Home for the Holidays
2024-12-14 14:00, 2024-12-14 19:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Morris Performing Arts Center, 211 N. Michigan Street, South Bend, IN, 46601, United States
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Two performances, one day only! South Bend’s favorite holiday tradition returns with Music Director Alastair Willis and the Symphony for Home for the Holidays! A spectacular program of cherished Christmas carols and memorable seasonal tunes that bring joy to all, featuring Uzima! and soprano Anne Slovin. The perfect gift for the whole family.
Everwise proudly presents “Home for the Holidays.” The Symphony thanks Jordan Lexus of Mishawaka, our distinguished artistic partner for the 2024-25 season.

A Magical Cirque Christmas
2024-12-21 19:30
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Embrace the holiday spirit with A MAGICAL CIRQUE CHRISTMAS, a variety show full of nostalgia, charm, and awe-inspiring performances for all ages. Get ready to be dazzled, enchanted, and filled with holiday cheer as you witness the incredible talents of world-class entertainers performing to your favorite holiday music. Celebrate the magic of the season with the entire family at A MAGICAL CIRQUE CHRISTMAS.

Tickets go on sale July 26 at 10am!

Aretha: A Tribute
2025-01-25 19:30
Buy Tickets Now This high-energy, dazzling tribute to the Queen of Soul features Drama Desk Award nominee Capathia Jenkins and three-time GRAMMY-nominated artist Ryan Shaw performing iconic favorites including “Respect,” “Think,” “A Natural Woman,” “Chain of Fools,” “Amazing Grace,” and more.
Ticket Information: Subscriptions to the Indiana Trust Pops Series are now on sale and single tickets go on sale July 5, 2024 at 10am. Visit southbendsymphony.org or call 574-232-6343 to secure your seats!
Sponsor: The South Bend Symphony Orchestra is grateful to its Season long sponsors: Jack M. Champaigne for his support of the Masterworks Series and Jordan Lexus of Mishawaka for their support of guest artists throughout the 92nd Season.

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
2025-02-15 19:30
Buy Tickets Now Indulge in the virtuosity of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, when Benjamin Beilman and the Symphony bring this beloved concerto to life, along with Brahms’ Symphony No. 3.
Ticket Information: Subscriptions to the Jack M. Champaigne Masterworks are now on sale and single tickets go on sale July 22, 2024 at 10am. Visit southbendsymphony.org or call 574-232-6343 to secure your seats!
Sponsor: The South Bend Symphony Orchestra is grateful to its Season long sponsors: Jack M. Champaigne for his support of the Masterworks Series and Jordan Lexus of Mishawaka for their support of guest artists throughout the 92nd Season.

The Cher Show: A New Musical
2025-02-21 19:30, 2025-02-22 14:00, 2025-02-22 19:30, 2025-02-23 14:00
Buy Single Tickets Now Superstars come and go. Cher is forever. For six straight decades, only one unstoppable force has flat-out dominated popular culture — breaking down barriers, pushing boundaries, and letting nothing and no one stand in her way. THE CHER SHOW is the Tony® Award-winning musical of her story, and it’s packed with so much Cher that it takes three women to play her: the bright-eyed kid starting out, the glam pop star, and the icon.
THE CHER SHOW is 35 smash hits, six decades of stardom, two rock-star husbands, a Grammy®, an Oscar®, an Emmy®, and enough Tony Award-winning Bob Mackie gowns to cause a sequin shortage in New York City, all in one unabashedly fabulous new musical that will have audiences dancing in the aisles!
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PAW Patrol Live! “A Mighty Adventure”
2025-02-25 18:00, 2025-02-26 18:00
Buy Tickets Now Get ready to PAW-ty like never before in a fun-tastic new PAW Patrol Adventure!
After Chase, Marshall, Skye and the gang save Adventure City with their Mighty Pup Powers, it’s time for the paw-some-est street party ever. But when supervillain scientist Victoria Vance feels left out of the festivities, she unleashes her latest invention to crash the party and steal the spotlight for herself! Can the Mighty Pups, armed with their super-charged powers, outsmart Victoria to ensure Adventure City’s biggest bash goes off without a hitch? It’ll take the power of paw-sitivity and mighty teamwork to foil her plans and keep the party pumping!
With heroic action, catchy tunes and bark-loads of interactive fun, PAW Patrol’s electrifying new adventure is sure to leave tails wagging and audiences cheering!
V.I.P: A limited number of V.I.P. (Very Important Pup) Meet & Greet Experience tickets are
available, starting at $115. The VIP Meet & Greet Experience includes a premium seat and
exclusive photo opp with PAW Patrol characters after the show. Each adult & child (age 1 & up) in a
group must have a VIP ticket.

