Events
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AHA! Night (art, history and architecture)
Presented by AHA! (art. history and architecture) May 14, 2009 - Ongoing AHA! takes place every 2nd Thursday and is a FREE art and culture event that features exhibits, performances, live music, talks and tours in downtown New Bedford.
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AHA! (art. history and architecture) |
05/14/09 -
Ongoing |
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All the Single Ladies
Presented by Improv Asylum February 11-October 20, 2012 "All the Single Ladies" is the latest production from Boston's award-winning Improv Asylum, offering Bachelorette Parties and Girls Nights Out groups a wild night of comedy, dancing and a whole lot of naughtiness.
Over the course of the show, four friends set out for one last wild night out before one of them gets married. After a few drinks, old feuds and new secrets threaten their good time, and only some songs and dancing can help them work through it. The...
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Improv Asylum |
02/11/12 -
10/20/12 |
Parris Room at Ned Devine's, Boston |
And A Nightingale Sang
Presented by The Arts at Wellesley May 24-June 24, 2012 A British family struggles to hold together in the midst of World War II's chaos in this bittersweet comedy. It's a nostalgic romp through life on the homefront with a quirky cast of lovable characters. Touching and funny in equal measure, the story glories in the universal truth of the strength of family.
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The Arts at Wellesley |
05/24/12 -
06/24/12 |
Diane Chapman Walsh Alumnae Auditorium, Wellesley |
The Salem Haunted Magic Show
Presented by Agent 86 Magic Productions October 19-October 31, 2012 The Haunted Magic Show will be the only live consistently running magic and mind reading show in Salem during the month of October 2012.
Dates have been set and we will be debuting this amazing show on October 19th at 8 and 10PM at the Historic Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, MA
There will be two shows per night with limited seating! So purchase your tickets early! Shows will run on the following dates: October 19th, 21st, 25th, 26th, 28th, 29th, 30th and of course...
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Agent 86 Magic Productions |
10/19/12 -
10/31/12 |
Hawthorne Hotel, Salem |
Hovey Players Present
Presented by Hovey Players May 11-May 26, 2012 From Neil Simon comes the Broadway hit about a staff of 1950’s comedy writers as they produce television’s #1 weekly variety program, The Max Prince Show. Based upon his own time as a staff writer for Sid Caesar’s Your Show Of Shows, Simon recreates the mayhem and constant one-upmanship of a team of funny misfits trying to create comedy in the era of the Red Scare and network interference. Directed by David Fisher. Show dates: May 11, 12, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 at 8 pm, May 20...
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Hovey Players |
05/11/12 -
05/26/12 |
Hovey Players, Waltham |
Arts Alive Festival '12
Presented by ArtsFalmouth June 22-June 24, 2012 A 3-day celebration of the arts in Falmouth and the Upper Cape. Continuous entertainment - over 60 performances of Theater, Spoken Word, Dance and Music for all tastes - jazz, classical, folk and fiddle, show tunes and a special Rock Fest Saturday Night, 6 to 9 PM 50 + artisans and crafts people display and sell their wares’ All free and everyone welcome – rain or shine
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ArtsFalmouth |
06/22/12 -
06/24/12 |
Falmouth Library lawn, Falmouth |
Indiscreet Discretion
Presented by Fort Point Theatre Channel June 15-June 23, 2012 "Where there was id, there shall be ego." - Freud
Fort Point Theatre Channel's playwright and co-artistic director Silvia Graziano's new play takes a deep, dark look at the battle between our human and animal impulses. This premiere production is a chilling story of a trio of characters whose paths cross with surreal results. A big city writer is holed up with his lover in the country and as they discuss his upcoming murder story, a stranger comes upon their...
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Fort Point Theatre Channel |
06/15/12 -
06/23/12 |
10 Channel Center Street, Boston |
Totem
Presented by Cirque du Soleil June 10-July 1, 2012 Cirque du Soleil returns to Boston with TOTEM, its latest big top production. Written and directed by Robert Lepage, TOTEM opens in Boston on June 10, 2012 for a limited engagement under the blue and yellow Grand Chapiteau (big top) located at Boston’s Marine Industrial Park.
TOTEM traces the fascinating journey of the human species from its original amphibian state to its ultimate desire to fly. The characters evolve on a stage evoking a giant turtle, the symbol of...
