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THURSDAY - MARCH 5th
Drawing in the Galleries @ MFA @ 6PM Sketch and draw your own artwork inspired by the museum’s galleries.
‘Hamlet’ Play @ North Shore Music Theatre @ 7:30PM This abridged production unleashes the dark, powerful tale of William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet,’ a story steeped in mystery, revenge, and agonizing choices about truth and loyalty.
Seacoast Stilettos Dance Performance @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM This performance features unforgettable performances from Seacoast dancers, choreographers and teachers – alongside special guests from the Boston scene.
Bailey Zimmerman @ TD Garden @ 7PM With Hudson Westbrook & Blake Whiten
Celtic Woman @ Orpheum Theatre @ 8PM Legendary performing collective blends Irish tradition with contemporary, high-energy performances including original compositions and new orchestrations.
Tophouse @ Paradise Rock Club @ 7PM With The Wolff Sisters
The Thing @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With Spirit Ghost & Jonny Tex
Nailed Shut Ma @ The Sinclair @ 7PM With Slamwich, Frog Mallet, & Edict
Augustana @ City Winery @ 7:30PM With String Quartet
FRIDAY - MARCH 6th
First Fridays: R&B Night @ ICA @ 6PM Get ready for a night of soulful vibes, classic hits, and irresistible rhythms from SILK - named Boston’s Best Music Night three years in a row.
First Fridays @ MFA @ 6PM Unwind with MFA First Fridays - an exciting evening of music, dancing, art making, and more.
Brit Floyd @ Orpheum Theatre @ 8PM The world's premier Pink Floyd tribute act presents a monumental new production, honoring two of the most legendary albums in rock history — ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ and ‘The Wall.’
Rumours ATL: A Fleetwood Mac Tribute @ The Wilbur @ 8PM Rumours ATL invites you to step into a world where the legend of Fleetwood Mac comes alive once more.
Rainbow Kitten Surprise @ MGM Music Hall @ 8PM With Common People
Jesse Welles @ House of Blues @ 7PM With S.G.Goodman
Bryce Vine @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With Out in Front & Brake
INZO @ Big Night Live @ 9PM With Know Good, Blookah, & Spenny
I See Stars @ The Palladium @ 7PM With Mothica, Until I Wake, & DIAMANTE
Puma Blue @ Crystal Ballroom @ 8PM With Salami Rose Joe Louis
Chris Smither @ City Winery @ 7:30PM With Betty Soo
SATURDAY - MARCH 7th
‘The Music of Queen’ Concert @ Emerson Colonial Theatre @ 8PM The Berklee Ensemble Orchestra captures Queen's distinct sound while presenting some familiar and lots of new musical colors.
Candlelight: 90s Hip-Hop on Strings @ Simons Theatre @ 7PM Your favorite throwback Hip-Hop hits reimagined in classical sound! Featuring selections by Wu Tang Clan, Outkast, 2Pac, Nas, & more.
Candlelight: The Best of Hans Zimmer @ Simons Theatre @ 9PM Hear Hans Zimmer’s best soundtracks from ‘Inception,’ ‘The Lion King,’ ‘Interstellar,’ ‘The Dark Knight,’ and more.
Aldous Collins Band @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With 3rd Left & Jay Psaros
SIDEPIECE @ Big Night Live @ 9:30PM With Camilla Fabb, Charley Blacker, & MilesHigh
Vendredi Sur Mer @ The Sinclair @ 8PM With Jazz Cuti
Jam Band Night @ City Winery @ 7PM Featuring The Tripps, The Melting Mountain, The Fuss, & more
SUNDAY - MARCH 8th
Family ART-trek @ ICA @ 11AM Through games, drawing, and other playful activities, participants will uncover the stories and creative processes of exhibition artists.
‘Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat’ Performance @ Emerson Colonial Theatre @ 11AM / 2PM This energetic kid-friendly adaptation bursts onto the stage, bringing laughs, surprises, and just a bit of delightful disorder!
Goldie Boutilier @ Brighton Music Hall @ 7PM With Syd Taylor & Dj Carbo
Charley Crockett @ Roadrunner @ 8PM With Drayton Farley
Amber Mark @ Royale @ 7PM With Sherwyn
The Slackers @ The Sinclair @ 7:30PM With The Attractors
ALL WEEKEND
FRIDAY & SUNDAY - ‘Lord Nelson Mass’ in Concert @ NEC Jordan Hall Boston Baroque presents Haydn’s choral masterwork, the Missa in Angustiis (Lord Nelson Mass) coupled with Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Drop-In Artmaking @ MFA Get inspired by artwork in the collection, then use the art materials provided to create a work of your own.
All weekend - Dine Out Boston 2026 Dine Out Boston is the perfect opportunity to take advantage of delicious deals at participating restaurants.
All weekend - Boston BitDown Music Festival @ Various Venues Boston BitDown is a new artist-driven music festival celebrating Chiptune/Digital Fusion music.
All weekend - Jazz Festival @ Arrow Street Arts Catch exciting next-generation artists who understand and embrace the art form's limitless capacity for freedom and self-expression.
All weekend - ‘Winter Experience’ Ballet @ Citizens Opera House With themes of the natural and supernatural worlds, this special program is comprised of two powerful ballets that have made an impact on dance history. Ends 3/16.
All weekend - All-Brahms Concert @ Symphony Hall The BSO performs an exquisite all-Brahms program featuring the composer’s intense final Symphony No. 4.
All weekend - 2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films Screenings @ ICA ICA presents its annual selection of Oscar-nominated live-action, animation, and documentary shorts you always wish you’d seen come Oscar night. Ends 3/8.
All weekend - ‘Cabaret’ Musical @ Company Theatre Company Theatre takes you back to Berlin in the late 1920 where, inside the Kit Kat Club, a spotlight shines on the colorful, gritty, and hedonistic lives found inside. Ends 3/22.
All weekend - ‘LATE’ Musical @ BCA Plaza Theatre This contemporary new musical follows two best friends, Billie and Katie, making their way through a vibrant, chaotic, funny, ordinary high school day – until it is suddenly torn apart by tragedy. Ends 3/14.
All weekend - ‘The Bald Soprano’ + ‘The Lesson’ Plays @ BCA Plaza Black Box Theatre Ridiculous on the surface but razor-sharp underneath, this frenetic theatrical tour-de-force is simultaneously comedic and profound, asking audiences to laugh loudly but think deeply. Ends 3/8.
All weekend - ‘We Had a World’ Play @ Calderwood Pavilion In this searing, funny, and deeply personal play, the author explores thirty years of family fights, monstrous behavior, enduring love, and unexpected dishes of home-cooked spaetzle. Ends 3/15.
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.
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 - ‘An Indigenous Present’ Exhibition @ ICA Spanning 100 years of contemporary Indigenous art, this thematic exhibition features artworks that represent personal and collective narratives, describe specific and imagined places, and build upon cultural and aesthetic traditions. Ends 3/8.
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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