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The Week of April 14th For Boston, MA 02206

Improv Asylum's Main Stage Show - Live Improv & Sketch Comedy

Improv Asylum (Boston, MA)
Wednesday, Apr. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
Improv Asylum's Main Stage Show features a troupe of actors plus a musician who bring together improvisation and sketch material in front of a live audience. Their performers develop hilarious scenes based solely on the audience's suggestions. Because the shows are improvised on the spot, nothing is predictable and anything can happen — no two shows are ever the same.  Learn More

Tom Stoppard's Travesties: Publick Theatre Presents Witty, Absurd Comedy

The Plaza Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts (Boston, MA)
Wednesday, Apr. 16 2008 @ 7:30pm
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, Apr. 19 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 - $32.50   Our Price: $11.00 - $16.25*
Rated: 2.7 stars
In his award-winning Travesties, Tom Stoppard offers both a zany spoof of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and a fiery debate among a trio of Modernist thinkers—Vladimir Lenin, Dadaist Tristan Tzara and James Joyce—on the role of artists in shaping society. The men collide in a clever, freewheeling battle of aesthetics and wordplay.  Learn More

Big Apple Circus: Celebrate! Your Circus is Back!

Big Apple Circus- Boston City Hall Plaza (Boston, MA)
Wednesday, Apr. 16 2008 @ 6:30pm
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 6:30pm
Full Price: $45.00 - $62.00   Our Price: $23.00 - $31.00*
Rated: 3.7 stars
The tent goes up for our all new 30th Anniversary show: "Celebrate!" So juggle your schedule and bring the whole family. The Big Apple Circus is your circus. Big Apple is back in town!  Learn More

Bolero: Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerts for Classically Minded Singles

Boston Symphony Hall (Boston, MA)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm (Harbison, Mahler)
Full Price: $85.00   Our Price: $42.50*
Rated: 3.5 stars
The Boston Symphony Orchestra presents Bolero, concert events for classically minded singles over 40. Mingle before the concert during an hors d'oeuvres and cocktail reception in a private room in Symphony Hall where you'll meet others in an atmosphere of shared interests. A brief talk on that evening's program will take place before the performance by the world-renowned BSO. See event description for concert details.  Learn More

Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters at Stoneham Theatre

Stoneham Theatre (Stoneham, MA)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 7:30pm
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $40.00   Our Price: $20.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
The remarkable Andrews Sisters were the Minnesota trio that ruled the pop world with more top 10 hits than the Beatles or Elvis. Follow their journey from young girls to women of the world, and experience their elegant harmonies and unforgettable songs, including "I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time," "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree."  Learn More

Jazz at the Gardner with Syncopation: "Manhattan Transfer of the 21st Century" (Boston Globe)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $23.00   Our Price: $11.50*
Rated: 3.6 stars
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's "Jazz at the Gardner" series presents Syncopation. Dubbed "the Manhattan Transfer of the 21st century" by the Boston Globe, vocal jazz group Syncopation performs cutting-edge jazz, pop and world music at small clubs and large festivals. But this is not your father's vocal group. Lee's splashy arranging style, Christine's hot trumpet playing, Dave's angular wailing, and Aubrey's trombone styling make Syncopation unique and contemporary.  Learn More

Bastards Inc. Comedy: Sketch, Improv, and Stand-Up at ImprovBoston

ImprovBoston (Cambridge, MA)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 2.0 stars
Sketch comedy troupe Bastards Inc. hosts a comedy show featuring sketch and improv groups, plus stand-up acts from around the city and beyond.  Learn More

Grammy-Nominated Jazz Singer Karrin Allyson at Scullers Jazz Club

Scullers Jazz Club (Boston, MA)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.5 stars
Scullers Jazz Club welcomes Karrin Allyson. The two-time Grammy nominee, known for her emotional range and mastery of a wide variety of material, recently released Imagina: Songs of Brasil, her eleventh album. In addition to her singing, Karrin is also a bandleader and songwriter.  Learn More

Spring Sangria Party at Vlora Restaurant

Vlora Restaurant (Boston, MA)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 6:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 2.8 stars
Join Boston Event Guide at Vlora Restaurant, home of some of Boston's best Mediterranean cuisine, for a Spring Sangria Party! Sample Vlora's great sangria and taste a variety of complimentary hors d'oeuvres. It's a fun way to kick off spring while enjoying great company and fresh cuisine.  Learn More

The Mahoney Brothers: Veteran Impersonators in Jukebox Heroes Live

Regent Theatre (Arlington, MA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Apr. 19 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $27.50   Our Price: $14.50*
Rated: 4.0 stars
The Mahoney Brothers, veterans of Broadway's Beatlemania and stars of Dick Clark's Golden Age of Television and the original cast of Legends in Concert, present Jukebox Heroes Live. They'll be re-creating the classic hits of Elvis, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and more. See why they're known as "the family of a thousand voices"!  Learn More

International Concert Violinist Linda Wang in Brilliant Beethoven, Wonderful Wang!

Faneuil Hall (Boston, MA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $32.00   Our Price: $16.00*
Rated: 4.0 stars
Concert artist Linda Wang makes her Boston debut in Beethoven's transcendent Violin Concerto. This all-Beethoven program opens with a dramatic portrait of that tragic hero from literature, Coriolan, and concludes with the irrepressible Eighth Symphony, with its sunny and vigorous first movement, its witty second movement, its raucous Scherzo (with the more delicate Trio), and its brilliant Finale.  Learn More

Off Book: Sketch Comedy, Fake News and More from Improv Boston

ImprovBoston (Cambridge, MA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00   Our Price: $8.00*
Rated: 2.5 stars
Live sketch comedy! Special local celebrity guests! Music! Parodies! Fake news! Off Book is a new live sketch show produced each week, with a rotating cast and different local "celebrity" guest host.  Learn More

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse: The Tale of an Irrepressible Mouse

Wheelock Family Theatre (Boston, MA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $23.00   Our Price: $12.00*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Based on the books by Kevin Henkes, the delightful Lilly is a mouse with a little bit of attitude and a whole lotta heart! Along with Chester and Wilson, Lilly's best friends, children of every age will identify with the irrepressible Lilly and the delights and dilemmas of her daily life.  Learn More

Cult-Classic Dark Comedy The House of Yes from Apollinaire Theatre Company

Chelsea Theatre Works (Chelsea, MA)
Friday, Apr. 18 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Apr. 19 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
This wonderfully perverse cult classic is at once as unsettling as it is funny and moving. Set on Thanksgiving Day, 20 years after JFK's assassination, it's the story of a wealthy dysfunctional family whose obsessions with the Kennedys and with each other are played out in a haunting and dangerous game.  Learn More

A Far Cry in Concert: Words and the Night with Violist Roger Tapping

Pickman Concert Hall (Cambridge, MA)
Saturday, Apr. 19 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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With Words and the Night, A Far Cry explores connections between two groups of composers, separated by centuries. The program includes Mozart's Divertimento #3, two songs from John Dowland, Benjamin Britten's Lachrymae featuring violist Roger Tapping, two motets from Palestrina, two madrigals from Gesualdo and Shoenberg's Verklarte Nacht.  Learn More

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