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Good afternoon Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, April 17th - 20th

April 16, 2025

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Welcome to the Wednesday afternoon newsletter! Easter is Sunday! If you’re looking for an easter egg hunt or other Easter activities Boston Mom’s blog has a decent list. Please enjoy your weekend, as always if you have any feedback you can reply directly to this email.

THURSDAY - APRIL 17th

☀️Sunny, with a high near 58. West wind around 11 mph.

Night in Bloom @ Boston Public Market @ 7PM Visit the Boston Public Market after hours for delicious food, sipping and shopping, music, and interactive experiences!

1964 - The Tribute @ Hanover Theatre @ 7PM This widely recognized tribute band painstakingly recreates the look, feel, and note-for-note sound of an actual LIVE Beatles performance.

Denzel Curry @ Roadrunner @ 8PM With Kenny Mason, 454, & Clip

NIGHTLY @ Paradise Rock Club @ 7PM With Will Linley & Brooke Alexx

Mercury Rev @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With Sandy Bell & DJ Carbo

Free Throw @ Royale @ 7PM With Ben Quad & Harrison Gordon

Corridor @ The Rockwell @ 7PM With Robber Robber

FRIDAY - APRIL 18th

☀️Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Light west wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.

Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in Concert @ Symphony Hall @ 8PM Boston Philharmonic Orchestra performs Mehler’s heaven-storming and radiant symphony.

Perreoland Music Festival: Old School vs New School @ The Palladium @ 9PM Don’t miss the biggest reggaeton & perreo party in the world!

Lszee: LSDream + Clozee Night 1 @ Roadrunner @ 7PM With Levity, Maddy O’Neal, & Jordnmoody

Mount Eerie @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Hana Stretton & Precious Bane

Hole Show Party @ Crystal Ballroom @ 9PM Enjoy live music, themed activities, drag, and dancing all night long!

SATURDAY - APRIL 19th

☁️A chance of showers before 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 76. Southwest wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Free Entrance Day in National Parks On select days throughout the year, all national parks are open to the public with no admission fee.

Concord’s Patriots Day Parade @ Concord Center @ 9AM The annual parade commemorates the battles of Lexington and Concord with historic reenactments and various parade festivities.

Beer Fest @ Time Out Market @ 1PM Sample the finest locally crafted beers from breweries throughout New England while dining on dishes from the city’s best kitchen.

Wonderful & Strange: Tribute to David Lynch Show @ Crystal Ballroom @ 7:30PM Enjoy all things David Lynch! Celebrate the director’s legacy with mini festival of movie screenings, soundtracks tribute, drag show, costume contest, interactive photo booths, and much more!

‘Cisad’ Performance @ Emerson Colonial Theatre @ 8PM This poignant concert-theatre experience tells the story of resistance and culture of Iranian heritage.

Candlelight: From Bach to The Beatles @ Old South Church @ 6PM Hear a unique program featuring Bach’s classics and favorites from The Beatles.

Spiritbox @ MGM Music Hall @ 6:30PM With Loathe & Dying Wish

Lszee: LSDream + Clozee Night 2 @ Roadrunner @ 7PM With Zingara, Artifakts, & Sortof Vague

Rick Berlin @ Brighton Music Hall @ 6PM With The Nickel & Dime Band

Capstan @ The Palladium @ 7PM With Colorblind, True North, & Not Enough Space

SUNDAY - APRIL 20th 🐰

☀️Mostly sunny, with a high near 65. Northwest wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Red Sox vs White Sox @ Fenway Park @ 1:35PM Promotion: On-Field Photo Day

Lucy Dacus @ MGM Music Hall @ 6:30PM With Katie Gavin & jasmine.4.t

ALL WEEKEND

SATURDAY & SUNDAY - The Boston Progressive Jazz Festival @ Arts at the Armory Come out for two nights packed with an array of local bands and artists playing their unique versions of jazz.

All weekend - Shostakovich & Beethoven in Concert @ Symphony Hall Hear standout pianist Mitsuko Uchida perform Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto as well as Shostakovich’s peculiar and mysterious Fifteenth Symphony.

All weekend - ‘Night Side Songs’ Performance @ Hibernian Hall This genre-breaking music-theater experience gives voices to doctors, patients, researchers, and caregivers. Ends 4/20.

