Upcoming Shows & Performances
5 upcoming shows and performances from Emerson Colonial Theatre, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All dance in Greater Boston →
Wed Dec 2 · 7:00pm
Grand Kyiv Ballet, a touring Ukrainian company, brings Nutcracker: Symphony of Lights, a new staging of Tchaikovsky's ballet in which glowing costumes and immersive lighting design carry the familiar Christmas story. The production's page describes it as a reimagining through “light, movement, and sound” and gives no choreographer or cast; children under 15 must be accompanied by an adult.
Thu Feb 11 · 7:30pm
Richard Thomas plays Twain in the one-man show Hal Holbrook wrote and performed for decades, and is the first actor authorized to take on the role since. An Emmy winner and 2025 Theater Hall of Fame inductee long known as John-Boy Walton, Thomas was recently on Broadway in Our Town and in The Balusters, which brought him a 2026 Tony nomination. The 90-minute show contains racially explicit language.
Fri Feb 19 · 7:00pm
Grand Kyiv Ballet, a touring Ukrainian company, pairs two Spanish-themed scores. Carmen Suite sets Bizet's story to Rodion Shchedrin's 1967 adaptation for strings and percussion, written for his wife, the Bolshoi ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, and here presents Carmen as “passionate, free, and defiant.” The company adds the world premiere of its own Boléro, danced to Ravel's 1928 score.
Fri Mar 12 – Sun Mar 14
Sandy Rustin's stage comedy, adapted from the 1985 Paramount film and the Hasbro board game, gathers six blackmailed guests at Boddy Manor for a dinner that turns to murder, as Mrs. Peacock, Colonel Mustard and the rest race through the house trying to catch the killer before the body count rises. This is a touring production; the page names no cast or director.
Wed Mar 24 – Sat Mar 27
The musical of Adrienne Shelly's 2007 film follows Jenna, a small-town diner waitress and expert pie-maker stuck in a rocky marriage, who sees a way out through a baking contest in a nearby county and an encounter with someone new. Sara Bareilles wrote the music and lyrics, Jessie Nelson the book, and Diane Paulus directed the original Broadway production, which opened in 2016. This is a national tour.
