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SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW
10 comedy shows to make summer even brighter
This season's packed lineup of comedy shows includes the likes of Kevin Hart, Chris Gethard, Wanda Sykes, and Bill Burr, who'll be the first comic to headline Fenway Park.
Summer Arts Preview
Celebrating 90 years, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival reopens its newly renovated theater to a host of performances
The Pillow’s opening gala in the updated Ted Shawn Theatre kicks off a full season of performances, both indoors and out.
SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW
Beach Road Weekend puts Martha’s Vineyard on the summer festival map
This year’s festival features the Avett Brothers, Beck, and Wilco as headliners, along with performances by Khruangbin, Guster, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Lucinda Williams, and Emmylou Harris.
SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW
After a two-year layoff, the Cambridge Jazz Festival returns with twice as much in store
A second day of live music has been added to this year's free festival July 30-31, featuring Chelsey Green and Eguie Castrillo, among other artists.
SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW
Gloucester Stage goes ‘Between the Sheets’ with a play about a lovesick Edith Wharton
Massachusetts playwright Anne Undeland's “Mr. Fullerton, Between the Sheets” was inspired by the letters between Wharton and her lover, Morton Fullerton.
10 must-see museum shows around New England
From the ICA’s "Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms" to "Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death" in Maine.
SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW
John Doe’s latest foray into folk music isn’t quite the way Woody might have done it
The X founder and frontman comes to Passim for two shows in June with the John Doe Folk Trio, but he hasn't permanently traded rock for the coffeehouse.
SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW
No matter what kind of music you like, there’s a festival for you this summer
Whether you're a fan of indie, folk, reggae, jazz, or hip-hop, New England has you covered.
SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW
10 places to hear classical music with a view
From the Cape to the Berkshires and Vermont, concerts head for the hills.
Mass. residents both value the arts and see racism in them, new survey shows
In the Barr Foundation-funded study, 8,000 people also weighed in on what arts organizations must do now.
BOOK REVIEW
‘Either/Or’: When the college novel deserves a second look
It can be difficult to find a funny and smart literary novel that’s also full of heart, but New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman’s 2017 novel, “The Idiot,” nailed it. Can a sequel be as good?
BIBLIOPHILES
Peter Swanson: reading scary books at a young age
Peter Swanson found inspiration for his new book, “Nine Lives,” in one of his all-time favorite mysteries, Agatha Christie’s classic “And Then There Were None.” Swanson talked with the Globe about what else he likes to read.
BOOK REVIEW
Young love is in bloom in ‘Avalon’
Bran, the narrator of Nell Zink’s new novel, wastes no time in announcing herself as something of an unreliable narrator. “I have trouble recounting my childhood in chronological order,” she confesses.
MUSIC REVIEW
The Who strike a familiar chord at TD Garden
The band's setlist largely mirrored the one from their 2019 Fenway Park show, but unlike that concert, they were held back by a muddy sound mix.
New England Literary News
An anthology of New England food writing, a tribute to a pathbreaking bookseller, and new poetry
A weekly roundup of all the region's best bookish news.
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky reportedly welcome baby boy in LA
People magazine, citing an unnamed source, said A$AP Rocky and Rihanna, 34, are home in Los Angeles with the baby, their first.