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THURSDAY - MARCH 26th
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.
Ernest @ House of Blues @ 7PM With Chandler Walters
The Format @ Roadrunner @ 6:50PM With Piebald & Adult Mom
Jarv + RDGLDGRN @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With Damn Skippy
Boys Go To Jupiter @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Exit 18 & Aedan MacDougall
FRIDAY - MARCH 27th
Small Mart Pop-Up Market @ Crystal Ballroom @ 5PM Visit this curated, vibrant marketplace filled with local artists, makers, and vintage vendors.
Teen Night @ ICA @ 6PM Teen Arts Council, in collaboration with Boston After Dark, invites you to a night filled with creativity, performances, food, dancing, and more.
One Liner Madness Comedy Show @ The Rockwell @ 7PM This traveling comedy show finds the best joke writers in the country as they go head-to-head in a single-elimination, one-liner joke contest.
GWAR @ House of Blues @ 6:30PM With Soulfly & King Parrot
Slomosa @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With The Mainliners
Testament @ The Palladium @ 7PM With Overkill & Destruction
Old 97’s @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Lizzie N0
Katzman & Coach @ City Winery @ 7:30PM With Makeout Palace & Noah Britton
SATURDAY - MARCH 28th
Free Jacks vs Atlantic Privateers @ Veterans Memorial Stadium @ 2PM Visit Fort Quincy for Woodgy’s Winter Wonderland, a frosty preseason celebration featuring the New England Free Jacks and international visitors Atlantic Privateers in a one-of-a-kind rugby showdown.
Women’s History Month Celebration @ MoS @ 10AM Celebrate Women’s History Month with a day of inspiring speakers, live science presentations, hands-on activities, and community partners.
Zara Larsson @ House of Blues @ 7PM With Amelia Moore
Sons of Legion @ Paradise Rock Club @ 7PM With Benny G
Drain @ The Palladium @ 7PM With No Pressure, Haywire, & Secret World
Addison Groove Project @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Jennifer Hartswick
Della Mae @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Rachel Sumner
Spring Fling: Local Musicians Showcase @ The Rockwell @ 7PM Featuring Jesse Detor, Sophie’s Body, Smiley, & Fire, Escape!
SUNDAY - MARCH 29th
‘The Magic Gateway’ Magic Show @ Regent Theatre @ 11AM / 1:30PM / 4:30PM Featuring jaw-dropping illusions, hilarious moments, and interactive surprises, this one-magician show is packed with fun for the whole family.
Community Chamber Concert @ First Church in Cambridge @ 3PM The BSO musicians perform selections from Bach, Walker, & Dvořák in this free community concert.
Candlelight: The Best Of Joe Hisaishi @ The Huntington Theatre @ 9PM Experience soundtracks from ‘Spirited Away,’ ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service,’ ‘Princess Mononoke,’ and more performed by a string ensemble.
Hollow Crown Tour @ Brighton Music Hall @ 5PM Featuring Thxsomch, Missio, Guardin, The Haunt, & more
Emperor @ The Palladium @ 7:30PM With Blood Incantation
ZZ Ward @ City Winery @ 7:30PM With Jesse Williams Band
Jaded Symphony @ The Sinclair @ 7PM With Niche, PinDrop, & Karina and the Boys
ALL WEEKEND
All weekend - Drop-In Artmaking @ MFA Get inspired by artwork in the collection, then use the art materials provided to create a work of your own.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - ‘My First Ex-Husband’ Show @ The Huntington Theatre This bold and heartfelt adaptation of true stories by the legendary Joy Behar, comedienne and co-host of ‘The View,’ explores the messy and hilarious truths of love and relationships.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Boston Turkish Film Festival @ Various Venues Celebrating both recognized Turkish filmmakers and newcomers to the 25th annual Boston Turkish Film Festival.
All weekend - Village Art and Craft Event @ The Village Works See unique handmade goodies, chat with talented local artists, and maybe even try your hand at some crafts yourself.
All weekend - ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ Circus @ Agganis Arena Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey presents a high-energy, music-driven experience with bold performances, unforgettable characters, and nonstop party vibe. Ends 4/5.
