Sanders Theatre
45 Quincy Street Cambridge
Cambridge, MA 02138
Sanders Theatre is a theatre in Boston.
Upcoming Shows
Midwinter Revels: American Crossroads: A Solstice Celebration
Set on the Winter Solstice of 1876, immigrants and families from Ireland, Germany, Poland, China, and beyond gather at a tiny Great Plains train station awaiting the first train and the promise of a new American future. When the train mysteriously goes silent, an ancient spirit...
Worlds Within and Without
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
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
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...
Articles
Review: An Uneven Flight for BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL at Umbrella Arts
The publication did prove award-worthy itself, though, as the inspiration for the scary and silly “Bat Boy: The Musical” – at Umbrella Arts in Concord through November 8 – which took home the 2001 Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical.…
Review: SUMMER, 1976 at Berkshire Theatre Group
“Quietly poignant... captures an experience that’s as universal as it is inexplicable: a friendship that shouldn’t work but does, and that should endure but doesn’t.”…
Review: MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT Returns to Boston in Grand Style
What did our critic think of MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT at Boch Center Wang Theatre?…
Review: THE URMETAZOAN at Barrington Stage Company
The play provides a lot of food for thought. What seems to come through most strongly in the final analysis is an inability for the two sisters to connect meaningfully and their portrayal of the tragedy of not knowing someone anymore.…
Review: SpeakEasy Stage's COVENANT Delivers on Promise
With Halloween just weeks away, Greater Boston theater companies are presenting familiar titles for audiences looking for seasonal thrills – “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors,” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and “Little Shop of Horrors,” to name but a few.…
Review: A Play With PURPOSE
What did our critic think of PURPOSE at The Huntington?…
Review: A Riveting ALL MY SONS at Lyric Stage Boston
What did our critic think of A RIVETING ALL MY SONS at The Lyric Stage Company Of Boston?…
Review: A Life-Affirming COME FROM AWAY at North Shore Music Theatre
What did our critic think of COME FROM AWAY at Bill Hanney's North Shore Music Theatre?…
Review: Gloucester Stage's MOON MAN WALK Shows Gravitational Pull of Grief
What did our critic think of MOON MAN WALK at Natti-Willsky Theatre?…
Review: THE NORWEGIANS at Shakespeare & Company
Murder-for-hire seems dark, and yes, some of the language can be a bit colorful (a few F-bombs are dropped), but really, this is a delightful little production with the emphasis on comedy that one might almost label as cute, possibly endearing.…
Past Shows
Voices of Freedom
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...
Bach + Telemann
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
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
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
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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Bat Boy: The Musical Umbrella Arts (9/25-11/08) |
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Covenant SpeakEasy Stage Company (9/25-10/17) |
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The Sound of Music Boch Center Wang Theatre (11/17-11/22) |
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An evening with LaChanze Berklee Performance Center (11/01-11/01) |
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BOUNCERS by John Godber Modern Theatre At Suffolk University (10/01-10/24) |
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Cheyenne Jackson Shalin Liu Performance Center (10/18-10/18) |
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Rocky Horror Show The Company Theatre (10/02-10/18) |
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Hamlet Warehouse XI (10/22-10/22) |
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Hamlet Studio 9 (10/20-10/20) |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Tour with Patricia Quinn The Colonial Theatre (10/27-10/27) |
