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Sanders Theatre

45 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA, 02138
Cambridge, MA 02138

Upcoming Shows

Voices of Freedom

Oct 9

Sean K. Ellis, subject of Netflix's documentary Trial 4, narrates Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait after being wrongly convicted and jailed for 21 years before winning his freedom. The concert opens with Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man and includes excerpts from William...

Worlds Within and Without

Jan 8, 2027

Missy Mazzoli's These Worlds In Us opens the concert, exploring grief, memory and joy side-by-side. Avery Fisher Career Grant winner Leland Ko performs Haydn's Cello Concerto. Brahms' First Symphony crowns the evening. Kristo Kondakçi conducts.

Burst, Body, Becoming

Mar 20, 2027

Elena Kats-Chernin's Big Rhap crackles with rhythmic vitality, setting the tone for an evening of energy, reinvention, and transformation. Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis takes themes by Carl Maria von Weber and reshapes them with orchestral color. Tchaikovsky's Fourth...

Alone Together

May 22, 2027

The Kendall Square Orchestra's season finale explores friendships, memories, and stories through which we connect. Copland's Quiet City begins in solitude, its stillness filled with longing to be seen and understood. Elgar's Enigma Variations transforms friendship into music...

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Review: HAMLET at Shakespeare & Company

Review: HAMLET at Shakespeare & Company

by Marc Savitt · August 18, 2026

Shakespeare’s most searching play – a gripping story of grief, conscience, and the cost of inaction. Haunted by his father’s ghost, a young prince must navigate a world of secrets, power, and betrayal, where nothing is as it appears.…

Review: Hugh Jackman Dazzles in Debut with Boston Pops at Tanglewood

Review: Hugh Jackman Dazzles in Debut with Boston Pops at Tanglewood

by R. Scott Reedy · August 14, 2026

Making his debut with the Boston Pops at Tanglewood on August 11, Hugh Jackman dazzled his sold-out audience – under the Koussevitzky Music Shed and stretching as far as the eye could see on the lawn that surrounds it – from the moment he took the stage.…

Review: DEAD GIRL’S QUINCEAÑERA at Barrington Stage Company

Review: DEAD GIRL’S QUINCEAÑERA at Barrington Stage Company

by Marc Savitt · August 13, 2026

Typical of BSC efforts, everything about this production is of first-rate quality. Pharel’s script is well blended with elements that “the kids say” as well as those which are more universally applicable.…

Review: THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE at Berkshire Theatre Group

Review: THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE at Berkshire Theatre Group

by Marc Savitt · August 5, 2026

So, if you like good lip-synching, a driving 4/4 beat, hair and makeup that’s “too – Fabu” or perhaps know of someone who needs to be reminded that I’m OK, you’re OK, and being different doesn’t make you less than… get down to The Colonial Theatre.…

Review: Murkiness Mars Exiled Theatre's M: REFRACTIONS FROM AN EVIL ACT

Review: Murkiness Mars Exiled Theatre's M: REFRACTIONS FROM AN EVIL ACT

by R. Scott Reedy · August 3, 2026

In a program note for his latest play, “M: Refractions from an Evil Act” – being given its world premiere production by Exiled Theatre through August 9 at Boston Playwrights' Theatre, as part of the company’s New Play Incubator program – playwright James Wilkinson, an IRNE nominee for his …

Past Shows

Bach + Telemann

May 16

Handel and Haydn Society Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen leads the 211-year-old ensemble in Bach + Telemann, an all-Baroque program at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge on May 16, 2026. Soprano Robin Johannsen, countertenor Christopher Lowrey, tenor Guy Cutting, and bass-baritone...

Alan Cumming is Not Acting His Age

Alan Cumming is Not Acting His Age

Mar 15

Scottish-American polymath Alan Cumming returns with his new cabaret show Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age , an evening of story and song celebrating and exploring his puckish, eclectic spirit and joie de vivre, with a joyful and mischievous exploration of that most communal...

Discovery and Breakthrough

Discovery and Breakthrough

Mar 8

Kendall Square Orchestra is teaming up with Women in the Enterprise of Science and Technology (WEST) to celebrate the trailblazers of music and science this International Women's Day! The pre-concert panel will focus on the theme for International Women's Day 2024 - Inspire...

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Feb 2

Brilliant jazz vocalist, composer, and lyricist Cécile McLorin Salvant weaves a tale of women’s secrecy under the male gaze in her latest project, Mélusine . Salvant takes as her inspiration the European folk legend of Mélusine, the woman cursed to spend one day each week as a...

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