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

March 13, 2025

Dear reader: If you’re celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day this weekend please have a safe one. There are an absolute mountain of activities, parades and places to drink beer with dye in it.

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THURSDAY - MARCH 6th

🌧️A chance of rain, mainly before 8am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 57. South wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

‘Macbeth’ Play @ North Shore Music Theatre @ 7:30PM This 90 minute production unleashes Shakespeare’s dark and powerful tale of murder, madness, and magic.

Armor For Sleep @ Paradise Rock Club @ 6:30PM With Hellogoodbye & Boys Night Out

Have Mercy @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With In Her Own Words & Shiver

FRIDAY - MARCH 7th

☀️Sunny, with a high near 41. Breezy, with a west wind 15 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 43 mph. 

First Fridays @ ICA @ 6PM Sip a spicy signature cocktail, catch performances and lessons from Salsa y Control, and show off your finest red attire on the dance floor.

Candlelight: ‘Rings and Dragons’ Concert @ Temple Ohabei Shalom @ 6:45PM Hear beloved soundtracks from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Game of Thrones.’

Jorja Smith @ Wang Theatre @ 8PM With Maverick Sabre

Jade Cicada @ House of Blues @ 8PM With Cool Customer, crawdad sniper, & Cualli

Vundabar @ Paradise Rock Club @ 7PM With Fantasy of a Bro & Pet Fox

SATURDAY - MARCH 8th

☀️Mostly sunny, with a high near 43. West wind 8 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. 

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.

Boston Wine School Festival @ Stone Zoo @ 3PM Sip into the wild with 80+ great wines, gourmet food partners, wine classes, tour of the zoo, and much more!

Spring Fizz Festival @ Time Out Market @ 1PM Time Out Market is celebrating the best in cocktails, mocktails, and ready-to-drink creations, plus food specials and live DJ music.

‘Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Orchestra’ in Concert @ Wang Theatre @ 8PM Immerse yourself in the world of one of the most visionary games of all time with this sensational multimedia concert featuring Colorado Symphony and Chorus!

Knock2 @ Roadrunner @ 8PM With Aleko & Holly

Imminence @ Palladium @ 6:30PM With LANDMVRKS & Jiluka

Friko @ The Sinclair @ 8:30PM With Starcleaner Reunion

SUNDAY - MARCH 9th

☀️Mostly sunny, with a high near 40. West wind 8 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. 

Cavalera @ Paradise Rock Club @ 6PM With Necrot & Dead Heat

Paris Paloma @ Royale @ 8PM With Sarah Julia

ALL WEEKEND

All weekend - NorthEast ComicCon & Collectibles Extravaganza @ Boxborough Don’t miss out on the 3 days of unique collector and fan experiences.

All weekend - Boston Bitdown Festival @ Various Venues This 3-day chiptune/digital fusion festival showcases 50 artists across 5 venues around the city.

All weekend - ‘Conference of the Birds’ Performance @ Arrow Street Arts This multimedia movement theater work embodies experiences gathered from modern-day refugees and other migrants.

All weekend - ‘Swan Lake’ Ballet @ Citizens Opera House Experience the world’s most in-demand ballet featuring exquisite dancing, enchanting music, and a timeless tale of love and loss. Ends 3/16.

All weekend - ‘Music in the Shadow of War’ Concert @ Symphony Hall South Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim makes her BSO debut with a trio of powerful pieces by Bartók, Liadov, and Rachmaninoff.

All weekend - ‘Rent’ Musical @ Company Theatre Inspired by the Puccini opera ‘La Boheme,’ this musical phenomenon follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York in the 1980s. Ends 3/23.

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 Triumph of Love’ Play @ The Huntington Theatre Mistaken identities, hilarious complications, and Rationalist Philosophy collide in this uproarious classic French comedy set in the 1800s. Ends 4/6.

All weekend - ‘The Grove’ Play @ The Huntington Calderwood LAST CHANCE - 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 - ‘Julius Caesar’ Play @ BCA Plaza Theatre Deadwood Theatre Company presents Shakespeare’s tragedy of rebellion and revenge set in 1980’s corporate America. Ends 3/16.

ONGOING

Ongoing - Winteractive @ Downtown This free, walkable art experience features 16 artworks and interactive play elements in downtown Boston. Ends 3/30.

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 - ‘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 - ‘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.

Ongoing - ‘AI: Mind the Gap’ Exhibition @ MIT Museum
MIT Museum presents its latest riveting, interactive exhibit exploring the tremendous promise, unforeseen impacts, and everyday misconceptions of AI.

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