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Open-Air and
Free Entertainment
Boston’s best free outdoor summer
entertainment is found at the
Hatch Shell (see p94) on the Charles
River Esplanade. The Boston Pops
(see p160) performs here frequently
during the week around July 4,
and all through July and August
jazz, pop, rock, and classical music
is played. On Friday evenings from
late June to the week before Labor Free open-air music concert outside City Hall
Day, the Hatch Shell also shows
free big-screen family films. courtyard. Most of the annual offers a program of free live
Music is also performed in the concerts and recitals of the New music during summer months,
summer months at the Blue England Conservatory of Music while the Boston Harbor Hotel
Hills Bank Pavilion on the are free, although some require sponsors free weeknight
waterfront, which holds live jazz, advance reservations. Summer in the City films and
pop, and country music concerts. Other open-air entertainment concerts at Rowes Wharf.
City Hall Plaza and Copley Plaza includes a series of free plays Details of all free entertain-
have free concerts at lunchtimes staged on Boston Common by the ment happening in the city are
and in the evenings, and the Commonwealth Shakespeare listed in the Thursday and Friday
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Company in July and August. editions of The Boston Globe.
(see pp106–9) operates a summer An area that has more unusual
musical concert series in its open-air enter tainment is
Harvard Square, famous for Disabled Access
its nightly and weekend Many entertainment venues in
scene of street performers. Boston are wheelchair acces-
Many recording artists paid sible. VSA (Very Special Arts)
their dues here, and other Massachusetts offers a full
hopefuls still flock to the Boston arts access guide. Some
square in the hope of places, such as Jordan Hall, the
being discovered – or Cutler Majestic Theatre, and the
at least of earning the Wheelock Family Theatre, have
cost of dinner. On the listening aids for the hearing
waterfront, the Institute impaired, while the latter also has
Entrance to the Shubert Theatre (see p160) of Contemporary Art signed and described performances.
DIRECTORY
Booking Tickets Tel (617) 728-1600. Museum of Fine Jordan Hall
∑ bluehillsbank Arts, Boston 30 Gainsborough St.
BosTix pavilion.ticketoffices.
Faneuil Hall Marketplace. com 465 Huntington Ave. Tel (617) 585-1260.
Map 2 D3. Tel (617) 369-3306. ∑ necmusic.edu
Copley Square. Map 3 C2. Boston Harbor Hotel ∑ mfa.org
Tel (617) 482-2849. Rowes Wharf, Boston. VSA (Very Special
∑ bostix.com Map 1 E4. New England Arts) Massachusetts
Live Nation Tel (617) 439-7000. Conservatory 89 South St.
Various outlets. ∑ bhh.com of Music
Tel (800) 431-3462. Commonwealth 290 Huntington Ave. Map 4 F2.
∑ livenation.com Shakespeare Tel (617) 585-1260. Tel (617) 350-7713.
Ticketmaster Company ∑ newengland TTY (617) 350-6385.
Various outlets Parkman Bandstand, conservatory.edu ∑ vsamass.org
Tel (800) 745-3000. Boston Common.
∑ ticketmaster.com Map 1 C4. Disabled Access Wheelock Family
Tel (617) 426-0863. Theatre
Open-Air/Free ∑ commshakes.org Cutler Majestic 200 Riverway,
Entertainment Theatre
Institute of Brookline.
Blue Hills Bank Contemporary Art 219 Tremont St. Tel (617) 879-2300.
Map 4 E2.
Pavilion 100 Northern Ave.
290 Northern Ave., South Map 2 F5. Tel (617) 824-8000. TTY (617) 879-2150.
Boston. Map 2 F5. Tel (617) 478-3100. ∑ cutlermajestic.org ∑ wheelock.edu/wft

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