All weekend - Salem Film Festival Now in its eighteenth year, this celebration of documentary filmmaking presents a diverse collection of the past year’s best works from all over the world.
All weekend - Dvořák & Adams in Concert @ Symphony Hall Opera luminaries Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming perform excerpts from John Adams’ groundbreaking opera ‘Nixon in China,’ while the BSO takes on Dvořák’s sweeping ‘New World Symphony.’
All weekend - ‘Suffs’ Musical @ Emerson Colonial Theatre This thrilling and dazzlingly entertaining new musical boldly explores the triumphs and failures of a struggle for equality that’s far from over. Ends 3/29.
All weekend - ‘The Antiques’ Play @ Calderwood Pavilion Set in the not-so-distant future, Jordan Harrison’s ‘The Antiquities’ is a haunting and surprisingly funny meditation on memory, extinction, and the strangeness of humanity. Ends 3/28.
All weekend - ‘Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous’ Play @ Lyric Stage This dramatic comedy confronts aging, legacy, and honoring the past while embracing an unknown future. Ends 4/12.
ONGOING
Ongoing - Somerville Winter Farmers Market @ Arts at the Armory @ 9:30AM Saturdays - This weekly winter market features 70+ local food vendors with the best locally grown and regionally produced foods.
Ongoing - ‘Discovering King Tut’s Tomb’ Exhibition @ Saunders Castle at Park Plaza NEW - From breathtaking golden artifacts to a state-of-the-art VR journey into the pharaoh’s tomb, this interactive exhibit is a unique chance to step into the wonders of Ancient Egypt. Ends 4/30.
Ongoing - ‘Music America’ Exhibition @ Wang Theatre Featuring more than 100 legendary artifacts, ‘Music America’ traces 250 years of music history, from early folk song books and hymnals to contemporary musical production.
Ongoing - ‘Lighten Up! On Biology and Time’ Exhibition @ MIT Museum Featuring immersive artworks, installations, and experiential environments, this exhibition explores the connection between living organisms and the natural cycle of light and dark. Ends 8/2026.
Ongoing - ‘Kelly Taylor Mitchell: mouth wide open’ Exhibition @ MFA Taking inspiration from various cultures and diasporas from the American South and the Caribbean, Mitchell explores traditional objects, divinities, and rituals. Ends 4/26.
Ongoing - ‘Faces in the Crowd: Street Photography’ Exhibition @ MFA Take a look at how different photographers employ the camera as a tool of transformation, taking everyday pictures from the ordinary to the strangely beautiful or even ominous. Ends 7/13.
Ongoing - ‘Reality and Imagination: Rembrandt and the Jews in the Dutch Republic’ Exhibition @ MFA This exhibition draws on the MFA’s collection of Dutch art and Judaica to explore the different ways Jewish communities interacted with the artistic culture of Holland in the 1600s. Ends 12/1.
Ongoing - ‘One Hundred Stitches, One Hundred Villages’ Exhibition @ MFA This exhibition presents nearly 20 rarely seen kaleidoscopic Chinese patchwork textiles coming from remote provinces that reflect local styles and reveal artistic sensibilities and personal histories. Ends 5/3.
Ongoing - ‘To My Best Friend’ Exhibition @ ICA Drawing from more than 50 artworks from the collection, this exhibition highlights a consistent interest in formal and material experimentation through works by historically underrepresented and women artists. Ends 12/31.
Ongoing - ‘Celtic Art Across the Ages’ Exhibition @ Harvard Art Museums Discover the many forms of Celtic creativity and their artistic legacies in this sweeping story that spans ancient to modern times. Ends 8/2.
Ongoing - ‘Critical Thinking’ Exhibition @ Harvard Art Museums With its unexpected juxtapositions among little-known prints, this installation is designed to generate experimental thinking. Ends 5/10.
Ongoing - ‘Double Happiness: Celebration in Chinese Art’ Exhibition @ Peabody Essex Museum Presenting 30+ highlights from the museum's wide-ranging Chinese collection, this exhibition invites visitors to discover plants and animals, myths and symbols and decipher the Chinese character for "Double Happiness." Ends 5/3.
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.
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