The Metropolitan Waterworks Museum proudly announces the opening of a new exhibit entitled Thinking about Water: Artists Reflect. Timed to coincide with the United Nations’ celebration of World Water Day on March 22, the Waterworks invites you to reflect on our most precious natural resource: water. The artists brought together for this show take a … Continue reading Thinking About Water | Artists Reflect
Gallery 93 at the Brookline Senior Center is honored to present "The Reunion Project". The exhibit is a photographic project created by Lora Brody, featuring current portraits of women paired with photographs of them taken in high school. The exhibit also features responses to questions posed by the photographer regarding their changes in attitudes and … Continue reading The Reunion Project | Gallery 93
The 30-year odyssey of the Grateful Dead was the most unlikely success story in rock ’n’ roll history. Famously averse to publicity and seemingly incapable of recording radio-friendly hits, they flouted music-industry convention by giving their live music away to a global network of tape traders and becoming the highest-grossing concert act in America through … Continue reading Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead
Bring your lunch and an appetite for poetry. Each month the group will look at half a dozen poems by a well-known poet. The library will provide copies of the poems and lead a discussion after reading them. No sign-up or preparation is necessary. Taste of Poetry CD Wright This month the poetry of C.D. Wright
Coolidge Corner Arts Festival 2017 Jury Prize Winner Shop the work of over 75 artists whilst enjoying delicious food truck fare, wine, beer, and listening to great music at the Coolidge Corner Arts Festival! The festival will be held on Saturday, June 3 2017 from 11AM to 7PM along Babcock Street in the heart of … Continue reading Coolidge Corner Arts Festival
RenMentality In their season closer, Renaissance Men will explore sacred and secular compositions by those who suffered with mental and behavioral disorders, including works Berlioz, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Lassus, and Mussorgsky. American composer Jay Mobley will premiere a major work for male voices based on written testimonials from those in moments of crisis. A concert in three acts, each … Continue reading Renaissance Men | RenMentality
"Anima Mundi" Music of Bach, Brahns, Bruckner and Lauridsen Coolidge Corner Community Chorus Music is still a human experience, and to that end the Coolidge Corner Community Chorus welcomes all who wish to sing, regardless of experience or training. We sing music from all periods, sacred and secular; we perform masterworks as well as little … Continue reading Coolidge Corner Community Chorus | Concert
Make Imagination Accessible for All... Join Puppet Showplace Theater for an enchanted evening of entertainment as they raise a glass to support imaginative puppetry experiences for diverse audiences of all ages! Encounter fantastical characters great and small as you explore the halls of a stately Brookline mansion. Discover unique treasures in their benefit auction as … Continue reading Evening of Enchantment | Puppet Showplace Gala
The tumultuous relationship between theater stars Fred and Lily closely resembles that of the characters they play—Petruchio and Katharina—in The Taming Of The Shrew.
This is a one-of-a-kind evening of music and film as world renowned jazz pianist, composer, and author Kenny Werner performs live before a screening of the new documentary The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith. "A fascinating documentary directed by Sara Fishko." — New York Times This provocative film will be followed by a panel discussion led by … Continue reading The Jazz Loft According to W Eugene Smith | The Coolidge
Following on the wild success of the inaugural Brookline Porchfest in 2016, this year's promises to be even bigger! Browse the porches of Brookline along leafy neighborhood streets and immerse yourself in music: rock, folk, jazz, classical, blues, singer songwriters and more... Porchfest welcomes everyone, residents and non-residents alike, and will be a reflection of … Continue reading 2nd Annual Brookline Porchfest
Jim McKenna will play the Irish Uilleann Pipes on the lawn in front of the library as part of 2017 Brookline Porchfest. Bring your towels and beach chairs! In case of rain, Porchfest 2017 will be rescheduled to take place 1 week from today, on Saturday June 17.
Peter Pan ★★★★★ "Spellbindingly imaginative. A dazzling production." —Radio Times All children, except one, grow up… Captured live at the National Theatre, a recorded performance of JM Barrie’s much-loved tale screens in cinemas. When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it. In return, she is … Continue reading Peter Pan | NT Live at the Coolidge
The Alec Hutson Trio will perform a blend of rock, soul and funk on the lawn in front of the library as part of 2017 Brookline Porchfest. Bring your towels and beach chairs! In case of rain, Porchfest 2017 will be rescheduled to take place 1 week from today, on Saturday June 17.
