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Edited by Nina MacLaughlin
Thursday, April 1 - Wednesday, April 7
Thursday, April 8 - Wednesday, April 14
Thursday, April 15 - Wednesday, April 21
Thursday, April 22 - Wednesday, April 28
Thursday, April 29 - Wednesday, May 5
Thursday, May 6 - Wednesday, May 12
Thursday, May 13 - Wednesday, May 19
Thursday, May 20 - Wednesday, May 26
Thursday, May 27 - Monday, May 31
Back to the Spring Supplement table of contents
THURSDAY 1
ART
Founded 120 years ago by the likes of J.P. Morgan and Endicott Peabody, the Groton School helped put the prep in preppie, and on the sidelines of its playing fields, parents in khaki and tweed still cheer for their offspring. The school celebrates its 120th year with an exhibit running through May 31 titled "Treasures of Groton: 120 Years of Glorious and Curious Gifts." The collection is curious indeed, with works by John Singer Sargent and a couple of links to Boston: Harvard's Fogg Museum curator, Philip Hofer, gave the school two Andrew Wyeth paintings, and Isabella Stewart Gardner's nephew, William Amory Gardner, was one of its founding masters and most generous art-work benefactors. That's at the Groton School Dillon Art Center, Route 111 in Groton; call (978) 448-7ART.
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FRIDAY 2
CLASSICAL
He's really an opera conductor? Who knew? At the Shubert Theatre, the Boston Pops' Keith Lockhart leads the Boston Lyric Opera production of Tosca, Puccini's tale of sexual harassment 19th-century style. A police chief tells the title diva that if he can't have his proverbial way with her, he'll off her left-leaning boyfriend in a sunrise execution. But just when the corrupt cop thinks he's going to get into Tosca's petticoats, she slits his throat. That's tonight at 7:30 p.m., April 4 at 3 p.m., April 6 and 9 at 7:30 p.m., April 11 at 3 p.m., and April 13 at 7:30 p.m. The Shubert is at 265 Tremont Street in the Theater District, and tickets are $33 to $152; call (800) 447-7400.
Superstar soprano Dawn Upshaw's voice is as bracing as her choice of repertoire. In a FleetBoston Celebrity Series appearance, she performs Luciano Berio's "anthology" of folk songs, which reinvent American, Armenian, and European music. The concert also includes the Boston premiere of Argentine composer (and Newton resident) Osvaldo Golijov's Ayre, which Upshaw invited him to create for voice and chamber ensemble. That's at 8 p.m. at Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street in Boston, and tickets are $41 to $61; call (617) 482-6661.
FILM
The Harvard Film Archive celebrates the centennial of the birth of Yasujiro Ozu, master Japanese director, with a retrospective of his major works and rarely seen silent masterpieces. "Yasujiro Ozu: A Centennial Celebration" opens at 7 p.m. with an introduction by Japanese-movie buff Susan Sontag and then his great 1953 film Tokyo Story. The retrospective is presented in association with the Japan Society of Boston, which is also celebrating its centennial this year. The HFA is at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street in Harvard Square, and tickets are $8, $6 for students; call (617) 495-4700.
MULTIMEDIA
"Think technology-savvy Dada," says Kerry Schneider regarding Mediate, a performance-and-art event at Zeitgeist Gallery. Presented by Brian Knoth of Theta State Productions, the evening includes dark and daring experimental electronic music with the copper-haired Schneider, who's the vocalist of the organic underground trance/dance/groove band Nikulydin, plus video work, sculpture, an acoustic set by Boston-based trip-hoppers Amun Ra, and a range of other politically inspired art insurgencies. Proceeds benefit the Cambridge Community Arts Center, which empowers at-risk youth through the arts. It starts at 9:30 p.m. at 1353 Cambridge Street in Inman Square, and the suggested donation is $10; call (617) 876-6060.
