ARTBEAT Festival

Somerville’s biggest art and cultural party of the year features several theater related events. The ARTBEAT Festival adopts a river theme this year, kicking off the festivities with a “Mystical Fish” parade. “The Big Day” on July 22 includes performances at The Works Theater in Davis Square:

12:30pm
Behind the Mask Theater
Latin-American folk tale — bi-lingual

1:15pm
Snap Dragon Puppet Theater
Russian and Bulgarian folk tales — bi-lingual

2:30pm
Behind the Mask Theater

3:15pm
Tangents Radio Theater Company
1930s and 1940s era radio shows performed live

4:15pm
Musical! The Musical

5:00pm
Sitcom

8:00pm
Micetro
Elimination improv at its finest

10:30pm
Dropkick Bandito
Unstructured, unstylized, no-holds-barred long-form improv