Events

Fri, Apr 11 2025, 10am - 9:30pm
This event has been canceled.

If you are a high school theatre or dance student or new to the craft and interested in the University of Kentucky Department of Theatre and Dance, we would love for you to attend our Theatre & Dance Exploration Day on April 11, 2025.  During the day, you will tour the facilities on the University of Kentucky’s beautiful campus, gain insight into what it is like to be a theatre or dance major at UK, take…

Fine Arts Building
$10, Registration Required
Fri, Apr 11 2025, 12pm
Visiting Artist and Lecture SeriesRaub Roy has performed and recorded electroacoustic music as horaflora since 2005, and more recently (2017-present) as Scy1e. Performances are often based around low-tech immersive sound, utilizing novel arrays of semi-autonomous devices and techniques to keep the audience, as well as himself, surprised. Balloons, electric toothbrush, modified speaker cones, transducers, and a bevy of cassette walkmen, are some…
Art & Visual Studies Building
Room 250
Free
Fri, Apr 11 2025, 5 - 6pm

Presented by the Opera Workshop in the Opera Theatre Program

A two-act chamber opera about four opera divas who die and go to heaven. They want to sing in the heavenly chorus, but adding their voices would make the chorus imbalanced, so they go to hell to recruit tenors and basses to help balance it out. 

Schmidt Vocal Arts Center
Free
Fri, Apr 11 2025, 7:30pm

Come experience all the show-stopping tunes you love from Broadway’s biggest hits, including Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, Annie, Jersey Boys, The Sound of Music, Chicago, CATS, A Chorus Line and The Lion King performed by some of New York’s top vocalists. It’s the ultimate showtune extravaganza!

A SPOT-ON Entertainment production

Mélisse Brunet, conductor
Singletary Center for the Arts

 

Singletary Concert Hall
$28-$78 adults; $11 youth & students
Fri, Apr 11 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm
Urinetown, The Musical Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann 
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis 
April 10 - 13, 2025 | Guignol Theatre 
 In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The denizens of Urinetown must use public facilities regulated by a single evil company that profits by charging for one of humanity’s most basic…
Guignol Theatre
ADULT: $27.78, STUDENT: $19.56
Fri, Apr 11 2025, 8 - 9pm
Singletary Recital Hall
Free
Sat, Apr 12 2025, 2 - 4pm
Urinetown, The Musical Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann 
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis 
April 10 - 13, 2025 | Guignol Theatre 
 In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The denizens of Urinetown must use public facilities regulated by a single evil company that profits by charging for one of humanity’s most basic…
Guignol Theatre
ADULT: $27.78, STUDENT: $19.56
Sat, Apr 12 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm
Urinetown, The Musical Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann 
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis 
April 10 - 13, 2025 | Guignol Theatre 
 In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The denizens of Urinetown must use public facilities regulated by a single evil company that profits by charging for one of humanity’s most basic…
Guignol Theatre
ADULT: $27.78, STUDENT: $19.56
Sat, Apr 12 2025, 7:30pm

New York-based composer and producer Kelly Moran and her Yamaha Disklavier–-a technologically advanced version of a player piano–-have challenged the piano's traditional, classically-imposed school of thought with a more contemporary, experimental approach. Alongside Moran’s real time playing on each track, listeners are treated to accompaniments by the Disklavier that feature inhumanly fast arpeggios, chords requiring more than ten…

Singletary Recital Hall
FREE for UK Students, $23 Adults / $10 Students
Sun, Apr 13 2025, 2 - 4pm
Urinetown, The Musical Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann 
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis 
April 10 - 13, 2025 | Guignol Theatre 
 In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The denizens of Urinetown must use public facilities regulated by a single evil company that profits by charging for one of humanity’s most basic…
Guignol Theatre
ADULT: $27.78, STUDENT: $19.56
Sun, Apr 13 2025, 7:30pm
Singletary Recital Hall
Free
Mon, Apr 14 - Fri, Apr 18 2025, All day
BFA in Art Studio Hannah Stein senior exhibitionBFA in Art Studio Mary-Margot Ventura senior exhibitionReception Thursday, April 17 @ 4:30-7 
Bolivar Art Gallery
Free
Mon, Apr 14 2025, 3 - 4pm

Join visiting University of Perugia Professors Dr. Alberto Burchi and Dr. Simone Splendiani and faculty from the Department of Arts Administration for a roundtable discussion on the intersection of arts and sustainable entrepreneurship. Drs. Burchi and Splendiani will share insights from their research and international case studies, highlighting strategies integrating artistic practices with sustainable business models in Italy. Attendees…

Gatton Student Center
Gatton Student Center Room 231
Free - students, faculty, staff are welcome
Mon, Apr 14 2025, 7 - 8:30pm
UK Choirs Presents: Big Blue Sing! Join us for a night filled with incredible a cappella and music-making as all of UK’s a cappella groups take the stage together for Big Blue Sing. Featuring special guests, Radius Vocals (with alum Benjamin Marshall Boutell). Performances by:
Fresh F
Paws and Listen
acoUstiKats
Blue NotesWith special guests:
Radius Vocals

ABOUT RADIUS:

Radius is a …

First Presbyterian Church
174 N Mill St
Free
Tue, Apr 15 2025, 7:30pm

Will Oldham, singer/songwriter and Louisville native, is known by many names, but none more iconic than Bonnie "Prince" Billy. With a deeply personal and unconventional approach to music, he creates a world where intimacy, community, mystery, and spontaneity intertwine. Drawing from the rich traditions of vintage folk and country, Bonnie "Prince" Billy crafts songs that delve into the complexities of human nature—its joys, sorrows,…

Singletary Recital Hall
FREE for UK Students, $28 Adults / $18 Students