Welcome to the Big To-Do: Short Cuts, our midweek round-up of what’s going on around Boston, as selected by Boston Globe critics and writers.

Yi Cynthia Chen, "Double Consciousness in a Museum in Boston," 2025. From "Willful Dialects" at No Call No Show Gallery. YI CYNTHIA CHEN

Thursday

• Move over Avengers: Marvel’s new anti-hero team debuts in “Thunderbolts*,” opening in theaters.
• Comedy stars Steve Carell and Tina Fey reunite for their new dramedy “The Four Seasons,” debuting on Netflix.
• Harvard kicks off its annual art festival, which returns for a weekend of exhibits, performances, and more.

Friday

• “Jaws”-themed play “The Shark Is Broken” opens at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly.
• Hyperpop musician Jane Remover brings the high-intensity beats to Cambridge’s the Sinclair.

Saturday

• British soul singer Alison Moyet celebrates four decades of grooves at Big Night Live.
• Enjoy arts, music, food trucks, and a day of community at the 47th annual Wake Up the Earth Festival.
• See the Makanda Project with Jay Hoggard at a free big band show at Roxbury’s Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building.
• Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood of “Whose Line Is It, Anyway?” take the stage at the Cabot in Beverly.

Sunday

• The four-part “Masterpiece Theater” drama “Miss Austen” makes its debut on PBS.

Monday

• Boston Fringe kicks off a week of comedy as the festival takes over The Rockwell through May 11.

Ongoing

• “The Squirrels” continues its run at the Chelsea Theatre Works through May 18.
• The exhibition “Willful Dialects,” celebrating Boston-area Asian American artists, is on display at No Call, No Show and Distillery Gallery through May 24.

Last Chance

• Moonbox Productions concludes the run of “Crowns” at Cambridge’s Arrow Street Arts on May 4.
• Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” wraps up at Watertown’s Mosesian Center for the Arts on May 4.

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