80 issues to do in and round Boston this summer season

ALEX KATZ: OUT OF SIGHT: A DRAWING SURVEY Katz, pushing 100, had his first large retrospective at 95, on the Guggenheim in 2022. There are causes for that, not least of which his cussed devotion to determine when the world went summary some 70-plus years in the past. But he’s at all times had a house on the Colby Museum of Art, close to his summer season residence in Lincolnville, Maine, and to which he’s given nearly 1,000 works. On the sting of his centenary, this present feels reflective, eschewing his large, daring, colourful canvases for small scale drawing. May 21-Oct. 11. Colby Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, Maine. 207- 859-5600, www.colby.edu/museum — MW

LUCINDA WILLIAMS Released earlier this 12 months, “World Gone Wrong” is the second album Lucinda Williams has made since her 2020 stroke, and on this one she is p.o.-ed. She has referred to as the aptly titled album a “commentary on modern America,” and it’s one which rocks as exhausting because it punches. May 22, 8 p.m. Chevalier Theatre, Medford. 800-745-3000, chevaliertheatre.com — Stuart Munro

BOSTON DANCE THEATER: “THE CAROL KAYE PROJECT” Back in 2022, Jessie Jeanne Stinnett’s firm offered this 75-minute program impressed by legendary session bassist Carol Kaye on the Institute of Contemporary Art. Now the troupe is taking the quartet of items — Karole Armitage’s “Carol/Karole,” Rena Butler’s “For the Record,” Rosie Herrera’s “Ofrenda,” and Stinnett’s “Legacy”— to Maine. May 23, 7:30 p.m. $15-$35. Strand Theatre, Rockland, Maine. bostondancetheater.com — Jeffrey Gantz

SAMANTHA FISH “Every song’s a feminist anthem when you’re a woman writing from your own experience,” Samantha Fish has stated of the title monitor from her incendiary new album, “Paper Doll.” The provocative singer and songwriter — and fearsome guitar shredder — involves the Cabot joined by opener Solomon Hicks. May 23, 8 p.m. The Cabot, Beverly. 978-927-3100, thecabot.org — Jon Garelick

JACKRABBIT. Dermot Mulroney performed an aspiring nation singer within the 1993 flick “The Thing Called Love.” Now he’s pursuing the identical aspiration off-screen by teaming up with fellow actor and brother Kieran to kind the band jackrabbit. (sure, that’s how they’ve rendered the band title), which can be enjoying authentic, harmony-forward nation music on its debut tour. May 26, 8 p.m. The Center for Arts in Natick. 508-647-0097, tcan.org — SM

NEW MASADA QUARTET Former enfant horrible of latest music John Zorn leads this newest iteration of his celebrated quartet, with guitarist Julian Lage, bassist Jorge Roeder, and drummer Kenny Wolleson, enjoying, in Zorn’s phrases, “Ornette Coleman with Jewish scales.” May 28, 7 p.m. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. gardnermuseum.org/calendar — JG

BOSTON BALLET: “THE SLEEPING BEAUTY” The firm closes out its 62nd season with 12 performances of the ballet audiences appear to like essentially the most, with Princess Aurora and Prince Désiré, the Lilac Fairy and her entourage, Bluebird and Princess Florine, Puss in Boots and the White Cat, Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, even dangerous fairy Carabosse and her scary grotesques. Throw in Tchaikovsky’s luxurious rating and Petipa’s choreography that features the Rose Adagio and one can hardly go unsuitable. Last trip, in 2022, the manufacturing ran shut to a few hours, however three hours with this “Beauty” is time effectively spent. May 28–June 7. $36-$239. Citizens Opera House, Boston. www.bostonballet.org — JGantz

EUREKA DAY In Jonathan Spector’s well timed satire, a mumps outbreak triggers a dispute over vaccinations that rapidly spirals uncontrolled at a progressive elementary faculty that prides itself on inclusivity. Featuring Nancy Lemenager, Ken Cheeseman, Japhet Balaban, Sasha Diamond, Eunice Woods, and Ebonie Marie. Directed by Margot Bordelon (“John Proctor is the Villain”). May 28-June 28. The Huntington. At the Huntington Theatre, Boston. 617-266-0800, huntingtontheatre.org — Don Aucoin

HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY H+H places its skilled refrain firmly within the highlight with “Voices Carry,” a program together with Schütz’s German Magnificat, Gesualdo’s placing “Miserere mei,” Scarlatti’s mournful Stabat Mater, and extra, carried out by former Boston Symphony Orchestra director of choral actions James Burton. May 29 and 31. New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall. www.handelandhaydn.org — A.Z. Madonna

DUKE ROBILLARD The cofounder of Roomful of Blues has been dishing his infallibly swinging guitar blues in a number of contexts — together with straight-up jazz (with Herb Ellis), Texas blues-rock (with the Fabulous Thunderbirds), and at all times a core of T-Bone Walker-style bounce blues — for shut to 6 a long time. He stays a singer and guitarist of realized, impassioned eloquence. May 30, 7 p.m. Regattabar, Cambridge. 617-661-5099, regattabarjazz.com — JG

