The Lied Center for Performing Arts celebrates its 25th anniversary season in 2014-15 with marquee artists in every art form. Highlights include performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Joshua Bell, the Chieftains and Broadway’s “Anything Goes.” Tickets to all performances will be available for reservation as […]

“Away in the Basement: A Church Basement Ladies Christmas” will play three performances at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, Dec. 7-9. Shows are 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7 and 8, and 2 p.m. Dec. 8 and 9. Tickets, $30 for adults and $15 for youth, are available at the Lied box office, www.liedcenter.org or 402-472-4747. […]

“Heeeeere’s Johnny!” That lead-in, followed by a big band trumpet blast, was a hallmark of late-night television for three decades. The “Johnny” was Johnny Carson, the announcer was Ed McMahon and the bandleader was Doc Severinsen. Now, at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 27, Severinson will bring his iconic big band sound back to the Lied […]

Award-winning author and science journalist Laurie Garrett will offer insights on the realities of health care in the United States and across the globe when she delivers the next lecture in the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. Garrett, considered among the country’s premier authorities on health care and disease prevention, will present “Betrayal of […]

South Africa’s Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 27 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The program is planned to include Bernstein’s Overture to “Candide,” Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” Erich Korngold’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35, and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s famous “Scheherazade,” Op. 35. The […]

Jazz luminaries Terence Blanchard and Branford Marsalis are teaming up for a 7:30 p.m., Feb. 25 performance at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The concert will include compositions ranging from jazz classics to original pieces. Marsalis, a New Orleans native and legendary saxophonist, was born into one of the world’s most distinguished musical families. […]

Jeffery James Walker, 51, former systems manager, house manager and accounting associate at the Lied Center, died Jan. 19. Walker became a part of the UNL community in 1988, originally working in the ticket office at Kimball Hall. He joined the Lied Center during its original opening in 1990; while at the Lied he worked […]

Experimental dance, circus arts and mesmerizing fabric-and-light spectacles will be featured at the Lied Center for Performing Arts when Jody Sperling’s Time Lapse Dance performs on the main state at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 23. The performance is presented by the Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, in collaboration with […]

The internationally recognized a cappella group Rockapella will open the Lied Center for Performing Arts’ 21st season with a 7:30 p.m., Oct. 6 performance. “The Lied Center is very excited to kick off the new season with a group as dynamic as Rockapella,” said Bill Stephan, executive director of the Lied Center. “They create incredible […]

The Lied Center for Performing Arts and the Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium at UNL have been awarded an Artistic Excellence grant from the National Endowment of the Arts for their activities in 2010-11. With the $25,000 grant, the Lied Center and IAS will explore new perspectives on diversity via a series of performances and educational activities. […]