Absolutely beautiful building! Highly recommend even if just touring! Staff were amazing helping us get a behind the scenes tour

We attended Patti Smith and her band, and also Chaka Khan in September at Hancher. Both concerts were excellent. The Patti Smith concert was General Admission seating and we liked the seats we chose very much. We could have sat very close to the front, but we sat back a little way but near the front. We enjoy Hancher very much and believe it is important to support the Arts. I recommend attending any Hancher event. It is a beautiful venue with wonderful acoustics.

We went to the Jeff Parker concert in Club Hancher which is a smaller stage inside Hancher. It was very good. There were maybe 200 people there. We were in the front row of tables—very close to the band. It is a more intimate venue which we enjoyed very much. Tickets are reasonably priced. It is general admission, so we chose our table near the stage. Bar and snacks were available for purchase.

We had tickets to Samara Joy on a Wednesday night. Our seats were great. Her voice is fabulous, and her band was impressive. She is a two time Grammy award winner! We each had a beverage before the performance started. We sat in the lobby at one of the tables there. It was a wonderful concert and I highly recommend Hancher Auditorium for any event you may be interested in. Thoroughly enjoyable. Parking is convenient and free.

Food/service at the Cafe was terrible. We pre-ordered, but the server brought us someone else's order after 20 minutes. When they did bring our order, they had forgotten to microwave my mother's pasta dish (I can only assume they were using the microwave to heat up the pre-assembled bowl we received ice cold and congealed into a solid lump). When she finally got a lukewarm version, the sauce was split and the entire dish was sitting in a puddle of oil an inch deep.We were there to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who were absolutely incredible. However, I was VERY annoyed that they left the house lights on bright during the second half of the concert.Overall, I would love to see the CSO again but I don't know if I'll ever step foot inside Hancher again. They need their staff to be more than uninterested/brain dead college kids who could obviously not care less.