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Fighting fire with, uh, fire.

“We Will Not Be Silent,’’ about anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl, has its heart in the right place but doesn’t succeed as drama.

President Trump said the Saudi heir to the throne ‘‘totally denied any knowledge of what took place in their Turkish Consulate.’’

The former “Hamilton” cast member will take part in the event honoring “community heroes.”

The Globe’s longtime celebrity columnist looks back on 15 years of galas, premieres, and a sweaty chat with Anna Kournikova.

When the final scene arrived, it was a sweet little surprise that stayed true to the show’s overall comic-farce-meets-poignant-drama tone.

An exhibit of 60 supersize portraits of Holocaust survivors is coming to Boston Common.

The production skimps on neither singing nor slapstick nor staircase chases. Come prepared to laugh.

Archaic dialogue doesn’t mesh with this contemporary, ensemble-driven production at Central Square Theater.

Show creator Jill Soloway is thinking “‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ mixed with ‘La La Land’ mixed with ‘Flight of the Conchords’ with something more Jewish thrown in.”

Kensington Palace said the child is due in the spring.

The actor was the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s annual fall fund-raising dinner on Sunday.

Mr. Kopelson broke into show business as an entertainment and banking attorney and began producing films in the late 1970s.

HBO’s “Camping” is a comedy about a super-controlling woman played by Jennifer Garner and the camping trip she hosts. But talk of an “Alias” reboot got Garner’s attention.

Bundchen’s memoir ranked ninth on the New York Times’ nonfiction bestseller list.

The Neil Armstrong film couldn't unseat last week's top two flicks over the weekend at the box office.

Two leading Senate Republicans threatened tough action against Saudi Arabia, including a possible halt of military sales, if journalist Jamal Khashoggi was indeed killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

The show’s opening segment made light of last week’s White House gathering.

Don’t miss out on the last day of Boston’s HUBweek festival on Sunday, including discussions on youth activism, mindfulness and technology. Here are a few highlights:

A review of the week online.

Boston’s HUBweek festival welcomes Saturday with a multitude of panels and performances focused on technology, business, and the arts. Here are a few events to light up your weekend.

Showtime’s still untitled eight-episode drama will star Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Seth MacFarlane, and Sienna Miller.

Hannu Lintu made his BSO debut in a program that focused on the orchestra and its members.

In a wide-ranging discussion at City Hall Plaza Friday, the Broad Institute’s Eric Lander, former secretary of defense Ash Carter, and MIT’s Maria Zuber looked at what the future could hold.

One Dorchester street was transformed into a winter “Wonderland” on Friday.

The annual Shamrock Gala at the Westin Boston Waterfront Thursday had Celtics players, coaches and team management all gussied up.

Your seasonal calendar of events, music, theater, and more.

This week’s picks by Globe critics.

Participants could choose one of three different channels, their wireless headphones lighting up a different color depending on which tracks they preferred.

Behind the carefully calibrated public-relations campaign pushing images of a smiling Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meeting with the world’s top leaders and business executives lurks a darker side.

Authorities say the crew member died after he suffered an apparent medical emergency and fell two stories off a balcony in western Pennsylvania.

David Blight illuminates Douglass’s life and career in his definitive biography of the writer and statesman. 

Tommy Orange’s debut novel is the best-selling and critically acclaimed “There, There,”

Jaffrey, N.H., hosts a two-day celebration of the 100th anniversary of Cather’s classic “My Ántonia.” 

A weekly calendar of literary events.

Half the novel is set amid an 1870s utopian community meltdown and the other half amid our own.

“Invisible’’ is Stephen L. Carter’s biography of his grandmother who was a famous prosecutor in the 1920s.

In Kiese Laymon’s staggering memoir “Heavy,” weight is both literal and metaphorical.

A judge dismissed one of six criminal charges against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein on Thursday after prosecutors acknowledged that they had discovered inconsistencies in statements made by one of his accusers.

Lana Del Rey, Azealia Banks, Iggy Azalea put spats in the spotlight.

Huang Binggen was the family representative chosen to assist with the myriad details of bringing his ancestral home from a small Chinese village to a museum in Salem. He died in August.

This time around, the anthology series stars Mahershala Ali, who won an Oscar for “Moonlight,” and Stephen Dorff.

Librarians and booksellers reveal what they’re looking to see at the Boston Book Festival.

But my spoiler-averse nature has been challenged to its very core by Amazon’s lovely series. That ends now.

“Halloween” terrified director David Gordon Green as a child. He’s now made his own version.

Liza Jessie Peterson’s solo play is based on her experiences teaching and visiting inmates at New York’s predominantly black prisons.