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Concerts, games, comedy, theater and more.
2026 Community Chamber Concert in West Roxbury
German Centre · 2:00 PM
Dover Quartet
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM
Roots Roadshow 2026
Red Room at Cafe 939 · 7:00 PM
Singers Night: Journey, Don't Stop Believin'
Berklee Performance Center · 8:00 PM
Choral Evensong
Church · 5:45 PM
Open Rehearsal: Jan Lisiecki performs Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1
Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 10:30 AM
Performance Studies Showcase
Red Room at Cafe 939 · 7:00 PM
A Celebration of Hip-Hop: Berklee Hip-Hop Hall of Fame Inducts Big Daddy Kane
Berklee Performance Center · 8:00 PM
Free Fridays at Trinity Organ Concerts
Church · 12:15 PM
Charles Haynes and the Tabernacle
Red Room at Cafe 939 · 7:00 PM
Pooh: La Nostra Storia North America Tour 2026
Berklee Performance Center · 8:00 PM
Peter and the Wolf
Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 12:00 PM
Francis of Delirium with Paper Lady
Red Room at Cafe 939 · 7:00 PM
Coltrane 100: Both Directions at Once
Berklee Performance Center · 8:00 PM
Coltrane 100: Lovano, Aldana, Genovese, Oh, and Watts
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
What Makes It Great? Mozart's Clarinet Concerto
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM
Gershwin and Respighi Fountains of Rome
Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 1:30 PM
Holiday Pops
Holiday Pops · 3:00 PM
2026 Holiday Pops Sensory Friendly
Boston Pops · 10:30 AM
Nadia Washington Quartet
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM
2026 Holiday Pops Kids' Matinee
Boston Pops · 11:00 AM
Handel’s Messiah Concert
Church · 2:00 PM
Casse-Noisette: A Holiday Tale in Music
The French Library · 5:30 PM
Holiday Pops Company Celebration with Sutton Foster
Boston Pops · 7:30 PM
Jeremy Denk, Piano
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
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
Candlelight Carols
Church · 4:00 PM
Handel's Messiah
NEC's Jordan Hall · 7:00 PM
New Year's Celebration
Harvard's Sanders Theatre · 7:00 PM
New Year's Eve with Samara Joy and the Boston Pops
Boston Pops · 8:00 PM
Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos. 1 and 6
Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM
2027 Community Chamber Concert at Parish of All Saints
Parish of All Saints · 3:00 PM
Gil Shaham & Akira Eguchi
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
2027 Community Chamber Concert
St. John's Episcopal Church · 4:30 PM
What Makes It Great? Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
2027 Community Chamber Concert
Hibernian Hall · 3:00 PM
Boston Symphony Chamber Players perform Tchaikovsky Souvenir of Florence
Jordan Hall · 3:00 PM
Lukas Sternath, Piano
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 7:30 PM
2027 Community Chamber Concert
Fenway Center · 1:30 PM
Michel Camilo Trio
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
Edgar Meyer, Mike Marshall & George Meyer
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM
Mitsuko Uchida, Piano
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 7:30 PM
Youth Open Rehearsal: Prokofiev and Sibelius
Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 10:30 AM
Paavo Järvi and Alisa Weilerstein: Prokofiev and Sibelius
Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM
Roxbury Concert Series: Ahmed Alom Trio
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 12:00 PM
Isidore String Quartet with Jeremy Denk
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM
2027 Community Chamber Concert
Conservatory Lab Charter School · 3:30 PM
Celebrating Philip Glass at 90
Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM
Emmet Cohen Trio with Georgia Heers
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
Junction Trio
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
Boston Symphony Chamber Players perform Stravinsky, Shaw, and Tower
Jordan Hall · 3:00 PM
Sō Percussion with Helado Negro and Kate Stables
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
Damir Imamović
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
Charles Yang
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
Amanda Shea & Tim Hall Trio
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM
Flor de Toloache
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
Zlata Chochieva, Piano
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
2027 Community Chamber Concert
The Foundry · 6:30 PM
High School Open Rehearsal: Stravinsky Ballets: Petrushka and The Firebird
Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 10:30 AM
Thibaut Garcia & Antoine Morinière
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 7:30 PM
Débo Ray Experience
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
NEC's Jordan Hall / Harvard's Sanders Theatre · 7:00 PM
Víkingur Ólafsson, Piano
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM
Yoko Miwa Trio
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall · 7:30 PM
Isabelle Faust & Kristian Bezuidenhout
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
Seong-Jin Cho, Piano
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM
London Symphony Orchestra with Antonio Pappano and Maxim Vengerov
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 7:30 PM
Celtic Night
Boston Pops · 7:30 PM
Pavel Haas Quartet
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 8:00 PM
Rakish with Rasa String Quartet
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM
Fernando Brandão Quartet
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston) · 3:00 PM
Close by, in Downtown & Theater District, Fenway, South End
Experience The Ruckus!
Old South Meeting HouseThe Road to Revolution: Massachusetts and the Independence Movement
Old State HouseDrop-In Art Making
Museum of Fine Arts, BostonBoston: Freedom Trail Insiders Tour with Museum Entry
Hub Town ToursNovember Hands-On History Day
Old State HouseBoston Stories Guided Tour
Museum of Fine Arts, BostonGallery Highlights Guided Tour
Museum of Fine Arts, BostonAmerica at 250 Guided Tour
Museum of Fine Arts, BostonFCI Family Canvas Painting Fundraiser
The BordyCeltics vs. Mavericks
TD GardenWicked
Citizens Opera HouseBlake Newman Trio
The BeehivePlaces in Back Bay
- Lyric Stage Company of BostonTheater · 59 coming up
- Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston)Presenter · 59 coming up
- Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony HallConcert hall · 57 coming up
- Trinity Church concertsChurch concerts · 39 coming up
- Holiday PopsHoliday concert · 32 coming up
- The French LibraryCultural center · 24 coming up
- Boston Public Library: Central LibraryLibrary · 10 coming up
- Huntington Theatre CompanyTheater · 9 coming up
- Boston BaroqueOrchestra · 8 coming up
- Boston PopsOrchestra · 8 coming up
- Berklee Performance CenterConcert hall · 4 coming up
- Prudential Center eventsShopping center · 4 coming up
- Red Room at Cafe 939Music venue · 4 coming up
- Copley Society of ArtArt gallery · 2 coming up
- Boston MarathonAnnual race · 1 coming up
- Copley Square Tree LightingAnnual event · 1 coming up
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