Midwinter Revels: A Scandinavian Story for Christmas

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Dates:	Friday, December 12, 2025 - Sunday, December 28, 2025
Hours:	Hours Vary see below
Ages:	Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	$$$ see below
Category:	Theater & Shows

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A Scandinavian Story for Christmas
Inspired by Gregory Maguire’s Matchless

Revels’ joyous blend of music, storytelling, song, and dance brings to life the radiant story of Matchless, by Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked

Set on an island so far north that it snows from September to April, a young boy finds warmth and light in the darkest days. Woven together with festive Scandinavian song and dance performed by virtuoso musicians, actors, and Revels’ intergenerational chorus, this story is Gregory Maguire’s illumination of a Hans Christen Andersen fairy tale.

“In selecting this tale for revisiting – illumination, perhaps – I hope to honor the original by finding a way to return to the story a sense of the transcendent.” – Gregory Maguire

A holiday tradition for nearly five decades, The Christmas Revels is a joyful theatrical celebration of the winter solstice that travels the world each year showcasing cultural traditions including music, dance, folktales and rituals.

The Christmas Revels performance lasts about 2.5 hours.

Find more December Events in Boston in our holiday event guide.

HOURS

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Friday, December 12 at 7:00pm
Saturday, December 13 at 2:00pm
Sunday, December 14 at 1:00pm
Sunday, December 14 at 5:30pm

Friday, December 19 at 7:00pm
Saturday, December 20 at 2:00pm
Saturday, December 20 at 7:00pm
Sunday, December 21 at 1:00pm
Sunday, December 21 at 5:30pm

Tuesday, December 23 at 2:00pm

Friday, December 26 at 2:00pm
Saturday, December 27 at 2:00pm
Saturday, December 27 at 7:00pm
Sunday, December 28 at 1:00pm

COST

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$45 – 105 / Ticket

WEBSITE

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revels.org/event/midwinter/

LOCATION

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45 Quincy Street,, Cambridge, MA map
Phone: (617) 496-2222

Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall.
45 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
FREE PARKING at the Broadway Garage

REVIEWS

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Inclusive Mish-mash Of Cultures

On December 12, 2009 the showing at 3 PM was amusing after several decades of not going. As a child memories were quite different and much more Northern European with the old familiars from the second half of the Christmas Revels. Still though there was that sense of community through the rough and tumble. The group has gotten larger though it seems the audience has become more select. I remember looking up as a child, but now as an adult I am looking down from the Balcony and bringing all sorts of other experience to the tried and true. I still found it quite amusing, though not what I expected. This is defintitely for those with hearts of children. Heart warming and down-to-earth I find my soul resounding in the new generation of faces in this place, that once was my playground, now the beat turns to an attentive diverse crowd as is the stage players.