ALEX EDELMAN: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO Following the large success of his present “Just For Us,” the Brookline native has been constructing a brand new present for the previous 12 months, and brings the present model to the Emerson Colonial Theatre. May 30, 7 p.m. $48.80-$200. Emerson Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston St., Boston. www.us.atgtickets.com — Nick A. Zaino III

BOSTON BAROQUE X-TET: SOUNDS FROM TURKEY Boston Baroque’s chamber music squad groups up with members of worldwide music ensemble DÜNYA for an intermissionless hour and a half of latest and outdated music from Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, all carried out on interval devices. The program consists of the world premiere of a brand new piece by native Turkish-American composer and DÜNYA director Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol. May 30 and 31. Multicultural Arts Center, East Cambridge. www.baroque.boston — AZM

WILLIAM PRINCE This Indigenous Canadian singer-songwriter writes songs that traverse nation, people, and different flavors of roots music with ease, and delivers them with resonating, well-deep, bourbon-smooth vocals. His music has been racking up accolades, together with two JUNO awards and the John Prine Songwriter fellowship. May 31, 7 p.m. Club Passim, Cambridge. 617-492-7679, passim.org — SM

SOHIP BOSTON The Society for Historically Informed Performance presents its fortieth season of eclectic weekly concert events from numerous small ensembles. Among the season’s choices: Pandora Consort with the American woman-focused people opera “The Fire Within” (June Sept. 11); a wild musical bestiary from multi-instrumental quartet Hesperus (June 16-18), and songs of hope from medieval France from Duo Tarasque, that includes soprano-harpist Howell Petty and vielle player-lutenist Luce Burrell. Starts June 2. Tuesdays, Lincoln; Wednesdays, Andover; Thursdays, Boston. www.sohipboston.org – AZM

BAD BOOKS After discovering her son with a e book she considers obscene, a mom (Aimee Doherty) confronts an area librarian (Therese Plaehn.) Matters rapidly escalate, and shortly your entire city is embroiled within the dispute. Sharyn Rothstein’s play is directed by M. Bevin O’Gara. June 4-27. Gloucester Stage Company. At Natti-Willsky Performance Center, Gloucester. 978-281-4433, GloucesterStage.com – DA

IMPROV WITH MY FRIENDS FROM WORK — WITH CAST AND WRITERS FROM SNL “Saturday Night Live” author, Boston College alum, and former Improv Asylum director and mainstage actor Ceara O’Sullivan leads this longform improv present with “SNL” solid members Chloe Troast and Ben Marshall, “SNL” writers Carl Tart, Asha Ward, and Jimmy Fowlie, plus fellow Improv Asylum alums Ryan Gaul and Alex Kagy. June 5, 7:30 p.m. $45-$55. The Wilbur, 246 Tremont St., Boston. www.thewilbur.com — NZ

CHARLIE MARIE Providence’s Charlie Marie determined to depart the enterprise after she launched her final album, “Ramble On,” in 2021. Lucky for us, she modified her thoughts, and now she’s again with a brand new document of her lovely iteration of nation music entitled “Signs.” She made the document with native band These Wild Plains; collectively they rejoice its launch with this present. June 5, 8 p.m. Lizard Lounge, Cambridge. 617-547-0759, lizardloungeclub.com — SM

DANCE FOR WORLD COMMUNITY FESTIVAL José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s Seventeenth annual free, public, all-day pageant will supply dance courses and performances within the JMBT studios and on 4 outside levels between Bow Street and Putnam Avenue in Cambridge. This 12 months’s line-up will embrace Evolve Dynamicz, Ultimate Tango (Andi Babbs and Brian Spielman), SambaViva, Novum Dance Collective, Asian American Ballet Project, and Kathak dancers Kohal Das and Ananya Goswani, with extra to return. The day will finish with a dance celebration from 6 to eight p.m. within the Old Baptist Church car parking zone. June 6, midday–8 p.m. Free. Harvard Square, Cambridge. www.danceforworldcommunity.org — JGantz

FREDDIE GIBBS The lyrically adept MC from Gary, Ind., reveals off the rhyming expertise which have attracted top-tier producers like The Alchemist and Madlib to collaborate with him. June 5, 8 p.m. Roadrunner Boston. roadrunnerboston.com — Maura Johnston

AMERICAN STORIES: FROM REVOLUTION TO ROCKWELL What’s a semiquincentennial with out Norman Rockwell, thrust for a lot of the twentieth century into the position of America’s kindly creative grandpa? Incomplete, I’d say, however not for these causes in any respect. In sharp distinction to the nostalgic idealism for which he stays best-known, Rockwell was an energetic campaigner for civil rights and in opposition to injustice of every kind, utilizing his appreciable fame in his later years to assist craft a greater, stronger, extra inclusive model of the nation he beloved. This present, at his eponymous museum, teams Rockwell along with his religious kin from the Revolution to the current day; he shares area with such luminaries as Paul Revere, Aaron Douglas, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Faith Ringgold, united within the singular reason for a broad imaginative and prescient of freedom. June 6-Oct. 26. Norman Rockwell Museum, 9 Route 183, Stockbridge. 413-298-4100, www.nrm.org — MW

