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Good evening Boston, here is your list of things to do this weekend, March 14th - 17th

Happy St. Patrick's day!

March 14, 2024

Enjoy your weekend Boston! If you ever have anything you’d like to see added, please feel free to reach out using the contact link at the bottom.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY 🍀

THURSDAY - All Irish Comedy Tour @ Laugh Boston @ 8PM Featuring Mick Thomas and Sean Finnerty

FRIDAY - St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Showdown @ Murphy Skating Rink @ 2PM It's a hockey tournament showdown between the NYPD & BFD. Plus, raffle baskets, 50/50, games, and scholarship applications are available.

SATURDAY - 13th Annual Irish Festival @ Patriot Place @ 11AM The daylong celebration will feature live performances by Irish musicians and step dancers, as well as a full slate of free Irish-themed activities for the whole family to enjoy.

SATURDAY - Family St. Patrick’s Day @ Irish Cultural Centre @ 11AM Enjoy a fun filled day of St. Patrick’s festivities with live music, Irish dancing, and activities!

SATURDAY - Irish Dance Show @ JFK Library and Museum @ 10:30AM Exuberant dancers demonstrate athleticism, skill, and poise while presenting traditional and contemporary styles of Irish dance.

SATURDAY - Boston’s Official Saint Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl Join the 25,000 people bar hopping through the West End, Faneuil Hall, Fenway, Seaport, and Financial District with exclusive access to 50+ venues.

SUNDAY - St. Patrick’s Day / Evacuation Day Parade @ South Boston The annual parade is back in South Boston, where it has been a tradition for more than 110 years. It includes marching bands, police and army contingents, costume spectacles, novelty vehicles, and a general "green" atmosphere.

SUNDAY - Big Band Bollocks @ City Winery @ 7:30PM Back in Boston For St. Patrick's Day Ft. A Tribute Set To Shane McGowan & The Pogues

THURSDAY - MARCH 14

Nowruz Celebration @ MFA @ 5PM Celebrate the ancient festival of Nowruz and discover unique traditions from around the world, revel in magnificent works of art, enjoy lively dance and music performances, and much more.

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

Candlelight: A Tribute to Queen @ Temple Ohabei Shalom @ 7PM / 9PM Hear your favorite Queen songs classically reimagined.

Mindchatter @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Familiar Faces

FRIDAY - MARCH 15

Jessi Stegall Dance Performance @ ICA @ 8PM Set to Clara Rockmore’s arrangements of classical scores for theremin, the dance-theatre piece explores themes of grief, remembrance, and devotion.

Chelsea Wolfe @ Royale @ 7PM With Divide and Dissolve

Fort Nights @ Crystal Ballroom @ 7:30PM Enjoy a musical celebration of Gary Smith & the music of Fort Apache Studios

SATURDAY - MARCH 16

‘Seven Samurai’ Screening @ MFA @ 1PM Part of the UNIQLO Festival of Films from Japan

Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show @ North Shore Music Theatre @ 8PM Audiences can experience this critically acclaimed, hugely entertaining theatrical production which includes exciting new arrangements of classic and never-before-heard Rat Pack songs.

Tow’rs @ The Sinclair @ 8:30PM With A Boy and His Kite

SUNDAY - MARCH 17

Another Slice of Pi Day @ MIT Museum @ 10AM Explore how we can find the area of a circle, build your own Möbius strip in the Maker Hub, and test your memory at our Pi Recitation Contest.

Orchestre de Paris @ Symphony Hall @ 7PM Two young superstars lead the way when the Orchestre de Paris makes a return to Celebrity Series with a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

Sleater-Kinney @ Paradise Rock Club @ 7PM With Black Belt Eagle Scout

HEALTH @ Royale @ 7PM With Pixel Grip + King Yosef

ALL WEEKEND

THURSDAY & FRIDAY - ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ Play @ Zack Box TheatreFollowing a young boy on a detective quest, this touching play is a story of resilience and hope when the world feels against us.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY - Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Concert @ Symphony Hall Guest conductor Raphaël Pichon and Handel + Haydn Society Orchestra and Chorus deliver a fervently fresh take on this magnum opus in honor of its bicentennial.

All weekend - Curling @ The Liberty Hotel LAST CHANCE - Enjoy a winter Curling experience in the Liberty's private patio, complete with seasonal cocktails and bites.

All weekend - Dine Out Boston 2024 Dine Out Boston is the perfect opportunity to take advantage of delicious deals at participating restaurants.

All weekend - ‘Cinderella’ Ballet @ Citizens Bank Opera House Set to Prokofiev’s classic score with spectacular set and costume design, Frederick Ahston’s unique production brings epic story to life with all the artistry and emotion you can imagine.