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SATURDAY 3
POETRY
April is marathon month in Boston and National Poetry Month across the country. The shin-splinting, pavement-pounding, nipple-chafing foot race doesn't take place for another couple of weeks. But if you prefer sonnets to sneakers, jog over to the Boston Public Library for the National Poetry Month Poetry Marathon organized by Harris Gardner, Tapestry of Voices, and Kaji Aso Studio. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., poetic jocks - Rosanna Warren, Charles Coe, the Phoenix's own Lloyd Schwartz, Reggie Gibson, and Diane Der-Hovanessian - as well as up-and-comers read and recite to celebrate rhyme and meter. That's today in the Rabb Lecture Hall of the BPL, 700 Boylston Street in Copley Square, and tomorrow from noon to 5 p.m. at Northeastern University's Dodge Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue in Boston; call (617) 723-3716.
BIG TOP
When asked where they're from, New Yorkers often respond, "The City," as if to say the biggest, best, and only city. And when people say, "I'm going to the circus" (which they say so often, you've probably lost track), chances are they're going to the Big Apple Circus, NYC's one-ring extravaganza. This year, the BAC presents "Carnevale!", with Barry "Grandma" Lubin, Cuban acrobats, Ukrainian comics, Russian jugglers, trampoliners, and trapeze artists, and a swirling Belarussian hula-hoopist. The Big Apple pitches its tent in a new location this year, at the Bayside Expo Center, 200 Mount Vernon Street in Boston. Performances run through May 9, and tickets are $13 to $52; call (617) 931-2787.
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SUNDAY 4
ROCK POLITICS
July 23 through 25, in a run-up to the Democratic National Convention, a coalition of progressive activists and politicos will host the Boston Social Forum, a series of workshops and events to help improve society in the face of corporate globalization. The BSF starts spreading the word with a fundraiser at the Middle East featuring Noam Chomsky, Michelle Shocked, multicultural musicmakers Rumba Cuatro, truculent punks Regan Babies, and Jake the Snake. Doors are at 4 p.m. at 480 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square, and cover is $10; call (617) 864-EAST.
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MONDAY 5
ROCK
With walls of white-noise guitars, the dark and damaging trio Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are San Francisco's answer to "Whatever happened to the Jesus and Mary Chain?" They're at Avalon with NYC post-punk/house cadets the Rapture, who are part of the new wave of new wave who elbowed their way onto the dance floor with "House of Jealous Lovers" and are now muscling their way off it. That's at 8 p.m. at 15 Lansdowne Street in Boston, and tickets are $20.25; call (617) 423-NEXT.
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WEDNESDAY 7
THEATER
Theater Offensive, which is committed to debunking assumptions about and representing the realities of queer lives, presents Last Rites by local poet and playwright Letta Neely. The work, which involves breast binding, breast cancer, basketball, butches, and break-ups, runs through April 24 at the Boston Center for the Arts' Black Box Theatre, 539 Tremont Street in the South End, and tickets are $25; call (617) 621-6090.
BENEFIT
Snappy Dance Theater claims to be the ninth-largest performing-arts organization in Greater Boston, and its next move is to "GO PRO" by becoming the state's first contemporary-dance company in decades to provide its members with full employment. Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart (no Tosca tonight - see under "April 2") and BSO violinist Lucia Lin help Snappy out with this husband-and-wife benefit that'll include Henryk Wieniawski's Faust Fantasy for Violin and Piano. That's at 7:30 p.m. in Converse Hall at the Tremont Temple, 88 Tremont Street in Boston, with the performance to be followed by a reception at blu, 44 Avery Street. Tickets are $50 to $100; call (617) 423-6000.
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THURSDAY 8
ROCK
Van Morrison, that barrel-chested Belfast brooder, brings his misty and mystical meanderings, his legendary brand of white soul, and a dose of cynical complacency to the Orpheum tonight and the Wang Theatre tomorrow. Van may be a bit of a curmudgeon these days, but take a listen to the dusk-time sound of Astral Weeks and you'll be reminded why the mercurial man and his inimitable voice can be classified as timeless. That's tonight at 7:30 p.m. at 1 Hamilton Place downtown and tomorrow at 270 Tremont Street in the Theater District. Tickets are $66.50 to $101.50 for tonight and $53 to $103 for tomorrow; call (617) 931-2000.ix contributor Iris Fanger that displays documents from the Balanchine archive and other dance collections in the Harvard Theatre Collection.
