ARTS, CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT Few of America’s largest cities offer as much cultural enrichment as Cambridge. With a dozen museums, street fairs, festivals and farmers’ markets, there is always something to do. Cambridge has clubs and concert halls featuring nearly every kind of musical and performance specialty. Admire the city’s distinctive architecture, browse in the many bookstores, enjoy an exhibit or lecture presented by one of the universities, or take in a performance at one of Cambridge’s theaters. Cambridge is home to a number of performing arts theaters and groups. Revels, Inc. was founded in Cambridge and has grown into a national organization that promotes the appreciation of traditional folk music, dance and rituals from around the world through fullystaged and costumed seasonal performances blending traditional
MUSEUMS Cambridge Historical Society / Hooper Lee Nichols House 159 Brattle Street (617) 547-4252 www.cambridgehistory.org Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts 24 Quincy Street (617) 495-5666 6ves.fas.harvard.edu/ccva.html Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street (617) 495-9400 www.harvardartmuseums.org Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford Street (617) 495-3045 www.hmnh.harvard.edu
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Harvard Semitic Museum 6 Divinity Avenue (617) 495-4631 semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu/ Longfellow National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street (617) 876-4491 www.nps.gov/long MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Avenue (617) 253-5927 www.mit.edu/museum MIT List Visual Arts Center Weisner Building, 20 Ames Street (617) 253-4680 listart.mit.edu Museum of Science One Science Park (617) 723-2500 www.mos.org
music, dance, drama and ritual. The Christmas Revels, the company’s best-known production, is a celebration of the winter solstice and is performed at the historic Sanders Theater in Harvard Square. Since 1982, ImprovBoston has entertained audiences in New England and around the country with an innovative, fresh approach to improvisational theater, showcasing the best performers working today and training the future stars of tomorrow. They have produced thousands of shows, provided a home for hundreds of performers, and trained countless students in the art of improvisation. At the Central Square Theater, a state of-the-art theatrical arts facility, audiences find the distinctive repertoires of two award-winning professional nonprofit companies, the Nora Theatre Company and Underground Railway Theater. As the first permanent home for both theater companies, Central Square Theater is a vibrant hub of theatrical, educational, and social activity, where artists and audiences come together to create theater vital to the community.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology 11 Divinity Avenue (617) 496-1027 www.peabody.harvard.edu
THEATRES American Repertory Theatre Loeb Drama Center 64 Brattle Street Oberon 2 Arrow Street (617) 547-8300 www.americanrepertorytheater.org Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle Street (617) 876-6837 www.brattlefilm.org
Central Square Theater 450 Massachusetts Avenue (617) 576-9278 www.centralsquaretheater.org Durrell Hall, Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre 820 Massachusetts Avenue (617) 661-9622 www.cambridgeymca.org Hasty Pudding Theatre 12 Holyoke Street (617) 495-5205 www.hastypudding.org ImprovBoston 40 Prospect Street (617) 576-1253 www.improvboston.com Sanders Theatre, Harvard University 45 Quincy Street (617) 496-4595 Dance & Performing Arts
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