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Arts and Culture Events in Greater Boston
Every play, musical, classical concert, opera, ballet and dance performance, author reading, public lecture, and classic film screening in Greater Boston — 1,908 events from 365 organizations’ own pages, verified and refreshed weekly.
Now playing · Fri Sep 18 – Sun Oct 25
Summer 1947. Joe Keller is a self-made manufacturer and a pillar of his neighbourhood, and his younger son Larry has been missing since the war. When the older son announces he means to marry Larry's sweetheart, buried truths surface. Miller took the plot from a real wartime case.
Thu Oct 22 – Sun Oct 25
A drought has put every toilet under private control, and using one requires paying a corporation for the privilege. Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis wrote a satire that keeps interrupting itself to point out what a musical is doing. Queer Artists & Players call it their largest production yet.
Sun Nov 8 · 3:00pm
An all-Beethoven recital marking the bicentennial of the composer's death: the First Sonata, Op. 2 No. 1, dedicated to Haydn; the "Tempest," Op. 31 No. 2; the compact Op. 79; and the "Waldstein," Op. 53, to close. Igor Levit makes his Symphony Hall recital debut.
Thu Oct 22 · 7:00pm
Meghan Quinn, the New York Times bestselling romance novelist, brings her Christmas Staycation Tour to a concert hall rather than the shop. Christmas Staycation, set in Kringletown, turns on “fake fiancés, family pressure, and accidentally falling for your ex’s brother”: Taran has agreed to a fake wedding with her ex to keep her family’s holiday intact, and Nolan, a major league baseball player, is the ex’s brother.
Wed Dec 9 · 7:30am
Neil Blumenthal, co-founder and co-chief executive of Warby Parker, talks about building the company with his fellow co-founders to be both profitable and socially conscious. Before launching Warby Parker in 2010 he directed VisionSpring, a nonprofit social enterprise bringing affordable eyeglasses to people in developing countries, an experience that shaped the company's aim of designer eyewear at an accessible price. A breakfast reception precedes the programme.
Fri Nov 6 · 7:00pm
Steve McQueen plays the laconic detective in Peter Yates's 1968 Bullitt, best known for its car chase through real San Francisco streets; the film moves between bursts of action and McQueen's cool restraint, from an Embarcadero flophouse to a Pacific Heights mansion. It opens Visions of a City, or A Weekend in San Francisco, on 35mm, preceded by Lawrence Jordan's 16mm portrait of Beat poet Michael McClure.
Sundays to May 9 · next Oct 18, 10am
Oct 18 · Bach: Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht!, BWV 52Oct 25 · Bach: Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 169Nov 1 · Bach: Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen, BWV 49Nov 8 · Bach: Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 116Nov 15 · Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140Nov 22 · Handel: Let thy hand be strengthened, HWV 259Nov 29 · Howard Frazin: Peace Cantata (premiere)Dec 6 · Bach: Freue dich, erlöste Schar, BWV 30Dec 13 · Bach: Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn!, BWV 132Dec 20 · Bach: Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104Thu Dec 24, 7pm · Bach: Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121Jan 3 · Bach: Schau, Lieber Gott, wie meine Feind, BWV 153Jan 10 · Bach: Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7Jan 17 · Bach: Meinem Jesum laß ich nicht, BWV 124Jan 24 · Bach: Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe, BWV 156Jan 31 · Bach: Ich habe genug, BWV 82Feb 7 · Bach: Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen?, BWV 81Feb 14 · Bach: Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten, BWV 93Feb 21 · Bach: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56Feb 28 · Bach: Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, BWV 102Mar 7 · Elena Ruehr/Rev. Pamela Werntz: O still, small voice of calm (premiere)Mar 14 · John Harbison: Chorale CantataMar 21 · Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, RV 621Fri Mar 26 · Caroline Shaw: To the HandsMar 28 · Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4Apr 4 · Bach: Der Friede sie mit dir, BWV 158Apr 11 · Bach: Ich lebe, mein herze, zu deinem Ergötzen, BWV 145Apr 18 · Bach: Der Herr is mein getreuer Hirt, BWV 112Apr 25 · Bach: Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens, BWV 148May 2 · Bach: Singet den Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225May 9 · Bach: Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV 43
Since 1970 Emmanuel Music has performed a Bach cantata inside the Sunday liturgy rather than on a concert platform, and describes itself as the only organisation in the world doing so regularly. The cantata falls just before the closing hymn of the 10am Eucharist. Ryan Turner conducts, with guest conductors through the season.
