The recipients of Grammy Awards in nine categories — the most in the awards’ history — will play tonight in Memorial Hall.

Carolina Performing Arts will bring nine world premieres and two U.S. premieres from around the globe to the Memorial Hall stage in its 2012-2013 season.

After giving a policy speech about student loans in Carmichael Arena, President Barack Obama took a more musical approach on the issue Tuesday by “slow-jamming” the news with Jimmy Fallon.

The short-lived ticket distribution for Tuesday’s taping of NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” with President Barack Obama and Dave Matthews Band does not guarantee even seniors a spot in Memorial Hall.

NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” will be taped at UNC on Tuesday, with guest President Barack Obama. All tickets have been distributed.

Within two weeks, Carolina Performing Arts is presenting two very different ballets.

For a 200-year-old woman, Snow White is making a grown-up comeback.

A warmly lit green room with walls covered in framed posters of iconic plays, ballets and music performances buzzes with French chatter.

Shana Moulton has an alter ego named Cynthia, an agoraphobic hypochondriac who lives in her own virtual environment.

With death-defying acrobatics, worldwide fame and a knack for connecting with audiences, Circa is the circus of the future.

To most, classical music doesn’t mean excitement. But that’s exactly what world-renowned pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is trying to change.

Andrew Young didn’t expect to be part of a movement that would change history. But while working with his longtime friend, Martin Luther King Jr., Young was thrust into the heart of the Civil Rights Movement. Young reflected on his relationship with King and the political career he continued after King’s assassination, during the 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture Tuesday night in Memorial Hall.

Though “The Nutcracker” was first performed in St. Petersburg in 1892, the Carolina Ballet has kept the holiday favorite interesting more than a century later.

Carolina Performing Arts is presenting the world premiere of magician Rick Thomas’ updated “Nutcracker” this weekend at Memorial Hall.

Beethoven’s 19th century classical and romantic music is coming to Memorial Hall. The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, an acclaimed orchestra from the United Kingdom, specializes in playing Beethoven exactly the way it was composed, played and heard in the 19th century before the composer became deaf.

Shantala Shivalingappa unites the Eastern and Western worlds through dance. The Indian classical dancer will perform her piece “Shiva Ganga” in Memorial Hall tonight.

When Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan first came to UNC in 2007, they were greeted by a receptive Chapel Hill crowd. The company will return to Memorial Hall tonight, bringing Chinese culture and contemporary Western dance together.

The opening night for the opera “Of Mice and Men,” in Sydney, Australia, this July ended in a six-minute standing ovation. Four-time Grammy winner Anthony Dean Griffey — who played one of the two leads, Lennie — was on the receiving end of the high-level applause, a rarity at the Sydney Opera House.

In its first four years, Carolina Performing Arts paid for the production of 15 premiere performances. Tonight, the Philadelphia Dance Company, called PHILADANCO, will perform “Watching Go By, The Day,” — the first commissioned performance since 2009 and the only one this season.

Onlookers were treated to some action Tuesday at Memorial Hall, though no concert or play had been scheduled. And the activity did not take place on a stage, or even in the building.