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FRIDAY 9
ROCK
The Unicorns, a Canadian indie-pop trio, gallop into Matrix. The crackling, glitchy songs off their debut album, Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (Alien8), are dark but never gloomy, death-obsessed (the album opens with "I Don't Wanna Die" and closes with "Ready To Die," and three song titles include the word "ghost") but never dour. They'll be joined by fellow Canadians and opulent electronic funksters Chromeo and Montreal-based indie-alterna-folk-rockers Arcade Fire. That's at 275 Tremont Street in the Theater District; call (617) 338-7699.
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SATURDAY 10
ROCK
The eight-minute piano-driven title track of Death Cab for Cutie's most recent album, Transatlanticism (Barsuk), aches mellow and melancholy over a long-distance relationship. The album feels more mature than Death Cab's previous efforts ("Old age is just around the bend, and I can't wait to go gray") but retains an honest indie/emo innocence ("I wish the world was flat like the old days and I could travel just by folding the map"). It's gorgeous, glitchy indie lap-top pop. Ben Kweller, countrified emo spawn of Ben Folds Five and Weezer, joins Death Cab at Avalon, 15 Lansdowne Street in Boston, at 6 p.m. Tickets are $18; call (617) 423-NEXT
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TUESDAY 13
BENEFIT
Chocolates for choice! Rugelach for reproductive rights! NARAL ProChoice Massachusetts hosts "Chocolate Madness," an all-you-can-eat fundraiser feast to benefit its efforts to secure women's rights in the face of the Bush Administration's aggressive efforts to erode them. If you can't make it to DC on April 25 for the March for Women's Lives, head to the BCA tonight for desserts donated by No. 9 Park, L'Espalier, Olives, Icarus, and more. That's at 7 p.m. at the BCA's Cyclorama, 539 Tremont Street in the South End, and tickets are $45; call (617) 556-8800 extension 14.
DANCE
Stopping in at the Wang Theatre for its usual seven-performance April run, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will give us Ronald K. Brown's Serving Nia, with music by Roy Brooks, Branford Marsalis, and Dizzy Gillespie, and Ohad Naharin's Black Milk. Also on the bill, as always, is Ailey's Revelations, which continues to move audiences after more than 40 years. The Wang is at 270 Tremont Street in the Theater District, and tickets are $32 to $67; call (800) 447-7400.
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WEDNESDAY 14
CLASSICAL
Take one luminary violinist, one uncompromising cellist, and one conductor who also excels on the ivories (not to mention being the husband of the violinist) and you've got the Anne-Sophie Mutter-André Previn-Lynn Harrell Trio, which makes its Boston debut at Symphony Hall in piano trios by Beethoven (No. 3), Brahms (No. 1), and Mendelssohn (No. 1). They'll start at 8 p.m. at 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, and tickets are $37 to $67; call (617) 482-6661.
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THURSDAY 15
DANCE
Throwing tutus and tiaras to the wind, George Balanchine revolutionized classical ballet, inverting and subverting the 400-year-old style of academic dance by pushing dancers' bodies to the edge. In celebration of his centenary, Harvard's Pusey Library hosts "George Balanchine and Modern Ballet," an exhibit curated by Phoenix contributor Iris Fanger that displays documents from the Balanchine archive and other dance collections in the Harvard Theatre Collection. The exhibit runs through May 28. The Pusey Library is in the southeast corner of Harvard Yard, in Harvard Square; call (617) 495-2445.
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FRIDAY 16
DANCE
Crash Arts presents its annual showcase of contemporary dance with "Ten's the Limit." Modeled after the hugely successful Boston Theater Marathon, it's an informal smattering of eight performances that can't exceed 10 minutes each. The featured companies, all Boston-based, are Brenda Divelbliss, Lostwax, Malinda Allen, Medusa Dance, Meghan McLyman, Mosaic Dance Body, On-e-On Dance, and Pei-Yi Cheng. And you've four chances to catch the dances: tonight and tomorrow at 7 and 9 p.m. at Green Street Studios, 185 Green Street in Central Square. Tickets are $12; call (617) 876-4275.
