Light Up the Shea! Built in 1927, the classic Shea Theater in Turners Falls recently underwent renovations and is opening the first weekend in March with a special program! Performances include Red Baraat on Friday March 4th from 8 to 10 p.m., Speedy Ortiz on Saturday, March 5th from 8 to 10 p.m. and Heather Maloney Sunday, March 6th from 7 to 9 p.m.

Tickets are on sale online now, with $2 from every ticket going directly to benefit the renovations at The Shea Theater, Avenue A, Turners Falls. Click here for show details and to buy tickets!

The Shea provides performance space for a variety of attractions designed to appeal to the widest range of tastes. Musical offerings include folk, pop, rock, swing, jazz, country and traditional. Theatrical productions encompass musical comedy, drama, comedy, and political satire. 

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March in Boston is about Food, Wine & Friendship! Make plans for DINE OUT BOSTON, March 6-11 an 13-18, when area chefs stir things up with specially prepared prix fixe meals. Choose from the latest culinary hot spots, nationally known chain restaurants or local chef-owned bistros. Restaurants select their price point and create their own distinctive menus.  Check dineoutboston.com for participating restaurants, menus and reservations.  Take in a play, a game at the Garden, a concert or an exhibition before or after dining. March In. Dine Out. Find more information on Greater Boston. 

Hailed by the Boston Globe as "beautifully finished, but richly emotional," Gloriae Dei Cantores presents a weekend of Lenten Concerts March 4-5 at The Church of the Transfiguration at Rock Harbor in Orleans! The repertoire features choral gems including Duruflé's Requiem, Pärt's L'abbe Agathon and Poulenc's Motets for the Season of Lent. Concert time is 7:30 p.m. Buy tickets here! And don't forget to don your green for the annual Cape Cod St. Patrick's Day Parade in Yarmouth on Saturday, March 5th!  Find more information on Cape Cod.

Celebrate the written word in western Massachusetts this March! The Emily Dickinson Museum opens again on March 2, and you can now see last year's restoration work to Emily's bedroom.  From March 3-5, Amherst College hosts LitFest, its inaugural three-day literary festival celebrating fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, spoken-word, and conversation. LitFest features internationally renowned authors Michael Chabon, Lauren Groff, Angela Flournoy, Mark Bowden and Stacy Schiff. Events are free and open to the public.  Find more information on Hampshire County.

High Mud Comedy Festival at MASS MoCA in North Adams (March 11-12) is a two-day laugh fest featuring a pile of performers thick with national comedic treasures and local stand-up heroes! Provocative deadpan comedian Tig Notaro headlines the inaugural event, hosted by NPR's Ophira Eisenberg and featuring Brooklyn- and Hollywood-based live wire Sean Patton. More national and regional talent fill the stages, including absurdist Dave Hill and a Berkshire-based comedy slate organized by and including the hilarious Thomas Attila Lewis, North Adams-based humorist Seth Brown, and Adams-based Mark Jagiello. Find more information on The Mohawk Trail Region. 

There's only one way to get a full "taste" of the region, and that's at the Annual Taste of MetroWest on March 22 at the Sheraton Framingham Hotel, 5-8 p.m. More than 70 exhibitors offer free, unlimited tastes at this culinary extravaganza. Local restaurants, caterers, markets, wineries, brew houses and purveyors include Jack's Abby Beer Hall & Kitchen, Skybokx 109 GastroSports, and Chocolate Therapy.  A program of the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce, Taste of MetroWest info and tickets can be found here!  Find more information on MetroWest. 

42nd Daffodil Festival Weekend, April 29-30 & May 1, 2016. From early April to mid-May, over three million daffodils of every hue, shape and size burst forth across the island, adorning roadsides, gardens and window boxes. The Nantucket Daffodil Festival is a rollicking celebration of spring's arrival, featuring an Antique Car Parade & Tailgate Picnic, a Family Picnic, Daffy Hat, Dog and Children's Parades.  Don your daffiest "chapeau", adorn your pampered pet in Daffy-themed garb, bedeck your vintage Packard, and join us!  Find more information on Nantucket Island.

Entering its ninth year, Salem Film Fest (March 3-10) is one of New England's largest documentary film festivals and presents a rich collection of the year's best work from all over! The festival finds its spirit in Salem's history as the first great international city. At this moment of unprecedented promise - and unprecedented danger - documentary film can help us form a clearer vision of our commonalities as the human family, and an understanding of how to approach an uncertain future together. Screenings and most events located at CinemaSalem and PEM. Find more information on North of Boston.

Spring brings new beginnings and in Central Massachusetts it's all about fresh and exciting new work within the vibrant art scene! ArtsWorcester, in conjunction with Worcester Center for Crafts, presents the juried exhibition Now! New Works, New Artists beginning March 18. The Sprinkler Factory features Surface: 64 Variations on a Theme, an exhibition exploring the concept of surface, opening March 5. Finally, check out the newest gallery in town, Nine Dot Gallery, specializing in eclectic, and diverse works of art. Find more information on Central Massachusetts.