ArtsPass Exclusive: Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Hamnet, with Ellen MacKay and Jennifer Chukwu

Open to UChicago Students Only

Thursday, February 26th, 2026 from 5:45pm to 10:15pm.

Bus Departs from the Logan Center at 4:45 pm

Performance: Chicago Shakespeare Theater - 800 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

Pre-Performance Dinner and Conversation led by Ellen MacKay and Jennifer Chukwu: Chicago Shakespeare Theater - 800 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

ArtsPass Exclusive Discounted Price: $15 plus $2 ticketing fee– Seating is limited

Co-presented by UChicago Careers in Arts and Humanities, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Theater and Performance Studies, and the Logan Center for the Arts

Join us for a UChicago ArtsPass exclusive performance of Hamnet, featuring a pre-performance dinner and conversation with Ellen MacKay, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, and Jennifer Shukwu, Writing and Research Advisor in Creative Writing, on Thursday, February 26th as part of our Winter ArtsPass exclusives program.

Students will have the opportunity to attend the US premiere of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamnet.

Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family. When the plague steals 11-year-old Hamnet from his loving parents, they must each confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the greatest suffering, something of extraordinary wonder is born. Experience the US premiere of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel, adapted by award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (Hymn, Life of Pi, Red Velvet), and directed by Erica Whyman. Pulling back a curtain on the story of the greatest writer in the English language and the woman who was the constant presence and purpose of his life, Hamnet is a love letter to passion, birth, grief, and the magic of nature.

Schedule:

4:45 pm - Bus Departs Logan Center, 915 East 60th Street

5:45 pm - Dinner and Conversation with Ellen MacKay and Jennifer Chukwu

6:45 pm - Conversation ends

7:00 pm - Show begins

9:30 pm - End of show and Bus Returns to Logan Center [Show is 2hrs 30mins with intermission]

Bus will depart after show to return students to campus by 10:15pm

To learn more about the UChicago ArtsPass program, visit artspass.uchicago.edu

To learn more about UChicago Careers in Arts and Humanities, click here.

Students, staff, and faculty of member institutions in the University Partner Program are invited to a day of free activities and programs at the Art Institute of Chicago. The event will include:

• Art talks led by college and university students
• A panel featuring museum staff
• Special experiences in the galleries
• An art-making activity
• An exclusive reception for all guests featuring
museum staff and intern alumni
• Information about internships and job opportunities

To learn more about the UChicago Arts Pass program, visit here

ArtsPass Exclusive: Trap Door Theatre: Green Corridors, with Prof. Darya Tsymbalyuk

Open to UChicago Students Only

Friday, February 20th, 2026 from 8:00pm to 10:15pm.

Bus Departs the Logan Center at 7 pm 

Trap Door Theatre, 1655 W. Cortland St.

Post-Performance Conversation with members of the Cast led by Prof. Darya Tsymbalyuk

ArtsPass Exclusive Discounted Price: $12 (includes $2 ticketing fee) – Seating is limited – Click Button above to purchase tickets.

Co-presented by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Ukrainian Student RSO, Chicago Studies, Trap Door Theatre, and the Logan Center for the Arts

Join us on Friday, February 20th for a UChicago Winter ArtsPass Exclusive performance of Green Corridors, written by Natalka Vorozhbyt, Translated by John Freedman with Natalia Bratus and Directed by Kay Martinovich. Students will end the evening with an exclusive post-performance discussion with members of the Cast and Prof. Darya Tsymbalyuk, Assistant Professor Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization

Using elements of absurdity and dark humor, Green Corridors is a poetic, harrowing journey through a world fractured by war. Ukrainian playwright Natalka Vorozhbyt’s deeply human storytelling, brought to life by Kay Martinovich, invites us to bear witness to displacement, resistance, and the echoing pain of conflict and offers a poignant and urgent reflection on displacement, survival, and identity. Natalka Vorozhbyt is a leading Ukrainian playwright, screenwriter, and director whose work has become central to the evolution of contemporary Ukrainian theatre and film. To learn more visit https://trapdoortheatre.com/green-corridors/

As Prof. Darya Tsymbalyuk notes, February 24th marks the 4th anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This winter has been considered the harshest for millions of Ukrainians, and by attending this play she would like us to think about all those living through the terror of the war.

