Dog Man the Musical

Lowell Memorial Auditorium

TheaterWorksUSA’s Dog Man: The Musical is a hilarious production based on the worldwide bestselling series from Dav Pilkey, the creator of Captain Underpants and Cat Kid Comic Club. 

Best buds George and Harold have been creating comics for years, but now that they’re in 5th grade, they figure it's time to level up and write a musical based on their favorite character, Dog Man, the crime-biting sensation who is part dog, part man, and ALL HERO!! How hard could it be?

With the head of a dog and the body of a policeman, Dog Man loves to fight crime and chew on the furniture. But while trying his best to be a good boy, can he save the city from Flippy the cyborg fish and his army of Beasty Buildings? Can he catch Petey, the world’s most evil cat, who has cloned himself to exact revenge on the doggy do-gooder? And will George and Harold finish their show before lunchtime?? Find out in this epic musical adventure featuring the hilarity and heart of Dav Pilkey’s beloved characters.

The show is written by Kevin Del Aguila and Brad Alexander, who collaborated on the Emmy-winning series Peg + Cat on PBS, TheaterWorksUSA’s Click, Clack, Moo, and Clifford The Big Red Dog on PBS and Amazon. Original direction and choreography by Jen Wineman.

Recommended for ages 6-10.

Dweezil Zappa

The Cabot

Dweezil Zappa was born on September 5, 1969, in Los Angeles, the son of the iconic musician Frank Zappa. Over the past three decades, Dweezil has carved out an eclectic and illustrious career that spans music, television, film, and entrepreneurship.

A Grammy-winning guitarist, Dweezil has left an indelible mark on the music industry with over 2000 concerts performed worldwide. Known for his masterful performances and deep connection to his father’s music, he’s returning to concert stages in 2024 for the first time since the 2020 Hot Ratz Live! Tour, continuing to guide fans through the thrilling and sophisticated world of his father’s music. 

His virtuosity on the guitar is matched only by his prolific compositional skills, which have generated numerous original works spanning multiple albums including “Confessions of Deprived Youth” (1991) and “Via Zammata” (2015). Notably, his compositions have even been performed by a 100-piece orchestra in Holland, showcasing his versatility and command of orchestral arrangements. His music effortlessly traverses genres, seamlessly weaving together elements of rock, fusion, and experimental sounds, all while maintaining a signature style that is unmistakably his own. In addition to his solo work, Dweezil has collaborated with an impressively varied roster of artists, including Edward Van Halen, Deep Purple, Lisa Loeb, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Steve Vai, among others. 

Boston Baroque - Handel's Ariodante

WGBH Calderwood Studio

A Scottish tale of love’s triumph over evil.

For our season finale, we invite you to one of Handel's most popular operas, Ariodante. You won’t want to miss Boston Baroque’s first-ever performance of this significant work.

Lexington Symphony Orchestra

Cary Hall Lexington MA

Hewitt | The Battle of Trenton Wu, Wang, Liu | Little Sisters of the Prairie. Wu, Liu | Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night
-Cao Yue, pipa Decruck | Symphonie Orientale Ó Riada | Mise Éire

Our season finale opens with James Hewitt’s The Battle of Trenton and explores the attitudes, mistakes and reasons people emigrated to America. Those stories are represented through the music immigrants brought with them, enriching our nation despite the challenges they faced. While the stories are as varied as was America’s attitude toward immigrants, these stories are important because all those who came to America looked for a new beginning and hope for the future — which has been America’s promise.

Clafin Hill Symphony - Silver Anniversary Triumph

Milford Town Hall

Featuring The New World Chorale & Guest Soloists

Orff:    Carmina Burana

And MORE!

Our long-time friends and collaborators from The New World Chorale return to help us celebrate our 25th Anniversary Year with a reprise of the VERY FIRST CHSO CONCERT!  As the CHSO brings its season to a triumphant conclusion, we pay tribute to the first great cultural edifice in Milford –dating back to the first decades of the Twentieth Century when the first Italian immigrants came to our region to cut granite in the quarries and built a opera house on Main Street – a venue that hosted the likes of Enrico Caruso and Ezio Pinza!   Performed in the original Italian with supertitle translations!

Boston Camerata -Trav'ling Home

Trinity United Methodist Church

Trav'ling Home:

American Spirituals, 1770-1870

The Boston Camerata’s pioneering programs of early American music have brought pleasure to thousands of music lovers, and have helped to clarify and define our country’s rich and diverse cultural identity. It traces migratory currents and flows of early American song, largely spiritual but also secular. Among the various communities participating in this rich American mosaic we encounter the Puritans of New England, the Shakers and their visionary monodies, Amish and Mennonites of Pennsylvania, and the newly-freed African-American religious communities. The musical sources of this program are drawn from European and New World oral traditions, hymns, psalms and chants in English, German dialects, early songbooks of Black churches, as well as gems from the still largely unpublished Shaker manuscript archive at Sabbathday Lake, ME.

