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Good morning Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, April 10th -13th

April 09, 2025

Welcome to the Wednesday late morning newsletter! Please enjoy your weekend, as always if you have any feedback you can reply directly to this email.

THURSDAY - APRIL 10th

☀️ Mostly sunny, with a high near 50. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon.

College Night @ MFA @ 5PM The MFA is welcoming college and university students to the MFA for a special evening of art making, gallery talks, and more!

After Dark @ MIT Museum @ 6PM Enjoy an adult-only lively evening of entertainment, science, and tinkering.

12/OC @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Annie Brobst

FRIDAY - APRIL 11th

☁️ Mostly cloudy, with a high near 49. Light east wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the morning.

ILLENIUM @ MGM Music Hall @ 7:30PM With Switch Disco & Control Freak

Half.Alive @ Roadrunner @ 7PM With The Walters & Mehro

Mogwai @ Paradise Rock Club @ 6:30PM With BRAINiac & Ye Gods

Cold @ Brighton Music Hall @ 6PM With September Mourning, University Drive, & Thrower

Anxious @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Ultra Q, Stateside, & can’t lose

Slow JOy @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Flycatcher & Cherubhead

Chelsea Grin @ The Palladium @ 5PM With Shadow of Intent, Signs of the Swarm, Traitors, & Crown Magnet

SATURDAY - APRIL 12th

🌧️ Rain. High near 43. Northeast wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Monster Jam @ Gillette Stadium @ 5PM Enjoy big-time family fun at Monster Jam, where the world’s best drivers and their monster trucks tear up the dirt in wide-open competitions of speed and skill.

Spring Is Queer Market @ Time Out Market @ 12PM This Spring-themed makers market features local LGBTQ+ talent showcasing their creativity and craftsmanship.

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.

Asake @ Agganis Arena @ 8PM With Jordan Adetunji

Rambudikon Agency Fest: Scarecrow Hill @ The Palladium @ 6:30PM With 6five6, Accursed, Burning Time, & Paradise is Cancelled

SUNDAY - APRIL 13th

🌧️ Rain likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 49. North wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Trap Burlesque Show: Th3 Boy Is Mine @ Crystal Ballroom @ 9PM This sensual infusion of burlesque and live music sets the scene for the perfect date night or friend’s night out!

‘Sleeping Beauty’ Ballet Light Show @ Huntington Theatre @ 6:30PM / 8:30PM
Experience ‘Sleeping Beauty’ like never before, as dancers in glow-in-the-dark costumes bring this classic tale to life on stage.

Heart @ Agganis Arena @ 8PM With Lucinda Williams

Pouya @ House of Blues @ 7PM With Freddie Dredd & Cursed

Knox @ Royale @ 7PM With The Wldlfe

Chase Petra @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Small Crush & Sorry Mom

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ALL WEEKEND

All weekend - Wicked Queer Film Festival Wicked Queer celebrates the latest in queer cinema, bringing the best contemporary films, by, for, and about the LGBTQ+ community to various venues in Boston. Ends 4/13.

All weekend - Riverdance Performance @ Wang Theatre The beloved theatrical phenomenon is back with a new, re-imagined and powerful production featuring signature fusion of Irish and international dance and music.

All weekend - ‘Night Side Songs’ Performance @ Hibernian Hall This genre-breaking music-theater experience gives voices to doctors, patients, researchers, and caregivers. Ends 4/20.

All weekend - ‘Shucked’ Musical @ Citizens Opera House
From an award-winning production team comes a unique and hilarious musical story of a small-town woman on a quest to find out why all the corn across the country keeps dying. Ends 4/20.

All weekend - ‘Come From Far Away’ Musical @ Hanover Theatre This breathtaking musical takes you into the heart of the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them.

All weekend - ‘Carousel’ Musical @ Emerson Colonial Theatre This landmark 80th anniversary production of Rodgers & Hammerstein classic explores human frailty, resilience, and the power of love and and redemption. Ends 4/13.

All weekend - ‘Shrek’ Musical @ Company Theatre Everyone’s favorite ogre, Shrek, leads a cast of fairytale misfits on an adventure in this fantastic Broadway musical based on the Oscar-winning animated film. Ends 4/14.

All weekend - ‘Natasha, Pierre, and The Great Comet of 1812’ Musical @ Calderwood Pavilion Nominated for 12 Tony-awards upon its roaring premiere, this musical extravaganza combines the unimaginable - electropop tunes with the scandalous slice of Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace.’

All weekend - ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Play @ Hanover Theatre Enjoy Shakespeare’s classic tale of young love, scandal, deception, and witty banter. Ends 4/27.

All weekend - ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ Play @ Mosesian Center for the Arts This invigorating new take on ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ explores the beauty and romance, but also the sinister underbelly, of one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated classics. Ends 5/4.

All weekend - ‘The Great Reveal’ Play @ Lyric Stage
Taking place at a gender reveal party, this dramedy explores the ways a diverse group of people who love each other navigate family dynamics and gender identity. Ends 4/27.

All weekend - ‘It’s A Motherf**king Pleasure’ Play @ Paramount Theatre Don’t miss this scathing, hilarious satire on the monetization of identity politics which spares no one. Ends 4/13.

All weekend - ‘Don’t Eat The Mangos’ Play @ The Huntington Theatre Funny and poignant, this tragedy play portrays life on Puerto Rico with compassion and humor through the story of three sisters living outside of San Juan. Ends 4/27.

All weekend - ‘Her Portmanteau’ Play @ Central Square Theatre ‘Her Portmanteau’ is an explosive story of betrayal and forgiveness, centering on a Nigerian mother in the U.S. and her two daughters who lived very different lives. Ends 4/20.

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 4/27.

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.