Mondays  June 16 through July 21,2025The National Theater Institute's Theatermakers Summer Intensive trains students in a credit-earning curriculum of acting, directing, and playwriting. The six-week program focuses on: cultivating constant creativity practice, essential training techniques, high-quality mentorship, and collaborative opportunities that yield original work. Students' pieces are performed for free each Monday night. Tickets are […]

July 30-Aug. 3, 2025 A Punk-Couture Medicine Show for the People Suzan-Lori Parks' nine-piece band, SLP & The Joyful Noise, is her test kitchen. In The Tune Up – Parks’ new series blending short plays, music and high-voltage performance — she throws a party in that kitchen, alongside starry guests and exceptional newcomers. This is a bring-your-drinks, […]

Thursdays in July and August 5:30 – 7:30 pm Thursdays on the Dock has been a shoreline staple for 16 years and remains the premier destination for waterfront music. Swing by each Thursday evening in July and August, bring a chair or blanket, listen to a free concert, and watch the sun go down over […]

“A wonderfully ferocious and illuminating performance.”  The Washington Post LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 18, No.  6 ZHOU LONG Chinese Folk Songs FRANZ SCHUBERT String Quartet in d minor, "Death and the Maiden," D. 810 Shanghai Quartet   PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION 7–7:40 PM | BATTELL RECITAL HALL For more information  

Step back into the glittering age of silent film! Acclaimed pianist and composer MATAN PORAT performs live, improvised soundtracks for three silent era gems including Florence Turner’s 1914 Daisy Doodad’s Dial, Oskar Fischinger’s 1938 Optical Poem, and Sherlock Jr., the great Buster Keaton’s 1924 whodunit. Praised by The New York Times as “vivid, propulsive, and fun,” Porat's improvisations for silent film makes for […]