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SATURDAY 17
FADO
It's the Portuguese version of the blues - soulful, elegant, melancholy. And no one honors the fado tradition like Mariza, who was recently named Portugal's Personality of the Year 2003, beating out the Portuguese president. World Music presents her at 8 p.m. at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. Tickets are $25 to $35; call (617) 876-4275.
ROCK
The raw, introverted songs of Dublin's Damien Rice elevate him above the throngs of over-earnest singer-songwriters who flood clubs and coffeehouses with their guitar chords and clichés. His self-produced O (Vector) garnered him the 2003 Shortlist Music Prize, and he's on a tour with the Frames, also from Ireland, that brings him to Avalon, 15 Lansdowne Street in Boston. Tickets are $22.25; call (617) 423-NEXT.
ART
Out of the Blue Gallery celebrates its seventh birthday with a weekend-long festival. "Art, Art, Everywhere" involves 13 artists, nine venues, and poetry, painting, and receptions all over Cambridge. OTB hooks unestablished artists up with spaces like the Middle East, the 1369 Coffeehouse, and the All Asia Café to display and sell their work. The nexus of the event takes place from noon to 5 p.m. at OTB, with works by Carly Weaver and gallery co-founder Sue Carlin. The Middle East hosts a reception tomorrow for Bren Bataclan's optimistic "Boston Smile Project" and "Creepshow 2," with macabre works by Salty, EEE, the Count, and Joe Keinberger. OTB is at 106 Prospect Street in Central Square; call (617) 354-5287.
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SUNDAY 18
FUSION
The Handel and Haydn Society has boatloads of bragging rites, not the least of which is performing the Boston premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony back in 1853. Today marks another first for the venerable group. Led by music director Grant Llewellyn, H&H presents "Jazz Classical Fusion," for which it commissioned Ben Stepner, 15-year-old jazz wunderkind (he's already played the Regattabar a couple times and opened for Danilo Pérez), to compose a piece. Stepner and his ensemble join H&H for a mix of standards, Stepner's jazz arrangements of classical themes, and his jazz-classical-fusion original composition. The concert is at 3 p.m. at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, and tickets are $25 to $58; call (617) 266-4217.
BOOKS
A dozen New England writers get honored at the Boston Public Library's annual "Literary Lights" black-tie-dinner gala. Honorees include Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, Pulitzer-winning Harvard historian Samantha Power, Susan Orlean of Adaptation and New Yorker fame, and Louis Menand, who's also a member of the New Yorker and the Pulitzer clubs. A posthumous award goes to the family of Atlantic Monthly's Michael Kelly, and former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky gives the keynote speech. It's at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, 64 Arlington Street in Boston, and tickets are $250, with proceeds to benefit the library; call (617) 536-3886.
JAZZ
Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, and Dave Holland, jazz giants all, have had multiple career-making affiliations among them (with everyone from Wayne Shorter and Wynton Marsalis to Chick Corea and Stan Getz), but it's with Miles Davis that they shared a common association - the three worked together briefly as part of his band. They reunited more than a decade ago for an international tour with Pat Metheny, and they come together again in Boston - one of only four cities the trio will travel to - for a performance at 7 p.m. at Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. Tickets are $27.50 to $37.50; call (617) 876-7777.
THEATER
The top male finishers in the 26-mile road race tomorrow will cross the finish line in a little over two hours. Today's Boston Theater Marathon lasts almost five times longer - 10 hours total - with 46 companies performing 46 plays, none of which is longer than 10 minutes. This year, the line-up includes Robert Brustein's "Terrorist Skit," Israel Horovitz's "Cat Lady," and John Kuntz's "Cantaloupe Girlfriend." The plays begin at noon at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, and tickets are $25 in advance, $30 day of show; call (617) 358-PLAY.
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WEDNESDAY 21
BOOKS
The Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri's collection of short stories, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000. Her follow-up, The Namesake, is about the son of Bengali immigrants raised in Massachusetts, and it's a novel of irresistible quiet and grace. Lahiri, who spent eight years in Boston earning master's degrees in English, creative writing, and comparative literature and a PhD in Renaissance studies at BU and stocking shelves at WordsWorth in Harvard Square, reads from her fiction as part of Boston College's Lowell Humanities Series. That's at 7:30 p.m. at Boston College, Gasson 100, Commonwealth Avenue in Chestnut Hill; call (617) 552-3705.
