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Performance Date Artist Lottery/Ticket Request Deadline
Friday, 11 February Boston Theater Works: The Tempest CLOSED
Saturday, 12 March Mark Morris Dance Group CLOSED
Thursday, 24 March Teatro Lirico d'Europe: Carmen CLOSED
Thursday, 21 April Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater CLOSED
Friday, 6 May Savion Glover: Improvography CLOSED
Thursday, 12 May Boston Ballet: Sleeping Beauty CLOSED
Sunday, 22 May at 7pm Chicago CLOSED
Thursday, 23 June at 7:30pm American Repertory Theatre: Franz Kafka's Amerika CLOSED

 

Boston Theater Works: The Tempest

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Director Jason Slavick warms the winter spirit with this classic comedy about Prospero, a Duke banished to an abandoned island by his power-hungry brother. When he seizes opportunity for retribution with a mystical storm that shipwrecks his brother and other nobles on the island, Prospero learns that he must surrender his power to regain his soul. The Tempest unites Shakespeare's classic themes of love, loss, vengeance and forgiveness with contemporary American themes of justice and the use and abuse of power.

 

Subsidized tickets: $10

Discounted group rate: $24 (adults), $17 (students)

Deadline for lottery/ticket requests: Wednesday, 26 January

Deadline for purchase: Wednesday, 2 February

Venue: Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston

 

Event Schedule:

Friday, 11 February

  8:00pm   The Tempest

10:15pm   Dessert/Discussion group (Location TBA)

 

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Mark Morris Dance Group

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BBC Music Magazine declares that Mark Morris "has done more to dignify and illuminate a range of classical music than most conductors." With his recent works like V, Resurrection, Grand Duo and All Fours, Morris has taken modern dance on a new path, one that translates pure music, intuition and wit into pure dance.

PROGRAM:
Somebody's Coming To See Me Tonight
Rock of Ages
Silhouettes
Rhymes with Silver

 

Subsidized tickets: $15 (seats in the $45 tier)

Discounted group rate: $54/$45/$38 (Orchestra and Front Mezzanine/Rear Mezzanine/Balcony) (seating chart)

Deadline for lottery/ticket requests: Wednesday, 2 February

Deadline for purchase: Wednesday, 9 February

Venue: Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont Street, Boston

 

Event Schedule:

Saturday, 12 March

  8:00pm   Mark Morris Dance Group

10:30pm   Dessert/Discussion group (Location: Jerne at the Ritz-Carleton Hotel)

 

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Teatro Lirico d'Europe: Carmen

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The opera, Carmen, is considered to be Georges Bizet's greatest work. Set in 19th century Spain, an amorous passion for the gypsy Carmen upsets the dutiful soldier Don Jose. When Carmen's love of independence comes into conflict with his possessiveness, Don Jose kills the disruptive element in his life - the beautiful Carmen.

 

Subsidized tickets: $15 (seats in the $49.50 tier)

Discounted group rate: $67.50/$49.50/$40.50/$31.50 (seating chart)

Deadline for lottery/ticket requests: Wednesday, 9 February

Deadline for purchase: Wednesday, 16 February

Venue: Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston

 

Event Schedule:

 

Thursday, 24 March

  7.30pm   Carmen

10:00pm   Dessert/Discussion group (Location: Finale at the Park Plaza Hotel)

 

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

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Fourty-five years ago, Alvin Ailey set out to build an American dance company that has since made a broad, indelible impact on the way people view dance, the African American aesthetic and music in America. With the world's best-trained modern dancers, a world of music that includes blues, jazz, gospel, contemporary, folk, West African drumming and R&B, and cutting-edge dance works paired with soul-searching classics, no one does it better than the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater!

