Expert recommendations of the top dance, theater, and classical music performances.
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Berklee Performance Center
One of the performance venues of the Berklee College of Music; from Paula Cole to Christopher Guest and from the Laszlo Gardony Trio to the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra, Berklee brings ’em in. 136 Massachusetts Avenue; tel. +1 617 747 2261. www.berkleebpc.com
The Opera House
Occupying 539 Washington Street, the Opera House hosts major productions in its 2,600 seat Beaux-Arts building in the heart of Boston’s theater district. Tel. +1 617 259 3400.
Boston Center for the Arts
“This is the ace-in-the-hole, there is always something going on with several performance venues and many different groups. The Cyclorama (one of BCA’s many stages) is such an architecturally cool space.”—Marie Morris, author, Frommer’s Boston. BCA hosts everything from a tattoo convention to world theater debuts and open studio events in venues from black box theater to a 300-seat pavilion to the “Cyclorama” (originally built to hold a 360-degree panorama painting). 539 Tremont Street. tel. +1 617 426 5000 (general number), +1 617 933 8600 (box office). www.bcaonline.org
American Repertory Theatre
Across the river in Cambridge, this Harvard-affiliated stage does the serious and the silly with equal aplomb: Julius Caesar followed by Elections and Erections; particularly noted for its willingness to experiment with lighting and stage design. 64 Brattle Street; tel. +1 617 547 8300. www.amrep.org
Boston’s Symphony Hall
Home to one of the world’s best orchestras since 1900; former home of famed conductor Seiji Ozawa; now led by James Levine. The 2,600-seat hall is renowned for its acoustics. 301 Massachusetts Avenue; tel. +1 617 266 1492. www.bso.org
