Huddled masses yearning to hear new music make for one reason a band goes the fest route
There’s a certain point in the life cycle of a local band when the itch to tangle with the Music Industry arrives and they start to eye the “industry fest” circuit.
Arrow Street Arts community launch festival delayed to fall, but shows are set through July
Arrow Street Arts opens its Black Box Theater – once the American Repertory Theater’s Oberon – with a Boston Opera Collaborative production of “Carmen.” After that, several groups move in for performances throughout the spring and summer.
‘Becoming a Man,’ a drama on transitioning, comes to Loeb Drama Center with Q&As after
A stage adaptation of a memoir by P. Carl asks if the people we love can come with us when we change – and every performance has a 20-minute “Act II” of audience Q&A to discuss that question explicitly.
Somerville families are redirecting their wealth into community, starting with Comedy Studio
An informal group of approximately 20 families in Somerville is directing newfound wealth into an initiative to invest locally, seeking to blunt some effects of gentrification and ensure that properties and businesses remain in community hands.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from the Foundry Festival to asking about AI
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a weeklong Foundry Festival with a variety of things to do, astounding art, ice skating, a Ladysmith Black Mambazo performance and a dramatic session exploring “What if AI use goes too far?”
Go Bugs for school break, get 24 hours of sci-fi and catch echoes of the picaresques and biopic
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include the annual school vacation week Bugs Bunny Film Festival, sci-fi festival 24-hour marathon, “The Sweet East” and “Easy Rider,” new “Bob Marley: One Love” and repertory showings of Ousmane Sembène’s “Guelwaar.”
Music snobbery and the SheerHive: We land somewhere between passion and pretension
Nobody likes someone who uses their strengths to punch down at others’ weaknesses, but there can be a positive side to music snobbery.
Mental health play ‘The Manic Monologues’ comes to studio space at new Arrow Street Arts
“Manic Monologues” brings to life true stories that challenge what it means to be touched by a mental health condition – a structure and mission that will seem familiar from the taboo-breaking ”Vagina Monologues.”
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, with hip-hop dancing and writing sex scenes
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s hip-hop dance, Valentine’s, Galentine’s, Mardi Gras, Lunar New Year and Black History celebrations, operatic ballet not seen since the 1700s, “How to Steal a Presidential Election” and the arts of writing love poetry and sex scenes.
Where’s your favorite Black joy found in cinema? Sci-fi fest returns, and more greats of the 1970s
The big screen is where the world can be reimagined as a better place, including for Black History Month, but it’s also where we find romance around Valentine’s Day with “Casablanca,” and “The Princess Bride” and “What’s Up, Doc?” New releases have romance too: “The Taste of Things” and “Lisa Frankenstein.”
