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'I’ll fix you tomorrow,” he told the leaks, sliding pots beneath them. ‘After I call the landlord sunning in Ibiza.’ Fat chance, he thought.

Julia Bullock is one of the foremost sopranos of our  time. She will perform at Jordan Hall with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project on November 6th.  

American Classics announces its 30th concert season, "It Takes Two," a series of performances dedicated to teams of songwriters, lyricists, and composers who brought their talents together to create enduring songs.

Pride and Prejudice Part 2: Napoleon at Pemberly by Ken Ludwig presents us with an Elizabeth Bennett Darcy who is unlike any other Elizabeth I’ve ever seen. As a fan of the novel and Austen, this rendition of her was both irritating and disconcerting. The Elizabeth who I saw on the stage was more life her flighty sister, Lydia than the thinking and intelligent woman Austen wrote about. In fact, Lydia was more like Austen’s Elizabeth.

As the United States entered World War II, the “waiting room” subject assumed new gravitas. Soyer took himself to Pennsylvania Station at 34th Street to observe the human impacts of war. In short succession, a small group of train station paintings emerged from Soyer’s palette capturing a nation activated, and the profound human toll incurred, in emotional scenes depicting soldiers and loved ones saying goodbye.

After decades of dedicated stewardship, insightful research, and passion for our region's rich art and history, Chief Curator Martha Oaks has announced her retirement. Martha first joined the Museum in 1979 as a paid student intern, cataloguing the Gordon W. Thomas photograph collection through a grant from the National Trust.

At the performance I saw, the audience’s response was decidedly mixed, as I was. I could appreciate the stage craft but felt the play was misguided.

The Mount’s immersive woodland experience of cinematic music, theatrical lighting, and scenic artistry returns November 21, inviting visitors to discover the magic of the woods after dark.

Six years after moving to Vermont, Turkish-born artist Hayal Pozanti is bringing the extraordinary world of color and form inspired by her adopted home to the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC). "Hayal Pozanti: The World Sang Through Me,"

Throughout this year, the Board of Trustees has remained focused on moving Williamstown Theatre Festival forward, working closely with staff to plan for the Festival’s future, including the intention to return to programming in Williamstown in 2027.

Henry may be king, but he still has to deal with his wife, Queen Eleanor's power, despite her being his prisoner for 10 years. Their battle concerns not just her freedom but succession, she being for Richard, and he for John.

Committed to a convent as an adolescent, Manon escapes to a relationship that will be compromised by the interference of her lover's father. The complex femme fatale undergoes a roller coaster of changing fortune performed to beautiful Romantic music.

The characters in the Tony Award-winning musical “Dear Evan Hansen” are all troubled in some way, struggling to fit in, trying to make connections or understand problems with loved ones they somehow missed.

Shakespeare & Company will present nine readings of 10-minute plays, selected from Women+ On The Edge Of Democracy anthology of 34 woman-identifying playwrights. The titles were chosen by a committee of Company Artists, and will be presented in two acts with talkbacks at the end of each act.

Ma Rainey is set in Chicago, the only Wilson play not set in the hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It’s 1927 and blues singer Ma Rainey, who bills herself as the Mother of the Blues, is in a recording studio. The studio makes what were known as “race” records – sold exclusively in African American neighborhoods.

Missy Mazzoli’s new opera, Lincoln in the Bardo, recently had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. As a leading contemporary American composer, Mazzoli writes exceptionally well for the human voice. The Met has provided a luxury cast featuring Peter Mattei as Lincoln alongside Stephanie Blythe, Christine Goerke, and Anthony Roth Costanzo, all in top form.

Joey was not feeling sublime about the essay. Especially since he was taking advantage of his role in Higgins’ history course by writing a paper on Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot. And despite having read a literary critic refer to the play as sublime. If anything, writing the essay was the opposite of sublime. Higgins had insisted he have carte blanche.

Next up in its 50th Season, Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) presents André Previn’s acclaimed opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre. A co-production with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, STREETCAR plays three performances November 5-8.

Once “Sophisticated Ladies” takes off, it rarely slows down. In the first act, it’s about 30 minutes before the tempo softens briefly for a tender version of “Solitude.” But it doesn’t stay that way for long.

You get a lot of intensity and just enough blood if not outright frightening moments in the Manatee Players production of “Carrie: The Musical.”

The well was dug long before you arrived. Its waters are cold, pure, and constant, supplied by underground streams you cannot see. But the well does not draw its own water. The stewardship lies entirely in the unglamorous, repetitive daily discipline: walking the worn path, lowering the bucket into the dark, and hauling the weight back up into the sunlight.

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Theatre announces its 2026-2027 performance season, featuring six events that celebrate the possibilities of live theater through professional collaboration, inventive storytelling, student experimentation, and original performance.

The Omayra Amaya Flamenco Dance Company features a top cast of dancers, musicians and guest artists from Spain in a new show, ANTES DEL FIN (BEFORE THE END) that explores human evolution and condition through the lens of Flamenco music, dance and theater.

Santa Fe's richly diverse and exquisite restaurant scene now includes a top-drawer Vietnamese restaurant. Unique ingredients and creative combinations lead to a fine dining experience

The event invites area arborists to take part in this day of pruning, removals and plantings in the peaceful and sensitive stretches of Riverwalk and Riverfront. Arborists will convene near the W.E.B. DuBois rain garden/kiosk off River Street at about 8 a.m.