Update on January 5, 2021
Due to COVID-19 public health safety measures, Celebrity Series of Boston has decided to cancel the following live, in-person performances. All ticket holders have been contacted about their canceled performance tickets. Please contact boxoffice@celebrityseries.org with any questions related to tickets to performances. For a list of remaining performances still scheduled in the 20/21 season, please visit our calendar page.
The following performances scheduled in our 20/21 season have been newly added to our list of cancellations:
Dreamer's Circus
April 17, 2021
Longy's Pickman Hall
Alisa Weilerstein
April 24, 2021
Longy's Pickman Hall
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
April 29- May 2, 2021
Wang Theatre
Update on November 17, 2020
Due to COVID-19 public health safety measures, Celebrity Series of Boston has decided to cancel all remaining live, in-person performances through March 31st, 2021. All ticket holders have been contacted about their canceled performance tickets. Please contact boxoffice@celebrityseries.org with any questions related to tickets to performances. For a list of remaining performances still scheduled in the 20/21 season, please visit our calendar page.
The following performances scheduled in our 20/21 season have been newly added to our list of cancellations:
Conrad Tao, piano
December 16, 2020
Longy's Pickman Hall
Artemis
February 5, 2021
Sanders Theatre
Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
February 10, 2021
Longy's Pickman Hall
Time for Three
February 12, 2021
Sanders Theatre
Making the Music
February 24, 2021
Sanders Theatre
Monica Bill Barnes & Company
February 27-28, 2021
Boch Center Shubert Theater
Simone Porter, violin
March 10, 2021
Longy's Pickman Hall
Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords
March 12, 2021
Sanders Theatre
Update on October 9, 2020
Below are two sets of updates regarding the status of several international tours, and performances to be held at Berklee College venues. All ticket holders have been contacted about their canceled performance tickets. Please contact boxoffice@celebrityseries.org with any questions related to tickets to these performances.
INTERnational tours
Due to the ongoing restrictions on international travel due to Covid-19, many international companies and artists scheduled to tour in Winter/Spring 2021 have now officially suspended their plans. The following performances are affected:
CIrca, En Masse (cancelled)
Wed-Sun, March 3-7, 8/8/8/8/3pm
Emerson Paramount Center
KODO (cancelled)
Sun, March 14, 5pm
Symphony Hall
Benjamin Appl, baritone (postponed to 21-22 season)
Wed, April 7, 8pm
Longy's Pickman Hall
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (cancelled)
Sir Antonio Pappano, Music Director and Conductor
Sun, April 11, 5pm
Jess Gillam, saxophone (cancelled)
Wed, April 28, 8pm
Longy's Pickman Hall
Berklee COllege Of music venues
Berklee College of Music has announced that they are using the Berklee Performance Center venue exclusively for internal and institutional events this winter and spring. This announcement impacts the following performances:
Tribute to Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul (postponed to 21-22 season)
with Damien Sneed and Karen Clark Sheard
Sun, Feb 21, 7pm
Berklee Performance Center
Julian Lage Trio (postponed to 21-22 season)
Thurs, Feb 25, 8pm
Berklee Performance Center
Alfredo Rodríguez & Richard Bona (cancelled)
Sat, March 6, 8pm
Berklee Performance Center
Stave Sessions, Cristina Pato (cancelled)
Tues, March 16, 8pm
160 Mass Ave
Stave Sessions, Westerlies/Blackmann (cancelled)
Wed, March 17, 8pm
160 Mass Ave
Stave Sessions, Nathalie Joachim & Spektral Quartet (cancelled)
Fanm d'Ayiti
Thurs, March 18, 8pm
160 Mass Ave
Stave Sessions, Mark Lettieri (cancelled)
Fri, March 19, 8pm
160 Mass Ave
Stave Sessions, Flor de Toloache (cancelled)
Sat, March 20, 8pm
160 Mass Ave
SFJAZZ Collective (postponed to 21-22 season)
The Music of Joni Mitchell
Thurs, April 15, 8pm
Berklee Performance Center
Update on June 26, 2020
Below are updates to Fall 2020 performance programming due to COVID-19 public health safety measures. Ongoing restrictions on international travel and venue closures along tour stops have forced the cancellation of several fall tours. This announcement impacts the following performances and events:
Let’s Dance Boston | Sept. 23-27, 2020
This live music and social dance festival on the Rose Kennedy Greenway moves to May 10-17, 2021
Béla Fleck's “My Bluegrass Heart Tour” featuring Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Mark Schatz, and Bryan Sutton | Sept. 26, 2020
This performance moves to the 2021-2022 performance season
Redman · Mehldau · McBride · Blade A MoodSwing Reunion | Oct. 4, 2020
This performance moves to the 2021-2022 performance season
Silkroad Ensemble Falling Out of Time, a song cycle by Osvaldo Golijov | Oct. 17, 2020
This performance moves to the 2021-2022 performance season
Alan Cumming and Ari Shapiro, Och & Oy, A Considered Cabaret | Oct. 18, 2020
This performance moves to the 2021-2022 performance season
Compañía Nacional de Danza, Carmen | Oct. 24-25, 2020
These performances are canceled
Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko, conductor | Nov. 11, 2020
This performance is canceled
All ticket holders have been contacted about their canceled performance tickets. Please contact boxoffice@celebrityseries.org with any questions related to tickets to these performances.
Update on May 18, 2020
The following performances originally scheduled to take place at New England Conservatory has been relocated and/or rescheduled.
Sir András Schiff, piano - Sunday March 7, 7:30 PM (new time) at Symphony Hall
Dreamers' Circus - Saturday April 17, 8:00 PM at Longy's Pickman Hall
Alisa Weilerstein, solo cello - Saturday April 24, 8:00 PM at Longy's Pickman Hall
Emerson String Quartet - Postponed to 2021-22 Season
All ticket holders have been contacted about their canceled performance tickets. Please contact boxoffice@celebrityseries.org with any questions related to tickets to these performances.
May 8, 2020
Dear Friends,
New England Conservatory announced on May 8 that Jordan Hall and all of their performances and rehearsal facilities would be closed to all outside renters for the entire 2020-2021 academic year. Celebrity Series had sixteen performances scheduled in Jordan Hall and Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre scheduled for the upcoming season.
There are four performances previously scheduled for Jordan Hall in Spring 2021 that we are attempting to move to alternate locations. Sir András Schiff, Dreamers’ Circus, Alisa Weilerstein with Trondheim Soloists, and the Emerson String Quartet are thereby listed as “Venue TBD.” We hope to be able to make an announcement within a couple of weeks. The remaining performances are canceled and ticket holders will be contacted by our box office to review their options.
We are exploring live stream options as well as the possibility of rescheduling artists into our next -2021-2022- Celebrity Series season. We will make announcements about those efforts when we are able.
I deeply regret that our audiences will not be able to gather at Jordan Hall to see these wonderful performers as planned this season. Be on the lookout for updates regarding live stream options, new dates and venues of many of these Jordan events in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we continue to offer a wide range of performers, genres and programs in our 2020-21 season. I urge you to explore them on this website.
Sincerely,
Gary Dunning
Note: All ticket holders have been contacted about their canceled performance tickets. Please contact boxoffice@celebrityseries.org with any questions related to tickets to these performances.