Shakespeare Sundays at Main Street Studios, Fitchburg

The Fitchburg Cultural Alliance hosts Shakespeare Sundays at Main Street Studios on the first Sunday of every month, 5:00-8:00pm! Everyone is welcome to join, no acting experience required. This fun reading and discussion of Shakespeare’s plays is a great...

Rachel Revere History at Play at The Gardner Museum April 27

History At Play, LLC offers living history performances which breathe life into the stories of influential and often forgotten women. Artistic director and performer Judith Kalaora will be back at the museum with a program about a strong female character in the wake...

Medieval West Africa at the Gardner Museum on June 8

The presentation “Going for the Gold: Art and Trade in Medieval West Africa” will give an overview of some of the major traditions of West African sculpture from the 10th century CE to the 16th century, with beautiful examples of art from Nigeria (Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, and...

The Heist at the Other Gardner Museum on April 13

Retired corporate accountant Bob Ainsworth, the author of Duped, a fictional account of the still unsolved 1990 art heist at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will review the actual details of the theft, the suspects, and the motives behind the world’s most...

Listen to Civil War letters at the Gardner Museum with Jan Drake

Interested in local history? Genealogist and author Jan Drake will read from letters sent home from the Civil War, followed by a reception on April 6 at the Gardner Museum. Drake is a retired librarian and hobby genealogist. Her great grandfather’s cousin George W....