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- Good afternoon Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, September 19th - 22nd
Good afternoon Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, September 19th - 22nd
Have a great weekend everyone.
THURSDAY - SEPTEMBER 19th
Zedd @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With Mesto & ellis
Fletcher @ Roadrunner @ 8PM With Maude Latour
The Airborne Toxic Event @ House of Blues @ 7PM With Tyler Ramsey
Great Good Fine Ok @ The Sinclair @ 8:30PM With Schur
FRIDAY - SEPTEMBER 20th
‘Eno’ Documentary Film Screening @ ICA @ 6PM / 9PM Experience the Boston premiere of Gary Hustwit’s groundbreaking generative documentary and hear from the filmmaker in a Q&A session.
Cirque de la Symphonie @ Symphony Hall @ 7:30PM See world-class circus artists perform to a soundtrack featuring timeless movie themes from John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, and more!
The Life and Music of George Michael Concert @ Emerson Colonial Theatre @ 8PM
This brand new concert show chronicles George Michael's incredible career, perfectly capturing his iconic sound and performance style.
Candlelight: The Best of Video Games in Concert @ First Church Cambridge @ 7PM Hear beloved themes from your favorite computer games live!
Meghan Trainor @ Xfinity Center @ 6:30PM With Paul Russel & Chris Olsen
Zedd @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With Mesto & ellis
Griff @ House of Blues @ 7PM With Stephen Dawes
Skillet & Seether @ Roadrunner @ 6PM With Tim Montana & Royale Lynn
Summer Salt @ Paradise Rock Club @ 6:30PM With Will Paquin & Mini Trees
Doom Flamingo @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With Kendall Street Company
Rapsody @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Niko Brim, LARA’, & Nay Speaks
SATURDAY - SEPTEMBER 21st
Ales & Tales @ Stone Zoo @ 4PM Sip on your favorite drinks from local breweries, enjoy food from city’s best vendors, and hang out with animals after dark.
South Boston Street Festival @ East Broadway Enjoy a community day featuring live entertainment, dance performances, local food vendors, and a market with over 100 merchants.
Oktoberfest @ Time Out Market @ 12PM Experience traditional Oktoberfest festivities with the finest locally crafted beers from breweries from around New England.
Oktoberfest @ Boston Public Market @ 12PM Join the ultimate Oktoberfest celebration and enjoy live music, traditional bites, and free entry!
What The Fluff Festival @ Union Square @ 2PM Honoring the invention of Marshmallow Fluff, the festival celebrates Somerville’s proud tradition of innovation with live music, fluffalicious food, sticky games, and much more!
‘Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition’ Screening @ MFA @ 2:30PM This award-winning film offers you the chance to experience the largest Vermeer exhibition in history held in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum.
‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ in Concert @ Emerson Colonial Theatre @ 2PM / 7PM Enjoy the movie showcased on an HD screen, complemented by a diverse ensemble of musicians and instrumentalists performing the film’s iconic score and soundtrack live.
The Life and Music of George Michael Concert @ Hanover Theatre @ 7:30PM
This brand new concert show chronicles George Michael's incredible career, perfectly capturing his iconic sound and performance style.
Candlelight: Discovering Mozart @ First Church Cambridge @ 7PM Hear the classic sonatas, overtures, symphonies, and requiems from Mozart.
Korn @ Xfinity Center @ 6:30PM With Gojira & Spiritbox
The Sisters of Mercy @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With Blaqk Audio
Lauv @ Leader Bank Pavilion @ 8PM With Alexander 23
Bowling for Soup @ House of Blues @ 6:30PM With Wheatus & Don’t Panic
Highly Suspect @ Roadrunner @ 8PM With Dead Poet Society
Spafford @ The Sinclair @ 7:45PM With Consider the Source
SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 22nd
El Salvador Celebration @ Harvard Museum of Natural History @ 1PM Experience this vibrant celebration of El Salvador’s culture and natural history featuring screenings, folk dances, educational sessions, hands-on activities, and more family-friendly fun.
Dora Jar @ Brighton Music Hall @ 6PM With The Army, The Navy
Cassandra Jenkins @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Margaux
ALL WEEKEND
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Wanda Sykes Comedy Show @ The Wilbur @ 8PM With Keith Robinson
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Sundance Film Festival Shorts @ ICA The 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour features new short films from the 2024 festival, including three of this year’s award winners.
