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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 — 2,062 events from 363 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.
Now playing · Tue Oct 13 · 4:00pm
Cedar Pruitt presents a nonfiction picture book about the boy who found the Lascaux cave paintings, one of the most significant archaeological discoveries ever made, at a dark moment in the world. Kirkus gave it a starred review, calling it poetically told and luminously illustrated. Part of the shop's Squirrel Tales programme.
Now playing · Tue Oct 13 · 7:30pm
Peter Federman, assistant professor of public policy at UMass Boston, looks at how COVID-19 shifted power from legislatures to governors, who issued more than 1,200 pandemic-related executive orders between February and June 2020. He asks why some states locked down hard while others barely did and whether the orders saved lives. His research on pandemic decision-making has appeared in Public Administration Review and Publius.
$32.95
Sat Dec 12 · 7:00pm
Andrzej Wajda's 1965 adaptation of Stefan Żeromski's two-volume novel follows Rafał Olbromski (Daniel Olbrychski), an impoverished nobleman caught among the shifting factions of the Napoleonic Wars. Shot in black-and-white CinemaScope by Jerzy Lipman, with battles staged with more than 1,500 extras, it angered Polish nationalists by showing Poles as “imperfect, manipulable and capable of violence.” A four-hour epic, in the HFA's Wajda centenary series.
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 13 · 12pm
Janis Thiessen, professor of history at the University of Winnipeg, takes as her starting point Sugar Farmers of Manitoba, a 1968 institutional history published by the Manitoba Beet Growers Association that gives inadvertent and disturbing insight into racism and settler colonialism in Canada. Her talk is a step toward a fuller history of sugar in the province. Mary Jane McCallum, Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard, chairs.
Tue Oct 13 · 12:00pm
Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, a health communication scholar who resigned from the National Institutes of Health in January 2026 after 18 years, reflects on the pressures on health misinformation research, including researchers' self-censorship and growing censorship at the NIH, and closes on research priorities such as countering major misinformation spreaders. Chou, a co-author of the Bethesda Declaration, is now a Harvard Shorenstein Center Fellow.
Tue Oct 13 · 12pm
Abolitionists all claimed to follow Jesus but disagreed about who he was. Columbia's Ryan Carr argues that Frederick Douglass's Jesus, fully human yet speaking with a special authority, took shape in conversation with the Transcendentalists, and that Douglass claimed that same authority to speak about slavery from his own experience of it. Carr is the author of a study of the Mohegan minister Samson Occom.
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.
$5 suggested
Tue Oct 13 · 12:20pm
In June a Justice Department legal memo effectively reversed the department's approach to defending disabled people's right to community integration under Olmstead v. L.C. (1999). Michael Ashley Stein of Harvard Law's Project on Disability, Steven J. Schwartz of the Center for Public Representation, Dianna Hu of the Boston Center for Independent Living and Alex Green of the Kennedy School discuss its practical effects and how the disability community can respond.
Tue Oct 13 · 12:45pm
Marc Herman presents “The Lives and Afterlives of Maimonides's ‘Book of Commandments,’” on the work in which Maimonides enumerated the 613 commandments of the Torah, written in Judeo-Arabic as groundwork for his legal code, the Mishneh Torah. The Tauber Institute's Jewish Studies Colloquium is a forum for Brandeis faculty, graduate students and visiting scholars to present research in progress. It is also streamed on Zoom.
Tue Oct 13 · 2:30pm
Nicolas Romeo of the University of Chicago presents “Mechanical canalization of chiral morphogenesis,” a theory-experiment study of how the fruit fly midgut reliably coils with the same handedness. An early constriction biases the symmetry breaking, with handedness set by molecular cues relayed between organs; elongation under anatomical confinement then drives a buckling instability that amplifies and stabilises the coil, pointing to tissue mechanics as a source of developmental robustness.
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