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This year, Revels is kicking off Revels RiverSing: Two Dragons Dancing with a bang… or rather, with a HONK! We are thrilled to have Good Trouble Brass Band, a Boston-based activist street band, join us in the festivities as we welcome in the Autumnal Equinox with song and…

Arts educator, musician, dancer, and tradition bearer Rosalba Solis first worked with Revels in 1994, during the Mesoamerican Christmas Revels. Originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, Rosalba has spent much of her career bringing Latin American music and traditions into Boston Public Schools. She is also the founder of La…

Revels fan favorite Carolyn Saxon has been performing with Revels since our 2019 American Christmas Revels, and has been back for every December production since, as well as 2022’s RiverSing! This year, Carolyn took to the Sanders Theatre stage as the mystical Spirit of Place, guiding our characters…

Heather Koerber Nunes and Jake Nunes are no strangers to the Revels stage – they have been in eight and seven Revels shows respectively over the past twelve years! Their love for Revels has become a family affair for Heather, Jake, and their three children, and even bleeds…

“Long before there was a Christmas, man celebrated at this time of the year upon noticing the return of the sun to higher elevations in the sky. Pagan rituals sprang up around this event, later to become tangled with Christian lore, which called for a celebration at a…

Joining us on the Revels Spring Sing stage for the first time will be acclaimed performer, arts educator, choral clinician, and musicologist Dr. Kathy Bullock! Dr. Bullock’s work has taken her across the world, from her 29-year tenure as a professor at Berea College in Kentucky, to her…

Our extraordinary lineup of Revels Spring Sing performers includes with Brooklyn-based (but Boston bred) creative vocalist, songwriter, and producer Claire Dickson! Claire grew up with Revels, appearing on various Revels stages since age five alongside her family, and we can’t wait to welcome her home for her Revels…

By Benny Sato Ambush, with valuable contributions from Regie Gibson The 2021 edition of the much-beloved 51-year holiday tradition, The Christmas Revels embodies my favorite kind of stage storytelling: fusion theatre. Through an inventive artistic conceit imagined by playwright and Revels Artistic Director, Paddy Swanson, customs from 17th…

from Revels Artistic Director, Paddy Swanson “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Dickens knew an inflection point in history when he saw it. For most of us dealing with the ravages of a long-drawn-out pandemic, it is harder to see the benefits…

Between the music, the costumes, the lights, and the actors, it takes a lot of coordination to run The Christmas Revels. Luckily, we have the incredibly talented Arkansas “Ark” Light, our resident Christmas Revels stage manager, to keep the wheels spinning and the curtain opening on time. We got to chat with…