phone (617) 426-5000.īosTix is Boston's largest ticket agency and a center for entertainment information. The real news in Boston theater, though, is not the touring blockbusters but the proliferation of upstart repertory groups staging vibrant new works, with performing space provided by such facilities as the rehabilitated Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St. AAA travel packages may allow you to plan to take in shows at all three locations.īoch Center encompasses the Shubert Theatre, 270 Tremont St., as well as one of the city's most versatile facilities, the Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St., a 1920s motion picture house that now hosts large-scale operas, musicals and ballets phone (866) 384-9738 for the Shubert Theatre or (800) 982-2787 for the Wang Theatre. Now lavishly restored, these historic theaters provide an elegant backdrop for 21st-century performances. Blackall designed several of the extravagant movie palaces that remain standing in the area. Any trip to the city requires a stop at these locations celebrating the arts.īoston's Theater District, centered along Tremont and Stuart streets just south of the Boston Common, was once well established as a stopover for productions en route to Broadway.

The nation's first orchestra, for example, was founded in Boston in the early 19th century it performed the country's first oratorio in King's Chapel in 1815.

Although lingering Puritan prejudice against artistic expression delayed the inception of splashier productions (one 19th-century hall was named the Boston Museum in hopes of camouflaging what went on inside), entertainment here has a long history. Boston Performing ArtsBoston's performing arts scene began in elaborately bedecked theaters, where the likes of Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oscar Wilde gave lively readings.

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