Boch Center (Wang & Shubert Theatres) — Upcoming Concerts & Performances

Wang Theatre and Shubert Theatre · Theatre District, Boston · bochcenter.org

5 upcoming concerts and performances from Boch Center (Wang & Shubert Theatres), with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All dance in Greater Boston →

Fri Dec 11 · 7:00pm

Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet

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Talmi Entertainment's touring Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet, now on its 33rd annual tour, sets Tchaikovsky's score with new choreography that mixes classical ballet with puppetry and acrobatics. The company fields a corps of 40 Vaganova-trained dancers alongside 10-foot puppets and nine hand-painted backdrops, and its “Dance with Us” program auditions local children to perform in roles created for them. The production is pitched at families.

From $66

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Sat Dec 12 – Sun Dec 20

Anthony Williams' Urban Nutcracker

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Tony Williams's Boston reworking of the Nutcracker sets its winter scenes in the present-day downtown and runs Duke Ellington's Billy Strayhorn-arranged Nutcracker Suite against Tchaikovsky's score. Classical ballet anchors it, with tap, hip hop, flamenco and jazz worked through the divertissements. It has played the city every December for more than two decades.

From $29

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Tue Dec 15 – Wed Dec 23

Blue Man Group — A New Holiday Surprise

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A new, non-verbal Blue Man Group show built around the holidays, in which the three Blue Men work through the season's traditions and rituals and play holiday music on the company's custom-built instruments. Blue Man Group ran resident in Boston at the Charles Playhouse for more than twenty-five years before closing there.

From $35

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Sat Dec 26 – Mon Dec 28

Shen Yun

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Sat Dec 26 · 7pm / Sun Dec 27 · 1:30pm / Mon Dec 28 · 1:30pm

The touring company presents an evening of classical Chinese dance with an orchestra of Chinese and Western instruments and projected backdrops, built around stories and figures the producers draw from five thousand years of Chinese culture. Shen Yun was founded in New York in 2006 and tours several troupes simultaneously.

From $95

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Sat Mar 6 · 7:30pm

Professor Brian Cox — Emergence

by Brian Cox

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The particle physicist and broadcaster brings his second arena lecture tour, following Horizons, which he played to close to half a million people. Cox presents cosmology, biology, philosophy and history on large LED screens with a score, and has fronted BBC series including the Peabody-winning Wonders of the Solar System and The Planets.

From $54

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