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Events on August 1st For Boston, MA 02206

Visit Boston's Movie & TV Filming Locations on Theater-on-Wheels Bus Tour

Boston Common Visitor's Center (Boston, MA)
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 11:00am
Full Price: $35.00   Our Price: $17.50*
Rated: 3.0 stars
See your favorite Boston movies and TV shows come to life as you visit their actual filming locations. Ride the themed Theater-on-Wheels bus as Hollywood experts entertain you with behind-the-scenes details and insider gossip. The tour visits locations from Scorsese's "The Departed," "Good Will Hunting," "Mystic River" and more, as well as all the historic Boston landmarks filmmakers love.  Learn More

Boston Movie Mile Walking Tour: Visit Famous Spots from Movies and TV Outdoor Events

Boston Common Visitor's Center (Boston, MA)
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Experience Boston's movie magic by visiting filming hotspots made famous by your favorite TV shows and movies. Learn behind-the-scenes trivia and insider gossip about Good Will Hunting, The Departed, Ally McBeal , Mystic River, Cheers and many more. The most filmed part of Boston, the Boston Movie Mile, includes more than 30 filming locations.  Learn More

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

Improv Asylum (Boston, MA)
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 10:00pm
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

Assassins: Stephen Sondheim's Acclaimed Musical at the Plaza Theatre

The Plaza Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts (Boston, MA)
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $38.00   Our Price: $15.00 - $19.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Part vaudeville extravaganza, part exposé, and wholly electrifying, this Tony Award-winning musical reveals uneasy truths about the American Dream. Assassins is Stephen Sondheim's controversial investigation into the personalities of nine individuals who attempted to assassinate a President of the United States.  Learn More

Going To St. Ives: Gloucester Stage Presents Fascinating Drama Starring Oscar Nominee

Gloucester Stage (Gloucester, MA)
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $35.00   Our Price: $17.50*
Rated: 3.8 stars
Gloucester Stage Company presents Lee Blessing's Going To St. Ives. The lives of two powerful women, an affluent English doctor and the mother of an African dictator, become irrevocably intertwined in this captivating juxtaposition of black and white, order and chaos, heroism and hell. Academy Award nominee Lindsay Crouse and Elliot Norton Award winner Jacqui Parker star.  Learn More

The Persuasions: "Kings of A Cappella" at Scullers Jazz Club

Scullers Jazz Club (Boston, MA)
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: No ratings yet
Scullers Jazz Club presents the legendary Persuasions. Since the 1960s, this quartet has been at the forefront of the a cappella singing world. Discovered by rock legend Frank Zappa, they've released dozens of critically acclaimed and commercially successful albums, and continue to perform live today.  Learn More

Noel Coward's Hay Fever: Brilliantly Witty Comedy at Publick Theatre Outdoor Events

The Publick Theatre at Christian Herter Park (Brighton, MA)
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $32.00   Our Price: $16.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
The Publick Theatre presents Hay Fever by legendary British comic playwright Noel Coward. Displaying the sophisticated wit for which Coward is renowned, the beloved play tells the story of the eccentric, artistic Bliss family, who each invite a guest to stay at their country house for the weekend, with chaotic results.  Learn More

The Tragedy of Carmen, A Powerful Adaptation, from Boston Midsummer Opera

Tsai Performance Center at Boston University (Boston, MA)
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $50.00   Our Price: $25.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
In this gripping adaptation of Bizet's famous late-19th century opera, all of Bizet's most celebrated music is retained, with a pared-down cast of four singers and three actors, and an orchestra of 15 players. Performed in a superb English translation by Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me), this is Carmen like you've never seen it before—intense, intimate and bitingly tragic.  Learn More

Swing City Boston with Philadelphia's City Rhythm Orchestra

Hyatt Regency Cambridge (Cambridge, MA)
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Swing City Boston presents a special event at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge. This fun-filled extravaganza will feature a free swing dance lesson, followed by dancing to the sounds of the City Rhythm Orchestra, a top swing band direct from Philadelphia. Enjoy beer and wine for sale, meet new people and dance the night away.  Learn More

QED: A Play About Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman

Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.5 stars
In the play QED, the audience will see an intimate portrait of Richard Feynman — Nobel Prize-winning physicist, brilliant and controversial theorist, prankster, safecracker, and lover of Tuvan throat singing. A series of post-performance discussions will be led by scientists of the MIT and Harvard communities, many of whom knew Feynman personally.  Learn More

Coming Up For Air: An AutoJAZZography at Central Square Theater

Central Square Theater (Cambridge, MA)
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Eight instruments, twelve characters, one man! Conceived and performed by Boston's favorite jazzman, Stan Strickland, Coming Up For Air is based on Strickland's near-death experience when his life and career flash before his eyes after being overtaken by rogue waves in Hawaii. This riff about life and art takes the audience on a musical odyssey of soulful discovery.  Learn More

After School Special: Company One Presents Absurd High School Comedy

The Plaza Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts (Boston, MA)
Friday, Aug. 1 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $17.00   Our Price: $8.50*
Rated: 2.5 stars
Company One presents After School Special. The play tells the story of Janet, a perky teen-ager who, in order to save the life of her faithful dog Duke, must become wicked popular. Along the way, she outwits the school bully, befriends nerds, defies her sociopathic mother, discovers her true secret identity, and figures out who is killing all the contestants in the high school beauty pageant. The Boston Globe called After School Special "deliciously dadaesque".  Learn More

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