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May 2008, Thursday
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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


¡°Always Delightfully Cool¡± - Summer Vacations in Northern New England, 1825-1900
Location: Boston Athanaeum
The exhibition will present a visual documentation of leisure travel in nineteenth-century New England with views of many of the region¡¯s grand hotels and scenic sites. Advertising prints for railroad lines, steamers, and stage coaches will be included. The show's contents will be drawn primarily from the Athen©¡um¡¯s rich collection of prints, photographs, maps, and vintage guidebooks.

Admission is FREE and open to the public. Gallery hours are Mondays 9 am ¡ª 8 pm, Tuesday through Friday 9 am ¡ª 5:30 pm and Saturday 9 am ¡ª 4 pm. For more information, call (617) 227-0270 or visit www.bostonathenaeum.org.


Boston Pops EdgeFest 2008
Boston Pops EdgeFest 2008 - Natalie Merchant
Time: 8:00PM
Location: Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston, MA 02115.
Folk and pop music are reinvented on the Pops stage in this special performance by the unmistakable, original voice behind the band 10,000 Maniacs. Featuring her lyrical vocals, this Pops presentation showcases Natalie Merchant’s extraordinary solo career — the singing, songwriting, and producing expertise that has earned her the marks of a true musical innovator. After each EdgeFest concert, hear the best of today's emerging talent.

EdgeFest Café
After each EdgeFest concert, hear the best of today's emerging talent. The Everyday Visuals, a Boston-based indie-rock/folk band will perform after Natalie Merchant's Edgefest concerts on May 27 and 28 at Symphony Hall. Free to performance ticket holders. For more information about The Everyday Visuals, please visit their site at theeverydayvisuals.com.


Single tickets are available by calling SymphonyCarge at (888) 266-1200, the Symphony Hall Box Office on the web at www.bostonpops.org.
For further general information about our EdgeFest Series, please visit www.bostonpops.org/edgefest


Menopause The Musical at the Stuart Street Playhouse
Location: Stuart Street Playhouse, 200 Stuart St., Boston, MA 02116.
It’s The Hilarious Celebration of Women and The Change! The off-Broadway sensation MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL® is now playing at the Stuart Street Playhouse for a limited engagement. The hit production is a musical parody including 25 relyricized ‘60s and ’70s tunes that has audiences laughing, cheering and dancing in the aisles.

Performances at the Stuart Street Playhouse are Wednesday through Friday evenings at 8 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM and 5:30 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, with additional performances on the first and third Sunday of every month at 5:30 PM, and on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month at 2 PM. Tickets for all performances are priced at $45.00. Groups of 15 or more are priced at $38.50.

Single tickets and dinner/theatre/parking packages are available by calling Telecharge.com at (800) 447-7400 and at the Stuart Street Playhouse Box Office, 200 Stuart St., Boston, MA 02116.

The Stuart Street Playhouse is located in the Radisson Hotel Boston; for directions, visit www.stuartstreetplayhouse.com.

For further general information about MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL, please visit www.menopausethemusical.com.


Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps Children Art Showcase
Location: John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse
SOUTH BOSTON — This spring, the colorful artwork created by the youth of the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps will be showcased at the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse. The Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps provides education and therapeutic rehabilitation serves for at-risk children, ages seven through 18, who suffer from psychological, emotional, or behavioral problems, often as a result of neglect or abuse. This special exhibition features the children’s works that depict scenes of Boston, New England landscapes, and sports images.

There will be nearly 20 drawings and paintings on display from April 4 through June 27 in the Harbor Park Gallery of the Courthouse located at 1 Courthouse Way, in South Boston, Mass. Admission is free.

The Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps is a leader in child welfare, juvenile justice, and advocacy Massachusetts. The agency’s statewide services include educational, residential treatment, and community outreach programs, which support, educate, and rehabilitate children, helping them to grow into healthy and productive adult members of their communities. For more information about the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, or the art show, visit www.rfkchildren.org or call (617) 227-4183.



School of Visual Arts Student Exhibition
Location: listed above
The School of Visual Arts invites you to see the thought provoking and expressive work of some f Boston's brightest young visual artists.

