Upcoming Shows & Performances
3 upcoming shows and performances from Riverside Theatre Works, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All musicals in Greater Boston →
Fri Oct 16 – Sun Nov 1
Rodgers and Hammerstein's last musical together opens Riverside Theatre Works's forty-fifth anniversary season: a novice sent from the abbey to keep house for a widowed Austrian naval officer and his seven children, and the family's departure over the mountains as Austria is annexed. The score runs from "Do-Re-Mi" to "Climb Ev'ry Mountain."
Fri Mar 5 – Sun Mar 14
A revue of Kander and Ebb songs, drawn from Cabaret, Chicago, New York, New York and the shows that never travelled as far, performed by a small cast with no book between the numbers. It won the 1991 Outer Critics Circle Award for best off-Broadway musical.
Fri Apr 30 – Sun May 16
Three actresses play Donna Summer at three stages of one life, from Boston church choirs to Munich studios to disco stardom, singing Hot Stuff, Last Dance and Bad Girls between the scenes. Colman Domingo, Robert Cary and Des McAnuff wrote the book; it opened on Broadway in 2018.
