Live Performance entertainment in New England
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Citi Performing Arts Center
Boston’s biggest music and dance venue, the Citi Performing Arts Center is comprised of two theaters which face off across Tremont St. The opulent and enormous Wang Theatre, built in 1925, has one of the largest stages in the country. The Boston Ballet performs here, but the Wang also hosts extravagant music and modern dance productions, as well as occasional giant-screen movies (the center was originally built as a movie palace). It also houses the more intimate Shubert Theatre across the street, known as the ‘Little Princess’ of the Theater District.
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Wang Center for the Performing Arts
The opulent and enormous Wang Theater, built in 1925, has one of the largest stages in the country. The Boston Ballet performs here, but the Wang also hosts extravagant music and modern dance productions, as well as occasional giant-screen movies (the center was originally built as a movie palace). It also houses the more intimate Shubert Theater, known as the ‘Little Princess’ of the Theater District.
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Tumbledown Farm
The local organization Wolfeboro Folk attracts some of the country’s top folk musicians. In the summer, concerts take place north of Wolfeboro at Moody Mountain Farm. Concerts in spring and fall are held at Tumbledown Farm in Brookfield. You can also reserve a pre-concert dinner (around $15 per person), which features locally sourced, often organic products.
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Moody Mountain Farm
The local organization Wolfeboro Folk attracts some of the country’s top folk musicians. In the summer, concerts take place north of Wolfeboro at Moody Mountain Farm. Concerts in spring and fall are held at Tumbledown Farm in Brookfield. You can also reserve a pre-concert dinner (around $15 per person), which features locally sourced, often organic products.
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Cutler Majestic Theater
This beautiful beaux-arts-style opera house dates to 1903. One century after its construction, the theater was sumptuously renovated and reopened by Emerson College. Today, the performances that take place here are incredibly diverse, including shows by Opera Boston, seasonal celebrations like the popular Celtic Christmas Sojourn, dance events such as the Flamenco Festival or Tango Stories, comedy, music and more.
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Shear Madness
America’s longest-running comedy operates out of the Charles Playhouse, in a former church situated on a sleazy street (don’t worry, it adds to the mood). An odd mix of half-play and half-improvisation, the show features an outrageous gay hair stylist and various freak-show characters in a whodunit-style performance where actors ad-lib the plot based on cues from the audience.
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Bushnell
Bushnell, hosting over 500 events a year, plays a major role in the state’s cultural life. Its historic building is where you go for most ballet, symphony, opera and chamber music performances. For current shows contact the Greater Hartford Arts Council. The well-respected Hartford Symphony stages performances year-round.
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Trinity Repertory Company
Trinity performs classic and contemporary plays (Some Things are Private, A Christmas Carol) in the stunning and historic Lederer Theater downtown. It’s a favorite try-out space for Broadway productions, and it’s not unusual for well-known stars to turn up in a performance. Student discounts available.
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Real Art Ways
Contemporary works in all kinds of media find an outlet at this consistently offbeat and adventurous gallery/cinema/performance space/lounge. Evening events at RAW usually cost between $5 and $12. You can sip wine or beer while watching the new drag-queen documentary or the latest export from the new Brazilian cinema.
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Rockport Chamber Music Festival
The Rockport Chamber Music Festival hosts at least 16 concerts by internationally acclaimed performers. The festival recently purchased the Haskins Building on Main St, which will be transformed into a magnificent performance space facing the open ocean.
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Jacques Cabaret
Head to this dive on a dark side street to experience the gay culture of the South End before gentrification took over. A shaded-lamp and pool-table kind of place, Jacques hosts outstanding low-budget drag shows every night. We think Mizery is the cat’s pajamas.
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Gamm Theatre
Several smaller theater companies stage contemporary and avant-garde productions, in particular this intimate space, whose often intelligent and exquisitely acted experimental and mainstream plays make the drive to Pawtucket worthwhile.
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Chamber Music Society at Yale
This Yale society sponsors concerts from such eminent ensembles as the Guarneri String Quartet at 8pm Tuesday evenings from September through April in the Morse Recital Hall of Sprague Memorial Hall.
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Shubert Theater
New Haven has a first-rate theater scene. Catch a hit before it happens at the venerable Shubert Theater, which has been hosting Broadway musicals on their trial runs since 1914.
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Anthony’s Dinner Theater
Portland’s only dinner theater features five-course dinners (think homemade, family-style cooking) and costumed singing. Hits from Broadway musicals are among the favored repertoire.
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Hatch Memorial Shell
Free summer concerts take place at this outdoor bandstand on the banks of the Charles River, including the Boston Pops' July 4 concert, Boston's biggest annual music event.
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Provincetown Art House
The Art House has two state-of-the-art stages featuring a variety of edgy theater performances along the lines of the off-Broadway Confessions of a Mormon Boy.
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Java Hut
Aside from featuring Worcester’s only manual espresso machine, Java Hut also hosts slam poetry and folk singers most nights.
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Providence Performing Arts Center
Concerts, comedy and Broadway musicals take the stage at this beautifully restored 1928 art-deco theater.
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Calvin Theatre
The venue for big-name performances for everything from hot rock and indie bands to comedy shows.
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Hartford Symphony
The well-respected Hartford Symphony stages performances in the Bushnell all year-round.
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Gloucester Stage Company
This company stages excellent small-theater productions of classics and modern works.
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Hopkins Center for the Arts
The 'Hop' is Dartmouth's refined venue for string quartets, modern dance and plays.
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Memorial Hall at Sanders Theatre
A beautiful, 1166-seat, wood-paneled theater known for its acoustics.
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