Now lavishly restored, these historic theaters provide an elegant backdrop for 21st-century performances. Blackall designed several of the extravagant movie palaces that remain standing in the area.
Any trip to the city requires a stop at these locations celebrating the arts.īoston's Theater District, centered along Tremont and Stuart streets just south of the Boston Common, was once well established as a stopover for productions en route to Broadway. The nation's first orchestra, for example, was founded in Boston in the early 19th century it performed the country's first oratorio in King's Chapel in 1815. Although lingering Puritan prejudice against artistic expression delayed the inception of splashier productions (one 19th-century hall was named the Boston Museum in hopes of camouflaging what went on inside), entertainment here has a long history. Boston Performing ArtsBoston's performing arts scene began in elaborately bedecked theaters, where the likes of Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oscar Wilde gave lively readings.
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