Great Performances at Mason

Light up your holidays with 2025 concerts at the Center for the Arts, including Chanticleer, American Festival Pops Orchestra, and Vienna Boys Choir.

In its debut at the Center for the Arts, supercharged urban circus 360 ALLSTARS combines spectacular dancing, beatboxing, acrobatics, BMX biking, and more in a fusion of extraordinary artistry, emerging from street culture. The performance features a stellar international cast of world champion and world record-holding athletes and artists.

As the only concert dance company in the world authorized to add a Bob Fosse-choregraphed work to its repertory, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will include "Sweet Gwen Suite" on its Oct. 25 program at the Center for the Arts.

When Mark Morris Dance Group returns to the Center for the Arts this coming February, their program will highlight music by iconic American composers in a celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026, recognizing the diversity and vibrancy of the nation’s artistic heritage.

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Orchestra gives world premiere of a new octet by Welsh composer Huw Watkins.

Papermoon Puppet Theatre performs the poignant, nonverbal puppetry work, "Puno, Sewing Memories," at the Center for the Arts on October 4.

Friends of the Center for the Arts pick their favorite upcoming performances for the 2025–26 season.

Additional inspiration for packages of 3+ performances in the Center for the Arts 2025–26 season

Center for the Arts at George Mason University 2025–26 season subscriptions are on sale, offering 15% off packages of 3+ eligible performances

A Friend of the Center for the Arts extols the benefits of joining, in order to be among the first to hear the 2025-26 season announcement.