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Buy TicketsBy Matt Marino. Updated November 1, 2024. Ask your average person what they know about the English Renaissance, and they will probably answer that they ate turkey legs and jousted a lot. For serious history scholars, they will tell tales of the Bard of Avalon, Shakespeare. The Virgin…
By BMInt Staff. Updated October 26, 2024. The Gesualdo Six and Abendmusik will collaborate with creator Bill Barclay in a theatrical seance by candlelight, communing with some of the most ravishing music ever written, at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Boston on October 31st to November 2nd. Co-commissioned by St. Martin-in-the-Fields…
By Jeffrey Gantz, Globe correspondant. Updated December 18, 2023, 3:04 PM CAMBRIDGE — The Feast of Fools arose in medieval Europe as a Christmastide ritual in which a mock bishop or pope was elected and low and high officials changed places. The inspiration came perhaps from the birth…
By Michael Hoban. Updated December 20, 2023 Midwinter Revels: The Feast of Fools: A Medieval Celebration of the Solstice – Written and Directed by Patrick Swanson and Debra Wise.; Musical Direction by Elijah Botkin; Choreography by Susan Dibble; Set Design by Jeremy Barnett; Sound Design by Bill Winn;…
By Lynne Weiss. Updated December 18, 2023 The long-playing Midwinter Revels (founded as Christmas Revels in 1971) is a unique mix of professional performance, volunteer talent, and audience participation that has created a joyous community that comes together each holiday season to delight in forms of music and dance that…
By Nancy Grossman, Globe correspondant. Updated December 21, 2023 Midwinter Revels: The Feast of Fools A Medieval Celebration of the Solstice Written and Directed by Patrick Swanson and Debra Wise; Elijah Botkin, Music Director; Sarah Higginbotham, Children’s Music Director; Choreographer, Susan Dibble; Set Design, Jeremy C. Barnett; Costume Design, Heidi Hermiller; Lighting…
By Terry Byrne, Globe correspondent. Updated November 10, 2023, 10:00 a.m. Across 34 years as artistic director of the Revels, Patrick Swanson has taken audiences from every corner of Europe to North America, from medieval times to the 20th century, in an exploration of the mysteries of life, death,…
WATERTOWN, MA – Revels, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Debra Wise as its new Associate Artistic Director. Co-Founder and former Artistic Director of Cambridge’s Underground Railway Theater @ Central Square Theater and an artistic leader at Central Square Theater, Ms. Wise has established herself in…
(May 19, 2022 – Watertown, MA) — Revels Inc., a national cultural performing arts nonprofit, announced today Audition for The Midwinter Revels, one of the region’s most popular holiday entertainments! THREE DATES – TWO LOCATIONS: WHEN: Monday, June 13 & Tuesday, June 14, 2022(4-6 pm children ages 7-12; 7-10…
It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of our friend Ashley Bryan, who passed away earlier this month. Ashley was a writer and illustrator of children’s books, many about the African-American experience. He was U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 and…
