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Quantum Voyages

Event Type
Performance
Sponsor
Season-long Sponsors: A. Mark Neuman and Anonymous
Location
Krannert Center, Colwell Playhouse, 500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
Date
Apr 19, 2025   7:30 pm  
Cost
Advocate 60 / Standard 25 / SC Senior citizens: age 65 or over, or retired U of I faculty and staff 20 / STU Non-U of I college students 15 / UI Current, full-time U of I student & YTH Youth: high school and younger 10
Registration
Tickets
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Originating Calendar
The Office for Arts Integration Events
Conceived and written by Smitha Vishveshwara and Latrelle Bright
Music by Stephen Taylor

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts celebrates the UNESCO 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology with a re-envisioned performance of Quantum Voyages, a performance piece conceived and written by University of Illinois faculty Smitha Vishveshwara (Physics) and Latrelle Bright (Theatre Studies), with music by Stephen Taylor (Composition-Theory). Quantum Voyages premiered in 2018 at the University of Illinois in celebration of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Anthony Leggett’s 80th birthday.

Guided by Sapienza, the spirit of knowledge, two voyagers, Terra and Akash, enter the microscopic realm of atomic landscapes and quantum conundrums to discover a magnificent and baffling world foreign to everyday human experience. In moments of strife, quantum sages—real-life physicists—briefly appear to share their wisdom.

Krannert Center also thanks our 2024-25 Corporate & Community Sponsors—please visit our Corporate & Community Giving page to view a complete list of this season's sponsors.

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