Atlantic Symphony - Season Finale: Pops!

Thayer's Center for the Arts

Season Finale: Pops!

ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN Selections from The Sound of Music
WILLIAMS Selections from Star Wars Suite
MORRICONE “Gabriel’s Oboe” from The Mission
GRAINGER Danny Boy (Irish Tune from County Derry)
SIBERLIUS Finlandia
STRAUSS JR. Voices of Spring Waltz
STRAUSS SR Radetzsky March
ANDERSON First Day of Spring; Fiddle-Faddle
SOUSA The Stars and Stripes Forever

A spectacular evening of popular hits from Hollywood and Broadway, to celebrate our season, with our traditional “Stars and Stripes Forever” conducted by a member of the audience!

Merrimack Valley Phil - La Dolce Vita

Timberlane Performing Arts Center

Italian opera and orchestrations combine to make this enjoyable program come to life!  Praised for her “rich and beautiful voice,”  Erin M. Smith is a dynamic performer throughout New England.  Joined by powerful tenor Yeghishe Manucharyan, a performer from the Metropolitan Opera, this magnificent duo performs the finale from Act 1 of La Boheme.  The lovely O mio babbino caro by Erin follows our opening number, Oveture to Barbiere di Siviglia.  Then Yeghishe wows us with Una furtiva lagrima by Donizetti. Our strings shine in Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, and our brass are highlighted in Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien.  Put up your feet and relax!

Musicians from Marlboro

Groton Hill Music Center

“This was truly accomplished music-making. There are chamber groups of longtime standing that fail to come close to this ad-hoc group’s sense of shared purpose. Which suggests somebody in Marlboro is doing something right.” —The New York Times 

In 2023, Marlboro Music welcomed Helmut Lachenmann as its Composer in Residence, a rare U.S. visit for this German composer who has shaped contemporary music worldwide. During his time in Vermont, Lachenmann worked closely with the musicians on Got Lost, a uniquely adventurous work for soprano and piano that challenges the physical and mental expectations of the performers. The program also features works by Haydn and Mozart, performed by Elias Quartet cellist Marie Bitlloch and three magnificent emerging string players.

The Musicians from Marlboro touring program was created as an extension of Vermont’s Marlboro Music Festival, founded in 1951. Musicians from Marlboro tours are noted not only for their joyous performances but also for offering valuable touring experience to artists at the beginning of their careers and touring with unusual chamber repertoire. Since their inception, the Musicians from Marlboro tours have introduced such great talents as Richard Goode, Yefim Bronfman, Jaime Laredo, Murray Perahia, Paula Robison, Sir András Schiff, Peter Serkin, Richard Stoltzman, and Benita Valente. They have also featured other exceptional artists now heard in the Emerson, Juilliard, Takács, and Dover Quartets and Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. In the words of the Washington Post, “Musicians from Marlboro is a virtual guarantee of musical excellence!”

North Shore Philharmonic - Spring Concert

Swampscott High School

• Howard Hanson (1896-1981), Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 "Romantic"
• Joseph de Boulogne (1745-99), Violin Concerto Op. 8 in G Major
  · Robert Lehmann, Violin
• Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Boston Civic Symphony - April Concert

Roxbury Community College

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Nashua Arts - iLuminate

Nashua Center for the Arts

From the moment the lights fade to darkness, you are transported into another world…another dimension, where the music moves you and the visuals are unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Welcome to the world of iLuminate, named “Best New Act in America” by America’s Got Talent in 2011.  A fantastic fusion of cutting edge technology and dance that has been wowing the world ever since appearing on AGT over a decade ago…to performing one of Las Vegas’ top shows to this day. iLuminate features a brilliant cast of the country’s top dancers performing to energetic music – including top Pop and Rock hits from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, a little jazz, a little Latin, a little hip hop and more.  The dancers are outfitted with customized LED suits synced to iLuminate’s proprietary software to create extraordinary lighting effects with each of the phenomenally choreographed dance moves.

iLuminate has been featured on shows like Dancing with the Stars, The X-Factor, Good Morning America, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The American Music Awards, MTV’s Video Music Awards, BET Awards, The Nickelodeon Awards, Billboard, and Latin Billboard Awards. The dancers (and Miral’s technology) have also shared the stage with stars like Chris Brown, Christina Aguilera, Black Eyed Peas, and Death Cab For Cutie.