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Cirque du Soleil |
06/10/12 -
07/01/12 |
Grand Chapiteau , Boston |
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Presented by Arts After Hours May 24-June 9, 2012 You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Based on The Comic Strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz
Book, Music and Lyrics by Clark Gesner
Additional Dialogue by Michael Mayer
Additional Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
A great time for the whole family, come experience a musical comedy about a day in the life of Charlie Brown. The trials and tribulations of friendship and love in the style of a favorite timeless comic strip.
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Arts After Hours |
05/24/12 -
06/09/12 |
LynnArts, Lynn |
Our Town
Presented by Chatham Drama Guild May 11-May 27, 2012 In tribute to Chatham’s tercentennial, the Chatham Drama Guild at 134 Crowell Road invites you to come to "OUR TOWN". Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-prize-winning American classic, directed by Elsa Bastone is a heartwarming play with universal appeal. Although set in the early 1900's in the fictional town of Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, the action of the play could just as easily have taken place right here in Chatham. In fact, as many as eighteen of those associated with this...
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Chatham Drama Guild |
05/11/12 -
05/27/12 |
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Circus Smirkus 2012 Big Top Tour: Topsy Turvy Time Travel
Presented by CIRCUS SMIRKUS August 3-August 4, 2012 The international, award-winning, traveling youth circus features kids – ages 11 to 18 – on high-wire and trapeze, as clowns, jugglers, acrobats and more. This year's show is "Topsy Turvy Time Travel: A Blast from the Past & Fun from the Future." Hop aboard our circus-powered time machine for a tantalizing trip through time! Arc the ages with acrobats, soar centuries with aerialists, jump decades with jugglers, and discover playful, preposterous, pre-HYSTERIC...
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CIRCUS SMIRKUS |
08/03/12 -
08/04/12 |
Manter Field, Newbury |
Cultural Survival Bazaar
Presented by Cultural Survival July 14-July 15, 2012 An International Festival of Native Arts & Culture Featuring artisans, products, & performers from around the world. Shop handmade art, jewelry, clothing, crafts, decor, tribal rugs, & much more. Enjoy FREE music performances, presentations, Native American storytelling, educational displays, craft-making demonstrations, & ethnic cuisine. Proceeds support Native artisans, fair trade, and Cultural Survival's non-profit work worldwide. For special features, artisan...
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Cultural Survival |
07/14/12 -
07/15/12 |
Tiverton Four Corners Art Center, Tiverton |
Cultural Survival Bazaar
Presented by Cultural Survival July 21-July 22, 2012 An International Festival of Native Arts & Culture Featuring artisans, products, & performers from around the world. Shop handmade art, jewelry, clothing, crafts, decor, tribal rugs, & much more. Enjoy FREE music performances, presentations, Native American storytelling, educational displays, craft-making demonstrations, & Wampanoag cuisine. Proceeds support Native artisans, fair trade, and Cultural Survival's non-profit work worldwide. For special features, artisan...
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Cultural Survival |
07/21/12 -
07/22/12 |
Peg Noonan Park, Falmouth |
Cultural Survival Bazaar
Presented by Cultural Survival May 26-May 28, 2012 An International Festival of Native Arts & Culture Featuring artisans, products, & performers from around the world. Shop handmade art, jewelry, clothing, crafts, decor, tribal rugs, & much more. Enjoy FREE music performances, presentations, Native American storytelling, educational displays, craft-making demonstrations, & Tibetan cuisine. Proceeds support Native artisans, fair trade, and Cultural Survival's non-profit work worldwide. For special features, artisan...
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Cultural Survival |
05/26/12 -
05/28/12 |
Amherst Town Common, Amherst |
"Iolanta" P. I. Tchaikovsky
Presented by Boston Vocal Arts Studio May 20-May 22, 2012 Boston Vocal Arts Studio and International Rachmaninoff Russian Music Festival present Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta". Starring Dina Kuznetsova (Metropolitan Opera) as Iolanta and Adam Klein (Metropolitan Opera) as Count Vaudémong.
