North of Boston

Winter Comedy Night
2024-02-02 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Break those winter blues for a night of laughs as Comedy Night returns to the Firehouse featuring some of the best comedic talent in the region! Hosted by Mike Smith with headliner Rafi Gonzalez along with Jason Merrill and Jay Martin.
Rafi Gonzalez has skyrocketed to the top of the comedy ranks and is touring nationally and internationally as a headlining performer on Carnival Cruise lines. He has appeared on HBO MAX as part of the Ha Comedy Festival, was a finalist in the Boston Comedy Festival and was voted “Best of the Fest” in The Noho Comedy Festival and The Burbank Comedy Festival in Los Angeles. In 2022, Gonzalez participated in the prestigious San Francisco Comedy Competition and has appeared on Gotham Comedy TV Live, The Punchline, MGM Springfield, Laugh Boston, and major clubs nationally.
Jason Merrill works the top clubs in New England and is a featured performer at Giggles, Kowloon, The Tupelo, the Bradley Playhouse and more, as well as sharing the stage with the likes of comedy stars Lenny Clarke, Steve Sweeney, and Paul D’Angelo. Merrill quickly rose through the comedy ranks and is well on his way to being a star on the Boston comedy scene.
Jay Martin is an up and coming comedian selected to perform in the Rogue Island Comedy Festival and is a regular at Laugh Boston, Off Cabot Comedy Club and most recently had his first headlining weekend at Nick’s Comedy Stop. He has performed at Comedy Scene at Patriot Place, Roar Comedy Club, The Stand in New York and The Comedy Shop also in New York.

MLT presents A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
2024-02-02 19:30 - 2024-02-11 22:00, 2024-01-28 19:30 - 2024-02-06 22:00, 2024-01-28 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-01-27 19:30 - 2024-02-05 22:00, 2024-01-27 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-01-26 19:30 - 2024-02-04 22:00 | Marblehead Little Theatre, 12 School Street, Marblehead, MA, 01945, United States
“A murderous romp filled with unforgettable music, non-stop laughs…” (MTI)
The most-nominated show of the 2014 season, winning Best Musical at the Tony Awards as well as the Drama Desk Awards, the Outer Critics Circle Awards and the Drama League Awards.
Produced by Andrew Barnett Directed by Alexandra Dietrich
Music Direction by David Flowers
Low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he’s eighth in line for an earldom and figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And then there’s love, because murder isn’t the only thing on Monty’s mind….
“Inspired and hilarious. ‘A Gentleman’s Guide’ will lift the hearts of all those who’ve been pining for what sometimes seems a lost art form: musicals that match streams of memorable melody with fizzily witty turns of phrase.” – Charles Isherwood from New York Times

First Fridays: Art After Hours with Rhythm Plus Soul
2024-02-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Cape Ann Museum, 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, 01930, United States
Enjoy free admission to the Cape Ann Museum every First Friday from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Each month, CAM partners with Rockport Brewing Co for a free beer tasting and with a practicing, contemporary artist to interpret the Museum’s collections. Enjoy a taste of local beer and watch art come to life through dance, music, performance, painting, and more. This month, enjoy music from Rhythm Plus Soul.
Free tastings will be provided courtesy of Rockport Brewing Co. to all attendees 21+.

NEW Exhibition: Our Time on Earth
2024-02-02 08:00 - 17:00 | Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, 01970, United States
Humans are just one species among millions, coexisting in an expansive living network. Immerse yourself in installations envisioned by artists, designers, scientists, technologists and changemakers from across 12 countries. Their cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaborations open portals to a shared future, in which planet and people flourish together.
Part of PEM’s Climate + Environment Initiative, this traveling exhibition from the Barbican Centre in London celebrates the power of global creativity to transform the conversation around the climate emergency. The structures and design featured in the exhibition are sourced from biodegradable, sustainable materials to minimize carbon footprint. We invite you to imagine our ideal future world. What will it look like? How will we use the precious time we have here? Technology has brought us closer to nature than we have ever been before, and Indigenous insight continues to reconnect us to our roots. What will it take to live together in harmony?
Walk up to a table set for dinner, but imagine the guests include a fox and a wasp. Plunge into a virtual ocean with magnified plankton, and peer through the layers of a tree to experience the microscopic foundations of life.

CAM Studio Course: Introduction to Drawing from Sculpture with Leon Doucette
2024-02-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Cape Ann Museum Green, 13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
In this six-week course (February 1 – March 7, 2024) students will learn the mechanics of drawing from life while working directly from pieces in the Cape Ann Museum’s sculpture collection. Lessons will emphasize the importance of structure, seeing, and understanding how light and form interact. The course will include instruction, demonstrations, and of course drawing! Students will make both shorter sketches and longer finished drawings and will be encouraged to apply the concepts they learn to their work.
Classes will be led by artist and Cape Ann Museum Assistant Curator, Leon Doucette. Leon was born in Gloucester and is a graduate of the New Hampshire Institute of Art. He has served on the Cape Ann Museum’s curatorial staff since 2011 and is a practicing artist, working in both oil paint and charcoal. He has exhibited throughout New England, as well as in New York, California, and Washington D.C. He is a recipient of the First Place Drawing award at the Portrait Society of America’s Annual International Portrait Competition and is a Guild of Boston Artists Gold Medalist.
Students of all drawing levels (from beginner to advanced) are encouraged to attend. One-on-one discussions will be tailored to students’ skill levels.

Gallery Tour — Above the Fold: The Photographers of the “Gloucester Daily Times,” 1973-2005
2024-02-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Cape Ann Museum, 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, 01930, United States
The Cape Ann Museum presents its next special exhibition, Above the Fold: The Photographers of the “Gloucester Daily Times,” 1973-2005, featuring a selection of works by 15 photographers shooting for the Times for over three decades. The captivating photographs in this exhibition draw on an important archive of an estimated one million photographs which is a recent acquisition donated to CAM by the North of Boston Media Group. Join the exhibition’s curators for a guided tour of the gallery and learn of the decisions behind the creation of the show.
