Past Events
Mary Gauthier and special guests Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light
Grammy-nominated American folk singer-songwriter and author Mary Gauthier began writing songs at age 35. Despite the relatively late start, she has had a profound impact on the singer- songwriter community, releasing 11 albums in 25 years, including 2018’s Rifles and Rosary Beads, which was nominated for the Best Folk Album Grammy. Mary’s songs have been recorded by dozens of artists, including Jimmy Buffett, Dolly Parton, Boy George, Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Bettye Lavette, Mike Farris, Kathy Mattea, Bobby Bare, Amy Helm and Candi Staton and have appeared extensively in Film and Television, most recently on HBO TV’s Yellowstone.
George Martin: The Scores - A Live Immersive Experience
You’ve never heard “Yesterday” like this. What happens when you strip away the most famous vocals in history to reveal the architectural genius underneath?
Join us on April 21st, 2026 for an immersive journey through Sir George Martin’s private scores. Through live orchestral performance, rare archival footage, and expert storytelling, Berklee and Curvebender Publishing present an exploration of the sound that changed the world. This is a rare, one-night-only opportunity to witness the evolution of the producer’s creative process from the inside out.
See the music. Hear the genius.
Berklee India Exchange Presents Anirudh Varma Collective
Berklee India Exchange welcomes the Anirudh Varma Collective (AVC) to Boston for an Explore Series residency. Hailing from New Delhi, AVC has spent a week in deep collaboration with the Berklee community. Experience the culmination of this creative exchange through two unique offerings: A workshop exploring Hindustani Classical Music, honoring its history while unlocking its future through modern application, followed by a 90-minute concert with the Anirudh Varma Collective in a powerful collaboration with Berklee India Exchange students, alumni, and faculty.
Mark Erelli: Spring Green Album Release Concert with special guest Liv Greene
Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Mark Erelli is a Boston-based veteran of the folk and roots music scene, renowned for his emotional honesty, craftsmanship, and warmth.
Origami Night
Origami Night is a multi-disciplinary choreo-poem utilizing spoken word, dance, and sensory design to trace a woman’s life from working class navy brat to radical feminist to mother, and explore aging, love, loneliness, and the queer act of self-examination.
Vivo Performing Arts Jazz Festival 2026
Vivo Performing Arts presents Jazz Festival 2026 at Arrow Street Arts—Harvard Square's versatile theater and entertainment hotspot! Catch exciting next-generation artists who understand and embrace the art form's limitless capacity for freedom and self-expression.
Experience an electrifying atmosphere where rhythm moves through the crowd, melodies spark emotion, and every performance creates an unforgettable connection between artists and audience.
Passim Present Jonatha Brooke
Jonatha Brooke is what happens when literate songwriting meets fearless innovation, a singular voice in modern music whose work is as much chamber poetry as it is folk-pop.
Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra present the Big Easy Holiday Bash 2025
Celebrate the joy of the holiday season with Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra at the Big Easy Holiday Bash 2025—a festive showcase of New Orleans’ greatest music and musicians!
Third Coast Percussion
A powerful collaboration between Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion and Movement Art Is (Lil Buck & Jon Boogz), blending contemporary percussion with Memphis Jookin and popping to explore resilience, duality, and human connection.
Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen
After thirty-five years of being at the forefront of the ever-evolving musical landscape of New Orleans, Grammy Award winner Jon Cleary is hitting the road to bring audiences a musical tour-de-force that showcases the grit, funk and joy that’s packed concert halls from his home in New Orleans to London, Tokyo and beyond.
The Boston Folk Revival 1958–1965
The Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame, in partnership with the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music, will present a collaborative symposium on September 27, 2025 at the Arrow Street Arts Center in Cambridge.
Salome
This four-day developmental workshop at Arrow St Arts explores choreography, sound, staging and video of Scene 4 of Richard Strauss’ 90-minute opera Salome, concluding in an informal showing for an invited audience.
HumanINmotion
A Physical Theatre Journey Premiere performance at Arrow Street Arts Theater
Jazz Festival 2025
Four nights of exhilarating jazz at Arrow Street Arts: March 13-16, 2025
Conference of the Birds
Conference of the Birds is a multimedia movement theater work by ANIKAYA Dance Theater, inspired by the 12th century poem of Farid Ud din Attar, and embodying stories gathered from modern-day refugees and other migrants.
GRAVEYARDS and GARDENS
Caroline Shaw, vocals/violin/composer
Vanessa Goodman, dancer/choreographer
Climate Crisis Cabaret: The Warm-Up
Climate Crisis Cabaret: The Warm-Up is the first of a series of cabarets aiming to energize climate activism in our community.
A Jazz at Lincoln Center Collaboration (Copy)
Join the Harvard Jazz Orchestra in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center for a one-night-only concert featuring Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer Ted Nash.
ANTES DEL FIN
The Omayra Amaya Flamenco Dance Company features a top cast of dancers, musicians and guest artists from Spain in a new show,
Cendrillon
Beloved fairy tale opera Cendrillon by Massenet is brought to life by Longy students directed by Nicholas Tocci.
The Thanksgiving Play
Isn't it time we rethink Thanksgiving? That's the question on the table when four politically correct performers get together to create a new take on the traditional holiday pageant.
Roots & Routes
A concert of dances by world-renowned artists that call The Dance Complex home, featuring movement styles from around the globe in full production.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Awrence Jameson makes his lavish living by talking rich ladies out of their money. Freddy Benson more humbly swindles women by waking their compassion with fabricated stories about his grandmother’s failing health
I’ll Meet You There
An immersive theatrical dance, I’ll Meet You There
is a mythological biography about a magical, extraordinary place which if described would sound like fiction.
Mermaid Hour
For Pilar and Bird, parenting a trans tween is all about guessing how to get it right when they’re not even sure what that means—and it doesn’t help that they’re not on the same page.
Midday Movement: Rough Drafts - Spanky
“Spanky” is a performance work that wrestles with issues of identity, family, and queer love.
The Little Prince
Academy Award winning composer Rachel Portman's The Little Prince, based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le petit Prince,
La Tragédie de Carmen
Boston Opera Collaborative presents La Tragédie de Carmen, a Peter Brook adaptation of Bizet’s classic Carmen.
Midday Movement
Jessica Roseman, MIDDAY's March Rough Drafts artist, will present excerpts of a long solo dance, “Nourish - I’m on Fire,”
Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight
You’ve tried everything. Yoga. Acupuncture. Therapy. You floated in salt water in the pitch black dark. You juiced, you cleansed, you journaled, you cut, you volunteered.