For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at https://arts.unl.edu.
• Continuing through Jan. 29: “The Choral.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. 1916. As war rages on the Western Front, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire, has lost most of its men to the army. Determined to press ahead, the Choral’s ambitious committee decides to recruit local teens to fill their ranks and engage in an uncompromising new chorus master recently returned from Germany (Ralph Fiennes).
• Jan. 30-Feb. 5: “La Grazia.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, “La Grazia” is a sweeping exploration of love, duty and personal freedom as Italy’s outgoing president (Toni Servillo) navigates a moral crossroads.
• Feb. 1: Winter Festival Final Concert. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. The Winter Festival is a unique concert honor band festival for high school students. The finale concert features the Honor Band, the university’s Wind Ensemble and the Festival Symphonic Band.
• Continuing through Feb. 5: “No Other Choice.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. In director Park Chan-wook’s wickedly clever black comedy, an unemployed man sets out to secure a job by eliminating his competition.
• Feb. 5: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Kate Bingaman-Burt. 5:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Bingaman-Burt (M.F.A. 2004) is an illustrator, educator and community builder based in Portland, Oregon. She is professor and head of graphic design at Portland State University’s School of Art + Design, where she has taught since 2008. In 2017 she founded Outlet, a risograph print studio, zine library and workshop space that celebrates creative publishing and hands-on making.
• Feb. 5: Faculty Recital: John Bailey, flute. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• Feb. 6-12: “The Voice of Hind Rajab.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Incorporating real-life elements that are as difficult to witness as they are impossible to forget, “The Voice of Hind Rajab” is a harrowing docudrama that makes powerful appeal to humanity. Golden Globe nominee for Best Motion Picture.
• Feb. 6-12: “Is This Thing On?” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. As his marriage unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce by seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene.
• Feb. 6-27: 39th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Feb. 6 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery. A closing reception will be held on Friday, Feb. 27 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery with awards presented at 5:30 p.m. Seventy-one works by 67 undergraduate artists from the School of Art, Art History & Design will be on display. The guest juror is Susan Longhenry, who has served as Director of Sheldon Museum of Art since 2023.
• Feb. 6: Flyover III. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• Feb. 9: 10th Vision Maker Film Festival Native American Film Series: “Oyate Woyaka.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. Free admission. For more information, visit https://theross.org/events/native-american-film-series/.
• Feb. 12-15: Evenings of Dance. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12-14 and 2 p.m. Feb. 15. Lied Center’s Johnny Carson Theater. Ticket information TBA. Featuring student, faculty and guest choreographers.
• Feb. 13-19: “Rental Family.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Set against modern-day Tokyo, “Rental Family” follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese “rental family” agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers.
• Feb. 13-26: “Father Mother Sister Brother.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Winner of the Golden Lion Best Film prize at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Jim Jarmusch’s eagerly-awaited new film is a funny, tender and astutely observed exploration of the universal intricacies of family dynamics.
• Feb. 14: Faculty Recital: Kevin Hanrahan, baritone. 3 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public. Hanrahan will be performing Franz Schubert’s “Die schöne Müllerin” (The lovely Miller-Maid) with guest artist Gabriel Dobner from James Madision University on piano.
• Feb. 15: Faculty Recital: William Shomos, baritone. 3 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public. Shomos will be performing Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise” (Winter’s Journey), a sequel to “Die schöne Müllerin.” “Winterreise” explores the search for meaning in the face of rejection through a metaphoric winter’s journey. Featuring Glenn Korff School of Music senior Luke Eckles on piano.
• Feb. 18: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Barbara Bosworth. 5:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the natural world. Her caring attention results in images that remind viewers not only that we shape nature, but that it also shapes us.
• Feb. 19-March 1: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents “Tigers Be Still.” For showtimes and tickets, visit https://nebraskarep.org. Ken Rosenstock’s “Tigers Be Still” is a dark comedy that follows a young woman’s struggle to reclaim hope and stability after a period of depression. The play blends humor with an emotional depth, revealing the courage it takes to move forward when life feels out of control. Guest director is Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film alumna Lori Adams (M.F.A. 1982), who directed last season’s hit “POTUS.” Adams retired last spring from Illinois State University, where she served as professor since 1998 and as head of the acting program since 2005.
• Feb. 20-26: “Arco.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. A magically and beautifully animated journey through time, “Arco” is a dazzling adventure about a 10-year-old boy from a peaceful, distant future who accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril. Golden Globe Nominee: Best Motion Picture-Animated.
• Feb. 21: Guest artist: William Guanbo Su, bass. 2 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public. In the 2025-2026 season, Su returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Masetto in “Don Giovanni” and Santa Fe Opera as Garibaldo in “Rodelinda.” Su was a Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Grand Finals winner and won second prize in the Eleanor McCollum Competition at Houston Grand Opera. He won first prize in the Liederkranz Foundation’s Song/Lieder Competition in 2017 and, in 2018, received third prize in the Gerda Lissner Opera Competition. He received his Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and his Bachelor of Music Degree from the Manhattan School of Music. He completed further studies at the Franz Schubert Institute in Austria.
• Feb. 22: UNL Opera presents “La Bohème." 3 p.m. San Carlo Room of the Warren Opera House in Friend, Nebraska. The event is free and open to the public. Visit https://www.friendnehistoricalsociety.org/upcoming-events for more information.
• Feb. 24: 3D Percussion. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• Feb. 26: Guest Artist: Basil Vendryes, viola. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public. Vendryes will also present a masterclass on Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. in Westbrook Music Building Rm. 131. Vendryes is principal viola for Colorado Symphony and the founder and director of the Colorado Young Sinfonia. He is a former member of the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic and the Rochester Philharmonic orchestras. He plays on a rare Italian viola made in 1887 by Carlo Cerruti. He currently serves on the faculty of the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver.
• Feb. 28: UNL Opera presents “La Bohème." 3 p.m. The Golden Husk in Old, Nebraska. The event is free and open to the public. Visit https://www.goldenhuskarts.org/upcoming-events.html for more information.