Umphrey’s McGee – Cruising Altitude 2025 Tour
2025-03-07 19:30
Buy Tickets Now Chicago’s eclectic rock band Umphrey’s McGee has been keeping fans on their toes for nearly 27 years now. Though often pigeonholed into “jam band” circles, Umphrey’s doesn’t fit that traditional mold; and their fans don’t either. Is it prog rock? Song-forward, Beatles-esque arrangements? Be careful, they might hit you with some metal riffs mid-set, too. Amongst 2,500+ gigs and 300 million+ tracks streamed, you-had-to-be-there moments include the band’s performance at the first-ever Bonnaroo and selling more CDs (remember those?) than any other act on the bill. A leader in the live music world, Umphrey’s McGee became the first group to launch its own single-artist streaming service with UMLive.net, which houses recordings of every gig since 2005. The service has since grown and now lives on through Nugs.net, which is used by the likes of Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, and more.
Beyond intimate backstage encounters and ski trips with their most diehard fans, Umphrey’s McGee instituted the groundbreaking “Headphones & Snowcones” program, granting fans access to professional headphones and a soundboard-quality mix to listen wirelessly at shows. At their UMBowl, they empowered the audience to vote on the setlist in real-time and choose favorite improv themes via text message. In 2017, they stepped into another realm altogether by integrating themselves into the VR Platform Endless Riff. All of the above has earned the band status as kings of the live music scene with standing yearly engagements at iconic venues, their own events in Iceland (Rockjavick) and Mexico (Holidaze), and co-hosting Chillicothe, IL’s long-running Summer Camp festival. In April 2025, Umphrey’s McGee will lead their faithful fans on another bucket list musical adventure: Morockshow will feature three nights in Marrakech, Morocco, marking another signature event in an exotic location. Umphrey’s McGee’s latest release Asking For A Friend showcases more evolved songwriting and thoughtful arranging from a band continuing to grow and mature with their droves of die-hard, longtime fans.

The Addams Family
2025-03-14 19:30, 2025-03-15 14:00, 2025-03-15 19:30, 2025-03-16 14:00
Buy Single Tickets Now A comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, THE ADDAMS FAMILY is the magnificently macabre hit musical featuring everyone’s favorite creepy, kooky characters. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. A man her parents have never met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, she confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before-keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.
On the heels of Wednesday, the 3rd most-watched show on Netflix of all time, Big League Productions, Inc. presents THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a devilishly delightful musical comedy based on the bizarre and beloved characters by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams.
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Alastair Presents: Waltzing with Strauss
2025-03-22 19:30
Buy Tickets Now This Alastair Presents, the sixth in the series, takes you to nineteenth-century Vienna! We will visit Johann Strauss’s musical family to peer into his work as he composes overtures, waltzes, polkas, and more!
Ticket Information: Subscriptions to the Jack M. Champaigne Masterworks are now on sale and single tickets go on sale July 22, 2024 at 10am. Visit southbendsymphony.org or call 574-232-6343 to secure your seats!
Sponsor: The South Bend Symphony Orchestra is grateful to its Season long sponsors: Jack M. Champaigne for his support of the Masterworks Series and Jordan Lexus of Mishawaka for their support of guest artists throughout the 92nd Season.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
2025-03-26 19:30
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. is an electrifying tribute celebrating the music of the legendary 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.
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South Bend High School Music Fest
2025-03-31 19:00
Reserve FREE Ticket Over 250 students from the bands, choirs, orchestras, and jazz ensembles from Adams, Riley, and Washington high schools, will perform for the second annual High School Music Fest at the Morris on March 31, at 7:00pm. This event is free and open to the public.
The concert will feature 13 musical ensembles and is part of the Arts Equity program initiated by the Morris Performing Arts Center. This program is designed to offer opportunities for more diverse performers and cultivate more diverse audiences on the Morris stage.

