For Immediate Release—October 1, 2026—Vivo Performing Arts presents Tony-Award winning actress, vocalist, and producer LaChanze in concert on Sunday, November 1 at 5pm at the Berklee Performance Center. The performance marks LaChanze’s Vivo Performing Arts concert debut and brings one of Broadway’s most celebrated artists to the Boston stage for an evening of music and storytelling following her “raise-the-roof performance” at Vivo Performing Arts’ SHINE! Gala, named Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston® 2026 Best Gala.
Thor Steingraber, President and CEO of Vivo Performing Arts, says, “From her work on Broadway to her remarkable contributions as a producer and advocate for the arts, LaChanze has helped shape the American theater landscape. We were proud to introduce her to Boston audiences last spring at our SHINE! Gala, and now to invite her back for a full concert.”
Known for her extraordinary versatility and commanding stage presence, LaChanze has built a career spanning more than four decades in theater, music, television, and film. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Celie in The Color Purple and originated the role of Ti Moune in Once on This Island, earning a Tony Award nomination. She also received Tony Award nominations for her performances in Summer: The Donna Summer Musical and Trouble in Mind.
Her Broadway credits include Ragtime, Dreamgirls, The Wiz, If/Then, The Secret Life of Bees, A Christmas Carol, and Uptown... It’s Hot!. Most recently, she returned to the stage in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Romeo & Juliet as Lady Capulet.
LaChanze has also established herself as a significant force behind the scenes as a producer. In 2022, she made her producing debut with Topdog/Underdog and Kimberly Akimbo, which together received 11 Tony Award nominations and six wins, including Best Revival of a Play and Best Musical. Her subsequent producing credits include Here Lies Love, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, The Outsiders, Buena Vista Social Club, Purpose, Other, and CATS: The Jellicle Ball. Her producing work has earned numerous Tony Award nominations and wins across a range of productions.
In 2024, LaChanze launched LaChanze Productions, a production company dedicated to “Making Broadway Cool” by discovering, developing, and delivering groundbreaking Broadway and commercial entertainment projects while nurturing emerging talent both on and off stage.
Her screen credits include The Help, HBO’s The Night Of, Law & Order: SVU, The Good Fight, Sex and the City, The Blacklist, East New York, Highest 2 Lowest, and Disney’s animated feature Hercules. She also received an Emmy Award for Handel’s Messiah Rocks: A Joyful Noise. Her recent film work includes By Any Means, directed by Elegance Bratton and starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
LaChanze was honored as a 2025 TIME’S Closer and serves as President of Black Theatre United, a community of creatives dedicated to awareness, accountability, and advocacy.
Outside of her theatrical endeavors, LaChanze is the proud mother of Celia Rose and Zaya LaChanze. She resides in Westchester County, New York with her three cats and gardening hats.
EVENT LISTING
Vivo Performing Arts Presents: LaChanze
Sunday, November 1, 5pm
Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Tickets start at $34
More information: vivoperformingarts.org/productions/lachanze
ABOUT VIVO PERFORMING ARTS
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) was founded in 1938 and, for generations, has welcomed Boston audiences to an array of outstanding performances. Vivo Performing Arts offers national and international talent in orchestral and chamber music, vocal and piano artistry, dance, and jazz in the city’s major concert venues as well as excellent Boston-based and -affiliated artists in its free Neighborhood Arts series and public performance projects. Guided by its values of equity, integrity, and collaboration, and its belief in the performing arts as a source of curiosity and joy, Vivo Performing Arts partners with artists, audiences, and neighborhoods to create experiences that strengthen connection and invite discovery. Through all of its ticketed and free offerings, the organization builds a Greater Boston where the performing arts are a valued, lifelong, and shared experience—on stages, on streets, and in neighborhoods throughout the region.
Vivo Performing Arts is grateful to 2026/27 Season Sponsors Crescendo Donor Advised Fund and The Thonis Family, and to the many individuals, corporations, foundations, and government agencies whose support helps fulfill our mission to enrich and inspire our community through exceptional live performances. Individual and institutional supporters include Jill & David Altshuler, Leslie & Howard Appleby, Keith Backman in memory of Dr. Ulla M. Hansen, the Barr Foundation, Amy & Joshua Boger, Michael & Adrianne Canning, Debra & Joseph Corrado, Crescendo Donor Advised Fund, Google, Yvette & Lawrence Hochberg, Barbara & Amos Hostetter, Klarman Family Foundation, Lizbeth & George Krupp, Liberty Mutual Foundation, Nancy & Richard Lubin, Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation, Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation, Mass Cultural Council, Eleanor & Frank Pao, Stephen C. Perry & Oliver Radford, Rabb Family Foundations, Reuben Reynolds, Royal Little Family Foundation, Schraff Charitable Trust, Sally S. Seaver, PhD, Samuel & Gretchen Shubrooks, Jeremy Silverman & Mary Sutherland, The Estate of Marylen Sternweiler, Lawrence T. Stifler & Mary McFadden in honor of Gary Dunning, Belinda Termeer, The Thonis Family, Dorothy Altman Weber in memory of Stephen Weber, Nancy Richmond Winsten, Anonymous (4), and many others.
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