News

Lied Center News
Lied Center of Kansas announces its 2026–27 season
Announcing the Lied Center's 2026–27 season
  • May 4, 2026
Read More
Lied Center of Kansas announces this season’s IMPACT Award winners
The Lied Center of Kansas has named Renée Fleming and Mike Jones as the 2025–26 IMPACT Award winners.
  • April 7, 2026
Read More
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra band members playing trumpets, trombones and saxophones on stage
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis to premiere “Wave the Wheat Suite” honoring 15 KU icons
“Wave the Wheat Suite” honoring 15 KU icons
  • October 14, 2025
Read More
Lied Center of Kansas announces its 2025–26 season
The Lied Center of Kansas announced the 2025–26 season on Sunday, May 4, to the Friends of the Lied.
  • May 4, 2025
Read More
Lied Center of Kansas announces this season’s IMPACT Award winners
The Lied Center of Kansas has named the iconic Paul Taylor Dance Company and Trish Averill Neuteboom.
  • March 26, 2025
Read More
Lawrence Public Schools Honors Lied Center of Kansas Staff as its 2023 Outstanding Citizens
The Lied Center of Kansas has partnered with Lawrence Public Schools since the performing arts center opened.
  • July 12, 2023
Read More
Facebook
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center55 minutes ago
So many reasons to come to the Lied! What’s yours?! Come and enjoy the power of the performing arts… get tickets at lied.ku.edu.
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center
1
View on Facebook
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center24 hours ago
FidPick is this Sunday at South Park in #lawrencekansas, and we'll be there with an exciting ticket giveaway! This year, Dom Flemons — Grammy-winner and founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops with Rhiannon Giddens — is the FidPick featured artist. So we're partnering with FidPick to give away two pairs of tickets to Rhiannon’s show here at the Lied Center of Kansas on February 16.

Enjoy an afternoon of incredible music at FidPick and stop by the merch & information table (east of the gazebo) to enter the Lied Center ticket giveaway!

Event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1827453958227961
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center
1715
View on Facebook
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center3 days ago
Pssst, hey #Jayhawks… the Lied Center of Kansas is the place to be for a fun part-time campus job in the exciting performing arts industry! Check out the student positions currently open...

Student Events & Audience Services Assistant
Student Graphic Designer
Student Marketing Assistant
Student Technical Crew

Learn more at lied.ku.edu/work-at-the-lied.

KU Theatre & Dance KU School of Music The University of Kansas School of Business KU William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications KU School of Architecture & Design The University of Kansas
3010
View on Facebook
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center4 days ago
Bestselling author and humorist David Sedaris is a master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers. Join us when he brings his razor-sharp wit to the Lied Center stage in #lawrencekansas on Monday, October 26, 7:30pm. Get tickets at lied.ku.edu.
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center
112
View on Facebook
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center1 week ago
Good luck to everyone starting school today in Lawrence Public Schools, and we hope you have a great year! We can’t wait to see all K-12 students at our school performances this year!
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center
91
View on Facebook
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center2 weeks ago
The Lied Center’s 2026–27 season begins soon! Don’t wait to get your tickets! Learn more at lied.ku.edu.
Lied Center of Kansas - Performing Arts Center
124217
View on Facebook
In the News
Lawrence playwright tells her family’s story of migration to Kansas for better opportunities
The Lawrence community can celebrate Juneteenth on Saturday by attending a play by a local playwright on her parents' migration from Mississippi to Kansas in search of better opportunities.
  • June 19, 2025
Read More
Highland Park High School band shines on Lied Center stage alongside University of Kansas band
The Highland Park symphonic band was invited to perform three songs alongside the KU University Band at Lied Center on Kansas’ campus.
  • April 29, 2025
Read More
Lawrence students shine on stage during annual Ovation! show
Numerous students made their Ovation! debuts this year. For some students, the show is one of their first opportunities to step outside their comfort zones and perform for the broader Lawrence community.
  • February 3, 2025
Read More