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Plan your trip around one of Boston's annual events like First Night, the Boston Marathon, Harborfest, and the Head of the Charles Regatta, or create an unforgettable trip with one of the events highlighted in this section.
Oct 11, 2021 · Oct. 10. 125th Boston Marathon Race Day Timeline, Resources, and Information. Race Day Timeline: Monday, October 11, 2021 (all times are approximate) 8:02 a.m. ET -- Wheelchair Division – Men’s Start: Official Starter: Amby Burfoot, 1968 Boston Marathon champion (also running this year’s race)
January 17: Convention to ratify U.S. Constitution moves to Federal Street Church. [25] February 6: Delegates ratify U.S. Constitution; [25] Boston becomes part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. February 8: Parade in honor of ratification of U.S. Constitution.
- Attend An Art-World Reunion Centuries in The Making.
- Give A Standing O to Get on Your knees.
- Escape to The Islands Without Leaving The City.
- Race Over to The Eye-Popping Olympics of Drag.
- Hear The Striking Prose of The Sound inside.
- Dedicate An Evening to The Reopening of Symphony Hall.
- Patch Together A New Perspective on American Life.
- See The Broadway Blockbuster That Defined The ’90s, One Last time.
- Scare Yourself Silly with Massachusetts-Based Tales of Terror.
- Pick Up Thrilling Page-Turners at The Boston Book Festival.
Besides that empty wall space where a stolen Rembrandt once hung, Renaissance painter Titian’s The Rape of Europa is the single most famous piece to see at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Until now, though, no one has viewed it alongside its five original companion works, all mid-1500s interpretations of classic myths. The epic reunion an...
In case you can’t tell by the blunt title, comedian Jacqueline Novak’s one-woman show is indeed an uproarious ode to oral sex. The acclaimed act, a Drama Desk Award nominee, covers the history of the topic—plus plenty of personal anecdotes and observations—with sly intelligence and bawdy humor that’ll definitely make tongues wag when it hits the Bo...
No passport is required for visiting Cambridge Carnival, an annual music-, food-, and fun-filled celebration of Afro-Caribbean cultures. It kicks off September 12with a colorfully costumed parade that travels—to the sunny ring-ting-ting rhythm of steel drums—from River Street to University Park. There, festival guests will groove to calypso and mor...
No, we’re not talking about RuPaul’s Drag Race—we’re talking about Boston Drag Gauntlet, a live, biweekly competition series at Legacy Boston in the Theater District, which will whittle 11 fierce, gender-screwing performers down to a single winner starting September 7. First, though, let’s meet three of the local contenders. Harley Queen Three word...
This two-person show’s super-literary script—about a middle-aged creative-writing professor dealing with a cancer diagnosis as well as an intense, unusually intimate relationship with her student—earned it a 2020 Tony nomination for best play. Experience the unique, novel-like narration for yourself September 24 through October 16, when The Sound I...
Fittingly, Beethoven’s Consecration of the House overture will break 18 months of silence at the city’s sacred home to world-class classical music, which swells with strings again starting September 30. Boston Symphony Orchestra’s first post-shutdown season is also its debut under the 140-year-old organization’s first female president, Gail Samuel,...
In “Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories,” more than 50 textiles trace centuries of cultural evolutions countrywide, incorporating significant works by immigrant, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ artists. A huge highlight of the exhibition, running from October 10 through January 17 at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, is Pictorial Quilt, a rare surviving work ...
The 25th anniversary farewell tour of Rent might be your last chance to catch the groundbreaking rock musical about bohemian artists—including an angelic drag queen, a brooding songwriter, and a saucy erotic dancer—striving to survive and navigating love (and HIV) in New York City’s gentrifying East Village. Many “Seasons of Love” later, the show, ...
What spooks and spirits lurk in New England’s dark and eerie woods? The big-budget, Boston-filmed Ghostbusters movie never quite answered that. We have higher hopes, though, for the indie Bay State filmmakers featured in the “Local Mass Hysteria” program at Salem Horror Fest (October 1 to 11), a lineup of frightening flicks pulsing with incisive po...
Riveting mystery novels, salacious love stories, button-pushing political polemics—whatever literary equivalent of a binge-watch you seek, it’ll be covered by this annual series of author-led book readings, discussions, and signings, plus Copley and Nubian Square street fairs padded out with family-friendly activities such as magic acts and yoga cl...
Jul 15, 2014 · But alongside such traditional local celebrations as the annual Boston Tea Party Re-enactment in spring and summer's Boston Pops Fourth of July Concert on the Esplanade in Back Bay are more...
Oct 4, 2021 · Everything to know about the 2021 Boston Marathon, from the marathon schedule to special events. Read more on Boston.com.
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Jul 29, 2021 · Arts. 10 things to do in Boston this weekend. BosTen is your weekly guide to events and cool happenings in and around Boston. Children play at Boston Children's Museum. Courtesy Boston...
