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Good afternoon Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, September 26th - 29th

September 26, 2024

Have a great weekend everyone.

THURSDAY - SEPTEMBER 26th

Latinx Heritage Night @ MFA @ 5PM Enjoy an evening celebrating Latinx heritage and culture through live music, dance performances, talks in the galleries, & more!

Museums at Night @ Harvard Art Museums @ 5PM
Get ready for an evening of art, music, food, and more! This event is free and open to everyone.

‘The Price Is Right’ Live @ Hanover Theatre @ 7:30PM Television’s longest running and most popular gameshow, the hit interactive stage show version gives eligible individuals the chance to win exciting prizes.

Candlelight: The Best of Hans Zimmer @ Temple Ohabei Shalom @ 7PM Hear Hans Zimmer’s best soundtracks from ‘Inception,’ ‘The Lion King,’ ‘Interstellar,’ ‘The Dark Knight,’ and more.

You Blew It! @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Carly Cosgrove & Perennial

FRIDAY - SEPTEMBER 27th

Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ in Concert @ Symphony Hall @ 7:30PM Handel and Haydn Society orchestra and chorus open their season with a double feature of moving masterpieces, including Requiems from Mozart and Haydn.

Emo Nite @ Big Night Live @ 9PM With DJ Brian Logan Dales

SATURDAY - SEPTEMBER 28th

Teen After Dark @ MIT Museum @ 6PM The evening will include art and science, snacks and mocktails, music and performances, and more fun for science-curious teens!

Basement @ Roadrunner @ 7PM With Narrow Head, Ovlov, & Snooper

JP Cooper @ Royale @ 6PM With Sam Fischer

SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 29th

Red Sox vs Rays @ Fenway Park @ 3PM Promotion: Celtics Day, Kids Run the Bases

Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ in Concert @ Symphony Hall @ 3PM Handel and Haydn Society orchestra and chorus open their season with a double feature of moving masterpieces, including Requiems from Mozart and Haydn.

Valley @ House of Blues @ 7PM With Mickey Darling

ALL WEEKEND

SATURDAY & SUNDAY - New England Renaissance Festival @ King Richard’s Fairgrounds King Richard’s Faire is the premiere fall entertainment event for all things Renaissance.

All weekend - The Big E @ West Springfield LAST CHANCE - The New England tradition is back for another 17 days of big rides, big animals, big food, and big fun!

All weekend - Cambridge Science Festival @ MIT Museum The annual festival celebrates science, technology, and other STEM fields by making it fun, interactive, and accessible.

All weekend - Snider, Copland, Barber, & Simon in Concert @ Symphony Hall Music Director Andris Nelsons leads this all-American program including works by Carlos Simon and Sarah Kirkland Snider, both of which explore social justice through a musical lens.

All weekend - CineFest Latino Boston Enjoy film screenings from this year’s festival that highlights the stories by and about Latinos.

All weekend - ‘Mamma Mia’ Musical @ Citizens Opera House Set on a Greek island paradise where the sun always shines, this tale of love, friendship, and identity is beautifully told through the timeless hits of ABBA.

All weekend - ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ Musical @ North Shore Music Theatre This musical tells the true story of the famed recording session that brought together rock ‘n’ roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.

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 - ‘Sinister Streets’ Walking Tour @ Peabody Essex Museum This indoor/outdoor walking tour takes visitors through the dark side of Salem history - highlighting landmarks from the 1600-1800s. Ends 11/17.

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 - ‘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.

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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