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Theater & dance

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Lyric Stage Company of Boston · 2:00 PM

Theater & dance

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Lyric Stage Company of Boston · 2:00 PM

32 more dates through Dec 31
Music

2026 Community Chamber Concert in West Roxbury

German Centre · 2:00 PM

Music

Dover Quartet

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Event

All Ages Story Time (Ages 0-7)

Boston Public Library: Central Library · 3:30 PM

1 more date through Nov 17
Event

Amanda Forsythe Masterclass

Boston Conservatory at Berklee · 7:00 PM

Art & museums

Historic Library Tour

Boston Public Library: Central Library · 10:00 AM

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Explore and Play (Ages 0-5)

Boston Public Library: Central Library · 10:30 AM

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Navigate Metrolist with the Mayor's Office of Housing and AgeStrong

Boston Public Library: Central Library · 1:00 PM

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Freestyles with Ruby [#Teencentral]

Boston Public Library: Central Library · 3:00 PM

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STEAM Team (Ages 6-12)

Boston Public Library: Central Library · 4:00 PM

Art & museums

Employer's Rights and Responsibilities Training

Online and the Exchange classroom in the Kirstein Business Library · 6:00 PM

Art & museums

The Old Fire: On Writing, Memory, and Belonging

The French Library · 6:00 PM

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Book Launch for Dr. Ayshia Mackie-Stephenson

The Calderwood Pavilion · 7:00 PM

Free
Event

ESOL Chorus

Boston Public Library: Central Library · 10:30 AM

Food & drink

French Culinary Atelier: Burgundy

The French Library · 6:00 PM

1 more date through Dec 9
Music

Roots Roadshow 2026

Red Room at Cafe 939 · 7:00 PM

Free
Music

Singers Night: Journey, Don't Stop Believin'

Berklee Performance Center · 8:00 PM

Food & drink

Wine Seminar: Crémant

The French Library · 5:30 PM

Music

Choral Evensong

Church · 5:45 PM

15 more dates through Mar 10
Event

Le club des lecteurs: Charif Majdalani

The French Library · 6:00 PM

Music

Open Rehearsal: Jan Lisiecki performs Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 10:30 AM

