Boston University built its arena loud on purpose. Agganis Arena at 925 Commonwealth Avenue, the centrepiece of BU's John Hancock Student Village on the site of the old Commonwealth Armory, opened on 3 January 2005 with the Terriers' men's hockey team beating Minnesota - and legendary coach Jack Parker had consulted the architects to make sure the new room kept the deafening home-ice advantage of tiny Walter Brown Arena. The rink bears Parker's name; the building honours Harry Agganis, the Golde.....

Boston put chandeliers on a concert hall and bottle service beside the Bruins. Big Night Live opened on Halloween night 2019 at 110 Causeway Street, the anchor tenant of the Hub on Causeway development at the gateway of TD Garden - a 40,000-square-foot luxury music hall from Big Night Entertainment Group in partnership with Live Nation, built to give the arena district a headline room of its own. The Live Hall runs 1,400 standing or 757 seated across 11,500 square feet, dressed unlike any club .....

A 19th-century theatre name, reborn as Boston's late-night jewel box. Bijou at 51 Stuart Street sits in the heart of the Theater District on the Chinatown border, carrying a name with deep local lineage - the original Bijou Theatre of 1882 was among Boston's storied stages, and its 1913 movie-palace successor entertained generations before the block's modern reinvention. The current Bijou opened in 2011 as a boutique electronic-music club and has held its place among the city's essential dance f.....

Boston's Little Princess has been trying out Broadway's future for over a century. The Shubert Theatre at 265 Tremont Street opened on 24 January 1910 with E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe - then America's most celebrated stage couple - in The Taming of the Shrew. Conceived as The Lyric Theatre by developer Charles H. Bond and completed after his death by New York's Shubert Organization, who named it for their late brother Sam S. Shubert, the Thomas M. James design gave the Theater District an or.....

An opulent jewel of Boston's Theater District, the Wang Theatre on Tremont Street is one of the grandest performance spaces in New England. Opened in 1925 as the Metropolitan Theatre, a lavish movie palace inspired by European opera houses and Versailles, it dazzled audiences with its marble, gilding and chandeliers, and after various names and uses it endures today as a flagship venue operated by the non-profit Boch Center. The auditorium is enormous and richly decorated, seating around three .....

In the heart of downtown Boston bounded by Beacon, Park, Tremont, Boylston and Charles Streets, the Boston Common is the oldest public park in the United States and one of the most historically significant public spaces in the nation. The 50-acre rectangular park was established in 1634, just four years after the founding of Boston itself, when the Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony purchased the land from the original settler William Blaxton and dedicated it to common use as a ca.....

On the western edge of downtown Boston immediately west of Boston Common at the corner of Beacon, Charles, Boylston and Arlington Streets, the Boston Public Garden is the first public botanical garden in the United States and one of the most beloved small urban parks in New England. The 24-acre formal garden was established in 1837 by an Act of the Massachusetts General Court on a piece of made land created through the gradual filling-in of the marshy bay just west of the Common. The garden was.....

The first concert hall ever built on scientific principles is still ranked among the world's three best. Symphony Hall at 301 Massachusetts Avenue opened on 15 October 1900 as the permanent home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, commissioned by BSO founder Henry Lee Higginson from the architects McKim, Mead and White - with one decisive addition. Higginson hired Wallace Clement Sabine, a young Harvard physics professor, as acoustical consultant, and Sabine's new mathematical formula for reverber.....

On the Fort Point Channel in the historic Seaport district of Boston just south of the Financial District, the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum is one of the most thoughtfully designed historical museums in New England and a deeply engaging immersive recreation of one of the most famous events of the American Revolution. The museum reopened in June 2012 following a complete reconstruction (the original 1973 museum on the same site having been destroyed by a 2001 fire), with the new 50,000-square-.....

Allston Rock City lost its cornerstone and got a new one at the same address. Brighton Music Hall at 158 Brighton Avenue occupies the room that was Harpers Ferry for four decades - the bar Edward Connelly opened in 1970 and named for the Civil War battle, which grew into "Boston's Best Live Music" and the primary stage of the student-dense Allston scene. Harpers hosted everyone from Bo Diddley and blues festivals to the hardcore bands orphaned by the Rathskeller's closing, Maroon 5, Fall Out Boy.....