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Good morning Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, January 16th - 19th

January 16, 2025

THURSDAY - JANUARY 16th

‘Tech Roast’ Comedy Show @ The Wilbur @ 7:30PM Tech Roast Show tours tech hubs across the country to remind audiences of hope in the age of technology and AI in a fun and interactive comedy show.

Jeremie Albino @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With Benjamin Dakota Rogers & DJ Carbo

FRIDAY - JANUARY 17th

The Boston Urban Ceilidh @ Crystal Ballroom @ 7:30PM The event features participatory and social dances from the Cape Breton and Scottish traditions, all with live music.

‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Screening @ MFA @ 7PM *Part of the Boston Festival of Films from Iran

50 Cent @ Memoire @ 10PM With DJ Spinking

Rambudikon Agency Fest @ Palladium @ 6PM Featuring Infinity Sequence, From Ashes Reborn, Hand of the Tribe, & more

Bruce in the USA: Bruce Springsteen Experience @ The Sinclair @ 8PM This high-energy musical experience is a note-perfect and visually accurate recreation of a Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band show.

SATURDAY - JANUARY 18th

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.

Beer Fest @ Time Out Market @ 1PM A host of local breweries will be popping up inside the Fenway food hall serving samples.

‘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.

The Elovaters @ MGM Music Hall @ 6:45PM With Moon Taxi, Little Stranger, & Surfer Girl

Feral: The LGBTQ Rager @ Brighton Music Hall @ 9PM Featuring Kori King, Tara Dikhof, & BegBick

Rebounder @ The Rockwell @ 8PM With J.W. Francis

SUNDAY - JANUARY 19th

Adult Night @ MoS @ 6PM Experience the Museum after hours at this adults-only night, revisit fond memories of exploring Science Park, meet other science enthusiasts, engage with museum educators, and more.

ALL WEEKEND

THURSDAY & FRIDAY - Dancing with the Stars Live @ Wang Theatre DWTS pros and special guests bring an unforgettable night full of all the magic of the TV show and more!

All weekend - Boston Celtic Music Festival
The 22nd annual Boston Celtic Music Festival returns to Club Passim, Crystal Ballroom, The Burren and The Rockwell. The festival showcases Greater Boston’s deep tradition of music, song and dance from Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, Quebecois and other Celtic communities.

All weekend - ‘Some of the Best of 2024’ Film Program @ The Brattle See 2024’s best releases including ‘His Three Daughters,’ ‘Rumours,’ ‘Megalopolis,’ ‘Good One,’ and more.

All weekend - ‘Beethoven & Romanticism’ Concert @ Symphony Hall The BSO continues its exploration of Beethoven’s seminal works with genre-defining, innovative symphonies No. 6 & 7.

All weekend - ‘Hadestown’ Musical @ Company Theatre This full-length Teen Edition of Anaïs Mitchell’s haunting, jazz-inflected folk opera follows Orpheus’ mythical quest to overcome Hades. Ends 1/26.

All weekend - ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ Play @ BCA Calderwood Pavilion SpeakEasy Stage presents Jordan E. Cooper’s blisteringly funny satirical play about Black American life, history, and identity. Ends 2/8.

All weekend - ‘Crumbs from the Table of Joy’ Play @ Lyric Stage Set in Brooklyn during the racially charged 1950s, a torn family tries to find new meaning in what makes a home. Ends 2/2.

All weekend - ‘Library Lion’ Musical Play @ BCA Calderwood Pavilion LAST CHANCE - Based on one of the most best-selling children’s books of all time, ‘Library Lion’ explores the idea of rules and norms, and the importance of breaking them every once in a while. Ends 1/19.

All weekend - ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ Play @ Chelsea Theatre Works LAST CHANCE - Performed on alternating nights by two actors and in two languages, this play examines depression, the beauty of everyday moments, and human connection. Ends 1/19.

All weekend - ‘A View from the Bridge’ Play @ Marblehead Little Theatre Following an American family that takes in two illegal immigrant cousins, this timely play explores ideas such as the immigrant experience, heritage and roots, finding commonality in a new society, and more. Ends 1/26.

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. 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 2/2.

Ongoing - ‘Tau Lewis: Spirit Level’ Exhibition @ ICA LAST CHANCE - 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.

Ongoing - ‘Charles Atlas: About Time’ Exhibition @ ICA Spanning 50 years of work, this immersive exhibition presents career-defining installations of interdisciplinary artist Charles Atlas, whose work explores the intersection of moving image, dance, and performance. Ends 3/16.

Ongoing - ‘Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore’ Exhibition @ MFA LAST CHANCE - First of its kind, the exhibition brings two of the 20th century’s biggest artists into conversation, using compelling visual juxtapositions to explore their common ways of seeing. Ends 1/20.

Ongoing - ‘Manet: A Model Family’ Exhibition @ ISG Museum LAST CHANCE - ‘Manet: A Model Family’ is the first exhibition to explore Manet through the lens of his complex familial relationships, shedding new light on the life and masterpieces of the “father of modernism.” Ends 1/20.

Ongoing - ‘Power of the People: Art and Democracy’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition highlights how artworks have expressed ideas about democracy throughout history and how artists have asked citizens to contemplate and participate in democratic processes. Ends 2/16.

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 - ‘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. Ends 2/2.

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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