Big Apple Circus: Luminocity - City Hall Plaza, Boston
Through 5/11
Tickets $25 and up        

Catch the high spirits and pulse-racing thrills of the World’s Greatest Circus Artists in one ring under the Big Top, where no seat is more than 50 feet from ringside. Watch rowdy pups perform amazing tricks, double trapeze artists soaring high above, a bashful clown, an irrepressible flimflam man, and a juggler extraordinaire; teeter-board acrobats flying through the air, a cavalcade of magnificent steeds, and a couple of amazing wire-walkers suspended in mid-air.

Woolapalooza - Drumlin Farm, Lincoln
Sat 3/29
Admission $10-$12

Festival highlights include Drumlin Farm’s new spring babies, sheep shearing and sheepherding demonstrations, hands-on activities for all ages, and all natural, locally grown and harvested Drumlin Farm food. Local fiber artisans offer demonstrations and sell their handmade products. Follow the “Sheep-to-Sweater Interpretive Trail” to learn how fleece on a sheep becomes the warm woolen sweater you wear.

Casey Carle's BubbleMania! - The Center for the Arts Natick (TCAN)
Sat 3/29
Admission $10 adults, $8 kids        

BubbleMania is loaded with visual comedy, quick wit, big band swing music, and the untamed, often unbelievable qualities and beauty of spherical liquids.

Play Date: Links, Lines and Knots - ICA, Boston
Sat 3/29>
Free for families: up to two adults per family accompanied by children ages 6–12

Unravel the mysteries of Matthew Ritchie’s installation on the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall! Share your ideas about this new work, then work with visiting artist Justin Gargasz to create a large-scale diagram including stories from your lives (plus lines and knots). Hear the Boston Children’s Chorus perform in the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater, and see a screening of feature film The Secret of Kells.

Harlem Globetrotters - TD Garden, Boston
Sat 3/29-Sun 3/30
Tickets: $24 & up

The basketball team known around the world returns to the TD Garden for two shows complete with its famous ball handling wizardry, basketball artistry and one-of-a-kind entertainment.

The Sound of Music - The Footlight Club, Jamaica Plain
Sat and Sun through 4/12
Adults $25; Children $20

The Footlight Club presents the classic musical of the von Trapp family. Watch Maria change the austere tone of the household and win over seven children and their strict father Captain von Trapp.

Family Opera: Rain Dance - The Peabody School, Cambridge
Sat 3/29 & 4/5 and Sun 3/30 & 4/6
Admission is free: Suggested donation of $5 kids, $10 adults

The 2014 family opera is the North American (and NCFO) premiere of Rain Dance, inspired by Tish Farrell's story, The Hare Who Would Not Be King. Rain Dance was commissioned by the W11 Opera for Young People and first performed by them in December 2010. It is the tale of animals on the South African savannah facing a drought, the Machiavellian lion whom they elect to lead them, and their unlikely hero, a brilliant but neurotic and politically apathetic rabbit.

Please note that while admission is free (with a suggested donation), it is recommended that you reserve tickets in advance to be sure you get in.

Lights Off for Earth Hour - City-wide
Sat 3/29
FREE

People and businesses around the world extinguish all non-essential lighting during this one hour. Boston is among over 5,000 cities and towns world-wide that have pledged to shut off lights for Earth Hour.

Photo: ICA Playdate