FUTUREBIRDS Futurebirds arrive on the town every week after their newest, a double album they’ve dubbed “Far Out Country I & II,” comes out (on vinyl solely, a minimum of to start with). The document is chock filled with their classic indie/country-rock; the band advises that “’Far Out Country’ is a place, not a sound.” June 11, 8 p.m. Royale. 888-929-7849, axs.com — SM

ROSALIA “Lux,” final 12 months’s album from this Spanish pop visionary, is a panoramic dive into spiritual mysticism that explodes the divide between “high” and “low” music with nerve and gusto. Judging by early reviews, the tour behind it’s doing the identical, with The Heritage Orchestra in tow for a blinding multi-act present. June 11, 8:30 p.m. TD Garden. 617-624-1000, tdgarden.com — MJ

LEAH RUDICK Originally from the Midwest, Rudick says she will get guff from her household when she goes again. “I’ll come home and they’ll be like, ‘Oh, here comes Leah, fancy bougie city girl, doing all her fancy bougie city things,’” she says, “and I’m like, ‘All I did was throw out your expired milk.’” June 12 at 7 p.m. and June 13 at 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. $39. Off Cabot, 9 Wallis St., Beverly. 978-927-3100, www.offcabot.org — NZ

ROCKPORT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Rockport’s picturesque Shalin Liu Performance Center hosts a wealth of chamber music between mid-June and mid-July, together with a recital by Simone Dinnerstein of music by Bach, Rameau, Philip Lasser, and Keith Jarrett (June 13); performances by younger prizewinners Galvin Cello Quartet (June 25) and Poiesis Quartet (June 27); chamber orchestra fare from A Far Cry with clarinetist Anthony McGill (June 19) and Delirium Musicum (July 1); and grab-bag “And Friends” evenings anchored by pianist Piers Lane (June 21) and violinist Augustin Hadelich (June 28). June 12-July 12. Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport. 978-546-7391, www.rockportmusic.org — AZM

IN OLD AGE The widowed Abasiama Ufot (Chavez Ravine), whom Boston audiences have gotten to know from earlier installments in Mfoniso Udofia’s nine-play cycle about three generations of a Nigerian-American household, develops a late-in-life religious bond with Azell Abernathy (Marvin Bell), a gentle-spirited carpenter. Directed by Dawn M. Simmons. June 13–28. Production by Front Porch Arts Collective. Presented by ArtsEmerson at Emerson Paramount Center, Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre, Boston. 617-824-8400, ArtsEmerson.org — DA

AN EXQUISITE EYE: INTRODUCING THE ASO O. TAVITIAN COLLECTION The Clark Art Institute made a splash in 2024 when it introduced it had obtained a coveted personal assortment from the Aso O. Tavitian Foundation, named for the late software program billionaire who was additionally as soon as a member of its board of trustees. A trove of 331 artworks by famend European artists from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century — Peter Paul Rubens, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, and Jan Van Eyck high the marquee — the reward got here with a $45 million examine to fund a curator to look after them and a brand new wing to accommodate them. This summer season the Clark gives a protracted look earlier than its everlasting residence is ready to be full in late 2027. June 13-Feb. 21, 2027. Clark Art Institute, 225 South St., Williamstown. 413-458-2303, clarkart.edu — MW

UNDERSCORES Producer and songwriter April Harper Grey has been making music since her early teenagers; now in her mid-20s, her newest album, the kitchen-sink reimagining of electropop “U,” seems like being immersed in a music participant that’s at all times on shuffle in essentially the most exhilarating style. June 14, 8 p.m. Royale. 617-338-7699, axs.com — MJ

MATT SHORE DOES SONGS AT YOU Shore and his Anxiety Possum, the creature who typically interrupts his music to stoke his fears about on a regular basis life, are headed to the studio to document a debut album with a fall launch, and to the Studio in June. With host Ari Dhar and that includes Tyler Durniak. June 17, 7:30 p.m. $23.95. The Comedy Studio, 5 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge. www.thecomedystudio.com — NZ

THE BAD PLUS Jazz mavericks the Bad Plus — who broke out 26 years in the past with jazz piano trio renditions of Black Sabbath, Nirvana, Neil Young, and, later, Stravinsky, in addition to a number of handfuls of sui generis originals — hold it up with a farewell tour of their present configuration as a quartet. June 18, 8 p.m. Groton Hill Music Center, Groton. 978-486-9524, grotonhill.org — JG

DELIRIUM As chaos envelops the skin world, a person (Andrey Burkovskiy) and a girl (Chulpan Khamatova) are mired in a perpetual, petty argument. Eventually, as “the boundaries between reality and delusion dissolve,” based on press supplies, “conflict becomes connection, and contradiction becomes a form of devotion.” Igor Golyak directs his personal new adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s “Frenzy for “Two.” June 18-July 2. -ARLEKIN!. At Wimberly Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts. www.arlekinplayers.com — DA

