Boston’s late-January arts calendar highlights Symphony Hall, Roadrunner, and major theater runs across the city

What’s happening in Greater Boston from January 23 through early February

Boston’s weekend calendar at the end of January offers a cross-section of the region’s performing-arts landscape: large-scale orchestral programming tied to an ongoing season theme, touring Broadway at a major downtown venue, and a slate of club and theater dates spread across neighborhoods and nearby cities.

Symphony Hall continues an American-music series with John Williams

At Symphony Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has scheduled an all–John Williams program within its “E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One” series. The lineup includes Williams’s Piano Concerto and “TreeSong,” alongside film-score selections including the theme from “Schindler’s List” and music from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” The performances in this cycle ran January 22–25, with multiple dates and pre-concert events tied to select concerts.

The program features Andris Nelsons conducting, with Emanuel Ax as piano soloist and Gil Shaham as violin soloist.

Touring Broadway arrives downtown with “Some Like It Hot”

In Boston’s Theater District, the Broadway tour of “Some Like It Hot” is scheduled for a multi-week engagement at the Citizens Opera House, running from January 28 through February 8. The production adapts the 1959 film comedy set in Prohibition-era Chicago, following two musicians who flee after witnessing a mob killing and join an all-female band while in disguise. The show’s creative team includes a book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin, with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw.

• Venue: Citizens Opera House, 539 Washington St., Boston
• Run: Jan. 28–Feb. 8

Local and touring music: EDM, indie, and country-leaning sets

On the club circuit, Roadrunner is slated to host “Levity presents LASERSHIP” on Saturday, January 24, an 18+ show promoted as a high-production EDM night. Elsewhere, The Square Root in Roslindale lists dates featuring local acts, while Somerville and Beverly venues schedule country and bluegrass-adjacent shows within the same window.

• Roadrunner (Brighton): Levity presents LASERSHIP, Jan. 24
• Somerville: Georgia Overdrive, Jan. 23
• Beverly: The Infamous Stringdusters, Jan. 23

Theater beyond touring productions: Company One stages a new play through Jan. 31

In downtown Boston, Company One Theatre’s production of “The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar)” is scheduled at Suffolk University’s Modern Theatre from January 9 through January 31. The play, written by Nia Akilah Robinson and directed by Mina Morita, is presented as a co-production with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. The story moves between 1832 and the present day, centering on two mother-daughter pairs connected to the same grounds, with themes tied to grief, memory, and the protection of Black bodies from historic abuse, including grave robbing.

Planning note: Many events listed for January 23–25 fall in the immediate weekend window, while several prominent productions continue into early February.

As always, start times, age restrictions, and ticket availability vary by venue and date, particularly for limited-run theater engagements and multi-performance concert programs.