Esplanade Concerts. Each evening at 8:30 for the rest of this week members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra give a free concert in the Hatch Memorial Shell by the banks of the Charles River. Take subway and blanket to Charles Station.

Cyrano de Bergerac continues to receive an excellent performance at Wellesley through this week.

Sweet Smell of Success, the searing analysis of a power-mad and incestuous newspaper columnist and a toadying, conscienceless press agent, will be at the UT next Wednesday through Saturday.

A Hatful of Rain, the best of the films about dope addiction, still spills forth at the Astor.