Up/Rooted Exhibit juried by María Magdalena Campos-Pons The Brookline Arts Center is pleased to present Up/Rooted. How do we connect with where we come from if we are no longer there? How does our sense of place relate to our culture and identity? Looking for work inspired by origin, displacement and the influence of the past … Continue reading Up/Rooted Exhibit | Brookline Arts Center
This is an exciting exhibit of Polaroid image transfers and emulsion lifts by local artist M.A. Lasek. Meet the artist on Saturday, March 25, 2017 from 4-7pm with wine tasting and cheese pairings. Stop by during store hours to view M-F 1-9, Sat 10-9 and Sun 12-6
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
Camerata Masterwork Concert Under the direction of Michael Driscoll, the BHS Camerata Choir and Chamber Orchestra perform a selection of movements from Mozart’s "Solemn Vespers of the Confessor" (K339). The program also includes works from their recent tour of Spain and features soloists from the choir. Tickets
Local teens showcase their literary talents! Join Brookline’s up-and-coming poets for a night of the spoken word.
READ-A-THON - It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Join Brookline Booksmith for an ALL-NIGHT public reading (or drop by anytime throughout) of It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis’s 1930s satire of America ruled by a dictator. They’re partnering with Aforementioned Productions and dozens of guest readers to bring this political classic to life.
An evening to celebrate great local talent, ArtLINC Boston Artist Showcase Opening Reception will feature the work of five talented artists working in various media: Martha Chason-Sokol http://www.mchasonsokol.com Mori Insinger http://www.moriphoto.com Audra Keefe http://www.ahk-art.com Soyoung L. Kim http://www.madebyslk.squarespace.com Yemado http://www.yemado.com ArtLINC Boston is a local, artist-run organization that showcases area artists and connects them directly … Continue reading ArtLINC Boston | Artist Reception
Hear my Prayer | Purcell's Symphony Anthems for the Royal Chapel Henry Purcell Society Join the Henry Purcell Society of Boston for an intimate program of expressive sacred music written by Henry Purcell. Baroque specialists will perform a program for strings, voices and organ that highlight the immediacy and beauty of Purcell’s anthems and instrumental … Continue reading Hear my Prayer | Henry Purcell Society
All the library’s a stage! April is the Bard’s birthday month, and the Brookline Public Library is celebrating with a host of presentations, interactive performances, and films. This kickoff event is an interactive show in the Brookline Village Library by the Knighthorse Theatre Company—with plays suggested by the audience and roles for the entire family. … Continue reading Shakespeare on Demand | Knighthorse Theatre Co
Brookline Music School faculty members Stephanie Fong (violin and viola), and Leah Kosch (piano), with guests Jenny Ahn (violin), Loewi Lin (cello), Lilit Muradyan (viola), and Yhasmin Valenzuela (clarinet), perform a potpourri of repertoire by classical and romantic composers. Hosted at the Coolidge Corner Meeting Room (31 Pleasant Street), on Sunday, April 2nd from 3pm - 4:30pm, this concert concludes … Continue reading BMS Faculty Artist Showcase Concert
BETTE ANN LIBBY presents “Shard Stories” a mosaic exhibit, April 6 through May 7.
