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Good morning Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, April 3rd - 6th

April 02, 2025

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

THURSDAY - APRIL 3RD

🌧️ Rain likely, mainly before noon. Cloudy, with a high near 64. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Night of Ideas @ MoS @ 7PM This exceptional night will feature a multidisciplinary program, combining expert discussions on global issues, performances, workshops, and screenings.

Eric Eaton Magic Show @ Laugh Boston @ 7PM Enjoy a comedy and magic show from the Merlin Award winner Eric Eaton, as seen on 'Masters of Illusion'!

Dylan Scott @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With George Birge & Graham Barham

Tyler Rich @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With Clayton Johnson & Chris Ferrara

FRIDAY - APRIL 4TH

🌤️ Partly sunny, with a high near 65. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph.

Red Sox vs Cardinals @ Fenway Park @ 2:10PM Promotion: Red Sox Home Opener

Small Mart Night Market @ Crystal Ballroom @ 5PM This special night market brings together an epic lineup of vintage curators, vinyl collectors, and independent artists & makers, all under one roof.

First Fridays @ MFA @ 6PM Kick-off a new month with other art enthusiasts and participate in art making activities, hear special curator talks, relax to music, and more.

First Fridays: Boots and Buckles @ ICA @ 6PM Dust off your cowboy boots for a night of music, contemporary art, country cocktails, and more.

Candlelight: ‘Rings and Dragons’ Concert @ Temple Ohabei Shalom @ 8:30PM Hear beloved soundtracks from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Game of Thrones.’

Chase Rice @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With Lori McKenna & Pony Bradshaw

Poppy @ House of Blues @ 7PM With House of Protection

SATURDAY - APRIL 5TH

🌧️Showers likely, mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 47. East wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Red Sox vs Cardinals @ Fenway Park @ 4:10PM Promotion: Kids Run the Bases

Monster Energy Supercross 2025 @ Gillette Stadium @ 7PM The biggest stars in the sport will be lining up at Gillette Stadium promising to deliver one of the deepest fields in recent history.

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.

Beer + Bites Craft Brew Tasting @ Melrose Memorial Hall @ 6:30PM Sample local craft brews and appetizer bites at the 7th Melrose Beer + Bites festival!

Big Wreck @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With The Band Feel & DJ Carbo

SUNDAY - APRIL 6TH

🌧️Showers likely, mainly before 8am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. Southwest wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Red Sox vs Cardinals @ Fenway Park @ 7:10PM Promotion: Minecraft Movie Night

ALL WEEKEND

All weekend - Boston Comedy Fest Enjoy the best of local and national comedians at different Boston venues!

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 - Boston Turkish Film Festival @ MFA Celebrate both recognized Turkish filmmakers and newcomers at the 24th-annual Boston Turkish Film Festival.

All weekend - ‘Shen Yun’ Performance @ Wang Theatre Watch ancient legends, heavenly realms and modern tales of courage spring to life through classical Chinese dance.

All weekend - Stravinsky, Hailstork, & Elgar in Concert @ Symphony Hall World-renowned conductor Dima Slodobeniouk leads the BSO in an impressive program featuring violin master Frank Peter Zimmermann.

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 - ‘Clue’ Play @ Hanover Theatre Based on the iconic 1985 Paramount movie which was inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, ‘Clue’ is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery.

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 - ‘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 - ‘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 360Âş 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.