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Local representatives Carrie McGrory and Adeline Soldin have put together a variety of sponsored activities to make your stay in Boston more enjoyable. Please take the time to read about the wide-range of historical, cultural and academic events we have arranged for you.
Tour of Boston Athenaeum
10 ½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA
Meet in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency at 12:40 or 2:40
The Boston Athenaeum is one of the oldest and most distinguished independent libraries in the United States. For nearly half a century the Athenæum was the unchallenged center of intellectual life in Boston, and by 1851 had become one of the five largest libraries in the United States. Today its collections comprise over half a million volumes, encompassing New England history, biography, English and American literature, and the fine and decorative arts. For more information, visit: www.bostonathenaeum.org
Time: 1pm or 3pm
Fee: $5 per person (limit 30)
Reserve by 1/30 via Acteva
City view tour: The best way to see Boston!
Meet in lobby of the Hyatt Regency at 11:45
A truly comprehensive sightseeing tour of Boston. The City view trolley offers you a two-hour narrated tour of Boston’s historic Freedom Trail and related sites. You can hop on and off at your leisure to get a closer look at sights. This tour has something for everyone! Stops include: Boston Common, The Old State House, The Granary Burying Ground, the Site of the Boston Massacre, and Faneuil Hall
Time: 12 pm
Fee: $24 per person
Reserve by 1/30 via Acteva
Opera Boston: The Nose at the Cutler Majestic Theater
219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
MBTA: Any Green line to Boylston or Orange line to Theater District or Chinatown
By Dimitri Shostakovich
Conducted by Gil Rose
Directed by Julia Pevzner
Stephen Salters as Kovalyov
Shostakovich’s first opera, described as an “anarchistic grenade” at its premiere, is a surreal and satirical romp about Kovalyov, an Everyman whose nose absconds from his face. He must negotiate society, bureaucracy, and his own fragmenting identity to bring about their reunion. Musically, The Nose is exuberant and colorful, with non-stop action for cast and orchestra alike! Sung in Russian with English supertitles.
For more information, visit: http://www.operaboston.com
Curtain time: 7:30pm
Fee: $43.15 (Convention rate)
Reserve by 1/30 via Acteva
Boston Ballet: Jewels at the Wang Theater
270 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
MBTA: Orange line to NE Medical Center
Music: Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography: George Balanchine
A Full-length ballet in three parts, George Balanchine’s Jewels premiered at New York City Ballet in 1967. Presenting a miniature history of classical dance, Jewels references ballet’s French origins, Russia’s imperial style, and Balanchine’s own take on the art form. Critically acclaimed since its premiere, each act of Jewels is distinct in both music and mood.
For more information, visit: http://www.bostonballet.com
Curtain time: 8pm
Fee: $39.50 (Conference rate)
Reserve by 1/30 via Acteva
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” at the Lyric Stage Company
140 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA
MBTA: Orange line to Backbay
Hypocrisy, greed, and secret passions threaten to tear apart a wealthy Mississippi family on the evening of Big Daddy's birthday. Maggie "the cat" is eager to compete with her brother-in-law's growing brood and desperate to provide her in-laws with an heir to their sprawling plantation, but she can't break through her husband Brick's distraction by the bottle, memories of his late best friend, and the mendacity that surrounds him.
For more information, visit: https://lyricstage.com/main_stage/cat_on_a_hot_tin_roof/
Curtain time: 8pm
Fee: $42. 65 (Convention rate)
Reserve by 1/30 via Acteva
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Masterpieces Tour
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
MBTA: Green E line to MFA stop
If the heart of a great museum is its collections, then the MFA is truly one of the greatest in the world. You will be given a one-hour tour of the Museum Collection Highlights. Among the numerous highlights of the magnificent collections are the Impressionist paintings (including one of the largest collections of Monets outside of Paris), Asian and Old Kingdom Egyptian collections, classical art, Buddhist temple, and medieval sculpture and tapestries.
For more information, visit: www.mfa.org
Time: 12 pm
Fee: $25 per person (includes general admission for the day)
Reserve by 1/30 via Acteva
“Endgame” at the American Repertory Theater
64 Battle Street. Cambridge, MA
MBTA: Redline to Harvard Square
Spare, enigmatic, and absurdly funny, Endgame is one of the greatest dramas of the modern age. Both an existential comedy and a domestic tragedy, it charts a day in the life of a family fallen on mysteriously hard times: blind and chair-bound Hamm, his beleaguered servant Clove, his parents Nagg and Nell, who live in two ashbins and long for sugar-plums, and a black toy dog with a missing leg.
Beckett's language is pared down to a distilled beauty, and his archetypal characters achieve a poetic grace despite their bizarre condition. Fifty years after it burst onto the world's stages, Endgame is as exquisite and surprising as ever.
For more information, visit: www.amrep.org/endgame/
Curtain time: 2pm
Fee: $58 (Convention rate)
Reserve by 1/30 via Acteva