2 more dates through Nov 21
Food & drink

Pâtisserie class with Chef and Champagne

The French Library · 5:00 PM

Art & museums

Ciné Club: Auction by Pascal Bonitzer

The French Library · 6:00 PM

Music

Performance Studies Showcase

Red Room at Cafe 939 · 7:00 PM

Free
Music

A Celebration of Hip-Hop: Berklee Hip-Hop Hall of Fame Inducts Big Daddy Kane

Berklee Performance Center · 8:00 PM

Music

Free Fridays at Trinity Organ Concerts

Church · 12:15 PM

13 more dates through Mar 12
Event

La Pause Café

The French Library · 2:00 PM

1 more date through Jan 22
Event

Online Conversation Club

The French Library · 2:00 PM

Music

Charles Haynes and the Tabernacle

Red Room at Cafe 939 · 7:00 PM

Free
Music

Pooh: La Nostra Storia North America Tour 2026

Berklee Performance Center · 8:00 PM

Event

L'Heure du Conte

The French Library · 11:30 AM

2 more dates through Dec 19
Art & museums

Live Painting Demo with Sobek

Copley Society of Art · 12:00 PM

Music

Peter and the Wolf

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 12:00 PM

Theater & dance

Triana Maciel & Nino de los Reyes: PerpetuARTE

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
Music

Francis of Delirium with Paper Lady

Red Room at Cafe 939 · 7:00 PM

Theater & dance

Misleading Lady with Jolene Cuisine

Huntington Theatre Company · 7:30 PM

Music

Coltrane 100: Both Directions at Once

Berklee Performance Center · 8:00 PM

Theater & dance

Ballet BC

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

1 more date through Nov 22
Music

Coltrane 100: Lovano, Aldana, Genovese, Oh, and Watts

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Music

What Makes It Great? Mozart's Clarinet Concerto

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Art & museums

Daughters of the Dust

The Coolidge Corner Theatre · 7:00 PM

Art & museums

Beaumarchais: Playwright, Secret Agent, Revolutionary

The French Library · 6:00 PM

Theater & dance

Adia & Clora Snatch Joy

Huntington Theatre Company · Through Dec 13

Music

Gershwin and Respighi Fountains of Rome

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 1:30 PM

1 more date through Nov 28
Festivals & markets

Santa in the City

Prudential Center events · Through Dec 19

Festivals & markets

2026 Copley Square Tree Lighting

Copley Square Tree Lighting · 5:00 PM

Free
Event

Giving Tree

Prudential Center events · Through Jan 1

Festivals & markets

31 Nights of Light

Prudential Center events · Through Dec 31

Festivals & markets

Carolers & Cocoa

Prudential Center events · Through Dec 16

Food & drink

Art de la Table: Setting the Scene for the Holidays

The French Library · 5:30 PM

Festivals & markets

Holiday Pops 2026

Boston Pops · 7:30 PM

2 more dates through Dec 6
Music

Holiday Pops

Holiday Pops · 3:00 PM

15 more dates through Dec 24
Festivals & markets

Marché de Noël: French Holiday Gift Market

The French Library · 10:00 AM

Music

Nadia Washington Quartet

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
Music

Handel’s Messiah Concert

Church · 2:00 PM

Music

Casse-Noisette: A Holiday Tale in Music

The French Library · 5:30 PM

Event

Happy Hunger Games! Trivia with Trident Booksellers

Huntington Theatre Company · 7:00 PM

Music

Holiday Pops Company Celebration with Sutton Foster

Boston Pops · 7:30 PM

Food & drink

Alpine Wines: A Wine & Cheese Pairing Seminar

The French Library · 5:30 PM

Music

Jeremy Denk, Piano

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Music

Stringfest: Jorge Santiago Arce with Boston Music Project, City Strings United, and Project STEP

