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Good afternoon Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, February 13th - 16th

February 13, 2025

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THURSDAY - FEBRUARY 13th

After Dark @ MIT Museum @ 6PM Enjoy an adult-only lively evening of entertainment, science, and tinkering.

FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 14th

Valentine’s Day Fest @ The Foundry @ 5PM Get ready for a heartwarming evening full of sabor, pasión, and alegría. Meet new people, enjoy authentic Mexican food, drinks, live music, and more.

Ian Munsick @ House of Blues @ 7PM With Kashus Culpepper

SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 15th

Uncorked Wine Festival @ SoWa Power Station @ 6PM Sip & swirl over 100 wines and bubblies from across the globe while you dance the night away to live DJ music and enjoy local food trucks and vendors.

Soup Fest @ Bow Market @ 12PM Boston’s favorite winter food festival is back! Get your ticket to a day of delicious soups from the best vendors in the city.

Sam Adams Boston Bockfest @ Samuel Adams Boston Brewery @ 12PM Enjoy live music and food specials, and try out new releases!
Made With Pride Market @ Time Out Market @ 12PM Shop local from more than a dozen LGBTQ+ owned businesses selling creative and unique gifts for any occasion.

Ongoing - Somerville Winter Farmers Market @ The Armory @ 9:30AM This new weekly winter market features 70+ local food vendors with the best locally grown and regionally produced foods. Ends 4/12.

‘Sleeping Beauty’ Ballet Light Show @ Huntington Theatre @ 6:30PM / 8:30PM
Experience ‘Sleeping Beauty’ like never before, as dancers in glow-in-the-dark costumes bring this classic tale to life on stage.

Candlelight: Rings and Dragons @ Simons Theatre @ 8:45PM Hear beloved soundtracks from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Game of Thrones.’

SUNDAY - FEBRUARY 16th

Adult Night @ MoS @ 6PM Experience the Museum after hours at this adults-only night, revisit fond memories of exploring Science Park, meet other science enthusiasts, engage with museum educators, and more.

Strauss & Mahler in Concert @ Symphony Hall @ 3PM Boston Philharmonic Orchestra performs Mahler’s seminal Symphony No. 2 and Strauss’ ‘Four Last Songs.’

Sci-Fi Marathon @ Somerville Theatre @ 12PM This 24-hour film extravaganza features the great, the good, the not-so-great and the down right laughable science fiction movies.

Black & Red Affair @ Big Night Live @ 10PM Featuring Kenny Haiti, TonyMix, DJ Bullet, & Vanessa D

ALL WEEKEND

All weekend - ‘Century Cinema: Lights, Camera, Boston’ Film Series @ Wang Theatre This free community event features four days of beloved films, highlighting favorite titles celebrating Boston’s role in movie history.

All weekend - Schubert & Brahms in Concert @ Symphony Hall Enjoy Schubert's light-hearted, cheerful Symphony No. 6 and Brahms’ lyrical and compelling Symphony No. 1.

All weekend - ‘Funny Girl’ Musical @ Citizens Opera House LAST CHANCE - Featuring one of the greatest musical scores of all time, this bittersweet comedy is the story of the indomitable Fanny Brice, a girl from the Lower East Side who dreams of a life on the stage. Ends 2/16.

All weekend - ‘The Cher Show’ Musical @ Hanover Theatre ‘The Cher Show’ is 35 smash hits, six decades of stardom, two rock-star husbands, and countless EGOT awards, all in one unabashedly fabulous new musical that will have audiences dancing in the aisles!

All weekend - ‘The Piano Lesson’ Play @ Hibernian Hall LAST CHANCE - In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, ‘The Piano Lesson,’ writer August Wilson fashioned perhaps his most haunting and dramatic work about the black experience in 20th century America. Ends 2/16.

All weekend - ‘The Grove’ Play @ The Huntington Calderwood In this poignant play, playwright Mfoniso Udofia tells the story of a family homecoming, exploring the ideas of ancestral connection when the bonds of family are stretched to the limit. Ends 3/9.

All weekend - ‘The Odyssey’ Play @ Loeb Drama Center This contemporary retelling of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ reimagines the stories of both Odysseus and his wife, Penelope, and explores the themes of healing, forgiveness, and breaking cycles. Ends 3/16.

All weekend - ‘Space’ Play @ Central Square Theater ‘S P A C E’ intertwines imagined scenes with Congressional transcripts, and feats of endurance with the historical record, to interrogate the story of the Mercury 13 female pilots, their ancestors, and descendants. Ends 2/23.

All weekend - ‘Yellow Face’ Play @ Footlight Club This semi-autobiographical self-mocking drama examines the idea of casting shows in accordance with race/ethnicity while also looking into family dynamics, immigrant status, and cultural misappropriation. Ends 2/23.

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 3/31.

Ongoing - ‘Orchid Adventure’ Botanical Exhibition @ Franklin Park Zoo From rare species to exotic hybrids, Orchid Adventure promises an immersive experience that combines the enchantment of the animal kingdom with the delicate beauty of orchids. Ends 3/9.

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 - ‘Charles Atlas: About Time’ Exhibition @ ICA Spanning 50 years of work, this immersive exhibition presents career-defining installations of interdisciplinary artist Charles Atlas, whose work explores the intersection of moving image, dance, and performance. Ends 3/16.

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 - ‘Power of the People: Art and Democracy’ Exhibition @ MFA LAST CHANCE - The exhibition highlights how artworks have expressed ideas about democracy throughout history and how artists have asked citizens to contemplate and participate in democratic processes. Ends 2/17.

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 - ‘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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