Chicago: The Musical
2025-04-04 19:30, 2025-04-05 14:00, 2025-04-05 19:30, 2025-04-06 14:00
Buy Single Tickets Now CHICAGO is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz, with one showstopping song after another and the most astonishing dancing you’ve ever seen.
In the whirlwind of Chicago’s Jazz Age, two of the Cook County Jail’s most notorious
murderesses—vaudeville star Velma Kelly and chorus girl Roxie Hart—become fierce rivals as they compete for headlines amidst
a media frenzy.
Broadway’s longest-running musical has been razzle dazzling audiences for 27 years, and after more than 10,000 performances, 6 Tony Awards®, 2 Olivier Awards, and a Grammy®, we’re just getting started.
Come on, babe! Head to CHICAGO!
We’re hotter than ever.
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Bartok – Concerto for Orchestra
2025-04-12 19:30
Buy Tickets Now Ticket Information: Subscriptions to the Jack M. Champaigne Masterworks are now on sale and single tickets go on sale July 22, 2024 at 10am. Visit southbendsymphony.org or call 574-232-6343 to secure your seats!
Sponsor: The South Bend Symphony Orchestra is grateful to its Season long sponsors: Jack M. Champaigne for his support of the Masterworks Series and Jordan Lexus of Mishawaka for their support of guest artists throughout the 92nd Season.

BOB DYLAN: ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS TOUR
2025-04-14 20:00
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Bob Dylan’s career has lasted the better part of fifty years now. He has never gotten by on sentimentality or nostalgia. He has never repeated his successes. Dylan has always pushed his work ahead.
Tickets go on sale Friday, February 7th at 10am.

OK Go
2025-04-23 19:00
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Since their inception, OK Go has been something more than a band and something different from an art project. With a career that includes award-winning videos, New York Times op-eds, collaborations with pioneering dance companies, tech giants, NASA, animators and Muppets, and an experiment that encoded their music on actual strands of DNA, OK Go continues to fearlessly dream and build new worlds in a time when creative boundaries have all but dissolved.
Formed as a quartet in Chicago in 1998 and relocated to Los Angeles three years later, OK Go (Damian Kulash, Timothy Nordwind, Dan Konopka, Andy Ross) have spent their career in a steady state of transformation and continue to add to a curriculum vitae filled with experimentation in a variety of mediums. OK Go’s work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, and their achievements have been recognized with twenty-one Cannes Lions, twelve CLIOs, three VMAs, two Webbys, The Smithsonian Ingenuity Award, and a Grammy.
Their latest video for “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill” is out now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOEULOSVNK4
With special guest: L.A. Exes
Lock up your daughters, L.A. Exes has arrived. The refreshingly clever queer trio blends sixties sonics with a modern edge to bring you good vibes for dark times. Though their lyrics are chock full of vulnerability and biting wit, the Exes always bring the party. Opening track “Skinny Dipping” and “Temporary Goodbye” hang intricate Beatles-eque harmonies on a frame of jangly surf pop, while the more contemplative “West Keys” and “I Got Half a Mind” find the band negotiating the fine line between “I miss you” and “I hope you die.” This is the queer, female supergroup you didn’t know you needed. Get ready, ladies, they’re about to turn you.
About IDEA Week
IDEA Week is an innovation festival hosting business, technology, and entertainment events to provide entrepreneurs, students, and attendees with the practical knowledge, creative inspiration, and social foundation they need to innovate within their own careers, studies, and communities.
For more information, visit ideaweek.com

Annie
2025-04-24 19:00
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Holding onto hope when times are tough can take an awful lot of determination, and sometimes, an awful lot of determination comes in a surprisingly small package. Little Orphan Annie has reminded generations of theatergoers that sunshine is always right around the corner, and now the best-loved musical of all time is set to return in a new production – just as you remember it and just when we need it most.
Annie, directed by Jenn Thompson, features the iconic book and score, written by Tony Award®-winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. This celebration of family, optimism and the American spirit remains the ultimate cure for all the hard knocks life throws your way.

