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158 TR A VELERS ’ NEEDS
ENTERTAINMENT IN
BOSTON
From avant-garde performance art to serious is home of the renowned Boston Symphony
drama, popular dance music to live classical Orchestra. Boston is also well acquainted
performances, Boston offers an outstanding with jazz, folk music, and blues as well as
array of entertainment options, with some- being a center for more contemporary music,
thing to appeal to every taste: the Theater played in big city nightclubs. In summer,
District offers many excellent plays and entertainment often heads outdoors, with
musicals, the Wang Theatre hosts many many open-air plays and concerts, such as
touring productions, and Symphony Hall the famous Boston Pops at the Hatch Shell.
Practical Information get tickets in person at theater
The best sources for information box offices, or use one of the
on current films, concerts, ticket agencies in Boston. For
the ater, dance, and exhibitions advance tickets these are
include the Thursday Ticketmaster and
and Friday Arts sec- Live Nation. Tickets
tion of The Boston can be purchased
Globe. Even more from both of these
up-to-date listings agencies over the
can be found online telephone, in person,
at the following sites: or online. Half-price
www.bostonusa.com; tickets to most
The Boston Globe noncom mercial arts Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, danced by the
(www.bostonglobe. Boston entertainment events as well as to Boston Ballet (see p160)
com); Improper listings magazines some commercial
Bostonian (www. productions are Districts and Venues
improper.com); Boston Magazine available from 11am on the Musicals, plays, comedies, and
(www.bostonmagazine.com). day of the per formance at dance are generally performed
BosTix booths. Purchases at venues in the Theater District,
must be made in person although larger noncommercial
Booking Tickets and only cash is accepted. theater companies are distrib-
Tickets to popular musicals, BosTix also sells advance full- uted throughout the region,
theatrical productions, and price tickets. Special Boston many being associated with
touring shows often sell out enter tainment discount colleges and universities.
far in advance, although the- vouchers, available from hotel The area around the inter-
aters sometimes have a few lobbies and tourist offices, section of Massachusetts and
returns or restricted-view may also give a saving on Huntington Avenues hosts a
tickets available. You can either some shows. concentration of outstanding
concert venues, including
Symphony Hall, Berklee
Performance Center at Berklee
College of Music, and Jordan
Hall at the New England
Conservatory of Music.
Many nightclub and dance
venues are on Lans downe and
other streets by Fenway Park and
around Boylston Place in the
Theater District. The busiest areas
for bars and small clubs offering
live jazz and rock music are
Central and Harvard Squares
in Cambridge, Davis Square in
Somerville, and Allston. The
principal gay scene in Boston
is found in the South End, with
many of the older bars and clubs
Boston’s Symphony Orchestra performing at Symphony Hall (see p160) in neighboring Bay Village.
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