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ARTS PICK: LA BOHEME @ THE COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE
Need a new fix for your Early Victorian Parisian opera addiction now that Les Mis has come and gone? Well then quit butchering “One Day More” and head to the Coolidge Corner Theatre for their screening...
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ARTS PICK: WHAT IT IS @ LOT F GALLERY
What is What It Is? it? WHAT IT IS is Anthony Palocci Jr.‘s solo show, opening at Lot F for the month of February. Palocci’s subjects are everyday objects like showers or sinks, and his work pinpoints...
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BOSTON PHILHARMONIC PRESENTS: MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 6 @ SANDERS THEATRE
Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 is famous for its intricate composition, for conveying sadness and tragedy, and for being hard. Like, really hard. Seriously, it’s his most rarely performed piece of work. So...
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ARTS PICK: JIM JEFFERIES @ THE WILBUR
If you’re feeling a little controversial, and want to spark some heat by doing something a bit more irreverent than, say, double dipping, [gasp! –Ed.] you should head over to the Wilbur this Saturday...
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ARTS PICK: SMASH’S MEGAN HILTY @ BOSTON SYMPHONY HALL
Boston, we hear you. You wanted more of NBC’s hit show Smash, and good ol’ Dig is doing you a solid. We know some people who know some people, and now Broadway and Smash star Megan Hilty will be...
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ARTS PICK: PUNK ROCK @ BCA’S BLACK BOX THEATRE
Rock n’ roll gets an elite spin at Boston Center for the Arts’s Black Box Theatre with Punk Rock, which tells the tale of angsty teens surviving their senior year at a British prep school. Kind of like...
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ARTS PICK: +1: GLASS @ LINCOLN ARTS PROJECT GALLERY
Lincoln Arts Project Gallery’s newest show is +1: Glass. Participating artists bring along one artist friend to contribute to the show as well. Yes, you can bring a friend too, but don’t touch...
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ARTS PICK: KEVIN JAMES @ ORPHEUM THEATRE
Funny man Kevin James is getting back to his roots and bringing his stand-up to the Orpheum Theatre. Please, please, please buy these tickets; the world doesn’t need a sequel to Paul Blart: Mall Cop....
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ARTS PICK: CŒUR DE PIRATE @ PARADISE ROCK CLUB
There are certainly plenty of negative stereotypes about the French: they drink too much wine, they smoke too much, they wear those stupid hats. Fortunately, those same stigmas don’t apply to their...
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ARTS PICK: DYLAN MORAN @ THE WILBUR
Irish comedian Dylan Moran is a true connoisseur of the raging asshole shtick having covered the complete human spectrum of misanthropic backstabbers in his film and TV roles—from “ex openly trying to...
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ARTS PICK: ONCE UPON A DREAM @ BOSTON OPERA HOUSE
As it turns out, Once Upon a Dream––the hybridized rock-Broadway show detailing the life of The Rascals directed by Steven Van Zandt that synthesizes music, film, and acting bits with the original band...
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INTERVIEW: EUGENE MIRMAN
Standup comedian and Lexington native Eugene Mirman knows exactly why this area is such a breeding ground for comedy. Without hesitation, he says, “It’s the combination of being smart and angry, this...
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ARTS PICK: KNUCKLEBONES @ OUTSIDE THE BOX FESTIVAL
Nobody doubts the sheer awesomeness of playtime, but Mitch Zeisler and the rest of the Knucklebones crew make your feeble attempts at playtime look like study hall. This is next-level playtime for kids...
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ARTS PICK: IMAGINARY BEASTS @ OUTSIDE THE BOX FESTIVAL
We’ve been informed that the giant arthropod with the face of Paula Deen and the voice of Gilbert Godfrey that sometimes haunts your dreams has broken one of its eight legs and will thankfully sit this...
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ARTS PICK: PSYCHO BEACH PARTY @ FACTORY THEATRE
Last time we went to a Psycho Beach Party, forgetting our sunscreen and enduring an unfortunately long Jimmy Buffett playlist were the least of our concerns. Something about a would-be Hollywood...
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ARTS PICK: HOW WE GOT ON @ BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Photo via Boston Center for the Arts’s Facebook page. Attention B-Boys and B-Girls, poppers and breakers, writers and exciters: A rhyme-slinging “theatrical mixtape” is going down at the Boston Center...
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DIG THIS: SLUMMER CAMP @ DISTILLERY GALLERY
So three artists camped out in the Distillery Gallery for almost a month, locked away from news of royal babies, Carlos Danger sexts, or other more substantial news articles (read: anything), and...
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ARTS PICK: AN ENSEMBLE OF VEENAS @ THE MFA
You’re already going to An Ensemble of Veenas by Durga Krishnan and Group at the Museum of Fine Arts, right? If not, listen: five of the best performers in their field playing India’s most ancient...
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ARTS PICK: MORTIFIED @ OBERON
It takes balls to dig through your angst-ridden teenage diaries and even bigger cojones to get up on stage and read them to an audience. Witness all those balls in Mortified at OBERON. [Fri 8.23.13. 2...
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ARTS PICK: ADAM COROLLA + DR. DREW @ THE WILBUR THEATRE
Adam Corolla and Dr. Drew have finally rejoined their comedic forces to give you a potentially harmful case of the giggles, titters, chuckles and, uh, laughs at the Wilbur. Corolla’s set probably...
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