Entertainment

There is so much happening in Grand Rapids this weekend it was hard to narrow it down, but hopefully, we've got recommendations that will suit everyone's interests. From Actors' Theatre's first performance of the season to a silent disco and a new laser light show that will "rock you," you're sure to find something fun to do this weekend.

The NIA Centre, a cultural center designed to celebrate and serve people of color in West Michigan, will be hosting its My Story event Tuesday, Oct. 17 at the JW Marriott to introduce itself to the community.

The Grand Rapids Symphony is fighting the extended winter blues with a spring-themed performance featuring a mother-son duo.

The Broadway Grand Rapids 2020-21 season brings some of Broadway’s biggest blockbusters to West Michigan.

Minor league baseball games might be canceled this year, but Fifth Third Ballpark is offering a different kind of entertainment this summer.

It’s been a quarter-century since Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park welcomed its first visitors on April 20, 1995.

A selection of seven historic Heritage Hill Homes will open their doors to the public this weekend for the annual Heritage Hill Home Tour.

Downtown Grand Rapids is full of hidden gardens and the Dwelling Place is offering a tour of four of those gardens this week.

A local museum will offer visitors an enchanting experience.

Fall Out Boy fans from all corners will soon take shelter at Van Andel Arena for a sold-out spectacle, Tuesday, March 26.

The musical, "Six," which made its Michigan premiere in Grand Rapids earlier this month, set an all-time record for attendance at a one-week Broadway show at DeVos Performance Hall, but the economic impact doesn't stop there.

Cirque du Soleil is returning to Grand Rapids with its coolest arena show yet.

The 2020 Fifth Third Bank Summer Concerts at Meijer Gardens series, scheduled for June 4-Sept. 17, was canceled.

Some of the best young poets in Kent County will be performing at the Summer Poetry Pop-Up Show on Aug. 25 at 5 p.m. at the Outside Coffee Company, at 734 Wealthy St. SE.

Grand Rapids resident Luke Sharretts was announced as the sixth winner of FaZe Clan’s #FaZe5 challenge in January.

The Muskegon Lakeshore Home, Garden and Boat Show will be held at the VanDyk Mortgage Convention Center in downtown Muskegon this year. 

Royal Blood is not a quiet band. Opening for Queens of the Stone Age on Sunday night at 20 Monroe Live, Royal Blood plans to start the party.

The fifth album from the Ryne Experience, a collaborative music project run by Lowell native Ryne Clarke, is scheduled to be released Friday.

This weekend features a party in a park. And much more.

The Grand Rapids Public Museum will host a new exhibition, “Under the Arctic: Digging into the Permafrost,” beginning Sept. 26.