UPDATE: Wichita State University officials said an upcoming speaking appearance by actor, writer and comedian Ben Stein has reached capacity and no more tickets are available.
To be added to the waitlist, please email the Fine Arts Box Office inside the Duerksen Fine Arts Center at fasttickets@wichita.edu by 5 p.m. Thursday, March 6. Patrons on the waitlist will be notified by email if tickets become available.
Actor, writer and comedian Ben Stein will be speaking at Wichita State University in March as part of the 2025 Barton Speaker Series.
The event will be held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11th in Miller Concert Hall at the Duerksen Fine Arts Center.
Stein is an American writer, lawyer, actor, comedian and commentator on political and economic issues. In 1985, Stein portrayed the iconic monotone teacher in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” He has since appeared in hundreds of movies and TV shows. For six seasons, he hosted a game show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money,” one of the first shows on Comedy Central. Together with his colleague, Jimmy Kimmel, he created almost 1,000 episodes of the game show, which earned three Emmy Awards.
Stein was a columnist on economics for The New York Times and has been a regular columnist and commentator for Fox and CNN. He has written dozens of books, most of them about finance, and he became one of the leading critics of the junk bond super scandal.
Over the past 25 years, Stein has been a prolific speaker on politics and economics, addressing audiences at major universities such as Harvard Law School and Yale University.
