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Arts and Culture Events in Greater Boston
Every play, musical, classical concert, opera, ballet and dance performance, author reading, and public lecture in Greater Boston — 1,808 events from 335 organizations’ own pages, verified and refreshed weekly.
Now playing · Fri Sep 18 – Sun Oct 18
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.
Now playing · Tue Oct 6 · 6:30pm
Critic Emily Eakin on The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory, her account of arriving at Harvard in the late 1980s and falling under the spell of Derrida, Foucault, Barthes, Althusser, Deleuze and Lacan. MIT's Bruno Perreau joins her on what those ideas still do in the culture wars.
Now playing · Oct 1, Apr 27 · 12:30pm
Thu Oct 1 / Tue Apr 27 · 12:30pm
Madison Brown, co-curator of The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection, discusses proof prints, which studio photographers used to plan retouching. A finished portrait was the result of a multi-step process rather than a single moment behind the camera, and handwritten notes on the proofs show the collaborative work behind it. Brown is a Smithsonian postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History.
Tue Oct 6 · 11:00am
A community discussion built around Patricia Hill Collins's lecture 'Black Women's Intellectual Activism, Social Justice and Radical Hope', on intellectual activism as the centre of Black women's long struggle for social justice. Collins graduated from Brandeis twice, wrote Black Feminist Thought, and was the first Black woman to lead the American Sociological Association.
Tue Oct 6 · 11:00am
Jennifer Papasodoro, a pediatric occupational therapist from Burlington who spent more than seventeen years working in schools, talks about handwriting and cognitive development. She has argued for teaching both printing and cursive, on the grounds that handwriting trains visual-motor, perceptual, motor-planning and attention skills as well as fine motor control. UMass Lowell's English Department hosts.
Tue Oct 6 · 11:00am
Talia Stroud, who directs the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, presents research on audience-facing uses of AI in news. One experiment found that rewriting articles for younger readers had little effect on evaluations or learning, though younger readers who detected more AI use engaged and learned less; two newsroom studies found both audience-guided and AI rewrites lowered perceived bias.
Sun Oct 4 – Sun Oct 18
A three-part forum ahead of the church building’s 150th anniversary in February 2027, on the art inside it. Keith Morgan, professor emeritus of art and architecture history at Boston University, opens with John La Farge’s murals; Trinity tour guide Peter Smiledge follows with the stained glass and its nineteenth-century revival; and church historian Cynthia Staples closes with the women artists whose work appears on its walls, windows and floors.
Tue Oct 6 · 12pm
Dani Filc, professor of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University, gives a Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies seminar on the radical right ahead of Israel's coming elections. Trained as a physician, Filc researches populism, Israeli politics and the health care system, and is a former chair of Physicians for Human Rights Israel. He is the author of The Political Right in Israel: Different Faces of Jewish Populism.
Tue Oct 6 · 12pm
Rick Levy, former president of the Texas AFL-CIO, and Gladys Cisneros, chief of the Labor Migration Branch at the International Labor Organization, discuss how labor movements are adapting to a changing economy: organizing and worker power in the United States, labor migration and workers' protections abroad, and the part unions play on climate change, AI and immigration. Part of the Institute of Politics's Food for Thought lunch series.
Tue Oct 6 · 12pm
Marta Gosovska, editor-in-chief of the foreign department at Ukraine’s Laboratoria Publishing House, traces Ukrainian literature in translation from early English editions to Drahoman Prize laureates. Since Russia’s 2022 invasion, translation has become “both a cultural strategy and an act of political will,” while missile strikes have destroyed millions of books; she examines how Ukraine’s publishers keep operating under war. Oleh Kotsyuba, HURI’s director of publications, chairs.
Sep 29, Oct 6/13/20/27 · 12:15pm
Tue Sep 29 / Tue Oct 6 / Tue Oct 13 / Tue Oct 20 / Tue Oct 27 · 12:15pm
King's Chapel's midday series brings local and visiting musicians for 30 to 40 minutes of classical, jazz and popular music. The recitals listed here are Steven Young on the chapel's C.B. Fisk organ, Zoe Vandermeer on voice and harp, and violinist Miriam David; organist Giovanni Solinas and guitarist Warren Nicholson follow later in October. Each recital is also streamed, and the suggested $5 donation goes entirely to the musicians.
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