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Good afternoon Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, March 20th - 23rd

March 20, 2025

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THURSDAY - MARCH 20th

☁️Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54. Southeast wind around 8 mph.

Nowruz Celebration @ MFA @ 5PM Celebrate the ancient festival of Nowruz and discover unique traditions from around the world, revel in magnificent works of art, enjoy lively dance and music performances, and much more.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Live @ The Wilbur @ 7:30PM America’s favorite scientist presents entertaining and enlightening live show discussing Black Holes, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Diamond stars, and other mind-bending cosmos phenomena.

GloRilla @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With Queen Key & Real Boston Richey

Macseal @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Carly Cosgrove

FRIDAY - MARCH 21st

☁️🌧️Rain, mainly before 8am. Patchy fog before 10am. High near 49. Northwest wind 7 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Foil Arms & Hog Comedy Show @ Shubert Theatre @ 8PM Online sensation comedy group, Foil Arms & Hog bring their brand-new show ‘Skittish,’ mixing signature sketch comedy with audience participation and improvisation.

Beethoven & Mozart in Concert @ NEC Jordan Hall @ 8PM Renowned coloratura soprano Erin Morley graces the Baroque Boston Stage with concert arias by Mozart and Beethoven.

Whitechapel @ The Palladium @ 5:30PM With Brand of Sacrifice, 200 Stab Wounds, & Alluvial

SATURDAY - MARCH 22nd

☀️Mostly sunny, with a high near 59. Southwest wind 7 to 13 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.

Women’s History Month Celebration @ MoS @ 10AM Celebrate the achievements of women in science, culture, and society with special guest panels, live presentations, hands-on activities, and more.

Holi Mela Festival @ Adams Park @ 11AM Celebrate the Indian holiday Holi with music, dancing, food, and a chance to cover yourself with multi-colored powders, as per tradition.

Spencer Sutherland @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With Stacey Ryan & Cloe Wilder

Mayhem @ The Palladium @ 6:30PM With Mortiis, Imperial Triumphant, & New Skeletal Faces

Rare Americans @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Hotel Mira & Shauna Dean Cokeland

Action/Adventure @ The Rockwell @ 7PM With Cheem, Ringpop!, & 5ever

SUNDAY - MARCH 23rd

☀️Mostly sunny, with a high near 59. Southwest wind 7 to 13 mph.

Hockey and Honey @ Stone Zoo @ 9AM Celebrate World Bear Day with a visit from the Boston Bruins mascot, bear enrichment, expert talks and more!

Select Spring Thrift Festival @ Reggie Lewis Center @ 11AM Featuring 100+ vendors selling vintage, Y2K, $5 piles, and more, this festival is the perfect place to hunt for new spring and summer looks!

Dr. Scott Bonn Live Show @ The Wilbur @ 7PM Spend a deliciously chilling evening with renowned criminologist and serial killer expert, Dr. Scott Bonn, as he takes you inside the minds of the world’s most savage and prolific murderers.

Weekend Concert: Nevermind @ ISG Museum @ 1:30PM Playing French Baroque chamber music.

ALL WEEKEND

All weekend - Paradise City Arts Festival @ Marlborough Royal Plaza Trade Center @ 10AM Paradise City Marlborough is the Boston area’s leading fair of fine craft, painting and sculpture featuring 170 curated artists and makers.

All weekend - Boston Underground Film Festival @ The Brattle Don’t miss Boston’s premiere festival highlighting the strange, the unusual, and the overlooked.

All weekend - The National Center for Jewish Film’s Film Festival @ Various Venues Enjoy a vibrant program of new film premieres and rare archive treasures from around the globe.

All weekend - Coltrane ‘Legacy for Orchestra’ in Concert @ Symphony Hall This new live concert experience re-frames some of jazz legend John Coltrane’s most popular and influential works with lush orchestrations, accompanied by exclusive personal photographs.

All weekend - Boston Ballet’s Winter Experience @ Citizens Bank Opera House Boston Ballet presents an unforgettable celebration of dance that includes new, world-premier and re-envisioned productions from award-winning choreographers.

All weekend - Queer Voices Play Festival @ BCA Plaza Theatre The Boston Theater Company’s annual festival showcases vibrant and diverse ten-minute plays by LGBTQ+ playwrights!

All weekend - ‘The Addams Family’ Musical @ Wang Theatre A comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, this magnificently macabre hit musical features everyone’s favorite creepy, kooky characters.

All weekend - ‘Parade’ Musical @ Emerson Colonial Theatre LAST CHANCE - Riveting and gloriously hopeful, this all-new production of a timeless Broadway story reminds us that to love, we must truly see one another. Ends 3/23.

All weekend - ‘Rent’ Musical @ Company Theatre LAST CHANCE - 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 LAST CHANCE - 1960s Dublin is the setting for this charming musical about the redemptive power of theatre, love, and friendship. Ends 3/22.

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 - ‘My Dinner With André’ Play @ BCA Black Box Theatre Based on the cult classic film, Harbor Stage Company presents a bold, beguiling experiment in adaptation, introspection, and taste. Ends 3/30.

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 - ‘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 - ‘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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