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Boston Vocal Arts Studio |
05/20/12 -
05/22/12 |
Center Makor, Brighton |
Circus Smirkus 2012 Big Top Tour: Topsy Turvy Time Travel
Presented by CIRCUS SMIRKUS July 30-August 1, 2012 The international, award-winning, traveling youth circus features kids – ages 11 to 18 – on high-wire and trapeze, as clowns, jugglers, acrobats and more. This year's show is "Topsy Turvy Time Travel: A Blast from the Past & Fun from the Future." Hop aboard our circus-powered time machine for a tantalizing trip through time! Arc the ages with acrobats, soar centuries with aerialists, jump decades with jugglers, and discover playful, preposterous, pre-HYSTERIC...
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CIRCUS SMIRKUS |
07/30/12 -
08/01/12 |
Heritage Museums & Gardens, Sandwich |
Circus Smirkus 2012 Big Top Tour: Topsy Turvy Time Travel
Presented by CIRCUS SMIRKUS August 12-August 13, 2012 The international, award-winning, traveling youth circus features kids – ages 11 to 18 – on high-wire and trapeze, as clowns, jugglers, acrobats and more. This year's show is "Topsy Turvy Time Travel: A Blast from the Past & Fun from the Future." Hop aboard our circus-powered time machine for a tantalizing trip through time! Arc the ages with acrobats, soar centuries with aerialists, jump decades with jugglers, and discover playful, preposterous, pre-HYSTERIC...
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CIRCUS SMIRKUS |
08/12/12 -
08/13/12 |
Beachmont School, Revere |
Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone
Presented by ArtsEmerson May 30-June 10, 2012 This celebrated one-man play about the legendary American composer who "made a lady out of jazz" returns to Boston! An evening packed with Gershwin’s most famous pieces and a glimpse into his early years, his personal life and his artistic genius.
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ArtsEmerson |
05/30/12 -
06/10/12 |
Paramount Mainstage, Boston |
Willy Wonka
Presented by Prescott Park Arts Festival June 29-August 26, 2012 Prescott Park Arts Festival presents opening night of its summer outdoor musical Willy Wonka!
Roald Dahl's timeless story of the world-famous candy man and his quest to find an heir comes to life in this stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which features the songs from the classic family film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Presented in partnership with the Seacoast Repertory Theatre, this high energy musical will take you on the most amazing,...
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Prescott Park Arts Festival |
06/29/12 -
08/26/12 |
Prescott Park, Portsmouth |
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
Presented by Prescott Park Arts Festival July 22, 2012 Come join us for Shakespeare's hilarious comedy, Much Ado About Nothing!
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Prescott Park Arts Festival |
07/22/12 |
Prescott Park, Portsmouth |
Behind the Curtain with The Boston Opera House and MAMMA MIA!
Presented by Boston Center for Adult Education June 20, 2012 The Boston Center for Adult Education (BCAE) is continuing its popular “Behind the Curtain” series with an exclusive look into The Boston Opera House and the award-winning musical MAMMA MIA! The series, which has already gone inside the Boston Ballet’s performance of Romeo and Juliet and the Boston Opera House’s production of South Pacific, is aimed at showing students Boston’s historic theaters and revealing what happens behind the scenes of world-class...
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Boston Center for Adult Education |
06/20/12 |
The Boston Opera House , Boston |
Pippin The Musical
Presented by Theatre Ink May 24-May 26, 2012 The musical Pippin tells the hilariously crazy, darkly surreal, but ultimately uplifting story of Pippin's journey through a Wonderland-based alternate reality to find purpose and complete fulfillment in his life. Join us for a night of spectacular magic, catchy Stephen Schwartz tunes, and Fosse-inspired dances; challenge with us unsettlingly relatable portrayals of mindless war, sex, and political corruption; and, just maybe, believe again in love.
Music and Lyrics by Stephen...
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Theatre Ink |
05/24/12 -
05/26/12 |
NEWTON NORTH HIGH SCHOOL, Newtonville |
British Street party in the New World
Presented by The Old State House Museum June 3, 2012 The British have a grand tradition of marking national events - decorating the alleyways with flags and bunting, and bringing tables of food and drink out into the streets to celebrate with neighbors. The Bostonian Society and the British Consul invite the public to the Old State House to join The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee festivities – donuts and cake for 200 guests, traditional live music, Shakespeare performances, Red Coat reenactors, and more.