 

Subsidized tickets: $15 (seats in $48 tier)

Discounted group rate: $55/$48/$42/$32 (seating chart)

Deadline for lottery/ticket requests: Friday, 11 March

Deadline for purchase: Monday, 21 March

Venue: Wang Center, 270 Tremont Street, Boston

 

Event Schedule:

Thursday, 21 April

  8:00pm   Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

10:15pm   Dessert/Discussion group (Location TBA)

 

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Savion Glover: Improvography

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Hailed by late tap master Gregory Hines as "the best tap dancer that ever lived...a genius," Glover started stunning Braodway at 12 years old with The Tap Dance Kid, and won a 1996 Tony Award for his smash hit Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In 'da Funk. His latest show, Improvography, a Boston premiere, is filled with heart-stopping improvisation and brilliant choreography with with Glover performing an exhilarating 40-minute solo accompanied by a live band and features his Ti Dii dance troupe.

 

Subsidized tickets: $15 (seats in the $32 tier)

Discounted group rate: $45.00/$32.00/$24.00 (seating chart)

Deadline for lottery/ticket requests: Wednesday, 23 February

Deadline for purchase: Tuesday, 1 March

Venue: Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston

 

Event Schedule:

 

Friday, 6 May

  7.30pm   Savion Glover: Improvography

10:15pm   Dessert/Discussion group (Location TBA)

 

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Boston Ballet: Sleeping Beauty

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With its scenario drawn from the stories of Perrault, a glorious score by Tchaikovsky, and choreography by Marius Petipa, The Sleeping Beauty has been enchanting audiences of all ages for over a century. But more than the tale of a princess, a spell, and a kiss, The Sleeping Beauty is a tour de force of classical dancing, with brilliant solo choreography and ensemble pageantry. This grand-scale production, with sets and costumes by David Walker, spotlights the accomplishments of the entire Company, and is a triumphant finale to the season.

 

Subsidized tickets: $15 (seats in the $32 tier)

Discounted group rate: $59.00/$32.00/$20.50 (seating chart)

Deadline for lottery/ticket requests: Thursday, 10 March

Deadline for purchase: Friday, 18 March

Venue: Wang Center, 270 Tremont Street, Boston

 

Event Schedule:

Thursday, 12 May

  7:00pm   Sleeping Beauty

10:00pm   Dessert/Discussion group (Location TBA)

 

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Chicago

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It's Broadway's most popular musical--a razzle-dazzle tale of sin and celebrity. And now, you can see it LIVE. The recipient of six Tony® Awards, two Olivier® Awards, a Grammy® and thousands of standing ovations, Chicago is the sensation that just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

 

Subsidized tickets: $12.50

Discounted group rate: $25 (seating chart)

Deadline for lottery/ticket requests: April 14th

Deadline for purchase: April 20th

Venue: Wang Center, 270 Tremont Street, Boston

 

Event Schedule:

May 22

  7:00pm   Chicago

10:00pm   Dessert/Discussion group (Location TBA)

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American Repertory Theatre: Franz Kafka's Amerika

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When Karl Rossmann steps off the boat in New York Harbor, he is thrust into a whirlwind of adventures. The world he discovers in "Amerika" is beautiful and grotesque - he finds work in a hotel with forty-seven elevators, shares a room with a magnificently rotund opera singer named Brunelda, and seeks out the fantastical Nature Theatre of "Oklahama," where hundreds of actors dressed as angels play trumpets from atop golden pedestals.

Begun in 1911 and never finished, Kafka's first novel is a wild fantasy of the New World, drawn from travelogues, news reports, and a hefty dose of his own imagination. Both a utopian vision of the future and a nightmare of capitalist excess, Amerika represents the little-known, more playful side of this great twentieth-century master. After this spring's hugely successful collaboration on The Miser, the A.R.T. welcomes back director Dominique Serrand and the Theatre de la Jeune Lune for this exciting world premiere.

 

Subsidized tickets: $8

Discounted group rate: $16

Deadline for lottery/ticket requests: April 20th

Deadline for purchase: April 27th

Venue: Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge

 

Event Schedule:

June 23rd

  7:30pm   Amerika

10:00pm   Dessert/Discussion group (Location TBA)

 

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