New Art Center presents Teen Build Your Art Portfolio class
2026-01-05 17:30 - 19:30, 2026-01-12 17:30 - 19:30, 2026-01-19 17:30 - 19:30, 2026-01-26 17:30 - 19:30, 2026-02-02 17:30 - 19:30, 2026-02-09 17:30 - 19:30, 2026-02-16 17:30 - 19:30, 2026-02-23 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) and 7 more dates | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Teen Build Your Art Portfolio class // All Levels // GR 8-12 // Mondays with Mattea Weinberg
This all-levels class is perfect for teens looking to build strong skills and prepare a competitive portfolio for college art programs. Students will draw from life, experiment with materials, and create meaningful, finished pieces—all with the support and guidance of an experienced instructor. Whether applying to art school or simply wanting to grow as an artist, this class offers the structure and feedback teens need to succeed.

Commonwealth Chorale Auditions
2026-01-06 17:30 - 18:45, 2026-01-13 17:30 - 18:45 | First Baptist Church in Newton, 848 Beacon St, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Commonwealth Chorale seeks singers of all voice types who have strong vocal and sight-reading skills. We are especially looking for tenors and basses. The 2025-2026 season marks Commonwealth Chorale’s 50th Anniversary and will be filled with special performances.
In March, we will perform a new arrangement of Mozart’s beloved Requiem by English composer Howard Arman along with two Psalm settings by 19th-century Brazilian composer Jose Maricio Nunes Garcia. In May, we conclude our celebration with Martín Palmeri’s tango-influenced Misa a Buenos Aires (“Misatango”). The program will also feature tango works with tango orchestra and tango dancers! We conclude with Argentinian Alberto Ginastera’s Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah, written while Ginastera was living in the USA after being targeted by the Perón regime for supporting civil liberties.
Auditions will be held by appointment on January 6th and 13th from 5:30 to 6:45. Auditions are held at our rehearsal location at First Baptist Church, 848 Beacon Street in Newton Center, a few minutes’ walk from the Newton Center stop on the “D” Green Line. There is also plenty of parking behind the church and on adjacent streets.
We have scholarships to reduce costs for singers 30 and under! See website for details: https://commonwealthchorale.com
To apply for an audition, click here: https://commonwealthchorale.com/join-us

Boston Ballet School presents Open Studio Week
2026-01-10 - 2026-01-16 | Boston Ballet School, 153 Needham St, Suite N101, Newton Highlands, MA, 02464, United States
January Open Studio Week
Parents of children ages 16 months to 6 years* are invited to join us for Open Studio Week January 10–16 at our Boston, Brighton, Brookline, and Newton studios. You and your child can get a firsthand experience of our classes, connect with our faculty, learn more about our curriculum, and tour our state-of-the-art studios.
Date: Saturday, January 10–Friday, January 16
Time: 9am–12:45pm, actual time based on level
Locations:
Newton Studio – 153 Needham Street, Newton, MA 02464
Boston Studio – 19 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA 02116
Brighton Studio – The Presentation School Community Foundation Center: 640 Washington Street, Brighton, MA 02135
Brookline Studio – 1431 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02446
January Placement Class
Join us for a free placement class on January 10 at our Newton Studio. This placement class is for students ages 7-18 who are interested in joining our Foundations or Classical Ballet Training. The placement class will allow our faculty to assess your child’s skill level and determine which class will be best for them to further their dance education.
Date: Saturday, January 10
Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Location: Newton Studio – 153 Needham Street, Newton, MA 02464
Follow the event link to RSVP for this FREE event!

Lydian String Quartet at The Allen Center
2026-01-15 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-02-19 19:30 - 21:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
An Open Rehearsal
The Naumberg Award-winning Lydian String Quartet, recently named Ensemble in Residence at The Allen Center, will deliver the four open rehearsals with two Beethoven quartets framing contemporary works that demonstrate Beethoven’s lasting influence and providing new context for listening and understanding these canonical works in today’s world. Buy Tickets.

Newton Theatre Company Presents: OUR TOWN
2026-01-16 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-01-17 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-17 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-01-23 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-24 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-24 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-01-30 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-31 08:00 - 17:00 and 1 more date | Saint John’s Episcopal Church, 96 Otis Street, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Experience this beloved classic up close with our exceptional professional cast in an intimate venue where every seat brings you into the heart of Grover’s Corners.
Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning play is a profound meditation on love, loss, and the precious ordinary moments that define our lives told in Newton Theatre Company’s signature style—immediate, personal, and unforgettable.
Intimate staging. Beloved actors. Our original vision.
Limited seating. Reserve soon. Tickets will sell out.
Our Town will run for three weekends. Tickets available now!
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​Friday, January 16th at 8pm
Saturday, January 17th at 2pm
Saturday, January 17th at 8pm
Friday, January 23rd at 8pm
Saturday, January 24th at 2pm
​Saturday, January 24th at 8pm
Friday, January 30th at 8pm
Saturday, January 31st at 2pm
​Saturday, January 31st at 8pm
Seating is intimate and limited, so get your tickets now!
All performances are at:
St. John’s Episcopal Church, DiMauro Hall
​96 Otis Street, Newtonville, MA

A Musical Menagerie
2026-01-18 15:00 - 17:00 | War Memorial Auditorium, 1000 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, 02459, United States
This January, conductor Conner Gray Covington leads your family on a thrilling trip to our musical zoo! Things get buzzing with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s zippy Flight of the Bumblebee. In Camille Saint-Saëns’s humorous Carnival of the Animals, clucking chickens, lumbering elephants, and braying donkeys all make their appearance. Works by Modest Mussorgsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Ludwig van Beethoven paint vivid scenes of children playing, swans dancing, and birds calling to each other by a brook. Our visit ends with The Mountain That Loved a Bird, in which Caroline Shaw’s stirring music brings Alice McLerran’s heartwarming fable to musical life.
Tickets are free, but please register on the website through the ticket platform at https://www.proarte.org/concerts/a-musical-menagerie.
Sponsored by Newton Cultural Council and the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American Federation of Musicians