Bring your lunch and an appetite for poetry. Meet from 12 noon to 1:30, the first Thursday of the month at the Main Library (361 Washington Street, Brookline Village). Each month we will look at half a dozen poems of a well known poet. We will provide copies of the poems and lead a discussion after … Continue reading A Taste of Poetry at Brookline Library |
Famed graphic novelist and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature (and MacArthur Fellow) Gene Luen Yang will be visiting Brookline and speaking at the Coolidge Corner Theatre about reading, comics, and getting outside your comfort zone. He will be discussing "Reading Without Walls" - a new challenge for young readers designed to test their limits and expand … Continue reading An Evening with Gene Luen Yang | Reading without Walls
BETTE ANN LIBBY presents: “Shard Stories” Mosaics Reception with music by the TRACY CLARK TRIO April 6th 6:30-8pm Meet the artist during Brookline Open Studios Weekend April 29th 4-6pm Exhibition through May 7th, 2017
Twelfth Night Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity. A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken … Continue reading Twelfth Night | NT Live at the Coolidge
SOUNDS OF SPRING – VOICES Boston Concert featuring Prep, Circle, Gershwin, Bernstein & Copland Ensembles purchase tickets online
Season Finale - Atlantic Crossings Copland’s ever-enchanting ‘Appalachian Spring,’ in its original chamber version for 13 players, & two Boston-area premiere performances of stunning orchestral works in chamber arrangements, performed without a conductor! COPLAND Appalachian Spring … Continue reading Mistral Chamber Music | Atlantic Crossings
The Meadowlark Trio The Meadowlark Trio hails from America's heartland. Formed by three best friends at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln, they have performed nationwide to great acclaim. They have been heard at the International Showcase at the Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University, Garth Newel Music Center, Carnegie Room Concert Series in New York, and the … Continue reading The Meadowlark Trio | Brookline Village Library
Pianist Constantine Finehouse has been praised by Rhein Main Presse Allgemeine Zeitung, for his "interpretations of depth and maturity." Since receiving his master's in piano performance from Yale University as a student of Boris Berman, he has performed extensively in the U.S. and abroad. Finehouse has played with numerous orchestras in the Boston area and … Continue reading Pianist Constantine Finehouse | Brimmer & May
Non-Event Presents April Experimental Coffee House featuring WENDY EISENBERG (guitar) Café Fixe 1642 Beacon Street (Washington Square) Brookline, MA 02445 617-879-2500 7 p.m./$5 WENDY EISENBERG is a guitarist, vocalist, improviser, composer and poet currently based in Boston. Educated as a jazz guitarist at the Eastman School of Music, she performs jazz, avant garde and free … Continue reading Wendy Eisenberg | experimental music concert
Hedda Gabler “I’ve no talent for life.” Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free... Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel. Tony Award-winning director Ivo van Hove (A … Continue reading Hedda Gabler | NT Live at the Coolidge
Celebrate Music presents another in the ever popular community open mic series, hosted by "Deadair" Dennis Maler. The fun is not knowing who is going to perform until they take the stage! All are welcome to sign up to perform or to attend and enjoy the performances (refreshments will be available). To sign up email celebratemusic2017@gmail.com … Continue reading Celebrate Music | Open Mic
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
This is a special screening at the Coolidge Corner Theatre of Soul Witness, a film by R. Harvey Bravman, The Brookline Holocaust Witness Project. The documentary includes footage from approximately 80 hours of video interviews conducted by the Town of Brookline between 1990-1996 of residents who witnessed the Holocaust. Witnesses Soul Witness, a film by … Continue reading Soul Witness | Film by R. Harvey Bravman
Participate in a lively Art Swap, and take home an exceptional work by a Gateway artist from the Taste of Gateway exhibition. Have a great time raising vital funds for Gateway and its talented artists. Painting by Amy Caliri will be auctioned live at the event Tickets: $175 (art tickets) and $75 (event only) All tickets will be held … Continue reading A Taste of Gateway 2017 | Gateway Arts
Some Assembly Required Mixed chamber ensemble Some Assembly Required will be presenting their biggest and most ambitious program to date in the upcoming Oasis Cafe concert in the ECC Chapel, Korean Church of Boston, Brookline. Krummholz Variations, Oliver Caplan Octet for Wind Instruments, Stravinsky Piano Quintet in A Major, "Trout," Schubert Dedicated to providing one-of-a-kind … Continue reading Some Assembly Required | Mixed Chamber Ensemble
Bolshoi Ballet: A Hero of Our Time Broadcast in high definition on the big screen. Pechorin, a young officer, embarks on a journey across the majestic mountains of the Caucasus, on a path set by his passionate encounters. Disillusioned and careless, he inflicts pain upon himself and the women around him… “Give me everything, it … Continue reading Bolshoi Ballet: A Hero of Our Time | Coolidge Theatre