ART
Charles Saatchi, British advertising maven and über-collector, championed the Young British Artists - known as YBAs - in the early '90s and brought their brand of deliberate squalor and scurrilousness to the fore of the British art world. Marc Quinn's self-portrait painted with his own blood and Damien Hirst's canvas coated in dead flies define the bite-our-thumbs-at-the-bourgeois mentality of the YBA era. Through August 15, the MFA hosts work by second-generation YBAs Tim Noble and Sue Webster; partners in art and in life, the couple create sculptures from trash, mostly their own, assembling the junk so that when a light is directed at it, the shadows cast are silhouettes of buildings, animals, and, most often, the artists themselves. We are what we consume, after all, in romance and in rubbish. The MFA is at 465 Huntington Avenue in Boston; call (617) 267-9300.
As the final exhibition of its centennial celebration, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum presents "Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner & the Palazzo Barbaro Circle" on the fourth floor of the museum, which is where Gardner lived and which will be open to the public for the first time. The Gardners traveled to Venice every other summer, staying at the Palazzo Barbaro, on the Grand Canal, where they played host to a powerhouse group of artists and writers like John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Henry James, and Robert Browning. Mirroring late-19th-century salon-style Venice, the exhibit explores how the city created an impact on the work of the group through paintings, drawings, letters, magazines, and Isabella's own travel scrapbooks. "Gondola Days" runs through August 15 at 280 the Fenway; call (617) 566-1401.
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FRIDAY 23
POETRY
Harold Bloom, notorious critic and Yale professor, reads selections from The Best Poems of the English Language, his personal selection of the finest poems from Chaucer to Frost. Be assured, though, it's strictly poetry tonight; we presume the topic will not stray to the Shakespearean scholar's history of sexual misconduct - at least as was alleged in a scandal-creating polemic by Naomi Wolf in a recent issue of New York magazine. Bloom reads at the Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway in Harvard Square; call (617) 661-1515.
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SATURDAY 24
COMEDY
Paula Poundstone, necktie-wearing comedienne, endured her own set of scandals when in 2001 she was arrested for endangering her three adopted kids by drunk driving. Winner of the American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-Up, the Sudbury native has returned to the stage with her trademark back-and-forth banter. She's touring nationally with her new show, "Unauthorized Autobiography," and that brings her to the Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main Street in Stoneham, tonight at 8 p.m. and tomorrow at 2 p.m. Tickets are $32, $27 for seniors, $16 for students; call (781) 279-2200.
CABARET
The sensuous, Münster-born chanteuse Ute Lemper brings her vampish wit and sultry voice to the Berklee Performance Center at 8 p.m. Cabaret - expressed by the likes of Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, and Jacques Brel - hasn't had it this sexy since Piaf and Dietrich. That's at 136 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, and tickets are $25 to $37; call (617) 876-4275.
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SUNDAY 25
ROCK
Sadcore fans, rejoice. Sebadoh are not dead - the band have just been asleep for the past five years. Inactive since the release of Sub Pop's The Sebadoh in 1999, they regrouped last fall to play the 10th-anniversary show of Domino Records, whose first release was Seb's Bubble and Scrape in '93. And now Lou Barlow and Jason Loewenstein are on tour again in a lo-fi, stripped-down, acoustic kind of way. They're at T.T. the Bear's, 10 Brookline Street in Central Square, and the cover is $12; call (617) 492-BEAR.
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TUESDAY 27
MUSICAL
Loosely based on The Little Engine That Could, Andrew Lloyd Webber's roller-skating train musical chugs into the Wang Theatre. Starlight Express, which is about a bruised and battered old steam engine named Rusty who's encouraged to race a bright 'n' shiny diesel locomotive, runs through May 2 at 270 Tremont Street in the Theater District. Tickets are $23 to $73; call (800) 447-7400.
