Local soul/R&B bassist and singer-songwriter Zoe Sparks is celebrating her impending departure for Los Angeles in the best possible way-with a two-day festival, personally curated for maximum “groovetastic and funkalicious fun.” Warning: you may discover your new favorite local band here and feel compelled to see all their subsequent shows. $6.70-$21.43, Friday through Sunday, August 4-6, various locations, Boston area Somergloom starts Friday with woozy dream pop heroine Marissa Nadler headlining The Rockwell in Somerville, continues at Everett’s Bone Up Brewing on Saturday with bands like Ashen Veil and Tears from a Grieving Heart, and concludes Sunday with 10,000 pounds of catharsis from Elizabeth Colour Wheel at Brighton’s Garage B. If this summer’s rainy start put you in a goth sort of mood, your festival has arrived. $62.50-$247, Friday and Saturday, August 4-5, MGM Music Hall at Fenway, 2 Lansdowne St., Boston $50-$165, through July 30, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge MUSICĬarlos Santana, one of rock’s most distinctive guitarists, emerged from the lockdown era with the album Blessings and Miracles, which included a reunion with Rob Thomas on the heavy soul track “ Move.” On this tour, Santana and his band will play songs from across their long and storied career. It also has an increased focus on what it was like for a young Eva Perón to rise through the unforgiving world of Buenos Aires society to become the glamorous but doomed first lady of Argentina. Long considered a glitzy Broadway production anchored by showstopping song “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” the performance here promises a more intimate production on a smaller stage. But at the American Repertory Theater, director Sammi Cannold reprises an updated version that premiered just four years ago in New York. The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Evita has been a cornerstone of musical theater for generations. Pay-what-you-can, Saturday, July 22 through August 5, Club Café, 209 Columbus Ave., Boston Prolific local actor Paula Plum directs this the play by Nora and Delia Ephron about the meaning of clothes in our lives, consisting of five monologues by female characters on everything from first bras to chaotic purses to the time-honored tradition of dressing to scandalize one’s mother. $20, through September 19, Old North Church, 193 Salem St., Boston History comes to life in this three-man play, performed at the Old North Church and imagining a conversation, not long before the famous 1775 steeple lighting that warned of British troop movements, between the church’s loyalist rector, Mather Byles, a man enslaved by him named Cato, and the pro-Revolution parishioner, Captain John Pulling. Read our interview with him here.įree, Wednesday, July 19 through August 6, Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common, 139 Tremont St., Boston Faran Tahir, back in Boston after playing Baba in the Broadway adaptation of The Kite Runner, plays the doomed title role. $20-$39.50, through August 13, Black Box Theater, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., BostonĬommonwealth Shakespeare Company’s annual “in the park” production tackles one of the Bard’s most intense tragedies, a tale filled with witches, blind ambition, murder, mental illness, and maddening guilt. No, this isn’t the inevitable Aerosmith jukebox musical-it’s a philosophical play about a random group of folks, among them a rabbi, a professor, an anarchist, a lawyer, and a construction worker, trapped together inside a hospital elevator and killing the time by engaging in a complex conversation on love. Ongoing through Monday, August 7 (and Beyond) THEATER Jump to: Mon., July 31 | Tues., August 1 | Wed., August 2 | Thurs., August 3 | Fri., August 4 | Sat., August 5 | Sun., August 6 | Mon., August 7 | Art & Exhibitions | Upcoming in 2023 | MULTIPLE DAYS THINGS TO DO (clockwise from top left): Jay Leno at the Chevalier Theater Jennifer’s Body at the Brattle Theater Sam Smith at TD Garden Zopocalypse at Warehouse XI Binki at the Sinclair poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram at Brookline Booksmith.
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