For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at https://arts.unl.edu.
• March 25: Nebraska Young Artist Awards. All-day. Awards ceremony at 3 p.m. at Sheldon Museum of Art. Sixty-eight students from more than 40 high schools across Nebraska will be recognized at this annual awards event honoring the state’s most talented high school juniors.
• March 25: "The Fall." One night only. 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/the-fall/. Relive the adventure of Tarsem’s visionary fantasy epic "The Fall," as it returns to theaters in a stunning new 4k restoration, presented by David Fincher and Spike Jonze.
• Continuing through March 26: “Pillion.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. In writer-director Harry Lighton's romantic, funny, thoroughly unconventional love story, a timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic biker takes him on as his submissive.
• Continuing through March 26: “You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. “You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine” captures the star-studded tribute to the legendary songwriter, filmed in October 2022 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.
• Continuing through March 27: MFA Thesis Exhibition II. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, noon to 5 p.m. Free admission. MFA Thesis Exhibition II features the work of Allie Wheeler, Ani Sargsyan and Daniel Garcia. A closing reception will be held on Friday, March 27 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.
• March 26: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture by Binh Danh. 5:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Danh reimagines traditional photographic techniques to explore history, identity, and place. Known for his contemporary daguerreotypes of national parks, his reflective images invite viewers to see themselves within the American landscape. He is an associate professor of art at San José State University.
• March 26: Guest Artist: Colleen Clark. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Part of the Chateau Visiting Artist Series.
• March 27-April 2: “Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Based on the web series “Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie” stars Canadian comedians Matt Johnson and Kay McCarrol as fictionalized versions of themselves in a time-travel mockumentary adventure.
• March 27-April 2: “Natchez.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. Equal parts amusing and disturbing, “Natchez” captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town.
• March 28: UNL Flute Day. All-day. Westbrook Music Building.
• March 29: AIA screening of "The Lost King" followed by a Q&A with amateur historian Philippa Langley. 1 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 313 N. 13th St. Free tickets are required. Visit https://theross.org/events/lost-king/ for information. The Archaeological Institute of America (Lincoln-Omaha Society) will be screening the feature film, The Lost King (2023), which tells the story of how Philippa Langley, an amateur historian, unlocked the clues hidden lost documents and convinced British archaeologists that the body of King Richard III, the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty, who died on the battlefield of Bosworth field in 1485, lies buried under a parking lot in the center of Leicester. Following the screening, Philippa Langley will speak via Zoom to the audience about the discovery and her latest research regarding the “Princes in the Tower,” also a medieval mystery. Following the discussion Philippa will engage with the audience in a Q&A.
• March 29: Karen Becker & Friends: A Cello-bration. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Join us for an unforgettable afternoon celebrating Professor of Cello Karen Becker and her combined 40 years of teaching as she celebrates her retirement from the University. This special concert brings together more than 40 cellists for the concert finale and features cello quartets with many of her former students from across the decades.
• April 1: A Potter April Fools. 7 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• April 2-4: Theatrix presents “Tango Palace.” Lab Theatre, 3rd floor Temple Building. Follow Theatrix on social media @unl_theatrix for ticket and show information.
• April 3-9: “The President's Cake.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. While people across 1990’s Iraq struggle to survive, 9-year old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the President’s birthday. In a landscape of fear and scarcity, Lamia sets out on a determined journey throughout the big city in search of eggs, flour and sugar.
• April 3-16: “Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. An exhilarating documentary about the legendary Grammy-winning musician whose signature sound shaped the work of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin and countless others.
• April 6-10: MFA Thesis Exhibition III. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, noon to 5 p.m. Free admission. MFA Thesis Exhibition III features the work of Emmanual Asamoah and Joshua Goering. A closing reception will be held on Friday, April 10 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.
• April 8-12: A Tribute to Nebraska’s Joan Micklin Silver. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes, ticket information and more information on each film, visit https://theross.org/events/joan-micklin-silver/. Born in Omaha, Joan Micklin Silver is best known for her pioneering efforts fighting to bring Jewish stories to light and writing and directing independent films such as “Crossing Delancey” (1988) and “Hester Street” (1975). The films to be screened include “Hester Street” (April 8); “Between the Lines” (April 9); “Chilly Scenes of Winter” (April 10); “Crossing Delancey” (1988); and “A Fish in the Bathtub” (1999).
• April 9: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture by Kevin Colls. 5:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Colls is a professional archaeologist and reader of archaeology working for the Centre of Archaeology based at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. For 24 years, he has directed and published archaeological projects throughout the United Kingdom and Europe and has widely travelled to sites across the world.
• April 10-16: “Fantasy Life.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. An actress (Amanda Peet) falls for the anxious law school dropout (Matthew Shear) babysitting her kids in this smart, New York-set romantic comedy.
• April 11: UNL Percussion Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 116. Free and open to the public.
• April 12-14: Chamberfest Concerts. 7:30 p.m. each night. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• April 12: Soprano Alto Festival. All-day. Kimball Recital Hall.
• April 13: Flyover Satellite Concert: Inspiration from the Archives and Special Collections. 5:30 p.m. Love Library North, 2nd floor. Free and open to the public. Students from the Glenn Korff School of Music will perform new compositions inspired by their experience and interaction with materials from the Archives & Special Collections. Join us for the concert, light refreshments and the Libraries’ signature mocktails. This event is part of LoveFest, a week-long celebration of 80 years of Love Library South and 50 years of Love Library North being open to students. For more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/lovefest.