Schedule:

7:00 pm - Bus Departs Logan Center, 915 East 60th Street

7:45 pm – Arrive Trap Door Theatre,1655 W. Cortland St.

8:00 pm - Show begins

9:30 pm – Show End

9:45 pm - Post-Show Discussion

10:15 pm- Bus returns to the Logan Center

To learn more about the UChicago ArtsPass program, visit artspass.uchicago.edu

To learn more about Chicago Studies, visit chicagostudies.uchicago.edu

To learn more about the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature visit slavic.uchicago.edu

From the Midway to Broadway (And Back Again): Stereophonic at Broadway in Chicago

Open to UChicago Students

Thursday, January 29, 2025 from 5:00pm to 10:15pm.

Performance: CIBC Theatre - 18 West Monroe Street, Chicago, IL 60603

Pre-Performance Reception and Conversation with Daniel Aukin and Devon de Mayo: Kimpton Gray Hotel, Adler Ballroom, 15th Floor - 122 W Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60603

ArtsPass Discounted Price: $17 ($15 plus $2 Box Office fee) – Seating is limited

Tickets on sale now using the link above - purchase tickets by Monday, January 26th at the latest (whiles supplies last)

Join us for a UChicago ArtsPass exclusive performance of Stereophonic, featuring a pre-performance student / alumni reception and conversation with the play’s director and UChicago alum Daniel Aukin, AB’93 and Devon de Mayo, Director of Performance and Assistant Senior Instructional Professor in Theater and Performance Studies, on Thursday, January 29th.

The most Tony Award-winning Show of 2024. The most Tony Award-nominated Play of all time. Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in on a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds itself suddenly on the cusp of superstardom. The ensuing pressures could spark their breakup - or their breakthrough.

Written by David Adjmi, directed by Daniel Aukin, and featuring original music by Arcade Fire’s Will Butler, Stereophonic invites the audience to immerse themselves - with fly-on-the-wall intimacy - in the powder keg process of a band on the brink of blowing up.

UChicago alum, Daniel Aukin, AB’93 is a New York-based Director. Broadway: David Adjmi’s Stereophonic , Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love . Recent Off Broadway: Stereophonic , Mia Chung’s Catch As Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons) and Emily Feldman’s The Best We Could (MTC); also, world premieres of new plays by Joshua Harmon, Abe Koogler, Dan LeFranc, Amy Herzog, Melissa James Gibson, Itamar Moses, Michael Friedman, Mark Schultz, Mac Wellman, Quincy Long and Maria Irene Fornes including Bad Jews (Roundabout), 4000 MILES (Lincoln Center), The Fortress of Solitude (The Public) and [sic] (Soho Rep). Artistic Director of Soho Rep. (1998-2006) and a founding member of Physical Plant based in Austin, Texas. Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, OBIE and Callaway Awards.

Schedule:

• 4:30 pm - Bus Departs Logan Center, 915 East 60th Street

• 5:00 pm - Reception with Alumni and conversation

• 6:45 pm - Conversation ends and group moves to CIBC

• 7:00 pm - Show begins

• 10:15pm - End of show and Bus Returns to Logan Center

Note: Performance Tickets can be picked up at the Kimpton Gray Hotel reception check in until 6 pm or at the CIBC Theater Box Office after 6:15 pm

To learn more about the UChicago ArtsPass program, visit artspass.uchicago.edu

To learn more about Chicago Studies, visit here

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

5:30 PM – Optional, bus will depart from the Logan Center
6:30 PM – Artist conversation moderated by Emily Hooper Lansana
7:30 PM – Performance
9:15 PM – Bus will depart the museum to arrive back at the Logan Center by 10 pm

Steppenwolf Theater
1650 N. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL 60614 

UChicago Student Arts Pass Discounted Price: $10, purchase here.

