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Step into the world of The Wilds – a new mixed reality performance experience where movement instantly becomes music as emerging technology allows dancers to create an immersive journey of sound, light, and visual media in real time. Part mythology, part utopian vision, The Wilds fuses live dancers with motion capture technology and real-time animation inspiring a profound bond of a shared, collective experience.

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See and hear Danny Elfman perform Jack Skellington with The Nightmare Before Christmas film and much more as part of the two-time Emmy Award-winning production of Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton.

The Lied Center joins the Hollywood Bowl, Live at Lincoln Center, and Coachella as one of the distinctive venues to present one of the world’s top...

The Lincoln Youth Symphony joins LSO for a side-by-side performance of two movements from Mary Watkins’s Movements in Color. Next, LSO presents the world premiere of Symphony No. 4 “Metaclassical,” written for LSO by Composer-in-Residence Dr. Tyler G. White. After intermission, 22-year-old Tchaikovsky Concerto Competition winner Zlatomir Fung performs Elgar’s Cello Concerto, Op. 85 in E Minor.

DC’s Reflecting Fools is the new generation of the beloved Capitol Steps. Featuring artists and a co-creator from Capitol Steps, they blend new songs and dance with classic Steps material. Just in time for the midterm elections, they put the Mock in Democracy and specialize in bipartisan spoofery!

With break-neck costume changes, over-the-top impressions, and all-new song parodies reflecting the...

STOMP is explosive, inventive, provocative, witty, and utterly unique—an unforgettable experience for audiences of all ages. The international percussion sensation has garnered armfuls of awards and rave reviews and has appeared on numerous national television shows. The eight-member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments – matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps – to fill the stage...

Baroque band ACRONYM—an “outstanding young early-music string ensemble” (The New Yorker)—is dedicated to giving modern premières of the wild instrumental music of the seventeenth century. Playing with “…consummate style, grace, and unity of spirit” (The New York Times), the group formed in 2012 and has released eight critically acclaimed CDs since 2014. Recent projects include the first modern performances and...

‘Tis the season! LSO’s annual celebration returns with lots of holly, jolly, and more, including Sleigh Ride and The Nutcracker with guest conductor Lucas Waldin. Tenor Drew Duncan will bring beloved holiday songs to life, and audiences of all ages can celebrate the joy of the season with dancers from Chase Dance and Dancing Beyond Limits The concert also showcases...

The Axiom Quartet is a dynamic and passionate string quartet that explores all genres of music with no boundaries or limits. Axiom Quartet has become known around Texas for its inventive programs that mix music from the classical canon with transcriptions, and new compositions along with the inclusion of popular rock, electronic, indie, jazz, and pop genres in a single...

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Album and recently voted as No. 1 Jazz Vocal Album by NPR Music’s Jazz Critics Poll, Jazzmeia Horn makes her Lied Center debut in a Valentine’s Day concert you won’t want to miss. A three-time GRAMMY^® Award nominee, Jazzmeia Horn performs songs of daring musicality and emotional power.

“Without a doubt among...

OMG you guys!!! Legally Blonde - The Musical is coming to Lincoln!

Fabulously fun and international award-winning Legally Blonde - The Musical is the ultimate Broadway tribute to Girl Power! The story follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles stereotypes, sexism, snobbery and scandal in pursuit of her dreams, and proves that you can be legally blonde and...

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. is the ultimate tribute to the legendary Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin! This elevated concert experience journeys through her courageous life of love, tragedy, and triumph with a live band and supreme vocalists guaranteed to get you out of your seat and dancing. Experience "Natural Woman,” “Think,” “Chain of Fools,” “Respect,” and more in one unforgettable evening celebrating the...

In a galaxy far, far away…or right here at the Lied Center, celebrate the music of Star Wars by legendary film composer John Williams and The Mandalorian by rising film score star Ludwig Göransson with Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra. Enjoy this concert, you will. Dress up as your favorite Star Wars character and join us at the photo booth before the...

Electrifying. Joyful. Powerful. Gorgeous. Be inspired by Ailey’s incomparable dancers as they bring you the pulse-racing thrill of contemporary favorites and the spirit-lifting joy of such classics as Alvin Ailey’s masterpiece, Revelations. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater continues to confirm what dance lovers have long known—that in terms of unparalleled artistry, athletic strength, and boundless passion, nothing beats Ailey.

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A string trio with four instruments? A harpsichord hiding behind the cello? The Valencia Baryton Project has dedicated itself to the performance of music written for an ancient and little-known instrument, the baryton. A cross between the viol da gamba and lirone, with 10 resonating and plucked strings down the back of the instrument, the baryton gives the traditional string...

One of the world’s top cirque troupes leads young and old on a journey to a reinvented land. The cattle-shed is crazy, and the barn is upside down! A gentleman-farmer surrounds himself with crazy creatures: the chickens have teeth, the ducks are very naughty, and the cows run amok!

Agricultural cirque funk where the farm has gone haywire!

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Join Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria as they bound out of the zoo and onto the stage in this live musical spectacular. This smash hit musical features all of your favorite crack-a-lackin’ friends as they escape from their home in New York’s Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien’s Madagascar. This brand-new...

After opening with Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre, LSO is joined by composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) as he solos in his own Voodoo Violin Concerto, tapping into his Haitian roots. Following intermission, LSO performs Antonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World,” one of the most popular symphonies ever written, with its famous “Goin’ Home” theme.
 

Described by one pretty important radio guy as “not classical…but not not classical” (David Srebnik, SiriusXM Classical Producer), Invoke continues to successfully dodge even the most valiant attempts at genre classification. The multi-instrumental band’s other not-nots encompass traditions from across America, including bluegrass, Appalachian fiddle tunes, jazz, and minimalism. Invoke weaves all of these styles together to create truly individual...