PRIZE FIGHT Playwright-actress Brenda Withers, one of the crucial authentic voices round, has written what she describes as a “scrappy, comic battle of ideals and idolatry” between a novelist (Samantha Steinmetz) who needs to reject a distinguished literary award and the smooth-talking agent (Robin Bloodworth) who needs the author to “choose prestige over principle.” Directed by Jonathan Fielding. June 18-July 11. Harbor Stage, Wellfleet. 508-258-9167 (year-round); 508-349-6800 (after Memorial Day); www.harborstage.org — DA

THE AMERICAN FIVE Through the eyes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Bayard Rustin, Stanley Levison and Clarence B. Jones, this drama, by Chess Jakobs, explores the technique and sacrifice within the days that led as much as the 1963 March on Washington. Cast to be introduced. Directed by Gerry McIntyre. June 18-July 11. Berkshire Theatre Group, Larry Vaber Stage, Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge. 413-997-4444, berkshiretheatre.org — DA

BOSTON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA “The Sound of Revolution,” the ultimate free program within the orchestra’s 2026 chamber season, options orchestra members performing work by composers for whom music is or was an avenue of resisting oppression; Erwin Schulhoff, Reza Vali, and extra (June 18). Later, Boston Public Library’s Rabb Hall Founding conductor Alyssa Wang directs two mainstage concert events at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, with the primary that includes Chorus Pro Musica (dir. Jamie Kirsch) within the Boston premiere of Christopher Tin’s expansive “The Drop That Contained the Sea” (July 11) and the second pairing Mozart’s “Sinfonia concertante” with Bruckner’s titanic Symphony No. 6 (July 26). www.bforchestra.org — AZM

THE BLACK CROWES Since reuniting in 2019, the Robinson brothers — Chris and Rich — have put out two rock information filled with grit and swagger, with this 12 months’s “A Pound of Feathers” cementing their legacy as Southern rock torch-bearers on cuts just like the grunged-up “Cruel Streak” and the growling “It’s Like That.” June 19, 6:30 p.m. Xfinity Center, Mansfield. 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com — MJ

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: AMERICA AT 250 A celebratory event turned fraught and contentious by a radical flip in American authorities, the semiquincentennial this summer season is shaping as much as be yet one more battleground within the day by day tradition battle grind. At the MFA, there’s no backing down: It turned down a $400,000 federal grant for the complete do-over of its Art of the Americas wing for concern of meddling, and can go forward with its imaginative and prescient of an inspiring, imperfect, still-in-progess nation with a lot left to aspire to — a much more hopeful view than the simple-minded celebration the administration touts. Opens June 19. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave. 617-267-9300, www.mfa.org — MW

ABILITIES DANCE BOSTON: “FIREBIRD, PART 2” In 2021, this firm based by Ellice Patterson offered her reimagining of the 1910 Stravinsky/Fokine ballet “Firebird.” Now Abilities Dance Boston is again with the world premiere of “Firebird, Part 2,” a two-act, evening-length sequel through which Patterson asks the query “What happens when the Firebird stops saving everyone else — and saves herself?” The authentic rating consists by Abilities Dance music director Andrew Choe; the performances will embrace audio description for visually impaired and low-vision audiences and open captions and ASL interpretation for hard-of-hearing audiences. There can even be free and sliding-scale ticket choices to make sure monetary accessibility. June 19–20, 8 p.m.; June 21, 2 p.m. $45. John and Edgar Booth Theatre at Boston University. abilitiesdanceboston.org — JGantz

BOSTON LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA The summer season orchestra celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary this season; particulars are nonetheless forthcoming, however the orchestra is planning a number of free performances on the Hatch Shell and numerous neighborhoods round Boston. A Juneteenth-themed live performance begins the season on June twentieth, and there can be concert events on the Hatch Shell on Wednesday evenings all through July and August, together with a efficiency of Verdi’s “Requiem” on Aug. 5 with the Cantata Singers and One City Choir. DCR Hatch Memorial Shell and numerous venues. www.landmarksorchestra.org — AZM

BOSTON DANCE THEATER: “CROSSCURRENTS” Last November, Boston Dance Theater grew to become a company-in-residence on the Mosesian Center for the Arts, and “Crosscurrents” is its first presentation in its new residence. The program will embrace alternatives from BDT’s repertoire, new works created for BDT’s Trainee Program, and a visitor efficiency from Indian classical dancer Anugraha Raman rooted in Bharatanatyam and yogic philosophy. June 20, 7 p.m.; June 21, 2 p.m. $35-$83. Theater on the Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown. bostondancetheater.com — JGantz

THE ANIMEROS Taking their title from the phrase for Colombian shamans, this Austin, Texas, trio pulls in cumbia, bolero, and psychedelic rock and soul to provide you with their very own explosive, eminently danceable combine. Dan Auerbach had an opportunity encounter with the band’s music and appreciated what he heard a lot that he’s issuing their debut full-length on his Easy Eye Sound label. June 21, 8 p.m. Deep Cuts, Medford. 781-219-3815, deepcuts.rocks — SM

JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL The 2026 season of America’s premier summer season dance pageant will embrace Paul Taylor Dance Company (June 24-28), Urban Bush Women (July 1-5), Akram Khan Company (July 8-12), A.I.M by Kyle Abraham (July 15-19), Faye Driscoll with “Weathering” (July 15-19), Circa Contemporary Circus (July 22-26), Gauthier Dance (July 29-Aug. 2), San Francisco Ballet (Aug. 5-9), Ephrat Asherie Dance (Aug. 5-9), Martha Graham Dance Company (Aug. 12-16), Ballet Hispánico New York (Aug. 19-23), and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Aug. 26-30). Through Aug. 30. Tickets free and up. Becket. www.jacobspillow.org — JGantz

EMMET COHEN The fluent and ebullient pianist and composer, who brightened the darkish early days of COVID-19 along with his massively standard livestream “Live from Emmet’s Place,” involves Scullers following the discharge of “Universal Truth” (arriving May 29), with drummer Joe Farnsworth and bassist Reuben Rogers. June 26-27, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Scullers Jazz Club. scullersjazz.com — JG

LUCINDA CHILDS: “MOMENTARY REPRISE” A member of the Judson Dance Theater within the Nineteen Sixties, Childs went on to collaborate with Philip Glass and Robert Wilson within the 1976 opera “Einstein on the Beach” and has turn out to be a number one choreographer for opera. She has a finest actress Obie for her efficiency in “Einstein on the Beach” in addition to a Lifetime Achievement Bessie Award and a Golden Lion from the Venice Dance Biennale. This look by the Lucinda Childs Dance Company will function collaborations with Glass, Wilson, John Adams, and Anri Sala. June 26, 7 p.m.; June 27–28, 2 p.m. $31.50-$101.50. Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. www.fishercenter.bard.edu — JGantz

COMEDY BANG! BANG! GROUND BEEFING TOUR Scott Aukerman has constructed “Comedy Bang! Bang!” from a podcast with offbeat mates right into a seventeen-year celebration with nearly a thousand episodes logged, and hits the street with improvised episodes. With frequent co-conspirator, Paul F. Tompkins. June 27, 8 p.m. $49-$194. Chevalier Theatre, 30 Forest St., Medford. www.chevaliertheatre.com — NZ

TANGLEWOOD As per normal, the Boston Symphony Orchestra presents a smorgasbord of programming at its summer season residence within the Berkshires. A couple of highlights: Philip Glass’s model new Symphony No. 15, “Lincoln” (July 5); an all-Tchaikovsky night with music director Andris Nelsons, together with the Piano Concerto No. 1 with Seong-Jin Cho and excerpts from “Swan Lake” that includes Boston Ballet principal dancers (July 10); every week’s value of community-oriented occasions and concert events curated by Yo-Yo Ma in early August, a solo piano recital by Yuja Wang (Aug. 18), and standard artists comparable to Paul Simon (June 27 and 28), Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (July 28), and Brandi Carlile (Aug. 18). Tanglewood, Lenox. 617-266-1200, www.bso.org — AZM

ENSEMBLE ALTERA As the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence approaches, the Providence-based skilled chamber choir debuts “Declarations,” an evening-length piece by composer Piers Connor Kennedy primarily based on texts by a tapestry of American writers together with Thomas Jefferson, Tracy Ok. Smith, Langston Hughes, and Iñupiaq poet dg nanouk okpik. June 27, Old South Church, Boston; June 28, Providence. www.ensemblealtera.com — AZM

WINSLOW HOMER: PAINTER, ETCHER Audiences won’t ever get sufficient of Homer, offered each which means, although current years have solid a extra important eye on his apparent items as a realist to a worldview that made him rather more trendy than meets the attention. This simple have a look at his forays into new media — he took up etching to supply his works in collection — might not attain a lot additional than the technical, however the simmering intent of the artist himself can be current all the identical. July 3-Oct. 18. Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland, Maine. 207-775-6148, portlandmuseum.org — MW

SHAKIRA The day after Gillette Stadium’s internet hosting of World Cup video games involves a detailed, the artist fronting its theme track (for the second time) involves city for a de facto afterparty that’ll spotlight her forward-thinking artistry and perpetual-motion stage presence. July 10-11, 7:30 p.m. TD Garden. 617-624-1000, tdgarden.com — MJ

BATES DANCE FESTIVAL Bates College’s summer season efficiency collection will function Cynthia Oliver Co. Dance Theatre in “Turn. Turning. Turnt” (July 10 and 12, 7:30 p.m.); Kyle Marshall Choreography in “Femenine” (July 17–18, 7:30 p.m.); Leslie Cuyjet in “For All Your Life” (July 24, 7:30 p.m.); and Jesse Factor in “The Marthaodyssey” (July 30–31, 7:30 p.m.). $5-$40. Schaeffer Theatre, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. www.batesdancefestival.org/performances — JGantz

CHRIS FLEMING “Live At the Palace,” the stand-up particular Fleming launched on HBO in February, was each a creative and industrial breakthrough. Fleming has since been all over the place, from “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend” (Conan govt produced the particular) to “The Drew Barrymore Show.” July 10 at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., July 11-12 at 7 p.m. $49-$94. The Wilbur, 246 Tremont St., Boston. www.thewilbur.com — NZ

