For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Continuing through Oct. 20: Nebraska National Undergraduate Juried Art Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. The exhibition will feature the work of the best undergraduate student artists from across the country. A reception will be held on Friday, Oct. 6 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.
• Continuing through Oct. 15: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "Abigail/1702" by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and directed by Nebraska Rep Artistic Director Andy Park. Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater. For a full schedule and ticket information, visit http://www.liedcenter.org. Ten years after "The Crucible's" infamous seductress, Abigail Williams, danced with the devil in Salem, darkness returns.
• Sept. 28: Faculty Recital: Kevin Hanrahan, tenor. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu on the day of the broadcast for the link.
• Sept. 30: Alloy Orchestra at The Ross. 3 & 9:30 p.m. The world-renowned Alloy Orchestra returns to the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center for two performances, providing live, original accompaniment for the silent films "The Lost World" (1925) at 3 p.m. and "A Page of Madness" (1926) at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 general, $20 seniors, $15 students/members and $5 for UNL, Nebraska Wesleyan and Union College students. For more information, visit http://go.unl.edu/7fda.
• Oct. 2: Men's Choir Festival Performance. 6:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 4: Hixson-Lied Visiting Scholar Lecture: Robert Mahoney, art criticism. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Mahoney is a veteran New York-city based art critic who through Arts magazine, Flash Art, Art & Antiques, Art in America, New Art Examiner, Sculpture, TIME OUT New York, Artnet online and numerous other publications, provided weekly and monthly coverage of the New York art scene for 20 years. He also served as Public Information Officer for Queens Museum of Art from 1994-99.
• Oct. 4: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students/seniors and are available at the door.
• Oct. 5: Flyover New Music Series. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open the public. Featuring new music from the Glenn Korff School of Music with new works by Joshua Spaulding, Ian Whillock, Krista Connelly, Wataru Niimori, Spencer Perkins, Louis Raymond-Kolker and a special performance by the GKSOM Composition Studio.
• Oct. 8: Glenn Korff School of Music's opera program presents "The Ballad of Baby Doe." 2 p.m. Neville Center for Performing Arts in North Platte, Nebraska. For ticket information, visit http://npconcertassociation.org/.
• Oct. 8: Symphony Orchestra with Karen Becker, cello soloist. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students/seniors and are available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu on the day of the broadcast for the link.
• Oct. 10: Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students/seniors and are available at the door.
• Oct. 11: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Eva Isaksen, printmaking. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Isaksen was born and raised north of the Arctic Circle in Bodø, Norway. She moved to Seattle after earning her MFA in painting from Montana State University. Isaksen’s work is inspired by the landscape in her native Norway and in the U.S. Northwest. She works with printmaking and collage, using thin handmade papers from Nepal that she mono prints using pressed plants, seeds, yarns, fabric and stencils creating complex and multi-layered compositions to investigate nuances in nature. Her work contains organic forms and represents cycles, seasons, land, water, order, rhythm, growth, life and regeneration.
• Oct. 11: Jazz Orchestra & Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students/seniors and are available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu on the day of the broadcast for the link.
• Oct. 12: University Singers. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center, 320 N. 16th St. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 12: Guest Artist: WoodWired Duo. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. WoodWired is a new electroacoustic duo based in Dallas, Texas. Hannah Leffler and Cheyenne Cruz have teamed up to create a unique take on the popular clarinet/flute combination.
• Oct. 18: Chiara String Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $20 adults, $10 seniors and $5 students available in advance from the Lied Center Box Office, (402) 472-4747 or at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu on the day of the broadcast for the link.
• Oct. 19: Hixson-Lied Visiting Scholar Lecture: Emily Godbey, art history. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Godbey is Associate Professor at Iowa State University. She earned an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago, and an MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her primary body of work deals with the ideas of tragedy and mourning. Her book project, “Recreating Astonishment: Disaster’s Delightful Horrors and Terrible Pleasures,” explores the commercialization of disaster through images within modern formats such as postcards, movies and amusement parks. Godbey is also working on projects dealing with communication at the turn of the century via postcards and visuality and World’s Fairs.
• Oct. 19: Evening of Choirs. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students/seniors and are available at the door.
• Oct. 20: Faculty Recital: Hans Sturm, bass. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 21: Bass Day. All-day. Westbrook Music Building.
• Oct. 22: Chamber Singers. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students/seniors and are available at the door.
• Oct. 22: Paul Barnes, piano/Lisztomania. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu on the day of the broadcast for the link. This concert celebrates Franz Liszt's 206th birthday.
• Oct. 24: Vocal Jazz Ensemble/Jazz Combo 1. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 26: Play with the Chiara Auditions. 7 p.m. Westbrook Rm. 132. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 26-29: Theatrix presents: "Nebraska: Nice," written and directed by Hunter Mruz and Lindsey Parodi. 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26-28 and 2 p.m. on Oct. 29. Lab Theatre, 3rd floor Temple Building. Tickets available at the door or in advance at http://go.unl.edu/theatretix. This is the second installment of last year's popular sketch comedy show.
• Oct. 29-30: Concerto Competition. 6 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.