Fashion and philanthropy shared the spotlight earlier this month when more than 400 people packed The Cut in Gloucester for The Open Door’s third annual Thrift the Runway fashion show.
A picture-perfect summer evening drew a crowd to the Conomo Point Boathouse Friday for the Art Show on Conomo, a two-day exhibition and sale featuring paintings, prints, sculpture and photography by Cape Ann artists.
The Rockport Celtic Festival returns to the Shalin Liu Performance Center Sept. 10-13, bringing more than two dozen musicians together for four days of concerts, collaborations, storytelling—and a little dancing.
Students and alumni from Manchester Essex Regional School District took to the Masconomo Park gazebo Tuesday evening for Performing Arts in the Park.
A very special night is in store for Saturday, Aug. 22 at Windhover Center for the Performing Arts in Rockport when the Boston Dance Theater debuts a contemporary dance production inspired by one of the North Shore’s defining landscapes.
Thousands of residents and visitors turned out Saturday for Manchester's annual Festival by the Sea, transforming downtown into a lively celebration of art, music, shopping, food, and community.
It sure helped that the night was a magical, perfect summer evening, with a setting designed to marvel at.
One of Manchester's signature summer traditions returns Saturday, Aug. 1, as Festival-by-the-Sea transforms the downtown into a daylong celebration of local art, music, food and shopping.
Manchester Summer Chamber Music returns this August for its 15th season, bringing internationally acclaimed musicians back to the North Shore for a series of chamber music performances.
Visitors to Hammond Castle Museum now have a new way to reach one of Cape Ann's busiest attractions, as the museum and Cape Ann Transportation Authority have partnered to establish a dedicated bus stop at the historic property.
When dozens of tall ships and historic sailing vessels converging on Boston Harbor earlier this week for Sail Boston 250, the Essex Historical Society & Shipbuilding Museum reported that Essex was represented in a way few communities can match.
The company was first formed in 2020, with original plans to perform Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew.” Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic refrained them from opening the curtains.
It’s reunion season! Three local high school class have scheduled get-togethers over the Independence Day holiday weekend, and organizers are encouraging classmates who may still be on the …
Harbormaster Bion Pike is encouraging local boaters to take part in a community boat parade that will be a centerpiece of Manchester-by-the-Sea's Rev250 celebration over the Fourth of July weekend. …
What do Shakespeare, stand-up comedy, improv musicals, and community theater have in common? For one week in June, they all found a home at the inaugural Beverly Fringe Festival, a new North Shore arts event that drew performers and audiences together in celebration of live theater.
A special evening candlelight concert dedicated to the works of Vivaldi and Mozart is coming to the First Parish Congregational Church in Manchester this coming Saturday, June 27.
The Cape Ann Symphony Chorus is seeking new and returning singers as it prepares for a landmark 75th season that will include performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the orchestra's annual Holiday Pops concerts.
The summer theater season has officially started. Other than spending time at the beach, I enjoy attending the theater in the summer. I attended Gloucester Stage Company and North Shore Music Theatre’s season openers.
Longtime Beverly Farms theater director Myriam Cyr has spent years cultivating a loose but growing network of North Shore performers, writers, and directors committed to developing original theater productions outside Boston’s traditional institutional scene.
For the third year in a row, musicians performed from porches, decks, and front lawns across Magnolia on Saturday as crowds filled neighborhood streets and gathered under towering trees for this year’s Magnolia Porchfest.