Indy is a four season city, and something is always happening.
Overview
The Butler Arts Center has a unique role amongst university-managed performing arts centers. The BAC serves the Butler University, Indianapolis, and larger central Indiana communities and hosts over 250,000 patrons annually for a variety of presentations that provide shared experiences in the performing and visual arts.
Consolidating four arts venues on the campus of Butler University under one umbrella organization, the Butler Arts Center is anchored by Clowes Memorial Hall, which seats 2,123 and after 53 years remains Indiana’s most versatile and professional venue, having welcomed the world’s greatest talent and personalities—a star-studded list that includes Maya Angelou and Jimmy Fallon, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Itzhak Perlman, Wynton Marsalis and Sir Elton John.
The Schrott Center for the Arts, completed in 2013, adds a one-of-a-kind, student- and community-focused facility to the Butler Arts Center. At just 475 seats, but with a full-size proscenium stage, the venue is designed to optimize acoustics and sightlines, and is equally well-suited for music, dance, and theatre.
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Apr 1
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The JCA Student Collaboration Projects are student-produced multi-disciplinary works that showcase the innovative and collaborative atmosphere of the Jordan College of…
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Apr 1
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Get ready to see the world more curiously! Join Blippi and Meekah live on stage for a one-of-a-kind interactive adventure that…
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Apr 2
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The kids are bored.. again..! What to do with YOUR Thing One and Thing 2?!Here’s an idea: Bring the whole family…
Apr 2
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Bria Skonberg is a Juno-award winning artist, 10x Downbeat Rising Star, recipient of the Legend Award by the Society for the…
Apr 7
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Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award Finalist for PoetryWinner of the Women’s Prize for FictionRuth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and…
Apr 7
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Harpsichordist Tom Gerber explores Italian keyboard music and its attraction to Johann Sebastian Bach. Works by Giovanni Picchi, Michelangelo Rossi, and…
Apr 8
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The ISO at Butler Series consists of four concerts held throughout the 2025–26 season at the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall on Butler…
Apr 9
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With a distinctive sound that resists categorization, Grammy nominated violinist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Andrew Bird, makes his debut with the Indianapolis…
Apr 9
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The sublime and sinister JCA Composers Orchestra presents chamber works by Butler University Composers and beyond, indeed from the GREAT beyond…
Apr 10 to Apr 11
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Come join Butler Opera Theatre as it partners with the Butler Symphony Orchestra and members of Butler Ballet to produce Leoš…
Apr 10
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PAT METHENY was born in Kansas City on August 12, 1954 into a musical family. Starting on trumpet at the age…
Apr 12
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Butler University piano students present a special program of solo piano works by Indigenous composers, showcasing a range of musical voices…
