Performing Arts

The blockbuster musical Wicked returns to the Citizens Bank Opera House for an extended Boston run of 64 performances. The show tells the story of the witches of Oz before Dorothy arrives. Performance times vary by date.

Comedian Yakov Smirnoff performs at Laugh Boston in the Seaport. The Soviet-born comic is known for his observational humor about American life.

Comedian and digital creator KevOnStage brings his solo show to Boston, turning loss and mourning into stand-up. The performance is listed as 16+.

Egyptian-American satirist Bassem Youssef brings The Belly of the Beast Tour to the Wilbur for one night. The former heart surgeon turned political comedian built his reputation hosting the satirical news program Al-Bernameg before relocating to the United States. Boston is one of a handful of theatre stops on the fall run.

Lyric Stage Boston opens its season with Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, directed by Scott Edmiston. Miller’s postwar drama traces one family’s reckoning with a wartime business decision and the son who refuses to let it stay buried. Performances run through mid-October in the company’s intimate Back Bay theatre, with evening and matinee showtimes.

Andris Nelsons launches his thirteenth and final season as BSO Music Director with a non-subscription gala concert featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The program pairs Arturs Maskats’s Tango with Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Brahms’s Symphony No. 4. It is the marquee night of the orchestra’s 146th season at Symphony Hall.

New England Conservatory opens its student-run, faculty-supervised new music series in Jordan Hall, with works by current NEC composition students performed by their peers. The series was founded in the early 1990s by Lee Hyla and is directed this season by student composers Genie Alvarado and Jack Frederick. Admission is free, though a ticket is…

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine joins pianist Matthew Hagle for a program of Brahms sonatas in the Gardner’s Weekend Concert Series. The recital takes place in Calderwood Hall.

Stand-up comedian and podcaster Matt McCusker brings The Healing Frequency Tour to the Shubert Theatre.

The North End Branch screens the 1963 John Huston adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, starring Richard Burton and Ava Gardner. Part of the branch ongoing Friday Films series, free to attend.