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: A NEW STORY LIVE ON STAGE Inspired by the horror movie collection, “Paranormal Activity” encompasses a script by Levi Holloway (“Grey House”) with a brand new story. A pair named James and Lou strikes from Chicago to London, the place Lou turns into satisfied that “something isn’t right” of their new residence, based on press supplies. Directed by Felix Barrett, with illusions by Tony Award winner Chris Fisher. The present’s subsequent cease can be Broadway, the place performances will start in August. July 11-30. Emerson Colonial Theatre. emersoncolonialtheatre.com. — DA

DANIELA RIVERA: HACIA CUANDO (TO WHEN) Sometimes it’s a must to belief the artist. According to the outline on the Mass MoCA web site, Rivera’s set up on the sprawling Berkshires museum will “decenter the physical experience of the space, as well as upending traditional expectations of museum behavior.” I’m undecided precisely what which means, however Rivera’s monitor document of thoughtfully indirect, evocative installations rooted within the harmful legacies of colonialism leaves me anticipating greater than phrases appear capable of convey. Drawing on historic Mexican ceramics, Rivera plans a stage set of types that honors previous cultures whereas crafting connection to the current day: Her work would be the platform for modern efficiency, connecting previous to current throughout the fraught colonial epoch. Opens July 11. Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 1040 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams. 413-662-2111, www.massmoca.org — MW

NEWPORT DANCE FESTIVAL Presented by Newport Contemporary Ballet, the pageant will function visiting dance troupes to incorporate Alison Cook Beatty Dance (New York), Artistic Ventures in Dance (Colorado), Breathing Art Company (Italy), DaYoung Jung, Choreography (Oklahoma), and East Coast Contemporary Ballet (Connecticut). July 15–19. $40-$50. Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, R.I. newportcontemporaryballet.org — JGantz

ASTON MAGNA FESTIVAL The long-running early music summer season pageant places up 4 applications, providing a musical grand tour with locations together with the French Baroque and Seventeenth-century Venice underneath the creative route of Daniel Stepner. Guest director Julia Glenn, violinist of the Lydian String Quartet, heads up an intriguing program of “music from less expected places,” together with China and Scotland. Thursdays beginning July 16, Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham. www.astonmagna.org — AZM

JASON CARTER AND MICHAEL CLEVELAND Two of the premier bluegrass fiddlers on the planet are pooling their abilities. Jason Carter spent 30 years in Del McCoury’s band whereas Michael Cleveland led his personal band, Flamekeeper. They teamed up final 12 months to make an album (“Carter & Cleveland”) collectively, and now they’re presenting what resulted from their collaboration stay. July 16, 8 p.m. Groton Hill Music Center, Groton. 978-486-9524, grotonhill.org — SM

WEIRD AL YANKOVIC THE BIGGER & WEIRDER TOUR It seemed like Al was having the time of his life on the “Bigger & Weirder Tour” in 2025, with a full band with a horn part and frequent costume adjustments, so he determined to do it once more in 2026. With particular visitor Puddles Pity Party. July 18, 7:30 p.m. $63-$354. TD Garden, 100 Legends Way, Boston. www.ticketmaster.com — NZ

A NEW ERA In the premiere of Miranda Austen ADEkoje’s drama, impressed by a real-life 1895 reform convention in Boston of Black girls from across the nation, Patrice Jean-Baptiste performs Boston activist Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, chief of an effort to outlaw lynching. The solid additionally consists of Regine Vital, MaConnia Chesser, Frances Domond, Tolu Asade, Aislinn Brophy, Sydney Jackson, and Aliyah Harris. Directed by Summer L. Williams. July 18-Aug. 8. Company One Theatre. At Strand Theatre, Boston. companyone.org — DA

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Shakespeare’s comedy of enchantment and revelation is the most recent providing within the Free Shakespeare on the Boston Common program, helmed by founding creative director Steven Maler, with choreography by John Lam. Cast consists of De’Lon Grant as Theseus/Oberon, Nora Eschenheimer as Hippolyta/Titania, Nick Cearley as Puck, Meghan Carey as Hermia, Jaime José Hernández as Lysander, Jack Greenberg as Demetrius, Annika Burley as Helena. Also: Paul Melendy as Bottom, Karen MacDonald as Quince, and Brooks Reeves as Egeus/Starveling. July 22-Aug. 9. Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common. commshakes.org — DA

WAYNE HANCOCK I can’t bear in mind the final time Wayne Hancock made it to those elements, so seeing his title pop up in live performance listings was a welcome sight, though Hancock’s singular “juke joint swing” could also be extra suited to a honky-tonk than to the comparatively genteel environs of this venue. July 23, 7:30 p.m. City Winery Boston. 617-933-8047, citywinery.com/boston — SM

