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Mayo Performing Arts Center is pleased to offer student discounts and special offers to full-time high school and college students.

$20 B-section seats are available for students for the below performances*. New shows and special student rush ticket offers will be added throughout the season.  Chicago discount applies to Friday night performance ONLY

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Manhattan Comedy Night November
Sat Nov 29, 2025 @ 8:00 pm

Manhattan Comedy Night November

Enjoy some laughs with our popular stand-up series showcasing the rising stars of comedy. Mature content, language. Adults only. 

Preservation Hall Jazz Band Creole Christmas
Tue Dec 2, 2025 @ 7:30 pm

Preservation Hall Jazz Band Creole Christmas

Celebrate the season as the legendary New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band returns with its Creole Christmas concert. The legendary band and NoLa staple band performs New Orleans classics as well as some of our best-loved holiday selections with a twist. 

Peabo Bryson, Sheena Easton, Ruben Studdard and Ilya Serov starring in Home For The Holidays
Wed Dec 3, 2025 @ 7:30 pm

Peabo Bryson, Sheena Easton, Ruben Studdard and Ilya Serov starring in Home For The Holidays

Kick off the holiday season with an incredible night of music from four world-renowned artists performing their hits and holiday songs! Featuring two-time Grammy Award winner and two-time Academy Award winner Peabo Bryson (“Tonight I Celebrate My Love,” “Whole New World,”); two-time Grammy Award winner Sheena Easton (“Morning Train,” “Strut,” “Almost Over You”); American Idol winner and Grammy Award nominee Ruben Studdard; and world-renowned trumpet...

Chicago the Musical
Jan 16, 2026 - Jan 18, 2026

Chicago the Musical

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.

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Cirque Kalabante
Fri Feb 13, 2026 @ 8:00 pm

Cirque Kalabante

Cirque Kalabante (Afrique en Cirque) showcases the beauty and artistry of African culture, inspired by daily life in Guinea. A colorful show beyond its scenery, costumes and staging, Cirque Kalabante represents the strength, agility and life’s joys of young Africans as acrobats execute gravity-defying moves to the contemporary sounds of live Afro-Jazz, percussion and kora.  

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Guest Attraction: New Jersey Ballet presents: Icons of American Ballet featuring New Jersey Symphony
Mar 20, 2026 - Mar 21, 2026

Guest Attraction: New Jersey Ballet presents: Icons of American Ballet featuring New Jersey Symphony

Program features Serenade by George Balanchine, In the Night by Jerome Robbins and Nine Sinatra Songs* by Twyla Tharp. * Nine Sinatra Songs will be performed to recordings of Frank Sinatra.

Guest Attraction: New Jersey Ballet presents: Sleeping Beauty featuring New Jersey Symphony
Mar 21, 2026 - Mar 22, 2026

Guest Attraction: New Jersey Ballet presents: Sleeping Beauty featuring New Jersey Symphony

Full-length production of the timeless fairytale classic, featuring live music by New Jersey Symphony.

New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players: The Mikado
Fri Mar 27, 2026 @ 8:00 pm

New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players: The Mikado

Don’t miss this all-new, critically acclaimed restaging of The Mikado. Join Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner and the rest of the cast in this revered comic operetta.  A brief new prologue frames the classic work for today’s audiences. Gilbert’s lyrics and Sullivan’s melodies – which have delighted comic opera lovers for over one hundred thirty-five years – are still as fresh as “the flowers that bloom in the spring.” 

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The String Queens
Fri Apr 24, 2026 @ 8:00 pm

The String Queens

Praised for its authentic, soulful, and orchestral sound, The String Queens is a dynamic trio that creates stimulating musical experiences that inspire audiences to love, hope, feel and imagine! Along with other select repertoire, the ladies will perform original music which showcases the group’s vibrant sound with fresh takes on the music of contemporary soul legends and pop icons. 

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