Summer Arts Guides

WBUR's arts and culture team highlights the art exhibitions, film festivals, theater productions and more to check out this summer.

An audience on the lawn of the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood in 2018. (Courtesy Fred Collins)

10 classical music festivals to attend this summer

From the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood to the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, arts critic Lloyd Schwartz rounds up the classical music festivals to explore around the region.

Arts & Culture

Jun 22, 2022

An audience watches the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's 2021 performance of "The Tempest." (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

16 theater productions to see in Boston and beyond this summer

Many stories coming to the stage are about significant change, from life-altering diagnoses to secrets, gentrification and displacement. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair rounds up the productions to see this season....

Arts & Culture

Jun 17, 2022

Christian Burno recommends six books to read that offer escape. (Courtesy the publishers)

6 beach reads that provide a summer escape

From two novels written by queen of romance Jasmine Guillory to a debut anthology from Maine writer Morgan Talty, WBUR contributor Christian Burno recommends six books set on the East...

Arts & Culture

Jun 16, 2022

From top left to bottom right: Pet Fox (Courtesy Anna Stromer); Yaya Bey (Courtesy Lawrence Agyei); Kal Marks (Courtesy Stephanie Andreana); Zenizen (Courtesy Opal Hoyt); Sleepyhead (Courtesy); Horse Jumper of Love (Courtesy Maria Gelsomini); and Medicine Singers (Courtesy Slavko Pusavec).

7 albums to listen to this summer

From thorny alternative rock to jazz-tinged R&B and crunchy future soul, music writer Charley Ruddell recommends albums that will inspire action from the daily chaos.

Arts & Culture

Jun 15, 2022

Conrad Ricamora and Joel Kim Booster in the film "Fire Island," which screens at the 2022 Provincetown International Film Festival. (Courtesy Jeong Park/Searchlight Pictures)

10 film festivals and events to check out this summer

For outdoor moviegoing, drive-ins may have dominated the past two years, but 2022 is more of a blanket-and-chair summer. Film critic Erin Trahan recommends this season's film festivals to explore.

Arts & Culture

Jun 14, 2022

Left: Kehinde Wiley, "Barack Obama," 2018. Right: Amy Sherald, "Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama," 2018. (Courtesy of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

11 art exhibits to heat up your summer

From an exhibit featuring the playful fashions of designer Patrick Kelly to the final stop of the national tour of the Obama presidential portraits, visual arts writer Pamela Reynolds recommends...

Arts & Culture

Jun 13, 2022

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10 classical music festivals to attend this summer

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16 theater productions to see in Boston and beyond this summer

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6 beach reads that provide a summer escape

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7 albums to listen to this summer

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10 film festivals and events to check out this summer

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11 art exhibits to heat up your summer

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Summer Arts Guides

10 classical music festivals to attend this summer

Arts & Culture

16 theater productions to see in Boston and beyond this summer

Arts & Culture

6 beach reads that provide a summer escape

Arts & Culture

7 albums to listen to this summer

Arts & Culture

10 film festivals and events to check out this summer

Arts & Culture

11 art exhibits to heat up your summer

Arts & Culture