Arts & Culture

. For almost six decades, the Black American dance group has been performing almost annually in the Hub in partnership with Celebrity Series. This year, with the help of local community leaders, Celebrity Series is ramping up the educational aspect of the group’s visits, tripling the number of workshops and educational events.

The cult of celebrity can be a powerful force. The glamorous lure of the rich and famous can compel a die-hard fan to spend thousands on concert tickets or wait in line for hours to buy celebrity-branded makeup and alcohol. The halo of notoriety could even convince the average person to join a literal cult like NXIVM if membership promises the proximity of celebrity with sprinkles of self-actualization.

Boston has long been a bastion of laughter. From thumbing our nose at King Charles during the colonial days to launching multiple late-night TV legends, the Hub of the Universe has also been the Hub of Laughter in many respects.

Boston-based designer Faith (Imani) McFarlane has been designing luxury head wraps since 2006. The vibrant cotton and silk wraps range from simple bands to elegant, couture creations.

Works by seven local playwrights will be performed later this month during the Queer Voices Festival run by the Boston Theater Company. In its second year, the festival continues to develop with new programming and family-friendly activities celebrating the LGBTQ+ experience.

The music of saxophonist, bandleader and composer John Coltrane (1926-1967) gains an orchestral reimagining in “Coltrane: Legacy for Orchestra,” to be performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra with trumpeter Terence Blanchard.

In playwright Kate Hamill’s “The Odyssey,” her contemporary retelling of the 2,000-year-old epic poem by Homer, this tale of seemingly endless violence and revenge takes a new turn.

Celebrity Series’ 2025 Jazz Festival pops up in newly opened Arrow Street Arts in Harvard Square from March 13 through the 16.

Haitian artist Fabiola Jean-Louis teased her power during her 2023 exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum “Rewriting History.” Now, back in full force, she’s taken over three gallery spaces in the museum for a masterpiece exhibition, “Waters Of The Abyss: An Intersection of Spirit and Freedom.”

This weekend Castle of our Skins Wind Ensemble will debut the world premiere of “Sketches from the Movement,” a new quintet composition by Brian Raphael Nabors during a free, community-based concert in Jamaica Plain.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is a globally recognized institution with a reputation for bringing decisive scholarship and illuminating curation to the public. For the exhibition “Curated by Teens: Death as a Constant Companion,” that scholarship is coming from five local students who worked with the support of the MFA to fully realize an exhibition of Dutch and Flemish artworks.

A cluster of shimmering silver poles evokes the stand of trees where ancestors and living family members meet in “The Grove,” on stage at the Calderwood Pavilion of the Boston Center for the Arts through March 9 in a world premiere production by the Huntington Theater Company.