Schedule: Hancher 2017-18 season

Here is a look at highlights of the 2017-2018 season at Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City:

AUGUST

24 and 25 - Monica Bill Barnes & Co.: 'Happy Hour” (dance)

SEPTEMBER

13: Cokie Roberts - 'An Insider's View of Washington, D.C.” (lecture)

14: Leslie Odom Jr. (free outdoor performance)

22: The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (black tie-optional gala)

28: Flip FabriQue - 'Catch Me!” (circus)

30: Niyaz - 'The Fourth Light Project” ('Embracing Complexity” project)

OCTOBER

5: La Santa Cecilia (Latin band)

8: G. Willow Wilson - 'A Superhero for Generation Why” (lecture)

10 to 14: 'The King and I” (Broadway musical)

20: Joshua Bell, violin; Alessio Bax, piano

24 and 25: New York City Ballet MOVES (featuring Iowa City native Miriam Miller)

27: Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra - 'The Outer Space”

28: Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra - 'No Place to Go”

NOVEMBER

16: A Far Cry - 'The Blue Hour” with vocalist Luciana Souza

DECEMBER

1: Terence Blanchard (trumpet) featuring The E-Collective (jazz)

8: Straight No Chaser (a cappella harmonies)

13: Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy - 'A Celtic Family Christmas” (Canadian fiddlers)

JANUARY

27: Camille A. Brown & Dancers - 'Ink”

FEBRUARY

2 and 3: Billy Childs Quartet (jazz)

8: Amir ElSaffar and Rivers of Sound ('Embracing Complexity” project)

25: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan - 'Formosa”

MARCH

1 to 4: 'Motown: The Musical” (Broadway musical)

6: Elias String Quartet

21: 'My Lai” - Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert, Van-Anh Vanessa Vo

28: Brian Stokes Mitchell (stage and screen star) with University Symphony Orchestra

APRIL

4: 'Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic” ('Embracing Complexity” project)

3 to 8: Mission Creek Festival

13 to 15: 'Kinky Boots” (Broadway musical)

19: DakhaBrakha (Ukrainian band)

21: Circa - 'Carnival of the Animals” (circus)

25: Circa - 'Opus” (circus)

28: Taylor Mac - 'A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (Abridged)” (music and theatrics)

MAY

6: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

25 and 26: Zeshan Bagewadi and the Transistors ('Embracing Complexity” project)

TICKETS

Donors: On sale now to Hancher donors at the $1,000 and above level, through the order form in their new season brochure.

Public: July 7, Hancher Box Office, (319) 335-1160, 1-800-426-2437 or Hancher.uiowa.edu