Guild Hall’s newly renovated theater will open with a performance by Student Body, a local band, an American Masters documentary about August Wilson, and a performance by the award-winning singer-actor Billy Porter.

Terrence McNally’s “Master Class” at Bay Street is set in an opera master class run by Maria Callas, played by Vicki Lewis, who commands “the audience’s attention like a true diva of old.”

Bay Street Theater will honor Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, and Georgette Grier-Key at its gala, and host Patti LuPone for Music Mondays.

The Church will host Rameshwar Das, who co-authored three books with Ram Dass, and Mira Dougherty-Johnson and Jenny Xie, who will read from their works.