. The classic Grimm fairy tale comes to life in Humperdinck’s lush, 19th century romantic score.
• Nov. 14-26: “It Was Just an Accident.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences in Jafar Panahi’s searing moral thriller.
• Nov. 17: Flyover II. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 18: Jazz Combos. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 20: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Pablo Helguera. 5:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art. Helguera is a visual artist living in New York and often considered a pioneering figure in the field of socially engaged art. His practice involves performance, drawing, pedagogy, installation, theater and other literary strategies. Coming from a family of classical musicians, his work also frequently includes musical elements. He is currently assistant professor of arts management and entrepreneurship at The College of the Performing Arts at The New School in New York. He writes a weekly column titled “Beautiful Eccentrics.”
• Nov. 21-26: "Timestamp." Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Keeping schools open in Ukraine is an attempt to recreate at least some of the normal life they had before the war. Without interviews, narration and reenactments, Kateryna Gornostai’s "Timestamp" intimately documents a year in the lives of rural students and teachers as they face the challenges of schooling during wartime.
• Nov. 24: Horn and Trumpet Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 29-Dec. 4: “Orwell: 2+2=5.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. From Academy Award®-nominated and BAFTA-winning director, Raoul Peck ("I Am Not Your Negro"), "Orwell: 2+2=5" is the definitive feature documentary on visionary author George Orwell, interweaving a portrait of the writer with an examination of how prophetic his work has become.
• Nov. 29-Dec. 11: “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.