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Christmas Revels

Cambridge, MA · Holiday

When

December 12–28, 2026

Where

Sanders Theatre, Harvard University · Cambridge · MA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

The Christmas Revels stages a different folk culture's midwinter songs, dances, and storytelling each December at Harvard's Sanders Theatre, with a cast of adults and children performing alongside audience sing alongs. Founded in Cambridge in 1971, it is considered the original Revels production that spawned sister shows across the country. Performances run from mid December through the winter solstice.

The history within reach

• Harvard College founded0.1 mi

  Harvard College founded was the first institution of higher learning in the colonies, founded to train ministers and named for a clergyman who left it his library of 400 books..

• The glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History0.2 mi

  Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka spent five decades in Dresden making glass models of plants for Harvard, because pressed specimens go brown and wax models sag.

• The Brattle Theatre still projects from behind the screen0.3 mi

  The single screen inside Brattle Hall started showing foreign and repertory films in February 1953 and has not stopped since.

• The Washington Elm, a legend Cambridge kept for a century0.3 mi

  Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge on 3 July 1775, and by the 1830s the town had decided it happened under one particular elm on the Common.

• Cambridge folds its Latin school and its trade school into one0.3 mi

  Until 1977 the city sorted its teenagers into Cambridge High and Latin or Rindge Technical, the classical track and the vocational one.