Here are some highlights to help you customize your 2025–26 season subscription across the genres of dance, classical, family, and more! You can save 15% on tickets and earn special perks by choosing 3+ Great Performances at Mason or Family Series events! Find yourself in one of the groups from the starter ideas provided, or just build your own custom package of any eligible 3+ events to save big!
Digging In: Mason Artists-in-Residence
You love watching what happens offstage as much as what happens onstage and are looking for next-level engagement with your artists, up close and personal. Get tickets for these Mason Artists-in-Residence and watch for announcements of the myriad interactive workshops, discussions, and other events to be announced surrounding their respective residencies:
Papermoon Puppet Theatre
Saturday, Oct. 4 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Limón Dance Company
Saturday, Nov. 1 at 8 p.m.
La Santa Cecilia
Saturday, Nov. 15 at 8 p.m.
Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens
Sunday, Mar. 22 at 7 p.m.
Making Moves
You like to dance like no one’s watching. Or you don’t, but you enjoy watching others who can move in ways you couldn’t begin to imagine… These amazing companies' performances remind us how, as Martha Graham said, "The body says what the words cannot."
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Saturday, Oct. 25 at 8 p.m.
Limón Dance Company
Saturday, Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. G
Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble
Saturday, Feb. 7 at 8 p.m.
Les Ballets Africains
Friday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m.
Circa
Sunday, Apr. 12 at 7 p.m.
The Center Will Not Hold
Saturday, May. 2 at 8 p.m.
Holiday Magic
You’re ready for Christmas in July, or maybe just happened to leave your tree up for that long… Either way, you love the holidays and can raise a glass of eggnog to the following performances:
Chanticleer
Saturday, Nov. 29 at 8 p.m.
American Festival Pops Orchestra
Holiday Pops: Songs of the Season
Saturday, Dec. 13 at 4 p.m.
Vienna Boys Choir
Sunday, Dec. 14 at 4 p.m.
Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel
Answering the musical equivalent of “you want fries with that?,” these concerts offer a side of charming and insightful commentary from a world renowned pianist onstage. You'll love the full meal deal of a beautiful themed concert with entertaining verbal program notes that "explain deep musical matters with elegant simplicity" (The Philadephia Inquirer). The Toronto Star calls Jeffrey "a musical bridge-builder in action..Siegel showed just how illuminating the combination of words and abstract music can be." You can save 20% by subscribing to all four Keyboard Conversations® listed below:
Beethoven—The Young Genius
Sunday, Sep. 14 at 7 p.m.
Chopin—The Romantic
Sunday, Oct. 12 at 7 p.m.
Poetic Tone Pictures
Sunday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m.
Mozart and Friends—Beethoven, Haydn, and Clementi
Sunday, Mar. 15 at 7 p.m.
Family Fun
You love to pull the kids in your life away from isolating screens and into the communal joy of a cheering audience, bouncing along to concerts featuring beloved artists and characters, and experiencing jaw-dropping acrobatics or mind-blowing magic.
The Magic of Rob Lake
Sunday, Oct. 05 at 4 p.m.
Laurie Berkner Band
Saturday, Oct. 18 at 11 a.m.
Curious George: The Golden Meatball
Saturday, Jan. 31 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Peppa Pig – My First Concert
Saturday, Apr. 11 at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Classical Connoisseur
From Schubert to Strauss to Shostakovich, you like to explore the classical repertoire. In addition to the Jeffrey Siegel classical concerts with commentary above, consider the following:
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Friday, Oct. 3 at 8 p.m.
Virginia Opera: La Cenerentola
Saturday, Nov. 22 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23 at 2 p.m.
Chanticleer
Saturday, Nov. 29 at 8 p.m.
Vienna Boys Choir
Sunday, Dec. 14 at 4 p.m.
Mnozil Brass
Sunday, Mar. 1 at 4 p.m.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Ray Chen, violin
Friday, Jan. 23 at 8 p.m.
Virginia Opera: Intelligence
Saturday, Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 15 at 2 p.m.
Family Series
Peppa Pig – My First Concert
Saturday, Apr. 11 at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.
and don't forget the amazing dance performances including some classical music as well, including Limón Dance Company's "Missa Brevis," inspired by Kodaly's choral work “Missa Brevis in Tempore Belli” (“Short Mass in Time of War”); and Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble's Northwest, set to music by John Luther Adams and Silhouettes, set to piano works by Richard Cummings.
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