All weekend - ‘Shucked’ Musical @ Citizens Opera House
From an award-winning production team comes a unique and hilarious musical story of a small-town woman on a quest to find out why all the corn across the country keeps dying. Ends 4/20.

All weekend - ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Play @ Hanover Theatre Enjoy Shakespeare’s classic tale of young love, scandal, deception, and witty banter. Ends 4/27.

All weekend - ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ Play @ Mosesian Center for the Arts This invigorating new take on ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ explores the beauty and romance, but also the sinister underbelly, of one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated classics. Ends 5/4.

All weekend - ‘The Great Reveal’ Play @ Lyric Stage
Taking place at a gender reveal party, this dramedy explores the ways a diverse group of people who love each other navigate family dynamics and gender identity. Ends 4/27.

All weekend - ‘Don’t Eat The Mangos’ Play @ The Huntington Theatre Funny and poignant, this tragedy play portrays life on Puerto Rico with compassion and humor through the story of three sisters living outside of San Juan. Ends 4/27.

All weekend - ‘Her Portmanteau’ Play @ Central Square Theatre ‘Her Portmanteau’ is an explosive story of betrayal and forgiveness, centering on a Nigerian mother in the U.S. and her two daughters who lived very different lives. Ends 4/20.

ONGOING

Ongoing - Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience @ Mercantile Center This captivating 360º digital art exhibition invites you to step into the universe of the Dutch genius, Vincent van Gogh. Ends 4/27.

Ongoing - ‘Harry Potter: The Exhibition’ @ CambridgeSide Celebrate some of your favorite moments, authentic props and costumes, characters, and locations from the extended Harry Potter universe. Ends 4/27.

Ongoing - ‘Titanic: The Artifacts’ Exhibition @ The Castle at Park Plaza Embark on an interactive tour of the Titanic with incredible re-creations of the Ship’s interior and exterior, plus see authentic artifacts, recovered from below the surface of the North Atlantic. Ends 6/1.

Ongoing - ‘Sara Cwynar: Alphabet’ Exhibition @ ICA In this exhibition, multi-disciplinary artist Sara Cwynar examines the excess of pictures in today’s image-saturated culture through a vast archive of visual material, including self-made, downloaded, and found photographs. Ends 8/3.

Ongoing - ‘Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits’ Exhibition @ MFA Displaying 23 works by the artist, this exhibition explores Van Gogh’s tender relationship with one family who became subjects of his groundbreaking portraits. Ends 9/7.

Ongoing - ‘Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson’ Exhibition @ MFA Featuring approximately 110 works by Massachusetts-born artist, the exhibition explores the many ways Wilson called attention to racial, social, and economic injustices through his art. Ends 6/2.

Ongoing - ‘Landscape and Labor’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition explores works of The Hague School artists whose works offer an intimate and profound look at everyday life in the Dutch countryside. Ends 6/22.

Ongoing - ‘Robert Frank: Mary’s Book’ Exhibition @ MFA Celebrating the centennial of photographer Robert Frank’s birth, this exhibition takes an in-depth look at the personal scrapbook of photographs Frank made for his first wife Mary Lockspeiser. Ends 6/22.

Ongoing - ‘Waters of the Abyss: An Intersection of Spirit and Freedom’ Exhibition @ ISG Museum The exhibition presents a collection of works by Haitian artist Fabiola Jean-Louis, whose art takes inspiration from traditional spiritual knowledge, personal histories, and politics of Haiti. Ends 5/25.

Ongoing - ‘Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking’ Exhibition @ Harvard Art Museums The exhibition offers rare insight into the Norwegian artist’s innovative techniques and the recurring themes across his paintings, woodcuts, etchings, and combination prints. Ends 7/27.

Ongoing - ‘Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks’ Exhibition @ Peabody Essex Museum Explore a major presentation of exquisite Renaissance and Baroque paintings, sculptures and decorative arts created between the 15th and 17th centuries in the Southern Netherlands. Ends 5/4.

Ongoing - ‘Draw Me Ishmael: The Book Arts of Moby Dick’ Exhibition @ Peabody Essex Museum ‘Draw Me Ishmael’ is the first exhibition focused on the book arts of the hundreds of editions of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick - the most persistently pictured of all American novels. Ends 3/29/2026.

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