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WEDNESDAY 28
JAZZ
Composer, trumpeter, bandleader, and jazz's only Pulitzer Prize winner, Wynton Marsalis tours in support of his Blue Note debut, The Magic Hour, part of a quartet - in this case, Carlos Henríquez on bass, Ali Jackson on drums, and Eric Lewis on piano - for the first time since the late '80s. He ends his tour at Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, in a FleetBoston Celebrity Series appearance. Tickets are $37 to $57; call (617) 482-6661.
OPERA
Two army officers brag about the fidelity of their fiancées. A mischievous friend wagers he can prove otherwise within 24 hours, and the three set out to see whether the women can be wooed. So unfolds Mozart's Cosí fan tutte, whose title translates loosely as - feminists be warned - as "Women Are All like That." With the music director of the "other" BLO (Boston Landmarks Orchestra), Charles Ansbacher, on the podium, Boston Lyric Opera presents this story of furious flirting, scheming, disguise, and love, sweet love tonight and Friday at 7:30 p.m., May 2 at 3 p.m., May 4 and 7 at 7:30 p.m., May 9 at 3 p.m., and May 11 at 7:30 p.m. That's at the Shubert Theater, 265 Tremont Street in the Theater District. Tickets are $33 to $152; call (800) 447-7400
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THURSDAY 29
ART
Barry McGee took graffiti from the alleyway to the gallery. "Compelling art to me is a name carved into a tree. Sometimes a rock soaring through a plate of glass can be the most beautiful, compelling work of art I have ever seen." So says the San Francisco graffiti artist with the tag name Twist who's only the most recent practitioner to transform the urban-guerrilla arrestable-offense art form into a museum-wall-worthy medium. McGee is the Ruth Ann Perlmutter Artist in Residence at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum, where he'll create a large-scale mural that will be on view through July 2. The Rose is on the Brandeis Campus, South Street in Waltham, and admission is $3; call (781) 736-4204.
CLASSICAL
Under the leadership of Benjamin Zander, the Boston Philharmonic closes its 25th anniversary season, "A Mahler Journey," with three performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 7 and the Rückert song Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen ("I Am Lost to the World"), the latter sung by mezzo-soprano Jane Struss, with whom Zander says he played his "first Mahler work in Jordan Hall 29 years ago." They're at Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street in Harvard Square, tonight at 7:30 p.m.; at Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street in Boston, at 8 p.m. on Saturday May 1; and back at Sanders for a 3 p.m. concert on Sunday May 2. Tickets are $15 to $54; call (617) 236-0999.
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FRIDAY 30
ROCK BENEFIT
On tour for the first time since '99, Lou Barlow's long inactive Sebadoh (see "April 25") hits the road with a stop in Western Massachusetts to play a benefit show for Community Resources for People with Autism. It appears that Barlow's mom helped bring about the Sebadoh reunion when she persuaded him to play the benefit. Also on the bill is Barlow's partner in the bitterly disbanded Dinosaur Jr, J Mascis, as well as Sonic Youth, Claudia Malibu, and Lo Fine. That's at 6 p.m. at John M. Greene Hall, Smith College, in Northampton. Tickets are $18; call (413) 527-0400.
CLASSICAL
Handel and Haydn's 2003-2004 season closes with "Vivaldi's Gloria to Verdi's Ave Maria," sacred works written more than 200 years apart. Grant Llewellyn conducts the H&H Orchestra and Chorus tonight at 8 p.m. and Sunday May 2 at 3 p.m. at Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. Tickets are $25 to $58; call (617) 266-3605.
And Opera Boston closes its season with Verdi's Louisa Miller tonight at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday May 2 at 2 p.m. at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street in the Theater District. Tickets are $24 to $85; call (800) 233-3123.
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THURSDAY 6
DANCE
Momix, a company of dancer-acrobat-puppeteers under the direction of Moses Pendleton, performs the Boston premiere of its American Southwest-inspired Opus Cactus. Expect 19 desert scenes including sensuous slithering snakes, a ritual fire dance, dancers spinning on poles, assorted aerial gymnastics, and a skeletal finale. Presented by CRASHarts, Opus Cactus opens at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street in the Theater District, where it'll run through May 9. Tickets are $25 to $45; call (800) 233-3123.
