Lied Center For Performing Arts

What a wonderful venue. It is 25 years old and really doesn’t show its age. A different variety of entertainment every year. A venue you can feel comfortable in a formal
Dress or in jeans.

Lied Center has the best shows! Great variety from the biggest stars to Broadway to Music, Theatre and Dance… The best artists in the world at pretty good prices! I have seen lots of shows at the Lied. Amazing! Visit every week if you can!

This place is a fairly good performance venue. I first went here for new student orientation at UNL, and later with some friends to a performance of Avenue Q. I’ve also covered a number of speeches they had there for the school paper.
I’d like to give it a higher rating, because it is a nice, clean, up-​to-​date venue. But there’s also nothing that really sets it apart, ya know? It does its function perfectly, but the form’s kinda generic. There’s no history to it, and the seating capacity isn’t that large. It’s a nice venue, but it’s also a standard venue.
My best memory of the Lied was when were watching Avenue Q. For those who’ve seen that play, it was during the funny muppet sex scene. Like five seconds into it, this older woman gets up out of her seat, like four rows in front of us, with her very young child firmly in hand and angrily storms out of there. I couldn’t help but laugh; did she not read what it was about???

Im not a big musical fan cause I just don’t get it. So I may not be the best judge of this particular genre. I go as my wife and her family are into them. With that being said Ive been to a fair share of productions in New York, Chicago and other cities. At the lied Ive seen comedians, musicals, concerts and other shows and my daughter had a dance recital deal here. The lied is by far the best indoor theater ive seen shows in. It has great acoustics and I just think its really nice inside, not ornate like many theaters but very cool. I was at a show last week and I noticed an escalator would have been nice for some folks who have trouble climbing a ton of stairs but are to proud to take the elevator.