• April 15: “Resurrection.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. One night only. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/resurrection-2026/. With his senses-ravishing third feature, visionary director Bi Gan takes his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure cinematic dreamscape. In a world where humans have forsaken dreams in exchange for immortality, a dreaming monster (Jackson Yee) embarks on a shape-shifting odyssey through illusion, beauty and terror that takes him across the 20th century and to the end of time. Unfolding in five dazzlingly imagined chapters that encompass everything from silent-cinema expressionism to film noir to a delirious vampire love story shot in one of Bi’s signature long takes, “Resurrection” is a work of breathtaking imagination in which cinema is the ultimate portal to the unconscious mind.
• April 16: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture by Annette Becker. 5:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Becker is an arts educator and scholar whose research focuses on fashion history. She serves as the curator and director of the Texas Fashion Collection, an academic fashion archive at the University of North Texas.
• April 16: UNL Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://go.unl.edu/gksomwebcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• April 16-26: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents “Bright Star.” Howell Theatre. For tickets and showtimes, visit https://nebraskarep.org. “Bright Star,” produced in association with UNL Opera with music, book and story by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, is a bluegrass-infused musical that weaves together past and present as it follows a woman’s search for redemption and reunion in 1940s North Carolina.
• April 17: UNL Low Brass Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• April 17-23: “Immediate Family.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. “Immediate Family” tracks the rise and collaborations of a group of legendary session musicians Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel and Waddy Wachtel through the 1970s and onward, chronicling their illustrious partnerships and their formidable record of hit-making.
• April 17-23: “Mr. Nobody Against Putin.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher films what’s really happening in his own school. Academy Award Winner: Best Documentary Feature.
• April 18-19: UNL Symphony Orchestra. April 18 at 7:30 p.m. and April 19 at 3 p.m., location to be announced. Free and open to the public. The UNL Symphony Orchestra will be performing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The performance features faculty soloist Jamie Reimer Seaman, plus alumni soloists Adrienne Dickson, Alfonzo Cooper and Charles Austin, as well as a new English translation by Professor of Conducting and Composition and Director of Orchestras Tyler White. The performances represent the culmination of the UNL Symphony’s seven-year traversal of all nine Beethoven symphonies.
• April 20: Nebraska Saxophone Project. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• April 20-24: Graphic Design Capstone Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday. A closing reception will be held on Friday, April 24 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery with awards announced at 5:30 p.m. Admission to the gallery is free and open to the public.
• April 21: Faculty Recital: Mark Clinton, piano. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://go.unl.edu/gksomwebcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• April 23: An Evening of Choir. 7 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
• April 23: UNL Jazz Singers. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• April 24: Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Honors Day. 4:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Faculty, staff, student and alumni achievement will be recognized during this annual celebration. A reception will follow the event in the lobby. Reservations requested at https://go.unl.edu/honorsdayrsvp.
• April 24: UNL Jazz Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 116. Free and open to the public.
• April 24-May 7: “I Swear.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org. "I Swear" is the inspiring, extraordinary life story of notable Tourette Syndrome campaigner John Davidson, MBE.
• April 27: Opera Scenes. 5 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 116. Free and open to the public.
• April 27: Faculty Recital: Paul Haar, saxophone. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Performance Hall Rm. 130. Free and open to the public.
• April 28: UNL Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://go.unl.edu/gksomwebcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• April 28: “Cronos.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. One night only. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/cronos/. 4K Restoration. Guillermo del Toro made an auspicious and audacious feature debut with “Cronos,” a highly unorthodox tale about the seductiveness of the idea of immortality. Kindly antiques dealer Jesús Gris (Federico Luppi) happens upon an ancient golden device in the shape of a scarab and soon finds himself the possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious American named Angel (a delightfully crude and deranged Ron Perlman). Featuring marvelous makeup effects and the haunting imagery for which del Toro has become world-renowned, “Cronos” is a dark, visually rich, and emotionally captivating fantasy.
• April 28: “Four Nights of a Dreamer.” Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 13th and R streets. One night only. For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://theross.org/events/four-nights-of-a-dreamer/. 4K Restoration. The rarely screened “Four Nights of a Dreamer” is Robert Bresson’s great forgotten masterpiece, a stark yet haunting ode to romantic idealism and the capriciousness of love. Adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “White Nights,” “Four Nights” follows Jacques (Guillaume des Forêts), a lonely artist who roams bohemian Paris in search of the girl of his dreams. One night he saves a beautiful young woman, Marthe, from plunging into the Seine in despair over her rejection by an avoidant lover (Maurice Monnoyer). Jacques compassionately attempts to reunite Marthe with her beau, but his feelings for his new friend soon become less than platonic and his investment in her personal drama far from selfless.
• April 30: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture by Sara Jimenez. 5:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Jimenez’s work materializes invisible histories and a kaleidoscopic connectedness she has to her ancestors and their land. She works in installation, sculpture, collage, and performance to create visual metaphors through fantastical environments and otherworldly, biomorphic objects. Most of her research and inspiration comes from learning about the landscape and narratives from her genealogical roots in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and the ancient U.K.
• April 30: UNL Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://go.unl.edu/gksomwebcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• May 4-8: Studio Art Capstone Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday. A closing reception will be held on Friday, May 8 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery with awards announced at 5:30 p.m. Admission to the gallery is free and open to the public.