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- Good afternoon Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, February 20th - 23rd
Good afternoon Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, February 20th - 23rd
Headed to the NHL game tonight? Don’t get too rowdy and wind up on the news. Enjoy your weekend!
THURSDAY - FEBRUARY 20th
‘Swan Lake’ Ballet @ Emerson Colonial Theatre 7PM One of the world’s top ballet companies, Grand Kyiv Ballet, performs in Boston with a stunning production of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Swan Lake.’
Nessa Barrett @ Roadrunner @ 8PM With Ari Abdul
Ollie Wride @ Brighton Music Hall @ 6PM With Llynks
Loud Luxury @ Big Night Live @ 9PM With Z3LLA
Thuy @ Royale @ 7PM With Sunkis
Tauk @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With ElephantProof
FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 21st
Killers of Kill Tony Comedy Show @ Hanover Theatre @ 7PM
‘Killers of Kill Tony’ is a standup lineup featuring regulars and fan-favorites from "Kill Tony", the #1 live podcast in the world.
FINNEAS @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With Bad Suns
Counterparts @ House of Blues @ 6PM With Pain of Truth, Malevolence, & Foreign Hands
The Hails + Never Ending Fall @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With The Thing With Feathers
Midrift @ The Rockwell @ 7PM With Her New Knife
SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 22nd
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.
Almost Queen: Tribute to Queen @ Hanover Theatre @ 8PM Enjoy the most authentic live Queen show since the days of Queen themselves.
Father John Misty @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With Destroyer
Foster the People @ House of Blues @ 7PM With Good Neighbours
Louder, Louder! @ The Palladium @ 6PM With Day Glow Foxes, Infinite Alien, JVK, & Timelines
SUNDAY - FEBRUARY 23rd
Swallow the Sun @ Brighton Music Hall @ 5:30PM With Harakiri for the Sky, Snakes of Russia, & Ghost Bath
Jordana @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Rachel Bobbitt
Benjamin Booker @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Kenny Segal
Thrown @ The Palladium @ 6:30PM With Varials, No Cure, & Heavensgate
ALL WEEKEND
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - ‘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.
All weekend - 2024 Oscar-Nominated Short Films Screenings @ ICA ICA presents its annual selection of Oscar-nominated live-action, animation, and documentary shorts you always wish you’d seen come Oscar night.
All weekend - Haydn & Stravinsky in Concert @ Symphony Hall Renowned guests return to Symphony Hall to perform Stravinsky’s witty Violin Concerto, plus Haydn’s Viennese Classics - Symphonies 48 and 99.
All weekend - ‘A Man of No Importance’ Musical @ BCA Calderwood Pavilion 1960s Dublin is the setting for this charming musical about the redemptive power of theatre, love, and friendship. Ends 3/22.
All weekend - ‘Art’ Play @ Lyric Stage Winner of the 1998 Tony Award for Best Play, this dark comedy follows three best friends, examining the notion of art, ego, and friendship. Ends 3/16.
All weekend - ‘The Winter’s Tale’ Play @ Hanover Theatre Experience Shakespeare’s ‘The Winter’s Tale’ - a captivating parable of betrayals, renewed hope, and the transformative power of time.
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 - ‘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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