All weekend - WinterWorks Dance Concert @ Boston Conservatory Theater This annual dance concert features the mainstage debut of Boston Conservatory's first-year contemporary dance and commercial dance students.

All weekend - Dvorák, Janáček, and Langer in Concert @ Symphony Hall The BSO and eminent English conductor Sir Mark Elder perform a program full of whimsy, fantasy, and folklore.

All weekend - ‘The Cher Show’ Musical @ Wang Theatre ‘The Cher Show’ is 35 smash hits, six decades of stardom, two rock-star husbands, and countless EGOT awards, all in one unabashedly fabulous new musical that will have audiences dancing in the aisles!

All weekend - ‘Girl from the North Country’ Musical @ Emerson Colonial Theatre This Tony-award winning new musical reimagines 20 legendary songs of Bob Dylan as they’ve never been heard before.

All weekend - ‘King Hedley II’ Play @ Hibernian Hall Actors’ Shakespeare Project takes on one of August Wilson’s powerful ‘The Pittsburgh Cycle’ plays, examining family tensions and the Black experience during Reagan America.

All weekend - ‘Cost of Living’ Play @ Roberts Studio Theatre In this wry and quietly observed play, Polish-born playwright Martyna Majok interweaves the stories of four lonely souls to examine the forces that bring people together and the ways we all need each other.

All weekend - ‘Measure For Measure’ Play @ Black Box Theatre Written amidst religious and cultural turmoil, every character in ‘Measure For Measure’ has a different sense of what it means to live morally and authentically.

All weekend - ‘Thirst’ Play @ Lyric Stage LAST CHANCE - Tension, humor, and hope reside in this heartbreaking tale of love and belonging set during Eugene O’Neil’s classic ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night.’

All weekend - ‘Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight’ Play @ The Huntington Theatre After sold out runs in LA, Chicago, and Paris, this thoroughly unique, interactive theatrical experience from Olivier Award-nominated John Kolvenbach comes to Boston.

ONGOING

Ongoing - Winteractive @ Downtown This free, walkable art experience features 16 artworks and interactive play elements in downtown Boston.

Ongoing - Winter Sauna Experience @ Rose Kennedy Greenway Moki Winter Village is a unique wellness oasis featuring saunas and cold-plunge pools tucked away between the city’s skyscrapers.

Ongoing - ‘Deep Sky’ IMAX Screening @ MoS Go on a journey to the beginning of time and space, to never-before-seen cosmic landscapes as captured by NASA’s Webb Telescope in this new IMAX documentary.

Ongoing - Immersive Disney Animation @ Boch Center Step into the art and legacy of Walt Disney Animation Studios and celebrate the music, artistry and animation from the creators of Frozen, The Little Mermaid, Big Hero 6 and many more.

Ongoing - Musical Shows @ MoS PlanetariumMuseum of Science puts on special experiences adapting the music of Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Lady Gaga, and The Divas to immersive visuals in the Charles Hayden Planetarium

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.

Ongoing - ‘ Dinorá Justice: The Lay of the Land’ Exhibition @ MFA In her multidisciplinary works, Brazilian American artist Dinorá Justice uses a distinct visual vocabulary to examine intertwined histories of gender, landscape, and visual culture.

Ongoing - ‘Mondrian: Foundations’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition presents 28 paintings and works on paper, primarily from Mondrian’s early career, that trace the artist’s explorations as he progressed from realistic traditions to experimental abstractions.

Ongoing - ‘Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party’ Exhibition @ MFA This exhibition brings together 27 powerful photographs by Stephen Shames that feature the women of the Black Panther party and showcase their crucial work for the movement.

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.

Ongoing - ‘Marking Resilience: Indigenous North American Prints’ Exhibition @ MFA The exhibition features 30 newly acquired works by Indigenous artists from the United States and Canada who were inspired by the resilience and creativity of their cultures.

Ongoing - ‘Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West’ Exhibition @ ISG Museum Shaw’s images of magic and mystery combine Western artistic tradition with ornamental elements derived from the Japanese, Persian, and Indian cultures that he vividly remembers from his youth.

Ongoing - ‘Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution’ Exhibition @ Harvard Art Museums The exhibition explores the dictator Francisco Franco’s Spain, imagery of death, struggles of good and evil, political and artistic revolution, and issues of desire and capture.

Ongoing - ‘Our Time on Earth’ Exhibition @ Peabody Essex Museum This traveling exhibition from the Barbican Centre in London celebrates the power of global creativity to transform the conversation around the climate emergency.

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