Special Guest, Wally Minko – Pops & Family Series

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

Wally Minko, Jazz Pianist A world premier show, from a world-renowned composer and arranger, that showcases the best of your West Texas Symphony!  

Recurring

Bluey’s Big Play

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the award-winning children’s television series. 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.  

Bluey’s Big Play

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the award-winning children’s television series. 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.  

Drum Tao 2024

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

Established in 1993, with a dream of creating the best show in the world using Taiko drums (Japanese drums), the instrument which has a very rare and unique variety of sound expressions. DRUM TAO set their base at Oita, Japan and started creating their own music, stage set-ups, and costumes to produce their one and only world of entertainment. Many talented artists and staffs gathered to join this creation from all over the world and this is why DRUM TAO can make the peerless and the most modern “JAPANESE ENTERTAINMENT” .

UT Permian Basin Music Department – Free Event

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

Presenting Selections from Studio Ghibli Performances by: Legacy High School Midland High School Goddard Junior High School San Jacinto Junior High School

The All New 2023 Shen Yun

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

EXPERIENCE THE BEAUTY OF ANCIENT CHINA SHEN YUN’S unique artistic vision expands theatrical experience into a multi-dimensional, deeply moving journey. Featuring one of the world’s most ancient and richest dance systems—classical Chinese dance—along with dynamic animated backdrops and all-original orchestral works, Shen Yun opens a portal to a civilization of enchanting beauty and enlightening wisdom. Shen Yun Performing Arts is a nonprofit organization based in New York. Its mission is to revive 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture. Traditional Chinese culture—with its deep spiritual roots and profoundly optimistic worldview—was displaced by communism in China. While Shen Yun cannot perform in China today, it is sharing this precious heritage with the world. Audience members' review: “Shen Yun brought something most needed in this world—hope: hope for a better world, hope for a better future, hope for a better life.” —Jesse Miranda, producer “Absolutely the greatest of the great! The words to describe it might be ‘divine,’ ‘reborn,’ and ‘hope.’ You have to see it to believe it.” —Christine Walevska, master cellist “It makes you dream of a heavenly world. It's really a balsam, a salve for the soul. It's something that really restores you, regenerates you." —Filippa Giordano, famous Italian-Mexican Singer

Wheel of Fortune – LIVE!

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

Wheel of Fortune LIVE! brings America’s Game® to your hometown! One of the greatest game shows  of all time has been adapted into a stage show to give more fans access and more chances to win at  “Wheel of Fortune LIVE!” Guests are randomly selected to go on stage and feel like they stepped into  the game show itself. The live stage show is the only way you can have the chance to spin a replica of  the iconic Wheel. At Wheel of Fortune LIVE!, contestants are selected from the audience to go on stage  for the chance to call consonants, buy vowels, and maybe even solve puzzles to win fantastic prizes,  including trips to destinations like Paris and Hawaii or up to $10,000 in cash. Everyone gets in on the  fun and a chance to win at Wheel of Fortune LIVE! because there are audience games too!

Chicago

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

Multi-Grammy award-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Chicago announces new tour dates with a stop in Midland/Odessa, TX on Wednesday, February 14, 2024, at Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center. Chicago have toured every year since the beginning - they’ve never missed a year.  The original three band members are Robert Lamm on keyboards and vocals, Lee Loughnane on trumpet and vocals and James Pankow on trombone. The band line-up also includes Wally Reyes, Jr. on drums, Tony Obrohta  on guitar, Loren Gold on keyboards and vocals, Ray Herrmann on sax and flute, Neil Donell on vocals, Eric Baines on bass and Ramon "Ray" Yslas on percussion. From the signature sound of the Chicago horns, their iconic Vocalists, and a few dozen of ever-Classic Songs, this band’s concerts are celebrations.

Steve Trevino: Good Life Tour

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

Comedian Steve Treviño is “America’s Favorite Husband.” He can “speak wife fluently,” he never calls “the guys” for help on a home project, and he knows better than to “make his own decisions,” since decision-making is a privilege reserved solely for his wife, Renae. His relatable approach affirms his status as one of the country’s fastest-rising comics, viewed over 223 million times, selling out shows coast-to-coast, amassing over 2 million total social media followers, and headlining specials for Amazon, NETFLIX, Showtime, and more. He started cutting his teeth in Dallas, Texas, working as a door guy at the Improv and earning himself a spot to open the iconic 2001 Three Amigos Comedy Tour. He quickly earned his stripes and an audience on the comedy club circuit, and he began headlining on his own by the age of 25. He delivered side-splitting performances on The Late Late Show and Comics Unleashed, and produced and wrote for international GRAMMY® Award-winning superstar Pitbull’s La Esquina. His first Showtime special, Grandpa Joe’s Son, staked out a spot in the Nielsen Top 20. He funded, produced, and shot his 2014 runaway NETFLIX hit Relatable. To promote the special, he uploaded a clip titled “When Your […]

John Carter – Free Movie Screening written by Michael Chabon, Andrew Stanton, and Mark Andrews

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

Come join us for a free movie screening of John Carter. John Carter is a 2012 American science fiction action-adventure film directed by Andrew Stanton, written by Stanton, Mark Andrews, and Michael Chabon, and based on A Princess of Mars, the first book in the Barsoom series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

UT Permian Basin Shepperd Leadership Institute Distinguished Lecture Series Featuring Michael Chabon -Free Event

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

Join UT Permian Basin's Shepperd Leadership Institute for the Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Michael Chabon! Michael Chabon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. This is a free event thanks to our generous donors in the Shepperd Inner Circle. Open to the community.  

West Texas Symphony Spotlight – Masterworks Series

Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas

Ben Fairfield, Trumpet Trumpet Concerto - JOSEPH HAYDN Symphony No. 5 - FRANZ SCHUBERT This annual event features one of your very own orchestra musicians, co-principal trumpet Ben Fairfield!