The UIS Performing Arts Center venues are temporarily closed!
While our performance venues are closed for 15 months due to a major campus plumbing infrastructure update, our ticket and administrative offices remain open.
Our stages may be dark, but the UIS Performing Arts Center is still active behind the scenes. We're continuing our educational and community outreach programming—and working hard to refresh Sangamon Auditorium to enhance your future patron experience.
Notice to University Employees
During the fall semester, card reader locks will be installed at the two exterior tower entrances of the Public Affairs Center (PAC) building. This measure is being taken to enhance security during events held in Sangamon Auditorium and streamline ticket operations, but it could affect access points for those not attending the show.
Key details of this change are as follows:
Please be aware that Parking Lot E will be closed from early morning through 12:00 PM today, Friday, February 2 so that school children may safely enter the UIS Performing Arts Center for the school performances of Books on Stage. Thank you.
Betsy O’Brien
Guest Services Manager
UIS Performing Arts Center (Sangamon Auditorium)
Please be aware that Parking Lot E will be closed from early morning through 2:00 PM on Wednesday, January 10 so that school children may safely enter the UIS Performing Arts Center for the Staley Class Acts performances of The Rainbow Fish.
UIS Performing Arts Center
Visitor Behavior Policy of the UIS Performing Arts Center
Scope
This policy applies to all visitors and participants at events held at the UIS Performing Arts Center, including performances, lectures, meetings, receptions, and other activities. In addition to the behaviors listed below, the management of the UIS Performing Arts Center and University of Illinois Springfield retains the right to address any participant conduct it deems is unsafe or negatively affecting the enjoyment and/or participation of others. Management also reserves the right to change or modify this policy at any time without notice.
Bluey’s Big Play
When Dad feels like a little bit of Sunday afternoon time out, Bluey and Bingo have other plans! Join them as they pull out all of the games and cleverness at their disposal to get Dad off that bean bag. Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music by Bluey composer, Joff Bush. Join the Heelers in their first live theatre show made just for you, featuring brilliantly created puppets, this is Bluey as you’ve never seen it before, brought to real life.
Magic of Motown
The show’s pitch perfect harmonies, dynamic choreography, & costuming perfectly capture the sights & sound of Motown.
The Magic of Motown – A Journey Through Motown’s Best Including: The Temptations, The Jackson Five, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson and more!
Brad Williams: Tour ’24
“No one is doing stand-up comedy more hilariously than Brad Williams.”
New York Times
Pound for pound, Brad Williams is the funniest comedian in the country right now, and has become one of the most in-demand comedians working today. Williams started doing stand-up comedy as a teenager and has been touring successfully ever since, routinely selling out prestigious venues all over the country and world.
John Mellencamp Live and In Person
John Mellencamp’s career in music, spanning more than 35 years, is one of the most highly respected singer/songwriters of a generation. Mellencamp is incredibly acclaimed; he is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a recipient of the John Steinbeck Award, ASCAP Foundation’s Champion Award, The Woody Guthrie Award and Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award and more recently, the Founders Award, the top honor assigned by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Abbey Road’s Christmas with the Beatles
Abbey Road’s Christmas with the Beatles features all the top hits of the Beatles along with some great holiday tunes, Abbey Road’s Christmas With The Beatles promises to be a night of fun. The show is appropriate for all ages.