Something they want, something they need, something to wear, something to read!  There’s nothing more cozy than cuddling up under a fuzzy blanket on a cold day with a big old pile of delicious words. This holiday season, you can give the gift of poetry written by local poets…even if that gift is to yourself. World Happiness Index by Kathleen

Santa Claus is coming back to town in 2022! Join Salem Main Streets and the City of Salem as we celebrate two of our most beloved annual traditions – Santa’s Arrival and the lighting of Salem’s Holiday Tree – all in one evening. Bring the whole family out for carols, festivities, and fun! Santa Claus will arrive at the top

New England’s Brightest Holiday Tradition Returns To North Shore Music Theatre ‘a Christmas Carol’ A Musical Ghost Story 31st ANNUAL PRODUCTION December 1 – 23, 2022 – Tickets on sale now Get Tickets   The Holiday Season will light up once again when Bill Hanney’s North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) presents the area’s largest and most beloved production of A

The House of the Seven Gables Settlement Association and Dobro New England will hold a ‘Paint and Sip’ workshop on Sunday, November 6, at 2 p.m., in the Visitor Center at 115 Derby Street. The event is the first in a series of three that The Gables will sponsor in collaboration with Dobro New England, a New Hampshire-based organization that

By Easton Mills Salem State University’s production of SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS will play again this weekend from October 27-30. Get Tickets Here.  It was at the Maverick Concert Hall in New York City in 1952 when pianist David Tudor set a timer, sat down to a piano, and didn’t play a note for four minutes and 33 seconds. The ambient

Montserrat College of Art has been recognized as one of the top colleges in the region by U.S. News & World Report, earning rankings in the publication’s 2023 Best Colleges issue. The annual report ranks Montserrat in 22nd place in Top Performers in the Social Mobility category and 28th place for Regional Colleges (North) category. This is the first year that Montserrat has

By Easton Mills Ira Levin’s DEATHTRAP, originally opened on Broadway in 1978, is a self-referential field full of hidden landmines. So covered in plot twists and sudden switches, the play insists on having you disbelieve your own eyes and follow the players down a dark and dismal rabbit hole from which they never recover, and it’s possible you won’t as

Partnership with the Peabody Essex Museum, City of Salem and Creative Collective to honor town as inspiration for ParaNorman’s fictional ‘Blithe Hollow’ setting As part of Salem, Massachusetts’, iconic “Salem Haunted Happenings” month-long Halloween festival, the award-winning animation studio LAIKA has partnered with the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), the City of Salem and Creative Collective to present a series of ParaNorman screenings and live

THE TONY® AWARD-WINNING BEST MUSICAL ‘KINKY BOOTS’ WILL STRUT ITS STUFF ON STAGE AT NORTH SHORE MUSIC THEATRE. October 25 – November 6, 2022 – Tickets on sale now at www.nsmt.org Audiences can expect to feel the energy, joy, and laughter when Bill Hanney’s award-winning North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) presents KINKY BOOTS, the freshest, most fabulous, feel-good musical and the winner of

Dacre Stoker International bestselling author and great grandnephew of Bram Stoker, will be at the Cinema Salem on Tuesday October 11, 2022 giving two 90 minute audio visual presentations (2:30pm and 6pm) 125 years of Dracula: Secrets Revealed, the Mysteries Behind the Research and Writing of Dracula in conjunction with screenings of DRACULA 1931(1pm) and Bram Stoker’s DRACULA 1992 (8pm).