Sun Oct 18 – Tue Nov 3
When his caboose is stranded, a train engineer discovers puppet characters and enchanting musical stories inside a suitcase! Recommended for ages 3 - 7. Hand puppets, live music, and more.
$18.50 general / $14.50 members, plus $3 fee; $3 Card to Culture
Fri Oct 16 – Fri Apr 9
A weekly series of Friday lunchtime organ recitals on Trinity’s historic organs and their more than 7,000 pipes, given by organists from across the United States and abroad. This autumn’s players include David Stultz, Alessandro Bianchi, Janet E. Hunt, Angela Kraft Cross and Leonardo Ciampa, with Eric Plutz and Rosalind Mohnsen among the winter recitalists. Admission is free, with a suggested $10 donation.
Oct 18/21–24
Sun Oct 18 · 1:15pm / Wed Oct 21 · 4:45pm / Thu Oct 22 · 4:30pm / Fri Oct 23 · 4:30pm / Sat Oct 24 · 1:30pm
Kenny Ortega's 1993 Hocus Pocus, shot in Salem a short walk from the cinema, follows three 300-year-old witches who, conjured up by unsuspecting pranksters, set out to cast a spell on the town and reclaim their youth. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy play the Sanderson sisters. Cinema Salem is showing the original all Halloween season by special arrangement with Disney.
Oct 18/23–25/30, Nov 1
Sun Oct 18 · 1:30pm / Fri Oct 23 · 4:15pm / Sat Oct 24 · 5:00pm / Sun Oct 25 · 6:00pm / Fri Oct 30 · 6:00pm / Sun Nov 1 · 7:40pm
Tod Browning's Dracula (1931), from the stage adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, stars Bela Lugosi, who had played the Count on Broadway, as the ancient vampire who travels from Transylvania to England and preys on the young Mina. Dwight Frye plays his servant Renfield and Edward Van Sloan the vampire hunter Van Helsing, with David Manners and Helen Chandler. It screens in the Classic Universal Monsters series.
Sun Oct 18 – Sun Nov 1
Andrew Fleming's 1996 The Craft follows a newcomer at a Catholic prep school in Los Angeles who falls in with three outcast girls who practice witchcraft, and the four begin casting spells and curses on anyone who crosses them. Robin Tunney plays the new girl, with Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell and Rachel True as the coven. The screenings mark the film's 30th anniversary.
Oct 18/22/24–25, Nov 1
Sun Oct 18 · 3:15pm / Thu Oct 22 · 4:00pm / Sat Oct 24 · 1:00pm / Sun Oct 25 · 4:15pm / Sun Nov 1 · 2:40pm
The Invisible Man, James Whale's 1933 adaptation of H.G. Wells's novel, stars Claude Rains as Jack Griffin, a scientist who has made himself invisible and takes a room at the Lion's Head Inn hoping to reverse the experiment, while the drug behind it warps his mind. Gloria Stuart plays Flora, daughter of his worried employer Dr. Cranley. It screens in the Classic Universal Monsters series.
Sun Oct 18 – Sun Nov 1
Wes Craven's 1996 Scream, written by Kevin Williamson, follows a teenage girl who, a year after her mother's murder, is stalked along with her friends by a masked killer who turns horror-film rules into a deadly game. Neve Campbell plays Sidney Prescott, with Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich and Drew Barrymore. The screenings mark the film's 30th anniversary.
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