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SATURDAY 8
FESTIVAL
To celebrate the end of winter - as well as the breadth and depth of artistic talent in Boston - Art Street, an organization that aims to get art out of museums, concert halls, and other houses of high culture and into the streets, presents the "May Fire Arts Festival." Dancers, DJs, drummers, poets, painters, and performance artists will come together in spontaneous art events, concerts, and performances from dawn till dark on the shores of the Charles River, and an illuminated, large-scale sculpture will float down the Charles at dusk. The free festival ignites along the Charles River Esplanade; call (617) 244-3171.
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WEDNESDAY 12
POPS
Art Garfunkel joins the Boston Pops for its season opener, which marks Keith Lockhart's 10th year conducting America's Orchestra. Pops concerts run through July 4, with John Williams leading tributes to Hollywood film composers Bernard Herrmann and Henry Mancini and theme nights to include "Hooray for Hollywood," "By George!", "Red, White & Blue Pops," "Celtic Night," and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." Symphony Hall is at 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, and tickets for tonight are $90 to $185; call (617) 266-1200.
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THURSDAY 13
BALLET
Boston Ballet's 40th-anniversary season comes to a close with Swan Lake, where Prince Siegfried tries to escape the castrating clutches of his mother (did Freud ever see this ballet?) while audiences wonder whether he'll ever be able to tell white swan Odette from black swan Odile and Jonathan McPhee (just named music director of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra) leads Tchaikovsky's luxuriant score. Swan Lake runs through Mays 23 at the Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont Street in the Theater District, and tickets are $38 to $95; call (800) 447-7400.
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FRIDAY 14
THEATER
The original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's 1951 work The Rose Tattoo starred Maureen Stapleton as Serafina, the Sicilian-American widow looking for love. The 1955 film starred Anna Magnani. Now the Huntington Theatre Company's 2003-2004 season closer stars the Emmy, Tony, and Elliott Norton Award-winning Andrea Martin. Under the direction of Huntington artistic director Nicholas Martin, The Rose Tattoo runs through June 13 at the Boston University Theatre, 246 Huntington Avenue in Boston. Tickets are $14 to $64; call (617) 266-0800.
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SATURDAY 15
THEATER
Here in the Athens of America, the curtain rises on the ART's staging of Oedipus, Sophocles's Theban tragedy, and Freud's favorite royal plunges from the height of power and prosperity to become the most miserable sonuvabitch in all of Western drama. ART artistic director Robert Woodruff leads the company's final production of the season, with music by Evan Ziporyn, head of music and theater arts at MIT, and Doug Stein collaborating on set design. That's through June 13 at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street in Harvard Square. Tickets are $35 to $69; call (617) 547-8300.
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FRIDAY 21
DANCE
The Paul Taylor Dance Company celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, and its eponymous choreographer continues to demonstrate that he's one of the finest of the past half-century. His company comes to the Shubert for a three-night FleetBoston Celebrity Series engagement bringing Mercuric Tidings and Aureole and the Boston premiere of Le Grand Puppetier, with music by Stravinsky. That's tonight at 7:30 p.m., Saturday May 21 at 8 p.m., and Sunday May 22 at 3 p.m. at 265 Tremont Street in the Theater District. Tickets are $42 to $60; call (800) 447-7400.
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SUNDAY 23
ART
Fuel up with brunch at a South End bistro, then wander in and out of hundreds of artists' studios in the old piano factories and the new lofts as part of the first annual SoWa (that's South of Washington) Art Walk. The Outdoor Artisan Collective, an open market, debuts in the lot at 540 Harrison Avenue; call (617) 236-8180 for all Art Walk info.
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MONDAY 31
FILM
Film archives everywhere relish in preserving rare feature-length films. But a recent review of the Harvard Film Archive holdings revealed an arsenal of short films - really short films - that were beautiful and bizarre. The HFA's "Short Shorts" includes German animated ads for appliances, shorts lauding the glory that is Guinness, and silent-era films about personal hygiene. The commercials, trailers, and avant-garde bits all clock in at three minutes or less. HFA film conservator Julie Buck introduces the program at 7 p.m. at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street in Harvard Square. Tickets are $8, $6 for students; call (617) 495-4700.
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