Million Dollar Time Machine
2025-04-25 19:30
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A musical act from the FUTURE, performing with MILLION DOLLAR acts from the PAST and bringing it all together for you right here in the PRESENT.
Ever wish you could go back in time? Now you can, WITH THE WORLD’S ONE AND ONLY TIME MACHINE LIVE ON STAGE!!! America’s newest musical sensation, Million Dollar Time Machine™ is coming to a city near you and there is nothing like it in the world. A tribute to 27 million dollar acts. Each act will emerge one by one from a time machine and share the same stage for a truly epic and mind blowing evening of music! You will be taken on a journey, A JOURNEY NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN!
Million Dollar Time Machine™ is the ultimate time travel experience and features only the best impersonators from around the world. Each night, the time machine year clock stops at 27 of the most defining points in the history of music and will summon which ever artist it chooses, pulling them from the year when they were at the height of their career!
You can expect to see the best live tributes to million dollar acts such as: Bon Jovi ~ Joan Jett ~ Bono ~ Neil Diamond ~ Cher ~ ABBA ~ Johnny Cash ~ Ozzy Osbourne ~ Bryan Adams ~ Shania Twain ~ Dolly Parton ~ Celine Dion ~ Garth Brooks ~ The Beatles ~ PLUS MANY MORE!!!
Featuring the 22nd century band, INFINITY, A musical act from the future, performing with million dollar acts from the past and bringing it all together for YOU right here in the present. America’s most popular show will leave you in complete suspense because you never know who will emerge from the Million Dollar Time Machine™ next! Get ready to ride the space time continuum of music and get your tickets NOW because TIME is running out!

Manuscripts in May - Free Book Signing Event
2025-05-01 18:00 - 20:00
Three local authors will gather to talk about their process/careers, read from their books, and sign copies of their works at Manuscripts in May in the Granada at the Morris on May 1, 2025 from 6pm-8pm. This free event part of the Equity in the Arts Program through the City of South Bend and the Morris Performing Arts Center. Books will be available at the signing and sold by Brain Lair Books. No ticket required to attend.

Cat Rambo – Author
Since coming through Clarion West in 2005, Cat Rambo’s 300+ fiction publications have included stories in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and frequently appear in year’s best of collections. They work across genre, writing literary, thriller, science fiction, slipstream, fantasy, magic realism, historical, and humor with fluid ease, making them one of the leaders in American story writing. In 2020, Rambo won the Nebula Award for their fantasy novelette Carpe Glitter, published by Meerkat Press. They have edited several anthologies as well as Fantasy Magazine, and received a World Fantasy Award nomination for their work with the latter. A frequent reader for podcasts, Rambo is part of the team behind the If This Goes On (Don’t Panic) podcast, and has worked with it since its beginning in 2020. They are a former two-term President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and continue to work with the organization as part of its Grievance Committee. Their most recent work is space opera Rumor Has It (Tor Macmillan, 2024).For more about Cat, as well as links to fiction and popular online school, The Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers, see their website.
Rumor Has it
Synopsis: The crew of the You Sexy Thing have laid a course for Coralind Station, hoping the station’s famed gardens will provide an opportunity to regroup, recoup, and mourn their losses while finding a way to track down their enemy, pirate king Tubal Last. All Niko wants to do is pry their insurance money from the bank and see if an old friend might be able to help them find Last. Unfortunately, old friends and enemies aren’t the only unreliable elements awaiting her and the crew at Coralind. Each will have to face themselves―the good and the bad―in order to come together before they lose everything.