Join us for a UChicago Arts Pass exclusive for the Steppenwolf Theater’s World Premiere of Leroy and Lucy. Two lost souls meet at a crossroads, in the dead of night, deep in the Mississippi of it all. They laugh, they flirt, they make sweet music. Together, they conjure a familiar sound from long ago, one of wondrous deals and dangerous aspirations. In this sultry world premiere inspired by the myth of musician Robert Johnson, the Delta Blues fills the air, and every strum has the chance to change your life.   Join Emily Hooper Lansana from the Theater and Performance Studies Program and the Logan Center, as well as guests from Steppenwolf in a pre-performance conversation.

An optional, bus will depart from the Logan Center for the Arts at 5:30 pm. The pre-performance conversion will occur from 6:30-7:15pm, followed by the performance at 7:30 pm. The bus will depart the museum at 9:15 pm to arrive back at the Logan Center by 10 pm.

To learn more about the UChicago Arts Pass program visit here

To learn more about the performance of Leroy and Lucy visit here

Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr., Chicago, IL 60605
Sat, Nov 9, 6:30pm-10:00pm
UChicago Student Arts Pass Discounted Price: $20, purchase here.

110 musicians from Chicago Philharmonic, accompanied by a full choir, bring Wojciech Kilar’s haunting score to life in sync with Francis Ford Coppola’s cinematographic retelling of Bram Stoker’s novel. Join Prof. AE Stevenson from the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, as well as LaRob K. Rafael, Prof. Beata Bolesławska, Magdalena Miśka-Jackowska, and Aleksander Dębicz in a pre-concert conversation hosted by the Chicago Philharmonic.

5:45PM – Bus Departs from the Logan Center
6:30PM – Panel conversation including Prof. AE Stevenson
7:30PM – Film and Concert
10:00PM – Bus will depart the museum at 10pm to arrive back at the Logan Center by 10:30pm.

To learn more about the performance of Bram Stokers Dracula visit here.

This event is rated R. Contains some adult material. Under 17 years old requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
600 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605
Thu, Nov 7, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Cost: $5, purchase here.

Alexander Hofmann, Professor in the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences, will lead a discussion of the museum’s Picturing Chicago collection to explore questions like, “How can we use photographs of what some might consider banal to read extraordinary things about everyday life out of them? How can we use our affective responses as research tools? Where does that affective response come from—us, the historical circumstances, or the aesthetics?”

4:45PM – Bus Departs from the Logan Center 
5:30PM – Print viewing
6:30PM – Walkthrough of the Dawit L. Petros' exhibit
7:30PM – Bus will depart the museum to arrive back at the Logan Center by 8pm.

To learn more about the Museum of Contemporary Photography visit here.

Join us for an evening of music at the Auditorium Theatre for a performance of REVERB by the Chicago Sinfonietta.

Program

• 6:00 PM FREE light refreshments and nibbles provided

• 6:30 PM Pre-show conversation with Freeman Conducting Fellow, Juliano Aniceto in the Gage Gallery

• 7:30 PM Show starts.

Event Description

The evening begins with Chin's Subito con Forza, a  dynamic work that sets the tone for an evening. Then, if you appreciate bold and dynamic orchestral music, you won't want to miss the triumphant Symphony No. 3 by Louise Farrenc, whose brilliance as a composer is finally receiving the recognition it deserves.

Up next, experience the Chicago premiere of Carlos Simon's Profiles, a work that explores the complexities of identity and the diversity of the human experience. This piece is sure to move and inspire with its powerful themes and innovative sound. 

Next up is Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, featuring the world-renowned pianist George Li as guest artist. Li's virtuosity and musicality are sure to dazzle and delight, as he performs one of the most beloved and iconic works in the classical repertoire. 

Throughout the concert, the Chicago Sinfonietta will reverberate with energy and passion, showcasing their artistic prowess and commitment to excellence. This promises to be an unforgettable evening of music that will leave you inspired and energized. Don't miss your chance to witness the Chicago Sinfonietta REVERB with sound and spirit as they close out another incredible season. 

Tickets: $ 5 with UCHICAGO ID

Buy here