Midwinter Revels: The Selkie Girl and the Seal Woman is NOW STREAMING!
Buy Virtual Event PassesLast January at our winter pub sing at Doyle’s Café, I got talking with a handful of 30-somethings who lived nearby and were looking for a different kind of night out. “How did you find us?” I asked. “Oh, just read about it in the Globe,” they said….
It is with bittersweet emotion that I need to let the Revels community know that I’ll be stepping down from my role as Executive Director on February 28. My partner and I will be relocating to Seattle where I’ll be taking on the position of Executive Director of…
Here’s something new for Revels. We are organizing a summer camp that will include whole families and individuals from all over the country, bringing them together in a truly beautiful setting next to a lake in the highlands of New Hampshire. Guided by Revels directors, campers can experience the elements…
n classic Revels style, the unexpected mix of talents results in a wonderful mash-up of comic schtick and classical performance. Billy Meleady and Marge Dunn as Victorian buskers in this year’s “Christmas Revels.”. Photo: Roger Ide. By Terry Byrne Longtime Revels master of ceremonies David Coffin greets audience members at the Sanders…
By Jeffrey Gantz | Globe Correspondent December 16, 2014 CAMBRIDGE — Victorian London is such a natural setting for “The Christmas Revels” that it’s hard to believe Revels hasn’t used it since 1998. The current “Victorian Celebration of the Winter Solstice” is in fact the sixth Victorian edition (including…
By Mike Hoban Christmas Revels – A Victorian Celebration of the Winter Solstice. Directed by Patrick Swanson; Musical Direction by George Emlen; Set Design by Jeremy Barnett; Costume Design by Heidi A. Hermiller; Choreography by Gillian Stewart. Presented by Revels at The Sanders Theater at Harvard University, 45 Quincy…
By Iris FangerFor The Patriot Ledger Imagine watching a street scene in London at the end of the 19th century, just before Christmastime. Many of the shoppers carry boxes of all sizes, tied in red ribbons. Some of the women are dressed in colorful, long gowns covered by…
he latter half of the 19th century was arguably the most prolific period of life-changing invention in the history of humankind. During Queen Victoria’s lifetime the mostly rural economy was transformed by the steam engine and the railway line. The deliberate patterns of agrarian life recorded in Thomas Hardy…
Don’t Blame Persephone – Have a Moon Cake and Sing It is fascinating to reflect on the way the ancient Greeks saw the passing of summer and the onset of fall. In the well-known myth, the goddess Persephone is abducted by Hades to live with him in the…
Here are some new artists that Maeve Gilchrist (harpist and singer in the 2012 Irish Revels and in our Fringe concert in March of this year with Carlos Nuñez) thinks are “the bomb.” LAU – “a fantastic Scottish trio getting a big name in the UK for their unique…