Spencer Hixson – Author
Spencer Hixon is an urban fantasy author currently living in Mishawaka. He earned a degree in Nonfiction Writing & Editing from George Mason University, and has been writing short stories ever since. His first novel, A Sinister Love, was published in 2024. He co-hosted a board game review channel on YouTube called Board Game Rundown for 5 years. Currently, he is working on a number of writing projects and has no plans of ever stopping.
Fate & Fortune
If you had the chance to turn back the clock and do things differently, what would you do? Make a better business deal? Go after the one that got away? Or would you even be able to change things at all?
When geeky Alexander Petersen signed a contract with the sisters Luck & Destiny to change his fate and reverse his fortunes, he didn’t realize that it would doom his best friend and soulmate, Amanda Shields, to marry a philandering narcissist. In order to set things right, he’s given the opportunity to relive parts of his life as often as he likes, but there’s a catch:
For every minute he spends in the past, he loses a minute in the future.
With the Angel of Death eager to take him, a vengeful narcissist on his tail, and limited time on the clock, will Alex be able to save Amanda from his twisted fate, or will he just end up making things worse?
Fate & Fortune is an exciting journey through both time and the fascinating world between Life and Afterlife, full of twists and feints that don’t stop until the very last page is turned.

Aja Ellington-Author
Aja Ellington is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fre Your Wings Youth Mentoring Inc., a community based non-profit organization started in 2018. She strives to eliminate barriers hindering the success and growth of youth and families living in poverty. She is Founder and CEO of AE Consulting Group, LLC, where she specializes in Inspiration Speaking Engagements, Youth -Oriented Organizational Mental Health Consulting, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consulting as well as Clinical Mentoring and Counseling. She is also a contributing author to Love Letters to My Girls Anthology, a book and movement to inspire, uplift, motivate, and empower Black women and girls around the world. Currently she serves as the Access Career Coordinator for the South Bend Community School corporation. She leads initiatives to align middle school programs with career-connected learning.
Love Letters to My Girls Anthology
Love Letters to My Girls is a powerful and heartfelt anthology that celebrates the voices, resilience, and lived experiences of Black women and girls. This collection of deeply personal letters, written by a diverse group of authors, serves as a testament to the strength, vulnerability, and wisdom that shape the journey of womanhood.
Through these letters, contributors share intimate reflections on love, healing, self-discovery, and empowerment, offering guidance and encouragement to the next generation. The anthology uplifts and affirms Black girls by providing them with messages of hope, courage, and self-worth—reminding them that they are seen, valued, and loved.
In my contribution to the anthology, I explore mental health, resilience, and the freedom found in vulnerability. My letter speaks to the importance of prioritizing wellness, embracing emotional healing, and dismantling the stigma surrounding mental health in Black communities. Through personal reflections, I offer insight into navigating trauma, finding inner strength, and learning to use vulnerability as a tool for empowerment. I emphasize the transformative power of self-awareness and self-compassion, reminding readers that their emotional well-being is just as important as their external success.
More than just a book, Love Letters to My Girls is a movement. It fosters sisterhood and community, creating a space where Black women and girls can find connection, inspiration, and a sense of belonging. While this collection is rooted in the experiences of Black women, its messages of perseverance, self-love, and transformation resonate universally, making it a must-read for anyone seeking to understand and support the journeys of women of color.
With each turn of the page, Love Letters to My Girls offers a powerful affirmation: your story matters, your voice is important, and your journey is worth celebrating.

Nathan Gunn Sings Broadway
2025-05-03 19:30
Buy Tickets Now One of America’s most accomplished and in-demand Baritones today, Nathan Gunn, comes home to South Bend for one magical night with the Symphony for a power packed evening of Broadway’s biggest hits.
Ticket Information: Subscriptions to the Indiana Trust Pops Series are now on sale and single tickets go on sale July 5, 2024 at 10am. Visit southbendsymphony.org or call 574-232-6343 to secure your seats!
Sponsor: The South Bend Symphony Orchestra is grateful to its Season long sponsors: Jack M. Champaigne for his support of the Masterworks Series and Jordan Lexus of Mishawaka for their support of guest artists throughout the 92nd Season.
