Theater
Jan 25, 2025
Saturday
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Arts Alive: Daniel Alexander Jones
7:30pm @
Fine Arts Building
Recital Hall AR217
2021 W. Riverside Avenue
- Daniel Alexander Jones exemplifies the artist-as-energy worker. His wildflower body of original work includes plays, performance pieces, recorded music, concerts, music theatre events, essays, and long-form improvisations. He explores the esoteric and the everyday through his own distinctive dramaturgy. Jones “creates multi-dimensional experiences where bodies, minds, emotions, voices, and spirits conjoin, shimmer, and heal" (The Herb Alpert Foundation).
Feb 19, 2025
Wednesday
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Kodo One Earth Tour 2025: Warabe
3:58pm @
Emens Auditorium, Ball State University
1800 W Riverside Ave
Cost: $31 - $41 ; Youth $15 In Japanese, the word “Kodo” holds a double meaning. It can be translated as “heartbeat,” the primal source of all rhythm. However, this group’s name is written with different characters, which mean “drum” and “child.” This reflects Kodo’s desire to play the drums with the simple heart of a child. For their 40th anniversary, they created two works based on their name: “Tsuzumi” takes its name and theme from the drum character, and “Warabe” from the child element.
In “Warabe,” Kodo looks to its classic repertoire and aesthetics from the ensemble’s early days. This production blends simple forms of taiko expression that celebrate the unique sound, resonance, and physicality synonymous with Kodo—forever children of the drum at heart.
Mar 24, 2025
Monday
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Come From Away
7:30pm @
Emens Auditorium, Ball State University
1800 W Riverside Ave
Cost: $39 - $69 Broadway’s COME FROM AWAY is a Best Musical winner all across North America!
This New York Times Critics’ Pick takes you into the heart of the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships.
Don’t miss this breathtaking musical written by Tony® nominees Irene Sankoff and David Hein, directed by Tony-winning Best Director, Christopher Ashley and musical staging by Tony-nominee Kelly Devine. The tour is directed by Daniel Goldstein with musical staging by Richard J. Hinds, based on the original Broadway direction and choreography.
Newsweek cheers, “It takes you to a place you never want to leave!”
On 9/11, the world stopped.
On 9/12, their stories moved us all.
Apr 9, 2025
Wednesday
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R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
7:30pm @
Emens Auditorium, Ball State University
1800 W Riverside Ave
Cost: $35-$45 R.E.S.P.E.C.T. is an electrifying tribute celebrating the music of the legendary Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. This concert experience takes audiences on a journey of love, tragedy, courage, and triumph. Starring a live band and supreme vocalists, come experience a night of music by one of the greatest artists of all time.
The concert features all your favorite hits in one evening, including "Natural Woman,” “Think,” “I Knew You Were Waiting for Me,” “Chain of Fools,” “RESPECT,” and many more. You’ll be out of your seat and dancing in the aisles as you lose yourself in the music that inspired a generation.
May 19, 2025
Monday
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STOMP
7:30pm @
Emens Auditorium, Ball State University
1800 W Riverside Ave
Cost: $40 - $50 STOMP – CELEBRATING 30 YEARS IN NORTH AMERICA.
This unique combination of percussion, movement and visual comedy was created in Brighton, UK, in the summer of 1991. It was the result of a ten-year collaboration between its creators, Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas.STOMP does not have a storyline like a traditional musical or play. There is no dialogue or plot. Instead, the eight-member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments – matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters and hubcaps, just to name a few – to fill the stage with magnificent rhythms.
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STOMP
7:30pm @
Emens Auditorium, Ball State University
1800 W Riverside Ave
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R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
7:30pm @
Emens Auditorium, Ball State University
1800 W Riverside Ave
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Come From Away
7:30pm @
Emens Auditorium, Ball State University
1800 W Riverside Ave