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The Old State House Museum |
06/03/12 |
The Old State House, Boston |
Bye Bye Liver: The Boston Drinking Play
Presented by Oberon May 12-December 22, 2012 Between the iconic Cheers bar and the Sam Adams brewery, it’s no secret that Bostonians like to drink. But now, drinkers don’t have to choose between a getting hammered and getting cultured. BYE BYE LIVER: The Drinking Play will be peforming every Saturday at 8:00pm at OBERON (2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138). Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online at: http://www.cluboberon.com/
Originating in Chicago, BYE BYE LIVER is currently running in 8 cities across...
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Oberon |
05/12/12 -
12/22/12 |
Oberon, Boston |
'Salvador Dali - Make Me Hot'
Presented by WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER May 26-June 9, 2012 This play is written by Jose Rivera and will be produced by W.H.A.T.'s artistic director, Dan Lombardo. Rivera’s magical masterpiece finds Gabriela talking to the moon – played by a man in a Panama hat playing a violin on her refrigerator. When her husband Benito returns from war, the limits of love are tested, the desert comes alive like a surreal Dali painting, and Gabriela’s housecat dances with a wily coyote. In this comic drama, the moon hovers over all, offering...
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WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER |
05/26/12 -
06/09/12 |
Wellfleet Harbors Actor Theater, Wellfleet |
The 39 Steps
Presented by Americana Theatre Company June 29-July 15, 2012 Don't miss this Tony Award-winning spoof on Alfred Hitchcock's thrilling classic! This riotous murder-mystery will keep you on the edge of your seats...in stitches! Americana Theatre Company will be performing this must-see at the historic First Parish of Plymouth Kendall Hall in downton Plymouth, MA.
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Americana Theatre Company |
06/29/12 -
07/15/12 |
First Parish of Plymouth, Kendall Hall, Plymouth |
Enter Laughing by Joseph Stein
Presented by Arlington Friends of the Drama June 1-June 10, 2012 Enter Laughing is a very funny show performed by a very funny cast! Rarely
done in community theater, this show is a Joseph Stein/Carl Reiner valentine
to the world of theater. Set in 1930s Bronx, a naive young man aspires to be an actor while his parents aspire for him to be a pharmacist. When he gets a chance for a two-bit part in a run-down theatre with a has-been director, comedy ensues. Filled with warmth and a large dollop of Jewish humor. 77 bus from Harvard...
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Arlington Friends of the Drama |
06/01/12 -
06/10/12 |
Arlington Friends of the Drama, Arlington |
Anthony Rapp WITHOUT YOU: A Memoir with Music
June 19-June 24, 2012 See the show the New York Times calls "Deeply Moving!" before it heads to London and support Shakespeare on the Common.
CSC Alum Anthony Rapp and Artistic Director Steven Maler have teamed up to adapt Rapp's New York Times best-selling memoir to the stage. The one-man show follows Rapp's turbulent journey through the convergence of two life-changing events: the early days of Rent - including the untimely passing of Jonathan Larson - and the illness and death of his...
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06/19/12 -
06/24/12 |
The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University, Boston |
A Spring Bouquet of Show Tunes and Popular Favorites
Presented by The Paul Madore Chorale June 2, 2012 The Paul Madore Chorale will be presenting A Spring Bouquet of Show Tunes and Popular Favorites on June 2. The concert will include selections from Fiddler on the Roof, Phantom of the Opera, and Guys and Dolls, as well as other all-time favorites. Concert soloists will be drawn from the chorale membership.
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The Paul Madore Chorale |
06/02/12 |
St. Anne Church, Salem |
The Boston Circus Guild presents THRESHOLD
Presented by Arts at the Armory at Arts at the Armory June 28-June 29, 2012 THRESHOLD is The Boston Circus Guild's most ambitious production yet, bringing together dance, music, and circus arts to tell the stories of the thresholds between each other and the motions of ourselves as we cross and re-cross them.
Do you remember your first kiss? That intense, liminal moment before your lips touched, while the universe hung suspended on your breath, when it seemed like anything could happen? A moment after which nothing had changed and yet nothing and no one...
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Arts at the Armory |
06/28/12 -
06/29/12 |
Arts at the Armory, Somerville |