Hermitage Piano Trio
The Washington Post praises the Hermitage Piano Trio for performing with “…such power and sweeping passion it [leaves] you nearly out of breath.”
CANCELLED: Bill Irwin
Beloved clown and Tony award-winner Bill Irwin applies his sensibility to the words of Samuel Beckett. “What this evening is,” Irwin explains, “is my attempt to share with an audience the place that these writings occupy inside of me. These stretches of language have stayed in my head a long time.”
CANCELLED: Boston Pops On Tour
The Boston Pops celebrate a nearly forty-year association with John Williams in an evening featuring excerpts from his best-loved scores—as well as some lesser-known gems.
Gretchen Rubin
An influential, thought-provoking observer of happiness and human nature, Gretchen Rubin will deliver a talk drawn from her runaway bestseller The Happiness Project.
Bill Nye
Engineer, comedian, author, inventor—and best known for his Emmy-winning run as Bill Nye the Science Guy—Bill Nye blends humor, intellectual curiosity, and devotion to solving some of the world’s most complex challenges through science.
Hancher Illuminated
Our friends from Quixotic return to light up the exterior of Hancher and create beautiful spaces for captivating performances.
Step Afrika!
Step Afrika! returns with a tale of resistance, resilience, and reclamation. Grounded in the Stono Rebellion of 1739, which led to the banning of drums among enslaved Africans, Drumfolk celebrates the beat entering the very bodies of persecuted people.
American Ballet Theatre
The wonderful dancers of American Ballet Theatre are hopping on a bus and touring America—and they’ll stop at Hancher on the Fourth of July! Gather up your friends and family (and lawn chairs!) for a performance by one of the world’s greatest ballet companies.
The Journey
Extraordinary illusionist, mentalist, and performance artist Scott Silven invites you on a mesmerizing journey from your home to his in rural Scotland. Silven brings an all-new, immersive, and intimate experience, live and online, that will captivate and astonish you.
Archetypes
This unique blending of musical voices will take the stories and characters that recur throughout the world’s disparate myths and legends as a jumping off point for an expansive musical journey that is at once idiosyncratic and universal.