Theatre

Met Opera in HD: Falstaff (Verdi)

The Shalin Liu Performance Center 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA

Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy. Tickets: $32, $29, $20

Met Opera in HD: Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss)

The Shalin Liu Performance Center 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA

A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aristocratic Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover, Octavian, and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Tickets: $32,…

Met Opera in HD: Champion (Terence Blanchard)

The Shalin Liu Performance Center 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA

Pre-opera talk with Dr. Andrew Shryock, 12 PM Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green…

Met Opera in HD: Don Giovanni (Mozart)

The Shalin Liu Performance Center 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA

Pre-opera talk with Dr. Andrew Shryock, 12 PM Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining…

National Theatre in HD: Best of Enemies

Shalin Liu Performance Center 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA

David Harewood (Homeland) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) play feuding political rivals in James Graham’s (Sherwood) multiple award-winning new drama. In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others:…

$22

Met Opera in HD: Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)

The Shalin Liu Performance Center 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA

One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.” Tickets: $32, $29, $20

National Theatre in HD: Othello

The Shalin Liu Performance Center 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA

An extraordinary new production of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwan (The Alienist) and Paul Hilton (The Inheritance). Tickets: $22 Adults, $15 Seniors/Students, $5 Youth