Worpswede, northern Germany, 1900. From the moment they meet, Paula Becker and Otto Modersohn sense a special connection. Their shared passion for painting grows into a great love. They marry, but the life they lead as a couple is far removed from the conventions of their time. It’s a relationship rendered in rich colors and … Continue reading Paula | Goethe Institute Film at The Coolidge
This is the third annual Brookline Village Fair, with music, games, food, and entertainment along Harvard Street and throughout the Village. A short section of Harvard Street will be closed to all but pedestrian traffic and there will be a stage for music, as well as spots for games, crafts, and face-painting, among other family-friendly activities. Organized by … Continue reading The Village Fair | Brookline
Lavazza Chamber Ensemble present their Season Finale Ravel String Quartet Beethoven String Quartet, op. 59, #1 Kristina Nilsson and Paula Oakes (violin), Frances Pfeiffer-Rios (viola), Jan Pfeiffer-Rios (cello) The artists who play with the Lavazza Chamber Ensemble are all well-known musicians in the Boston area and beyond. Our members perform with the Boston Ballet, the … Continue reading Season Finale | Lavazza Chamber Ensemble
The Brookline Teen Center, Friends of Performing Arts, and the Performing Arts Department of the Public Schools of Boston present: From Brookline to Broadway, An Evening with "Hamilton" Cast Member Nik Walker (BHS class of 2006. Nik will tell stories and provide insights about life in the arts. This is a free event but advanced … Continue reading From Brookline to Broadway | BHS
The Bad Batch, directed by Ana Lily Amirpour After A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour brings us a savage dystopian fairytale where society's rejects are just trying to make ends meat. The Bad Batch follows Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) after she's left in a Texas wasteland fenced off from civilization. While trying … Continue reading The Bad Batch | special screening at The Coolidge followed by director Q&A
Known for his insubordinate and virtuosic improvisational approach to electroacoustic music, Id M Theft Able's performances consist of stream-of-consciousness vocal technique, performative manipulations and gestures with collected objects, as well as the use of an amplified wire and wood sculpture that amasses echoes, shrieks, crashes, and creaks -- assembling all manner of media sources. His … Continue reading Experimental Coffee House | Cafe Fixe
The Brookline Senior Center presents Berklee College of Music's Claudia Medina & her Latin Jazz Band.
An exhibition of contemporary craft. Since the 1800s, New England has long been at the center of American craft from silversmithing to woodwork to textiles. In recent years, the craft movement has defied boundaries and gained recognition as an art form in its own right. What defines studio craft today? How does it navigate between … Continue reading Contemporary Craft Exhibit | Brookline Arts Center
Direct from the Canadian wilderness comes "Beaver Dreams," a hilarious physical comedy with an environmental twist. A family of beavers and a family of humans are living in the heart of the Quebecois forest. The beavers go about their daily life: gnawing on wood and building dams. The humans try to go about their typical summer … Continue reading Puppets at Night | Beaver Dreams
Direct from the Canadian wilderness comes "Beaver Dreams," a hilarious physical comedy with an environmental twist. A family of beavers and a family of humans are living in the heart of the Quebecois forest. The beavers go about their daily life: gnawing on wood and building dams. The humans try to go about their typical summer … Continue reading Puppets at Night | Beaver Dreams
Cinema Jukebox D.A. Pennebaker (Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) uses his signature cinéma vérité style to record the paradigm-shattering weekend of 1967's Monterey International Pop Festival. This up-close documentary brings to the screen a vibrant encapsulation of an entire decade, as we are witness to the Summer of … Continue reading Monterey Pop | Coolidge Theatre
DAVID BEHRMAN (computer) with STRING NOISE (Conrad Harris + Pauline Kim Harris, violins) FORBES GRAHAM, solo (trumpet, computer) DAVID BEHRMAN has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations as well as compositions for performance in concerts. My Dear Siegfried, Leapday Night, On … Continue reading David Behrman, String Noise & Forbes Graham | Met Waterworks Museum
Nicholas Ray’s (They Live By Night) vivid portrait of the struggles of 1950s teenagers defined James Dean (East of Eden) as an actor in what would become the most memorable role of his tragically short career. Expertly shot in CinemaScope with a wild palate of bright colors, Rebel without a Cause is a yearning exploration … Continue reading Rebel Without a Cause | Big Screen Classics at The Coolidge
Salomé The story has been told before, but never like this. An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious dance will change the course of the world. This charged retelling turns the infamous biblical tale on its head, placing the girl we call Salomé at the centre … Continue reading Salomé | NT Live at the Coolidge
Bring your lawn chairs and beach towels for this special event, an upbeat swingin’ outdoor concert! Local favorites The Love Dogs will perform on the library lawn. This award-winning Boston band combines elements of jump blues, New Orleans R&B, and early rock n’ roll into their own powerhouse sound! FMQB Magazine calls Love Dogs concerts … Continue reading The Love Dogs | Brookline Village Library
Pianist Richard Dowling, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death, in a concert featuring ragtime rags, waltzes, marches and cakewalks. (He performed Joplin’s complete works in concert at Carnegie Hall April 1.) Register: 617. 730. 2770
Cinema Jukebox Loosely based on the Broadway musical of the same name, this award-winning depiction of decadence in pre-Hitler Germany is stylish, sexy, and a thought-provoking classic. Winning eight Academy Awards, including Best Actress, Supporting Actor, Director, and Score, Cabaret is Bob Fosse's bleak musical masterpiece set in Germany's Weimar Period. Liza Minnelli's career-defining performance … Continue reading Cabaret | Coolidge Theatre