| | | | |
Stay up to date with Boston's most exclusive Theatre-Art events.
Click subscribe to join Boston Event Guide's FREE email lists!

Theatre/Arts Calendar
submit an event  click here
6
April 2006, Thursday
View Previous View Calendar Format View Scrolling Format Return to Home Page View Next

Blue Man Group
Charles Playhouse
74 Warrenton Street, Boston
Regular Schedule: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 8:00pm; Fridays at 7:00pm; Saturdays at 4:00pm,7:00pm & 10:00pm; Sundays at 2:00pm & 5:00pm; visit http://www.blueman.com/boston for added show times
For tickets, visit http://www.blueman.com/boston or call 617-931-2787


Shear Madness
Ongoing
Charles Playhouse
74 Warrenton Street, Boston
Tuesdays-Fridays, 8:00pm; Saturdays, 6:30pm & 9:30pm; Sundays, 3:00pm & 7:00pm
$38 (holiday prices may vary)
617-426-5225


Big Apple Circus: Grandma Goes to Hollywood
(Saturday, April 1-Sunday, May 7)
Grandma the Clown and her luminous cast of acrobats, jugglers, trapeze flyers, performing horses and dogs, humorists and superheroes of the Big Top make movie moments come to life.

City Hall Plaza, Boston
Show times vary
$13-$54
617-931-2787/800-922-3772


Bill W. and Dr. Bob
(Sunday, March 5-Sunday, March 26)
The amazing and often humorous story of the founders of AA.

New Repertory Theatre, Arsenal Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street, Watertown
Show times vary
$30-$48
617-923-8487


Rediscovering Boston’s West End
Author and historian Anthony Sammarco will bring the West End of the 20th century to life, sharing stories of the neighborhood’s early days, its destruction, and its redevelopment.

Otis House Museum
141 Cambridge Street, Boston
6:30pm
$8; free for Historic New England members
617-227-3956


Huntington Theatre Breaking Ground 2006 Festival of New Play Readings
(Thursday, April 6-Sunday, April 9)
Includes a new musical, “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” as well as the five new plays, “Persephone,” “Voyeurs de Venus,” “Property,” “The Atheist,” and “Mauritius.”

BCA’s Carol G. Deane Rehearsal Hall, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion
539 Tremont Street, Boston
Thursday, 7:30pm; Friday, 8:00pm; Saturday, 3:00pm & 8:00pm; Sunday, 2:00pm & 7:00pm (in order listed above)
Free (seating limited, reservations recommended)
617-266-0800


Boston Symphony Orchestra: Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Conductor & Gil Shaham, Violin
(Thursday, April 6-Saturday, April 8 & Tuesday, April 11)
All-Mozart program.

Symphony Hall
301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday, 8:00pm; Friday, 1:30pm
Prices vary
617-266-1200


Christine Jorgensen Reveals
(Thursday, April 6-Saturday, April 29)
In 1952, America's first famous transsexual, Christine Jorgensen, was a scandal and banned in Boston. Now The Theater Offensive, New England's leading creator and presenter of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender theater, will present the Off-Broadway hit Christine Jorgensen Reveals Starring Bradford Louryk, whose exquisite, tour-de-force performance brings to life Jorgensen's only recorded interview.

BCA’s Calderwood Pavilion
527 Tremont Street, Boston
Thursday, 7:30pm; Friday-Saturday, 8:00pm; Sunday, 3pm
$34-$39
617-621-6090


Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters
"Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters" is an ambitious, kaleidoscopic survey of European art from 1900 to the 1960s.

The Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Times and prices vary
617-369-3189


Illumination in Two Movements Opening Reception
(Thursday, April 6-Thursday, May 4)
Photographer Naveed Nour on exhibit.

Armenian Library and Museum of America, Inc.
65 Main Street, Watertown
6:00pm-9:00pm
Free
617-926-2562


Menopause, the Musical
Ongoing
Four women with nothing in common meet at a lingerie sale. Fighting over a bra, they realize how much they actually share.

The Stuart Street Playhouse
200 Stuart Street, Boston
Wednesdays-Fridays, 8:00pm; Saturdays & Sundays, 2:00pm & 5:00pm
$42.50 per person; group rates available
800-447-7400


American Repertory Theatre's Wold Premiere of Orpheus X
(Saturday, March 25-Sunday, April 23)
The poet Orpheus risked death to rescue Eurydice from the underworld. They had almost reached the surface when he looked back and lost her forever.

Zero Arrow Theatre
Intersection of Massachusetts Ave. & Arrow St., Cambridge
Show times vary
$35-$48
617-547-8300


Quantum Grids: Sol LeWitt, Yayoi Kusama, and Cai Guo-Qiang
Saturday, October 15-Sunday, April 16
Although the shapes these three artworks comprise differ considerably in form and content, each artist uses the grid as an ordering device.

Sert Gallery Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Mondays-Saturdays, 10am-5pm; Sundays, 1:00pm-5:00pm
$7.50 per person
617-496-5331


Talking to Terrorists
(Friday, March 17-Saturday, April 8)
Until we understand how ordinary people can commit terrorist acts, we won’t stop them. This Robin Soans play recounts the experiences of peacemakers, journalists, hostages, and those who crossed the line.

BCA Plaza Theatre
539 Tremont Street, Boston
Show times vary
$40
617-933-8600


Talley’s Folly
(Friday, March 24-Saturday, April 22)
At the height of World War II, Matt Friedman, a 42 year-old Jewish accountant living in St. Louis, wants to marry 31 year-old spinster Sally Talley and rescue her from rural Missouri and her family of eccentrics. Two unlikely lovers expose their innermost secrets and dreams, exploring the potential for connection in this tender and heartfelt Pulitzer Prize-winning classic.

The Lyric Stage Company of Boston
140 Clarendon Street, Boston
Show times vary
$20-$45
617-585-5678


The Road Home: Re-Membering America
(Friday, March 24-Sunday, April 30)
The Huntington Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Marc Wolf’s one-man show based on the recording he made on his way home from the West coast after September 11, 2001.

Virginia Wimberly Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts
527 Tremont Street, Boston
Tuesdays-Thursdays, 7:30pm (except 4/4); Fridays-Saturdays, 8:00pm; Sundays at 7:00pm (3/26, 4/2 & 4/23 only); Wednesdays at 2:00pm (4/5, 4/12 & 4/26 only); Saturdays-Sundays, 2:00pm (except 3/26 & 4/8)
$15-$52
617-266-0800

For tickets, go to http://www.huntingtontheatre.org


Stoneham Theatre Presents Unforgettable: The Nat King Cole Story
(Thursday, March 30-Saturday, April 15)
This one-man show follows Nat King Cole's career with anecdotes and performaces of a selection of his celebrated songs.

Stoneham Theatre
395 Main Street, Stoneham
Thursday, 7:30pm; Friday-Saturday, 8:00pm; Saturday, 4:00pm; Sunday, 2:00pm; April 2 & 9, 6:00pm
$18-$36
781-279-2200

admin   Goto Top of Page

For questions regarding this calendar, contact: theartrearts@bostoneventguide.com