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THEATRE
Theatre in the Fenway Cultural District can be found at a diverse variety of venues, both large and small. Click on the list below to find out more about each venue.

Blackman Auditorium / Boston Center for the Arts / Boston Conservatory Theater / Huntington Theatre Company / Lansdowne Street Playhouse / Remis Auditorium / Studio Theatre / Tower Auditorium / Wheelock Family Theatre /

Huntington Theatre Company
264 Huntington Avenue/Avenue of the Arts
Boston MA 02115
Phone 617-266-0800
TTY: 617-266-8488
Fax 617-421-9674 (box office)
E-mail htctix@bu.edu (box office)
Boston's leading professional theatre, in residence at Boston University.
www.huntingtontheatre.org

Blackman Auditorium
Northeastern University
Ell Hall, First Floor Lobby
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617-373-2247
Hours of operation: Monday through Thursday, noon-6 PM; Friday, noon-4 PM
One hour prior to performance times
The Center for the Arts provides support for the arts as an enrichment to Northeastern University and the surrounding community. Together with the departments of African-American Studies, Art and Architecture, English, Music, and Theatre, the Center encourages students in becoming knowledgeable, discriminating, and active participants in the arts. For information on the arts at Northeastern, call or e-mail Denise Arias 617-373-5153 Darias@lynx.neu.edu
OR WRITE TO:
The Center for the Arts
Northeastern University
102 The Fenway, 118 Cushing Hall
Boston, MA 02115
www.casdn.neu.edu/~artcen

Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont St
Boston 02116
tel: 617-426-5000
HOURS: Tue-Sat 12:00pm- 5:00pm
PAYMENT TYPES: MasterCard,Visa,Check
FEATURES: Wheelchair accessible
PARKING: Pay lot Street
Where else would Boston's most daring companies practice their craft?
The Spaces: Leland Center, Mills Gallery, Cyclorama, Black Box Theatre
The Boston Center for the Arts' four resident theater companies--the Speakeasy Stage Company, the Theater Offensive, the Sugan Theatre Company and the Pilgrim Theater--perform here and in the smaller Black Box Theater.
In addition, the two theaters host about six other theater companies every year. The result is an eclectic mix of high-quality, contemporary theater, often on the cutting edge. Two of the resident companies have unique missions: Sugan focuses on Irish plays while the Theater Offensive presents gay and lesbian works.

Boston Conservatory Theater
8 The Fenway
Boston 02215
tel: 617-536-6340
DIRECTIONS: Near Hemenway St; Hynes/ICA T stop
PAYMENT TYPES: American Express, Check, MasterCard, Visa
PARKING Pay lot Street
The Boston Conservatory surges forward with its mission of providing music, dance and theater students with a place to learn and a venue in which to perform.
This is the oldest conservatory in Boston, founded in 1867 by teacher, violinist and composer Julius Eichberg. The venues consist of three separate spaces. The Boston Conservatory Theater, located at 31 Hemenway St, was built in the 1940s. Major productions--concerts, operas, musicals and dance--are mounted here. It has good acoustics, lighting and comfortable seats.
Smaller-scale presentations--chamber music concerts, duets and the like--are staged in either the 50-seat Concert Room or the 100-seat Seully Hall (est. 1901), both located in the school's main building. The annual Boston Conservatory Performance Series, a variety of large dance, theater, musical and orchestra performances, is held between September and April in either Seully Hall or the main theater.
The dance division is the oldest degree-granting dance department in North America and is perpetually ranked among the very best in comparison to similar American undergraduate programs. The musical theater division deserves those same accolades--in fact, the students have given the New England premieres of Broadway shows of composers such as Stephen Sondheim and Henry Krieger.
The music division draws many of its faculty from Boston's finest performance groups, including the BSO and the Boston Pops.

Lansdowne Street Playhouse
41 Landsdowne St
Boston 02115
tel: 617-536-2100
HOURS: Daily 10:00am- 2:00am
PAYMENT TYPES: Cash
PARKING Pay lot Street
Call the above number and you get hooked up to both the Lansdowne Street Playhouse box office and the booking headquarters for the Lansdowne Street Music Hall (formerly Mama Kin).
The 250-seat Playhouse and Music Hall are joined at the hip. Both are black and boxy and smoky and rock-'n'-rolly. Live theater here is, for the most part, avant-garde, Emperor's New Clothes stuff. And the dancing is hip, Friday through Sunday nights.
If you wanna be cool, clap and dance. Or else go next door for the live music. Make sure you know the rules: No sneakers, jeans or baseball hats.

Remis Auditorium
Museum of Fine Arts
Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Ave
Boston 02115
HOURS: Tue 10:00am- 4:30pm
Wed-Fri 10:00am- 8:30pm
Sat-Sun 10:00am- 4:30pm
PAYMENT TYPES: American Express,MasterCard,Visa,Check
FEATURES: Wheelchair accessible
PARKING: Pay lot Street Pay covered lot
Comfy seats, good eats and Margrittes all under one roof.
Located in the West Wing of the MFA, Remis Auditorium is a proscenium theater that hosts concerts, film series and performance art. The seats are among the most comfortable in Boston and the screen is among the biggest around.
You don't have to pay for general museum admission in order to catch a show at Remis. In fact, many people find that hanging out in the West Wing is enough to satisfy their culture cravings: Along with Remis, the West Wing is home to the top-notch MFA Museum Shop and Fine Arts Restaurant.

Studio Theatre
Avenue of the Arts
360 Huntington Ave.
150 Curry Student Center
Boston 02115
tel: 617-373-2247
Nestled behind Northeastern University's more well-known (and well-used) Blackman Auditorium, Studio Theatre is the perfect venue for small theatrical student productions. The theater seats approximately 100, and the seats can be rearranged, depending on the type of performance.

Tower Auditorium
Massachusetts College of Art
Avenue of the Arts
621 Huntington Avenue/Avenue of the Arts
Boston 02115
FEATURES: Wheelchair accessible
PARKING: Free lot after 5 pm
The thirteen story Massachusetts College of Art Tower Building houses a 486 seat theater on the ground level. Dance companies, community theater groups and even opera companies use the proscenium stage for performances and workshops; the college presents visiting artists lectures, symposia, multi-media performance works, etc. Prices and accepted payment vary with each performance. There is no box office. Call 617-879-7355 for information.

Wheelock Family Theatre
Wheelock College
200 The Riverway
Boston MA 02215
Box Office: 617-879-2300
or tickets@wheelock.edu
TTY 617-731-4426
Hours of operation 12:00 - 5:30 pm
Established in 1981 by Andrea Genser, Anthony Hancock, Susan Kosoff, and Jane Staab. The Wheelock College Family Theatre is a 650-seat auditorium, and was fully renovated during the 1989-90 season.
Performances are interpreted in American Sign Language (ASL) for the deaf, and are audio-described for the blind. Sound enhancement devices are also available. The theatre is wheelchair accessible.
Special Features and Initiatives:
PAH! Deaf Youth Theatre, an after-school theatre training program for deaf teenagers established in the fall of 1994. Collaborative partnerships underway with local schools and community groups.
Non-traditional casting is a feature of all productions. WFT consistently casts people of different cultures, races, and ages as a reflection of our audiences and society at large.
www.wheelock.edu/wft/wft.htm

THEATRE Theatre in the Fenway Cultural District can be found at a diverse variety of venues, both large and small. Click on the list below to find out more about each venue.

THEATRE
Theatre in the Fenway Cultural District can be found at a diverse variety of venues, both large and small. Click on the list below to find out more about each venue.