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286 Cabot Street
Beverly, MA United States Get Directions
978-927-3100
http://www.TheCabot.org

The Cabot Theatre is a North Shore treasure, a legacy of the visionary showmanship of the Ware Brothers.  Opened in 1920 as a dream palace of vaudeville and silent movies, it was hailed as “the most impressive auditorium of its size east of New York”.  This Ware Theater shared a distinguished architectural pedigree, designed by the architects of Boston’s Athenaeum and Olympia Theater and Dorchester’s Strand Theater.  For its first 40 years, it served as a center of community life for downtown Beverly.

No ordinary building, the Cabot is a rare survivor.  Only 250 similar movie palaces still exist out of an estimated 20,000 theaters built in the 1920s. But its future came into doubt when the Magic Company wound down and they placed the theater up for sale.

With an irreplaceable civic treasure at risk, a passionate group of Beverly citizens has formed a nonprofit organization, Cabot Performing Arts Center, Inc, to operate as “The Cabot”, a cultural center that will beat in the heart of 21st Century Beverly as the Ware Theatre did in the vaudeville era.

A new Cabot will provide a wide spectrum of arts experience for the community. If this vision is embraced and supported by the community, the second century of the Cabot’s life will present a richer and more varied variety of artistic work than the walls of the theater have ever seen before, entertaining and inspiring new generations of North Shore citizens.

Today

North Atlantic Ballet – Dracula

BEWARE THE EMBRACE OF DARKNESS… Witness the transformation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula into a theatrical masterpiece by guest choreographer Tom Vacanti. Originally choreographed in 1992 for a site specific production at the spooky Emmanuel Church on Newbury St, Vacanti is reimagining the thriller for The Cabot stage. The revival features a world where passion and darkness collide. From the haunting...

Face2Face

EXPERIENCE A TRIBUTE CELEBRATING THE TWO GREATEST PIANO MEN OF OUR GENERATION! David performs as Billy Joel along with many special guest Elton John performers from around the world including Bill Connors (“American Elton”), Canada’s own Jeff Scott (“Epic Elton”), the unstoppable Ronnie Smith, and Long Island’s Lance Millard (“Sir Elton”) in this thoroughly entertaining and faithful tribute to the...

Paula Cole

PAULA COLE’S ELEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM, “LO” IS DEVASTATINGLY PERSONAL AND UTTERLY GORGEOUS. Her first album of original compositions in five years, “Lo”’s eleven songs, written entirely by Cole, navigate her opening to trust again after indelible blows of life. As the first woman to ever be nominated for the Best Producer Grammy in her own right, Paula Cole returns to...

Beginnings – A Celebration of the Music of Chicago

Beginnings – A Celebration of the Music of Chicago brings the magic of a live Chicago performance to life and exceptionally recreates their enormous songbook of contemporary hits.

Robert Cray Band

Blues icon. Soul man. Rock and roller. Robert Cray is all these things – and more. The Georgiaborn, Washington-raised musician first picked up a guitar after seeing The Beatles on TV then, having witnessed Jimi Hendrix perform in Seattle, determined that his destiny would follow a similar path. And so it turned out: across the past half-century Robert Cray has...

Jim Breuer: Survival With Laughter

Jim Breuer is an American actor and comedian from New York. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 1998 and starred in the film Half Baked! He has a hit weekly podcast called, The Breuniverse, where he brings people from all walks of life together. Jim’s standup comedy tackles all subjects from marriage and relationships...

Cold Case Live

Investigate America’s most notorious cold cases at COLD CASE LIVE, a live exploration into unsolved crime! Featuring in-depth analyses and firsthand investigator insights, prepare for an evening of shocking revelations as our expert host, Joe Kennedy (Starz TV’s “Wrong Man”), walks you through the process of solving a cold case. Inspect clues from chilling cases like The Zodiac Killer, The Golden...

Ben Folds – Paper Airplane Request Tour

Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation. The Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter-composer has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records. For the past three decades, he’s toured as a pop artist, while also performing with some of the world’s...

Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey carry on the tradition of the renowned folk music group Peter, Paul and Mary–a union that lasted 50 years. Peter, Paul and Mary arrived on the scene in Greenwich Village in the early 1960’s and at the time, for the majority of America, folk was viewed merely as a sidebar to pop music.  The...

Prince/Bowie – The Music of Prince and David Bowie

Prince/Bowie is a tribute fusion band that combines the music of Prince and David Bowie into a high energy live show. It features a rotating Allstar cast of characters from various national acts including Pink Talking Fish, Twiddle, Remain In Light Deep Banana Blackout and more. The mix of the Prince and David Bowie songbooks blend beautifully and an extra...

Brubeck Brothers Quartet

The group’s creativity, technique and improvisation can be heard in their uncompromising music, which reflects their dedication to melody, rhythm, culture and the spontaneous spirit of jazz. Chris and Dan Brubeck have been making music together practically all their lives.  Drummer Dan and bassist, trombonist, and composer Chris cut their first record together in 1966—nearly a half century ago. They’ve...

Forever Donna

IN THE LAST 11 YEARS RAINERE MARTIN HAS TRAVELED THE WORLD PERFORMING HER DONNA SUMMER TRIBUTE TO RAVING REVIEWS, IN CASINOS, THEATERS, FESTIVALS, CORPORATE EVENTS AND MORE. Additionally, she has shared the stage with several mainstream acts such as, Evelyn Champagne King, Tavares, The Stylistics, France Joli and many more. To the delight of audiences, Rainere recorded a version of...