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The retrospective “Chronicles of Changing Times: The...Arts & CultureMar 27, 2024Central Square Theater's 'Beyond Words' captures the bond between a researcher and parrotWritten by Laura Maria Censabella, the play is inspired by Irene Pepperberg, who taught an African grey parrot named Alex to communicate and solve problems for more than 30 years....Arts & CultureMar 26, 2024AdvertisementAn artist invites audiences to 'Come On In' to his psychePlaying at the Strand Theatre March 28-30, the autobiographical one-man play follows writer-actor Daniel Callahan as he navigates mental health and religion as a Black man. Arts & CultureMar 26, 2024A once-enslaved man’s music was hidden for centuries. Go on a journey to rediscover his melodiesAn enslaved man’s music was hidden for centuries. 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BUFF’s Nicole McControversy promises there’s something for everyone in this year’s roster of...Arts & CultureMar 18, 20249 books by New England authors to read this springFrom the “Satanic Panic” in rural New Hampshire, to contemporary college campuses, to post-apocalyptic Massachusetts, literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends books that will keep you enthralled this season.Arts & CultureMar 15, 2024'Girl from the North Country' pulses with Dylan's songs, but lacks a tight connection to the heartPlaywright Conor McPherson uses Bob Dylan's songs to tell a tale of people trapped in Depression-era Duluth, Minnesota. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair likes the music, the story not so much.Arts & CultureMar 15, 2024Next Page
5 things to do this weekend, including 'Framing Freedom' at Boston Athenaeum and an ICA play datePlus, "Buttons On!" at Fuller Craft Museum and "WomAnimation!" at MassArt.Arts & CultureMar 28, 2024
For author Eric LaRocca, horror is a form of healingYou can try reading Eric LaRocca's new collection “This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances” in the daylight. But even sunshine won’t be able to banish the deep-body chills...Arts & CultureMar 28, 2024
MASS MoCA union employees end strike after contract agreement reachedUnionized employees of MASS MoCA, the contemporary art museum in North Adams, voted Tuesday to ratify an agreement on wages, ending a three-week strike that began March 6.Arts & CultureMar 27, 2024
Harvard Film Archive celebrates the cinema of Edward YangThe director was a key figure of the New Taiwan Cinema, a nascent movement emerging from decades of state censorship and marital law. The retrospective “Chronicles of Changing Times: The...Arts & CultureMar 27, 2024
Central Square Theater's 'Beyond Words' captures the bond between a researcher and parrotWritten by Laura Maria Censabella, the play is inspired by Irene Pepperberg, who taught an African grey parrot named Alex to communicate and solve problems for more than 30 years....Arts & CultureMar 26, 2024
An artist invites audiences to 'Come On In' to his psychePlaying at the Strand Theatre March 28-30, the autobiographical one-man play follows writer-actor Daniel Callahan as he navigates mental health and religion as a Black man. Arts & CultureMar 26, 2024
A once-enslaved man’s music was hidden for centuries. Go on a journey to rediscover his melodiesAn enslaved man’s music was hidden for centuries. Volunteer researchers rediscovered Sawney Freeman’s music tucked away in a Connecticut library, uncovering evidence that he is one of the earliest published...Arts & CultureMar 25, 2024
'Hallyu!' at the MFA rides the South Korean culture waveCars, circuitry and communications technologies are among South Korea's biggest exports. But it's the country's cultural offerings that are the focus of an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts,...ResumeArts & Culture03:46Mar 22, 2024
Matt McArthur on leaving The Record Co. and what's nextAfter 13 years leading The Record Company, Matt McArthur moves on. He shares some thoughts on the state of Boston's music scene, the evolution of The Record Company and where...Arts & CultureMar 22, 2024
A musician's invitation to meditate on death at Mount Auburn CemeteryArtist-in-residence Eden Rayz created a musical instrument from decommissioned organ pipes from the cemetery's Bigelow Chapel. She will perform a musical death meditation called “Nothingness is Impossible” on March 23.Arts & CultureMar 21, 2024
For great musicals, New York's Public Theater is the room where it happensCritic at large Ed Siegel's four favorite musicals of the 21st century were all incubated by artistic director Oskar Eustis and his predecessor, George C. Wolfe.Arts & CultureMar 21, 2024
5 things to do this weekend, including time on a farm and a film screeningPlus, brass band Magnificent Danger performs in Lowell and the closing weekend of the play "Stand Up If You're Here Tonight."Arts & CultureMar 21, 2024
Coolidge Corner Theatre’s new expansion is ready for its close upThe historic Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline is a beloved throwback to the classic era of moviegoing. Now, after a decade of fundraising, designing and construction, the art deco movie...ResumeArts & Culture06:41Mar 20, 2024
Taylor Swift college classes are a thing nowPopular classes at Harvard and Berklee College of Music use Taylor Swift as a tool to teach songwriting, literature and cultural analysis.ResumeArts & Culture06:49Mar 19, 2024
Novel 'Bad Animals' questions the stories that are toldSarah Braunstein's novel follows residents in a coastal Maine town through the eyes of a laid-off librarian, who is not completely unreliable but is disingenuous. Carol Iaciofano Aucoin reviews.Arts & CultureMar 19, 2024
Dreaming of sleep? You could try a 'sleep vacation'From pillow menus to sleep rituals, for National Sleep Awareness Month we pull back the covers on “sleep tourism.”ResumeArts & Culture05:04Mar 18, 2024
Portraits of historic Black Americans now grace a Worcester landmarkMechanics Hall has unveiled three newly commissioned portraits of activists Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and couple William and Martha Brown — the first in the concert hall’s 167-year history to...Arts & CultureMar 18, 2024
Boston Underground Film Festival celebrates oddities of cinemaNow in its 24th iteration, the festival screens 14 features and 70-something shorts at the Brattle Theatre. BUFF’s Nicole McControversy promises there’s something for everyone in this year’s roster of...Arts & CultureMar 18, 2024
9 books by New England authors to read this springFrom the “Satanic Panic” in rural New Hampshire, to contemporary college campuses, to post-apocalyptic Massachusetts, literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends books that will keep you enthralled this season.Arts & CultureMar 15, 2024
'Girl from the North Country' pulses with Dylan's songs, but lacks a tight connection to the heartPlaywright Conor McPherson uses Bob Dylan's songs to tell a tale of people trapped in Depression-era Duluth, Minnesota. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair likes the music, the story not so much.Arts & CultureMar 15, 2024