RON FUNCHES “There is no such thing as an alpha male comedian,” says comic and up to date “Traitors” star Funches. “You cannot be an alpha male when our entire job is just going, ‘Guess what I heard?! No, I need you to shut up so I can tell you!’” July 25, 7 p.m. $37-$91. The Wilbur, 246 Tremont St., Boston. www.thewilbur.com — NZ

CAMBRIDGE JAZZ FESTIVAL The Cambridge Jazz Foundation presents the 11^th annual free two-day pageant. Saturday: Las Nenas Del Swing, directed by Kristalis Sotomayor Matos; singer and composer Kavita Shah; Eguie Castrillo y Su Orchestra; and a salsa dance celebration. Sunday: powerhouse alto saxophonist and composer Tia Fuller; Ron Savage’s quartet, that includes saxophonist Antonio Hart. More acts TBA. July 25-26, noon-6 p.m. Danehy Park, Cambridge. 617-562-4111, cambridgejazz foundation.org — JG

MARINA FRANKLIN “That’s what I do when I’m not with a man,” says Franklin. “I look amazing. Not when I’m with you, that’s not the time. I got you. The trick worked. Like, if I’m in a relationship with you and you see me doing air squats and sit-ups? It’s over. That is not for you.” July 31, 7 p.m. $39.90. Laugh Boston, 425 Summer St., Boston. 617-725-2844, www.laughboston.com — NZ

CAPE COD CHAMBER MUSIC Prefer the seashore to the Berkshires throughout the summer season? Worry not, there’s loads of musical choices by way of this long-running pageant, principally in string quartet kind this 12 months — particularly the Danish, Borromeo, Harlem, and Renaissance string quartets. But that’s not all; the pageant additionally hosts Imani Winds; the jazz trio of Steve Wilson, Renee Rosnes, and David Wong each on their very own and in a collaborative efficiency with the Harlem Quartet; and the piano-clarinet duo of creative administrators Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu, who this summer season mark 20 years heading up the pageant. July 31-Aug. 21, numerous venues on Cape Cod. www.capecodchambermusic.org — AZM

SULLIVAN FORTNER The pianist and composer — whose all-over orchestral method to the keyboard made him a super associate for singer Cécile McLorin and received him a finest instrumental jazz album Grammy for his 2025 launch “Southern Nights” — involves Rockport Music with bassist Tyrone Allen and drummer Kayvon Gordon. Aug. 1, 7:30 p.m. Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport. 978-546-7391, rockportmusic.org — JG

WINDHOVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS This Rockport multicultural middle’s summer season dance choices on the Windhover Outdoor Stage embrace Alison Cook Beatty Dance / Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett, a double invoice of New York-based artists (Aug. 8, 7 p.m.); Limón Dance Company celebrating its eightieth season (Aug. 14–15, 7 p.m.); Boston’s BoSoma Dance Company (Aug. 27, 7 p.m.); and “Samagata: Solo Dances from the Indian Tradition” (Sept. 5, 7 p.m.). $22-$37. Rockport. windhover.org/performances — JGantz

FABIOLA MÉNDEZ The first graduate of Berklee College to play the cuatro as her principal instrument, this Puerto Rican cuatrista gives authentic music that fuses conventional Puerto Rican people, jazz, and Afro-Caribbean threads. Manuela Sánchez Goubert performs her personal melding of jazz and numerous Latin American people traditions to open the present. Aug. 9, 5 p.m. Groton Hill Music Center, Groton. 978-486-9524, grotonhill.org — SM

OLIVIA DEAN Last 12 months, this British singer’s second album “The Art of Loving” grew to become a cross-genre smash, uniting audiences behind breezy soul-pop choices, just like the plush “Man I Need,” that get an emotional heft from her considerate but resolute observations on Twenty first-century romance. Aug. 10, 7:30 p.m. TD Garden. 617-624-1000, tdgarden.com — MJ

HAMLET In its first summer season of programming after the January loss of life of legendary cofounder Tina Packer, Shakespeare & Company presents the towering tragedy that’s “Hamlet” within the theater named after Packer. Featuring David Gow within the title position, Yaala Muller as Ophelia, “ranney” because the usurping Claudius, Kristin Wold as Gertrude, Jonathan Epstein as Polonius, and Boston favourite Eddie Shields as Laertes. Directed by Ariel Bock. Aug. 13-30. Shakespeare & Company, Tina Packer Playhouse, Lenox. 413-637-3353, www.shakespeare.org — DA

LARRY McCRAY The Arkansas-born, Michigan-raised McCray brings distinctive private depth to his soul-infused songwriting, with a heat and capacious baritone and a succinct, stinging guitar assault, all descended from heroes just like the Kings (Albert, B.B., Freddie), Johnnie Taylor, and Bobby Blue Bland. Aug. 14, 8 p.m. Spire Center for Performing Arts, Plymouth. 508-746-4488, spirecenter.org — JG

CHRIS STAPLETON The mainstream nation outlier brings his energy trio to the ballpark on his “All American Road Show” tour. For this cease, he’s joined by neo-neo-traditionalist Zach Top, whereas Allen Stone brings slightly soul to the proceedings. Aug. 14-15, 5:30 p.m. Fenway Park. 877-733-7699, redsox.com/ChrisStapleton — SM

