Entertainment

LETTER: Help keep the music playing
14 Sep

LETTER: Help keep the music playing

Submitted ContentArt, Entertainment, LETTERS, Opinion
To the editor: Four years ago, if you had told me that a concert at Star of the Sea would cause a traffic jam on Atlantic Avenue because so many people were coming to hear Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, I would have thought you were pulling my leg. Since its founding in 2022, the Star of the Sea Concert Series has grown into something I am incredibly proud of. We have brought together extraordinary professional musicians, volunteers, supporters and audiences for performances that I believe have…
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Marblehead Little Theatre celebrates 70 years
09 Sep

Marblehead Little Theatre celebrates 70 years

Marielle SabbagArt, Entertainment, Theater, Top Stories
The curtains are rising for a significant milestone. The public is invited to attend Marblehead Little Theatre’s 70 year anniversary gala on Saturday, Sept. 19. It all began in 1955, when Terry Hale, the chairperson of the Drama Committee of the Marblehead Women’s Club, staged a one-act play with her group. After a positive response, Hale planned another show, this time inviting men, for MLT’s first production of Moss Hart’s “Light Up the Sky” in January 1956. The rest is history. MLT originally started as…
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CURRENT EVENTS: Marblehead’s best bets coming up
02 Sep

CURRENT EVENTS: Marblehead’s best bets coming up

Leigh BlanderArt, Culture, Entertainment, Top Stories
Current Events spotlights exciting happenings in the coming week. If you’d like to contribute a listing, please email the Current at info@marbleheadnews.org. End-of-summer luau ****CANCELED****Saturday, Sept. 5, 4 p.m. to close The Beacon is hosting one last summer party — and it’s a luau. Listen to a double feature of live steel drum music and the band World Premiere. 123 Pleasant St.  Live jazzSunday, Sept. 6, 2-4 p.m.Enjoy live jazz in the garden at 10 Central St. featuring the Rick Dimuzio Trio. Reservations encouraged. $20-$35 per…
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CURRENT EVENTS: Marblehead’s best bets coming up
25 Aug

CURRENT EVENTS: Marblehead’s best bets coming up

Leigh BlanderArt, Entertainment, Theater, Top Stories
Current Events spotlights exciting happenings in the coming week. If you’d like to contribute a listing, please email the Current at info@marbleheadnews.org.    ‘Glover and His Crucial Leadership in 1776’Wednesday, Aug. 26, 7-8:30 p.m.Learn about the crucial leadership of John Glover during his time as colonel of the Marblehead Regiment in this talk presented by Larry Sands, captain of the Glover’s Marblehead Regiment reenactment unit. This event is presented in collaboration with the Marblehead 250 Committee and Abbot Public Library. This program will be hybrid.…
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From MLT to Broadway and back: Ari Conte brings ‘The Women We Carry’ 
19 Aug

From MLT to Broadway and back: Ari Conte brings ‘The Women We Carry’ 

Marielle SabbagArt, Culture, Entertainment, Theater, Top Stories
A concert from the past is returning to Marblehead Little Theatre on Friday, Aug. 21. “The Women We Carry” is an original concert reading performed by Ari Conte that explores family, heritage and the women whose stories have become part of her own. Originally from Marblehead, Conte is a theater producer and communications strategist based in New York City. She graduated from Marblehead High School in 2011.  Marblehead native and New York City performer Ari Conte is bringing one of her own productions home to…
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Johnny Ray to lead new Swampscott waterfront restaurant, entertainment venue
19 Aug

Johnny Ray to lead new Swampscott waterfront restaurant, entertainment venue

Leigh BlanderArt, Culture, Entertainment, Top Stories
A Marblehead restaurateur is taking his experience in restaurants and entertainment across the town line to help launch a new waterfront destination in Swampscott. Johnny Ray, owner of The Beacon in Marblehead and co-owner of Johnny Ray’s Music Emporium, is leading the operation of the new Swampscott Center for the Performing Arts at the town-owned Hawthorne By The Sea property. Ray is partnering on the project with Richard Messinger, his business partner at Johnny Ray’s Music Emporium. The center is expected to open by Labor…
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CURRENT EVENTS: Marblehead’s best bets coming up
19 Aug

CURRENT EVENTS: Marblehead’s best bets coming up

Leigh BlanderAbbot Public Library, Art, Culture, Entertainment, Local History, Recreation, Theater, Top Stories
Current Events spotlights exciting happenings in the coming week. If you’d like to contribute a listing, please email the Current at info@marbleheadnews.org.   Adult Craft NightThursday, Aug. 21, 7-9 p.m.Join Slime Time Studios MHD for Adult Craft Night, 10 Spring St. Come with friends, make new friends and go home with a beautiful craft that you create. For their first Adult Craft Night you will be making beautiful pressed-flower frames while we chat and have a good time! Feel free to BYOB. Tickets are $35.…
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CURRENT EVENTS: Marblehead’s best bets
11 Aug

CURRENT EVENTS: Marblehead’s best bets

Leigh BlanderAbbot Public Library, Art, Community Resources, Culture, Entertainment, Environment, Recreation, Top Stories
Current Events spotlights exciting happenings in the coming week. If you’d like to contribute a listing, please email the Current at info@marbleheadnews.org.  Road to Independence walking tourThursday, Aug. 12, 4-5 p.m.  This walking tour with Marblehead Museum features the history of Marblehead in the early 1770s, highlighting the town’s pivotal role in such famous events as the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill and the resistance to British taxes. The tour will also explore attacks on local Loyalists, and the contradiction of Marbleheaders…
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CURRENT EVENTS: Marblehead’s best bets coming up
04 Aug

CURRENT EVENTS: Marblehead’s best bets coming up

Leigh BlanderArt, Community Resources, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Recreation, Theater, Top Stories
Current Events spotlights exciting happenings in the coming week. If you’d like to contribute a listing, please email the Current at info@marbleheadnews.org.  Slavery to Freedom walking tourThursday, Aug. 6, 4 p.m. Join Jarrett Zeman from Marblehead Museum for a walking tour on the history of slavery and the abolition movement in Marblehead. You’ll see local sites where enslaved people worked and lived, and where white abolitionists fought for freedom from the pulpit, ballot box and Underground Railroad. Tickets are $15.90 for the general public. Go…
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