All weekend - The Big E @ West Springfield The New England tradition is back for another 17 days of big rides, big animals, big food, and big fun!
All weekend - Boston Film Festival The 40th anniversary program showcases cutting edge indie films, top documentaries, shorts, animated, fall release studio films and a newly created sports category.
All weekend - New England Metal & Hardcore Music Festival @ The Palladium Featuring Killswitch, Engage, Machine Head, Bane, 200 Stab Wounds, & more.
All weekend - ‘Urinetown’ Musical @ Lyric Stage With heart and hope, this modern classic reminds us just how great and revelatory the American musical can be.
All weekend - ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Play @ Loeb Drama Center All-star cast and production team including Rudy Pankow and Emilia Suarez stage Shakespeare’s iconic love story.
All weekend - ‘The Crucible’ Play @ Hanover Theatre Experience Arthur Miller’s gripping classic ‘The Crucible’ in this powerful, immersive production set within Salem’s jail.
All weekend - ‘Leopoldstadt’ Play @ Huntington Theatre The latest masterpiece and most personal play from Tom Stoppard, ‘Leopoldstadt’ is a stirring and epic story of love, family, and enduring bravery set in Vienna at the rise of the 20th century.
All weekend - ‘Laughs In Spanish’ Play @ BCA Calderwood Pavilion Stylish and vibrant, this play offers a light-hearted look at the struggles many Latinas go through to gain entry into cultural and artistic spaces that have historically excluded them.
All weekend - ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ Play @ Central Square Theater The world's most famous literary detective Sherlock Holmes comes to life in this adaptation if the classic thriller from Arthur Conan Doyle.
ONGOING
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.
Ongoing - Boston Lights: A Lantern Experience @ Franklin Park Zoo
Prepare to be dazzled by the magic of all-new lantern displays, immersive walkthroughs, enchanting interactive displays and Instagrammable moments at every turn. Ends 11/3.
Ongoing - Summer Market @ Seaport LAST CHANCE - Seaport’s summer bazaar returns with a mix of popular returning artisans and new entrants, all offering a unique assortment of products from clothing to home décor, pet goods, food, and much more. Ends 9/22.
Ongoing - Artisan Market @ Rose Kennedy Greenway @ 11AM *Saturdays and Sundays. Ends 10/26.
Ongoing - ‘Wordplay’ Exhibition @ ICA Highlighting the rich interplay between imagery and text, the exhibition showcases how contemporary artists have played with words to animate and expand their art practices. Ends 1/5/2025.
Ongoing - ‘Tau Lewis: Spirit Level’ Exhibition @ ICA Inspired by different social, cultural, and physical landscapes from her life, Tau Lewis upcycles found materials into intricately detailed soft sculptures, quilts, masks, and other assemblages. Ends 1/20/2025.
Ongoing - ‘Dalí: Disruption and Devotion’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition juxtaposes nearly 30 paintings and prints by the outlandish and iconoclastic artist Salvador Dalí. Ends 12/1.
Ongoing - Ancestors and Place: Indigenous North American Prints’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition features more than 30 works by Indigenous artists from the United States and Canada that explore the nuanced ideas of stewardship, history, colonization, and community. Ends 10/16.
Ongoing - ‘Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale’ Exhibition @ MFA Featuring 15 intriguing objects from 17th-century Netherlands such as paintings, prints, silver medals, and books, this exhibition compels viewers to reconsider their relationship to the world around them. Ends 11/3.
Ongoing - ‘Hyman Bloom: Landscapes of the Mind’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition invites visitors in the imagination of Hyman Bloom as he strived to capture the wilderness and mysticism of the natural world and its connection to the human psyche. Ends 12/1.
Ongoing - ‘Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation’ Exhibition @ Harvard Art Museums The exhibition takes an unprecedented look at German art since 1980, exploring the notions of German identity and the idea of ethnic and cultural homogeneity. Ends 1/5/2025.
Ongoing - ‘Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums’ Exhibition @ Peabody Essex Museum Explore the essential role art and objects played for mediums and magicians “communicating” with the dead during the 19th- and 20th-century Spiritualism movement in the U.S. and Europe.
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 1/4/2025.