Newton Community Education’s April Vacation Programs at Angier Elementary School (1697 Beacon Street, Waban) offer engaging, hands-on experiences for children in grades K–8 during the week of April 21–24, with drop-off starting at 8:30 AM and extended day available until 5 PM. Programs are open to all children, whether or not they…
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Join the Newton Free Library (330 Homer Street, Newton Centre) on Wednesday, April 22 at 7PM for an evening with Heather Treseler, author of Auguries & Divinations, winner of the 2025 Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. Auguries & Divinations brings together poems written with a painterly attention to desire, longing,…
Registration is now open for spring adult classes with Newton Community Education (457 Walnut Street, Newtonville). Classes are offered during the day, evenings, and weekends at locations across Newton. Scholarships are available for those who qualify. Join your neighbors this spring—click here to see the full schedule and register online today. This season’s offerings include:
Newton Theater Company presents Oh to be Pure Again! at St. John’s Episcopal Church, DiMauro Hall (96 Otis Street, Newtonville) on Apr17-18 and Apr 24-25. Seating is intimate and limited, so get your tickets soon!
Skylark returns with Re-Imaginings, a program that places familiar music in unexpected forms, inviting listeners to hear it again from a different vantage point. See them perform on Friday, April 24 at 7PM at Church of the Redeemer (379 Hammond St, Chestnut Hill). Mozart, Bach, Debussy, and Mahler appear alongside…
Newton PorchFest 2026 will be on Saturday, June 6th, 12 – 6 PM. There is no alternate raindate. PorchFest is an afternoon of free music performed outside of people’s homes in four of Newton’s villages. Sign up to participate or to learn more about Newton PorchFest 2026. Participate in Newton PorchFest…
Join artist Patty Rosenblatt and her co-presenter Kathryn Brodie at the New Art Center (61 Washington Park, Newtonville) on Saturday, April 25 from 2-4PM for a special artist talk that explores the evolution of Hands to Earth and the environmental concerns that shape it. In Hands to Earth, Rosenblatt encourages…
Tanglewood Marionettes presents Cinderella on Saturday, April 25 at 11AM at the Newton City Hall War Memorial Auditorium (1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton Centre). Set in the 18th century and featuring a dozen lavishly costumed 30” marionettes, this production of Cinderella is a showpiece. The story unfolds as the pages of a giant book…
Rock Voices Newton, the community’s only rock choir, will present a program of rock music on Saturday, April 25 at 7 PM at Newton South High School (140 Brandeis Rd, Oak Hill). Come celebrate spring as 100+ singers and a professional live band perform hits by your favorite artists: The…
Andromeda of Boston presents a showcase of dance ranging from MENAHT (Middle Eastern, North African, Hellenic, Turkish) to Asian, Balkan, and Eastern European inspired styles on Saturday, April 25 at Grace Episcopal Church, (76 Eldredge St, Newton Corner) from 6:30-8:30PM. Show usually runs from 60 to 90 minutes. There will…
Join the Newton Community Chorus for a powerful performance of the great Mozart Requiem on Sunday, April 26 at 3PM at Grace Episcopal Church (76 Eldredge St. Newton Corner). Composed in the final days of his life, Mozart’s Requiem is a work of profound intensity and mystery—left unfinished at the time of his death…
On Monday, April 27th, from 2 – 3PM, the Scandinavian Cultural Center (206 Waltham Street, West Newton) will present the masterful piano duo of Leslie Amper and Randall Hodgkinson. Appearing together for Music Mondays for the first time, they will perform Romantic masterpieces for piano four hands — Franz Schubert’s…