Friday April 18- Sunday May 4

MFA Painting Exhibition: 808 Gallery
MFA graphic Design Exhibition: BUAG @ Stone Gallery
MFA Art Education Exhibition: Commonwealth Gallery

Friday May 9-May 18

BFA Painting and Sculpture Exhibition: BUAG @ Stone Gallery
BFA Graphic Design Exhibition: Sherman Gallery


Swan Lake
Location: The Wang Theater, 270 Tremont St, Boston
SWAN LAKE

MUSIC: PI Tchaikovsky
CHOREOGRAPHY: Mikko Nissinen after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov

Performance Schedule:
Approximate run time - 2:45 (includes intermission)
Thursday, May 1 at 7pm
Friday, May 2 at 8pm
Saturday, May 3 at 2pm & 8pm
Sunday, May 4at 2pm
Thursday, May 8 at 7pm
Friday, May 9 at 8pm
Saturday, May 10 at 2pm & 8pm
Sunday, May 11 at 2pm

Back by popular demand, Boston Ballet presents the Company’s critically acclaimed production of Swan Lake. Last presented in 2004 and choreographed by Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen, after Petipa and Ivanov, Swan Lake is considered by many to be one of the greatest classical ballets of all time.

Nissinen’s version of Swan Lake premiered in 2004 and was called “a must-see” by Christine Temin in The Boston Globe. Based upon the version performed in St. Petersburg in 1895, Nissinen staged the ballet with the goal of returning it to its original roots. Sorella Englund is the dramateur and guest repetitor and Allana Nikitina is the assistant for the third act character dances.

“This production of Swan Lake offers a thorough depiction of my vision for the Company,” said Nissinen. “While our version is very traditional, it is consistent with my belief that we should build on the traditions of classical ballet to push the art form into the future. I am proud that audiences and critics enjoyed the production in 2004 and hope that even more people fall in love with the timeless classic this spring.”

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s first ballet, this full-length, four-act production is considered by many dancers, choreographers, and balletomanes to be one of the greatest classical ballets in existence. The beauty, romance, and music so rich in symbolic content have allowed this classic ballet to endure more than 100 years.

Choreographer Lev Ivanov, longtime assistant to Marius Petipa, considered by many the master of Russian ballet, remounted the second act of Swan Lake in 1894. This performance honored the life and talent of Tchaikovsky. The triumph of Ivanov’s choreography prompted Petipa to plan a restaging of the ballet in it entirety. The Petipa/ Ivanov version premiered in 1895 at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg to great critical acclaim. This rendition remains the model and standard for most major stagings of Swan Lake around the world today.

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http://www.bostonballet.org/season/performances/SwanLake08.html


A Man Of No Importance
Time: 7:30pm
Location: CFA TheatreLab @ 855
The story of an Oscar Wilde obsessed bus driver who attempts to stage Salome at his church in 1960's Dublin. The 2003 Outer Circle Award Winner for Best Off-broadway Musical.

Turtle Lane Playhouse presents: Dames at Sea
Time: 8:00pm - 10:30pm Eastern
Location: Turtle Lane Playhouse, 283 Melrose St., Newton
Dames at Sea spoofs 1930s movie musicals. Features: Cabaret seating, full bar/snacks, free pkg, handicap access, near 128/95, Mass Pike, Riverside T. Turtle Lane Playhouse, 283 Melrose St., Newton, MA, 02466.

May 2- June 1, 2008. Thurs-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm
$25-27.50, student, senior and group discounts available.

617-244-0169 http://www.turtlelane.org


Zeitgeist Stage Company presents SPIN by Robert William Sherwood
Location: Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Black Box Theatre
How dirty does politics really get? How much "spinning" goes on behind the scenes, between the lines and between the sheets? To what lengths will political adversaries go to win?

A U.S. presidential candidate is faced with the toughest choice of his political career, when the opposing campaign unearths career-damaging background about the candidates wife. The ruthless backstage drama of political campaigns is reflected in this comedy-meets-political-thriller hybrid.


Brickbottom District Open Studios 2007
Time: 12:00am - 6:00pm est
Location: Brickbottom District , Somerville, MA
Featuring art work by members of the Brickbottom Artists Association and the Joy Street Artists. Free and open to the public. Located in the historic Brickbottom District of Somerville, with plenty of free on street parking and within walking distance of bus routes in Union Sq., Somerville. Specific studio locations: Brickbottom Artists Association at 1 Fitchburg St. and Joy Street Artists at 86 Joy St. For further information call 617-776-3410 or log onto www.brickbottomartists.com and www.joystreetartists.org.


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