DAVID CHESNUT JAZZ FESTIVAL The fourth annual version of this open-air pageant on the Eustis Estate encompasses a seasoned Boston-based lineup representing a broad palette of progressive authentic music: singer Åsa Runefelt’s quintet, keyboardist Witness Matlou’s quartet, guitarist Eric Hofbauer’s EHX ensemble, and Jared Sims & Aftershock. Aug. 15, 3-7 p.m. Eustis Estate, Milton. 617-994-6600, mandorlamusic.net — JG

YARD ACT Since the discharge of their 2022 debut, this Leeds act has been on the forefront of England’s post-post-post-punk motion, pairing churning riffs with bleakly witty lyrics about trendy life. In July they’ll launch their third album, “You’re Gonna Need A Little Music,” which options the grinding lead single “Redeemer.” Aug. 16, 8 p.m. The Sinclair, Cambridge. 617-547-5200, axs.com — MJ

KYLE KINANE After slowing down a bit from his peak celebration days, Kinane is in search of low cost thrills. “I use words in conversation that I don’t really know what they mean,” he says. “That’s my bungee jumping at this point. It’s just like, ‘I don’t know, man, sounds pretty ubiquitous to me! Non-sequitur!? I think that’s perfect sequitur!’” Aug. 20 at 7 p.m., Aug. 21 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. and Aug. 22 at 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. $42.10. Laugh Boston, 425 Summer St., Boston. 617-725-2844, www.laughboston.com — NZ

BAY STATE HOT JAZZ FESTIVAL Some of the bands included within the fourth annual free fest of “hot” conventional jazz (principally Twenties and ’30s) embrace the Wolverine Jazz Band, the Smack Dabs, the Banjo Juice Jazz Band, the Catnip Junkies, Josiah Reibstein and the Hubtones, the Dixie Diehards, and Annie and the Fur Trappers. Aug. 29-30, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Condon Shell, Medford.781-393-2486, baystatehotjazzfestival.com — JG

GRUPO FRONTERA This regional Mexican band from the Rio Grande Valley had its first top-10 hit in 2023 when it backed Bad Bunny on the swaying “un x100to”; since then they’ve launched three albums the place they’ve honed their tackle norteño music, together with final 12 months’s melancholic “Lo Que Me Falta Por Llorar.” Aug. 30, 8 p.m. MGM Music Hall at Fenway. crossroadspresents.com — MJ

ROBYN On her ninth album, “Sexistential,” the electro sage will get, effectively, precisely what the title says, ruminating on life, lust, motherhood, and her standing as one of many girls who made crying on the membership not simply acceptable, however a possibility for dance flooring bliss. Sept. 3, 8 p.m. Agganis Arena. 800-745-3000, agganisarena.com — MJ

JOHN CONSTABLE: THE LANDSCAPE REIMAGINED America isn’t the one one celebrating a 250th birthday this 12 months. The Yale Center for British Art is marking the birthday of John Constable, a large of British Romantic portray, with this exhibition of a lot of his beloved landscapes, and an emphasis on his pioneering flip of portray “on the spot” — the follow of getting brush and canvas out of the studio and into the world, which might evolve into the “plein air” follow we all know right this moment. Sept. 3-July 25, 2027. Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven. 877-274-8278, britishart.yale.edu — MW

BRUNO MARS Riding excessive off his profitable collaborations with pop chameleon Lady Gaga and punchy Ok-popper ROSÉ, in addition to his game-show-ready confection “I Just Might,” the pop savant — and completely killer stay performer — celebrates the lovelorn “The Romantic,” his first solo album in a decade. Sept. 5-6, occasions TBA. Gillette Stadium, Foxborough. 508-543-8200, gillettestadium.com — MJ

AMERICA IN THE MAKING Joining the not-overly-populous ranks of exhibitions marking the United States’ semiquincentennial this 12 months, this present places on view an unlimited array of the Addison’s formidable assortment of American artwork, which stretches from effectively earlier than the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence to proper about now. Taking over your entire constructing, it goals to be the other of conclusive, as a substitute providing a view of the centuries of flux that mixed to make America what it’s — and making clear that the challenge can and by no means can be completed. Sept. 8-Jan. 31, 2027. Addison Gallery of American Art​ at Phillips Academy, 3 Chapel Ave., Andover. 978-749-4015, — MW

ISAMU NOGUCHI: I AM NOT A DESIGNER In the title of this exhibition, Noguchi protests simply sufficient. Of course he was a designer — of wildly standard Akari mild sculptures beloved by mid-century aesthetes all over the place, and perhaps essentially the most knocked-off espresso desk of all time. But discover how the Akaris, through which delicate rice paper is wound round a barely-there slim picket armature after which fitted with a light-weight bulb, aren’t referred to as ”lighting fixtures.” They’re sculpture — testomony to Noguchi’s guiding ethos that utility didn’t strip an object of creative intent or social objective, however augmented it as a substitute. Sept. 19-Jan. 3, 2027. Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, 161 Essex St., Salem. 978-745-9500, pem.org — MW

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