Boston Artists Ensemble In April Boston Artists Ensemble will end their season with an exploration of time and life. Time Regained explores Messiaen’s ethereally beautiful meditation on war and paradise, “Quartet for the End of Time”. Schubert’s “Trout” quintet — an eternal favorite — brings one to the joyful present: a veritable fountain of wonderful tunes, … Continue reading Time Regained | Boston Artists Ensemble
Scenes from Julius Caesar from the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company Rome’s most powerful citizens plot the assassination of its ruler, Julius Caesar, to save the republic from an impending monarchy. In the wake of their bloody deed, the city must confront the consequences of their political idealism. When the curtains of rhetoric and symbolism are pulled … Continue reading Scenes from Julius Caesar | Commonwealth Shakespeare Company @ Brookline Village Library
Studios Without Walls: Everything you can Imagine is Real at Riverway Park, Brookline For the past 18 years, Studios Without Walls has created collaborative environmental sculpture exhibitions. This spring they present “Everything You Can Imagine Is Real”, hosted by Brookline Division of Parks & Open Spaces at Riverway Park near the Longwood T … Continue reading Everything You Can Imagine Is Real | Studios Without Walls
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, The Woman in Black), Joshua McGuire (The Hour), and David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Witness for the Prosecution) star in Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly funny situation comedy, broadcast live from The Old Vic theatre in London. David Leveaux’s new production marks the 50th anniversary … Continue reading Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | NT Live at the Coolidge
The Sensational ‘60’s | Classic Rock & Roll Lives On in this sensational evening of music at Boston Red Sox Jimmy Fund Auditorium on April 27, to raise awareness of the changing face of lung cancer. Join Sing Out! for an upbeat evening of classic tunes you will love. WBZ’s Jordan Rich emcees an outstanding … Continue reading The Sensational ‘60’s | 4th annual Sing Out! Concert
Brookline artists will be displaying their work in locations all around town and look forward to meeting art enthusiasts in their studios and at group sites. Go to the gallery for a complete list of participating artists and their locations and stop by the Preview Show Reception in Hunneman Hall at Brookline Village Library on Sunday, … Continue reading Brookline Open Studios
The Black Monk Presented by Stage Russia HD, and based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, The Black Monk tells the tragic tale of philosophy student Andrey Vasil'ich Kovrin. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Kovrin decides to visit his childhood friend Tanya Pesotsky at the estate of her father. As he and … Continue reading The Black Monk | Theatre at the Coolidge
United Parish in Brookline Chancel Choir presents: Johannes Brahms, Ein Deutches Requiem Soloists: Helen Hassinger, soprano Erik Larson, baritone Pianists: Elizabeth Dorman Emely Phelps Proceeds from this concert (suggested donation $15) are to benefit 350.org, an organization that works for a safe climate.
Madama Butterfly Presented by the Royal Opera House. Antonio Pappano conducts an impressive cast led by Ermonela Jaho in Puccini’s deeply poignant opera. Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular of all operas, with ravishing music and a heartbreaking story of a loving geisha deserted by a callous American husband. Much-loved soprano Ermonela … Continue reading Madama Butterfly | Opera at the Coolidge
The BOSTON AREA screening of the sixth annual 90-Second Newbery Film Festival! Hosted by author James Kennedy (The Order of Odd-Fish) and National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson (Feed, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, and Symphony for the City of the Dead). The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival is an annual video contest in which young filmmakers create movies … Continue reading 90 Second Newbery Festival Gala | Brookline Village Library
The Brookline Music School presents its annual Honors concert.
And it was Good | 20th century American Choral Music The centerpiece of Boston Cecilia's final concert of the season will be Aaron Copland’s tour-de-force setting of the creation story, In The Beginning. The program will also feature works by Randall Thompson (Alleluia and Farewell), Samuel Barber (Reincarnations), Morten Lauridsen (Nocturnes) and Stephen Paulus. Solo … Continue reading And it was Good | 20c American Choral Music | Boston Cecilia
Repertoire to include: Bartok: Rumanian Folk Dances Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme Julian Schwarz, cello Schubert: Symphony No. 5 The Boston Chamber Symphony is honored to be the first orchestral ensemble invited to be in residence at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline. Avlana Eisenberg, Music Director, Boston Chamber Symphony The Boston Chamber … Continue reading Boston Chamber Symphony | Temple Ohabei Shalom
Dreams of Dvorak Dvorak String Quartet in A flat Major, op. 105 Dvorak Piano Quintet in A Major, op. 81 Paula Oakes and Kristina Nilsson (violin) Frances Pfeiffer-Rios (viola), Jan Pfeiffer-Rios (cello) with guest Christopher Dwyer (piano) The artists who play with the Lavazza Chamber Ensemble are all well-known musicians in the Boston area and … Continue reading Dreams of Dvorak | Lavazza Chamber Ensemble