With over 200+ exhibitions and performances, it's safe to say, a lot happens at First Night. Whether you're into comedy, dance, live music, or just want to get your face painted, First Night has something for everyone. To find what you're into and to plan a perfect First Night use the search tool below. You can search by category and sort by day/night or outdoor/indoor. Or you can pick a specific artist from the artist dropdown.  

 

Category:		All Categories FedEx Family Festival Kid's Music Storytelling, Puppets & Theater Magic & Stunts Workshops Metro Boston Grand Procession Film Dance Classical Music Pop, World & Experimental Music Jazz, Roots and Folk Music Theater, Comedy & Spoken Word Visual Arts & Exhibitions Outdoor
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Choose... Midnight Fireworks A Different Spin A Major Dance Actors' Shakespeare Project Aesthetic Evidence American Guild of Organists American Repertory Theatre Anat Cohen, 89.7 WGBH’s Toast of the Nation live broadcast Andre Ward and Friends ARTiculation Artsy Afternoon with Jen Flores Bee Hive Children's Art Studio and Gallery Ben Powell Quartet BJ Hickman Black Taxi Bombay Cinema Boston Bhangra Boston Green Festival Boston HarborWalk Tour Boston Interfaith Clergy Group Boston Jazz Voices Boston Poetry Slam Boston Public Library: Art & Architecture Tours Boston Saxophone Quartet Boston’s Maritime History Buffalo Tom Chris Brokaw & Geoff Farina Chu Ling Dance Academy Cirkestra Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and NEC Cruise Boston Harbor on New Year's Eve Cul de Sac Dan Butterworth Marionettes Diane Edgecomb Dinoman Exploratorium! Dinoman! Donald Chapelle / Brilliant Ice Sculpture Downside Up Circus Drew O’Doherty Dynasty Productions / Caribbean Bandleaders Either/Orchestra Elisa Pearmain Ellis Paul Eric Fontecchio & Alfred Georgs Estrellas Tropicales Experience Boston’s Working Port Face Painting Fernando Otero First Church of Christ, Scientist First Night Countdown to Midnight with Fatal Flaw First Night Drum Central First Night Frogs at the Tadpole Playground Fuerza International Galapagos Puppets Geometric Progression Gerwick Puppets Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association Guthrie Family Show Harrison Gray Otis House Museum Hawthorne Youth and Community Center Heinrich Christensen Hot Tamale Brass Band Ice Effects Improv Asylum ImprovBoston ImprovBoston Kids Comedy Intransitive Recordings JCCs of Greater Boston Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet Jordan Valentine and the Sunday Saints Kaiju Big Battel Kenny School Marching Band Kristin Hersh Los Sugar Kings Magpie Puppets Maximum Velocity Meet the King of Instruments Middlesex County 4-H Fife and Drum Corps Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel Morgan White, Jr. Museum of Fine Arts - Festival of International Short Films Museum of Science Nadav Remez Quintet NEC Children's Choir NEC Jazz Orchestra Neil Horskey New England Anime Society New England Aquarium New England Aquarium at the FedEx Family Festival New England Aquarium Ice Sculptures New Liberty Jazz Band New Magnolia Jazz Band Old South Brass & Percussion Old State House Museum Old Town Trolley Tours OpenAir Circus OrigiNation, Inc. & O'Shea-Chaplin Academy of Irish Dance Park Street Studios Peg Preble / Gould Microcars Project STEP Puppeteers' Cooperative and the Back Alley Puppet Theatre Roots & Shoots Roots & Shoots Roxbury Film Festival Samba Tremeterra Sharon Kennedy Sidewalk Sam SkyRiders Sophia Von Wrangell Spontaneous Celebrations The Cycling Murrays The Fatal Flaw The Institute of Contemporary Art The Lyres The Mary Baker Eddy Library The Neats The Painted Lights Tony Barrie Marching Band Tony V & Jimmy Dunn Tribute to Brother Blue Trolley Shuttle Urbanity Dance USS Constitution Museum Virago Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys Waterfront Trolley Tours WBZ-TV Countdown to Midnight Winterbloom Yorick's Marionette Theater