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
Music

Candlelight Carols

Church · 4:00 PM

1 more date through Dec 13
Music

Handel's Messiah

NEC's Jordan Hall · 7:00 PM

Art & museums

Ciné-Club: The Innocent by Louis Garrel

The French Library · 6:00 PM

Event

Le club des lecteurs: Georges de Peyrebrune

The French Library · 6:00 PM

Festivals & markets

Family Ministry Night: Caroling, Potluck & Yankee Swap

Rectory · 5:30 PM

Art & museums

Closing Reception: Still On The Move

Copley Society of Art · 4:00 PM

Event

Holy Eucharist with Livestream and Children’s Homily

Church · 9:00 AM

Theater & dance

Disney's The Muppet Christmas Carol in Concert

Boston Pops · 2:00 PM

Music

New Year's Celebration

Harvard's Sanders Theatre · 7:00 PM

Music

New Year's Eve with Samara Joy and the Boston Pops

Boston Pops · 8:00 PM

Event

January Alors... Conversation Club

The French Library · 6:30 PM

2 more dates through Mar 4
Music

Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos. 1 and 6

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM

10 more dates through Jan 23
Art & museums

The Unknown Tchaikovsky

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 6:30 PM

Art & museums

Echoes from These Stones: The First Sounds of Trinity Church

Lloyd Forum · 11:15 AM

2 more dates through Jan 24
Music

2027 Community Chamber Concert at Parish of All Saints

Parish of All Saints · 3:00 PM

Art & museums

Tchaikovsky's Hot Takes: Composer as Critic

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 6:00 PM

Music

Gil Shaham & Akira Eguchi

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Music

2027 Community Chamber Concert

St. John's Episcopal Church · 4:30 PM

Art & museums

Imposter Syndrome: Tchaikovsky's failure, the Fifth Symphony

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 6:00 PM

Theater & dance

North By Northwest

Huntington Theatre Company · Through Feb 7

Art & museums

Tchaikovsky: Embodied Listening

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 6:30 PM

Music

What Makes It Great? Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Music

2027 Community Chamber Concert

Hibernian Hall · 3:00 PM

Music

Boston Symphony Chamber Players perform Tchaikovsky Souvenir of Florence

Jordan Hall · 3:00 PM

Music

Lukas Sternath, Piano

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 7:30 PM

Music

2027 Community Chamber Concert

Fenway Center · 1:30 PM

Art & museums

Tchaikovsky on Fate, the Future of Russia, and Gambling Addiction

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 6:00 PM

Theater & dance

Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM

1 more date through Jan 31
Music

Michel Camilo Trio

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Music

Edgar Meyer, Mike Marshall & George Meyer

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Music

Mitsuko Uchida, Piano

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 7:30 PM

Music

Youth Open Rehearsal: Prokofiev and Sibelius

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 10:30 AM

Music

Paavo Järvi and Alisa Weilerstein: Prokofiev and Sibelius

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM

2 more dates through Feb 6
Theater & dance

The Mirror Crack'd

Lyric Stage Company of Boston · 7:30 PM

13 more dates through Feb 24
Music

Roxbury Concert Series: Ahmed Alom Trio

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 12:00 PM

Free
Festivals & markets

Lunar New Year

Boston Pops · 2:00 PM

Music

Isidore String Quartet with Jeremy Denk

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Music

2027 Community Chamber Concert

Conservatory Lab Charter School · 3:30 PM

Event

February Game Club: Pictionary

The French Library · 6:30 PM

Music

Celebrating Philip Glass at 90

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM

2 more dates through Feb 13
Theater & dance

Limón Dance Company

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

1 more date through Feb 13
Music

Emmet Cohen Trio with Georgia Heers

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Music

Junction Trio

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Music

Boston Symphony Chamber Players perform Stravinsky, Shaw, and Tower

Jordan Hall · 3:00 PM

Music

Sō Percussion with Helado Negro and Kate Stables

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Theater & dance

Meet the Cartozians

The Calderwood Pavilion · Through Mar 21

Theater & dance

Stravinsky Ballets: The Rite of Spring

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM

2 more dates through Feb 20
Music

Damir Imamović

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Music

Charles Yang

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Music

Amanda Shea & Tim Hall Trio

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
Art & museums

From Boston to Leningrad: The BSO, Stravinsky, and Cultural Diplomacy

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 6:30 PM

Music

Flor de Toloache

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Music

Zlata Chochieva, Piano

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Music

2027 Community Chamber Concert

The Foundry · 6:30 PM

Music

High School Open Rehearsal: Stravinsky Ballets: Petrushka and The Firebird

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 10:30 AM

2 more dates through Feb 27
Music

Thibaut Garcia & Antoine Morinière

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 7:30 PM

Theater & dance

Huang Yi & KUKA

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

2 more dates through Feb 27
Music

Débo Ray Experience

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
Music

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater

NEC's Jordan Hall / Harvard's Sanders Theatre · 7:00 PM

Music

Víkingur Ólafsson, Piano

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Music

Yoko Miwa Trio

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
Music

Beethoven Symphony No. 5

Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM

3 more dates through Mar 6
Theater & dance

Teatro La Plaza's Hamlet

Huntington Theatre Company · Through Mar 7

Music

Isabelle Faust & Kristian Bezuidenhout

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Theater & dance

Modern Connections Collective: Four Here or To Go

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
Music

Seong-Jin Cho, Piano

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Music

London Symphony Orchestra with Antonio Pappano and Maxim Vengerov

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 7:30 PM

Music

Celtic Night

Boston Pops · 7:30 PM

Music

Pavel Haas Quartet

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM

Music

Rakish with Rasa String Quartet

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free
Music

Fernando Brandão Quartet

Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM

Free

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