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Yannick Lebrun and Jacqueline Green in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s performance of “Petite Mort.”

Paul Kolnik

Dance Review

A bold, diverse opening night for Alvin Ailey

Thursday night’s concert by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater epitomized a vision of dance as a celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit. By Karen Campbell

Misa Kuranaga and Boyko Dossev held sway in “Coppélia,” which is being performed at the Boston Opera House.

Kayana Szymczak for the Boston Globe

Dance review

Boston Ballet offers a doll of a ‘Coppélia’

The 1974 George Balanchine version of “Coppélia” at the Boston Opera House is engaging. By Jeffrey Gantz

Heather Maloney keeps her music in the moment

Maloney, who comes to Club Passim Saturday, crammed a range of academic approaches into her head as an aspiring singer, and then started over. By Jeremy D. Goodwin

‘Love is Power, Or Something Like That’ by A. Igoni Barrett

A collection of stories set in modern-day Nigeria, Barrett’s book pulses with an indomitable life force both tender and fierce. By Jan Gardner

Apocalyptic films loom large, but heroes and hilarity may rescue us

If there is a theme to the studio blockbusters coming out between Memorial Day and Labor Day, it is that Apocalypse is nigh, is here, or has already happened.

‘Frame by Frame’ e-book

Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee’s popular column offers an up-close look at dozens of individual works that show what makes New England so stimulating for art lovers.

What's on TV tonight

Critic’s Corner: What’s on TV this weekend

Globe critic Matthew Gilbert’s picks for what to watch, including the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and “The Simpsons.”

Boston’s last, great unsolved mystery

On this page, you can learn more about the Globe’s reexamination of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist, view the lost masterpieces, watch how the thieves broke in, and review the investigation over the years.

Inside Arts & Lifestyle

Maurice Hines performed with protégés John Manzari (left) and Leo Manzari, brothers he discovered four years ago in Washington.

Maurice Hines taps into his history

Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Mahler’s Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall.

BSO pick makes history

Winona Ryder and Michael Shannon (also below) in “The Iceman,” based on the story of hit man Richard Kuklinski.

Movie Review

‘The Iceman’ inside the family man

“Dead Sea Scrolls: Life in Ancient Times.”

Events

Boston-area To Do list

Unsettled

Women, drinking, and wine-as-reward culture

Installations of men’s jackets at RISD’s exhibit.

Men’s fashion gets respect at RISD’s dandy show

Above: Sarah Polley and her father Michael in a recording studio in a scene from “Stories We Tell.” Below: A young Sarah with Michael.

Movie Review

A director’s discoveries in ‘Stories We Tell’

Composer Andrew Norman (right) demonstrates some of the unorthodox techniques called for when conductor Gil Rose (left) and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project play his music.

Classical Notes

Given time to write at BMOP, Norman produces ‘Play’

In “Icarus,” Minnie (Aimee Rose Ranger) draws patrons to her Depression-era traveling sideshow with the unusual inventions of Daedalus (Steven Emanuelson).

Stages

Icarus alights in the Dust Bowl

Ezra Koenig and Vampire Weekend (shown performing in Austin, Texas, in March) dealt with some technical trouble in Boston.

music review

Vampire Weekend just doesn’t get the blood boiling

Travis Talbot secured Fenway Park as the venue for Boston Bites Back, which will benefit the One Fund.

One Fund event gets his trademark zeal

Christian Kavanaugh, 12, takes his turn at the heavy bag for a punching drill at the Teen Center.

G Cover

Boxing, not fighting, at teen center

Movies

Movie Review

Tina and Chris (Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, who co-wrote “Sightseers” with Amy Jump) go on vacation and discover they share a taste for homicide.

‘Sightseers’ has fun with serial killers

Darkly funny as it is, director Ben Wheatley’s film has undercurrents of genuine and very British weirdness.

Music

Iron & Wine makes a spirited return with ‘Ghost on Ghost’

Creative restlessness and a sense of adventure are at the heart of Sam Beam’s latest album, which he’ll celebrate with a show at Berklee Performance Center.

Theater & art

Stage Review

Zeke Sulkes and Christine Stulik in the ART production of “The Pirates of Penzance,” by the Chicago-based Hypocrites.

ART’s ‘Pirates of Penzance’ is a fun trip

The American Repertory Theater presentation of “Pirates” by the Chicago-based Hypocrites is evidence that Gilbert & Sullivan’s operettas can survive any degree of updating.