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The week in TV: My I’ll-get-around-to-it list, Segel’s ‘Dispatches,’ and teen heartbreak

Globe critic Matthew Gilbert navigates the week in TV.

Pinchas Zukerman leads a snoozer at the BSO

The BSO offered the best of its hospitality to the Casual Fridays crowd, including free drinks and three kinds of grilled cheese. Too bad the music couldn’t match it.

‘Friends’ cast to reunite in HBO Max special

Don’t worry if it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month or even your year: The cast of “Friends” is making a comeback to your TV screen.

Second City’s ‘She the People’ asserts our right to laugh out loud

The rapid-fire comic spree includes sketches about body shaming, sexual double standards, and discrimination sandwiched inside hilarious bits involving cheerleaders, game shows, and bachelorette parties.

Julia Roberts headlines TV adaptation of Slate podcast on Watergate

Sean Penn, Armie Hammer, and Joel Edgerton to costar in “Gaslit.”

‘Swan Lake in Blue’ is a jazzy re-imagination of a classic

The world premiere production at the Greater Boston Stage Company is expertly choreographed and directed by Ilyse Robbins.

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The week in TV: My I’ll-get-around-to-it list, Segel’s ‘Dispatches,’ and teen heartbreak

‘The Invisible Man’ is back — and he’s out to get Elisabeth Moss

Pinchas Zukerman leads a snoozer at the BSO

‘Manuscript Found in Accra’ by Paulo Coelho

MORE ARTS HEADLINES

Edith Wharton’s own copy of ‘The Age of Innocence’ arrives at The Mount for the novel’s 100th birthday

The book earned the Pulitzer for fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win one. But her feelings about the prize were complicated.

ARTS

At Steven Zevitas Gallery, candy-colored visions of society’s id

Anastasiya Tarasenko's paintings wrestle with neuroses, morality, and an older generation’s transgressions.

The best TV episodes of the 2000s? Let’s get started

Imagine trying to pick out the peak episodes of the Peak TV era. That’s exactly what I’m going to try to do, with your help.

ARTS

At Fitchburg Art Museum, revisiting Spiritualism and finding new pathways to the dead

"After Spiritualism" gets to the root of this 19th-century philosophical and religious movement.

ARTS

This fiber artist is enlisting ICA visitors for her ‘portrait of the community’ quilt

Merill Comeau's "Threads of Connection" invites museumgoers to choose their own pieces for the patchwork.

BOOKS

A curious case of mass hysteria

Kate Tuttle talks to Clare Beams, author of "The Illness Lesson."

ART REVIEW

Jenny Holzer’s ‘Truisms’ feel urgent as ever at MASS MoCA

For more than 40 years, the artist has created blunt slogans to fit the cultural and political moment.

FOUR TAKES

In four tantalizing titles, food for thought

M.J. Andersen offers her monthly roundup of related titles.

MORE ARTS HEADLINES

Illness sidelines Sarah Jessica Parker for Friday night’s ‘Plaza Suite’

The news follows the abrupt cancellation of Thursday's performance.

BOOK REVIEW

‘These Fevered Days’ a fresh exploration of the wild terrain of Emily Dickinson’s mind

Wendy Smith reviews "These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson" by Martha Ackmann.

BIBLIOPHILES

For ‘Say Nothing’ author Patrick Radden Keefe, going lighter means going darker

Amy Sutherland talks books with Patrick Radden Keefe, author of “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland."

What’s happening in the local arts world

This week's picks from Globe critics.

BOOKS

In ‘The Watergate Girl,’ a view of a national scandal through a feminine lens

Jill Wine-Banks, currently known for her appearances on MSNBC, has penned what may well be the last Watergate memoir.

A remounted ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ links then and now

A touring production of the musical comes to the Emerson Colonial Theatre Feb. 28.

After six years, lessons learned from writing about the Internet

Memes, trolls, and more takeaways from the @large column.

MUSIC

Unplugged, the Robinson brothers conjure the soul of the Black Crowes

The personal paths of the Robinson brothers led them to take the stage together at Brighton Music Hall on Wednesday night.

Winter Arts Guide

theater

In the ART’s ‘Gloria: A Life,’ Steinem speaks, but she has plenty of company

The documentary play invites other women to tell their own stories, onstage and off.
art

A photographer taps her Iranian roots for ‘universal’ images about home

"When I talk about home, it doesn’t just refer to Iran," said Cambridge-based Gohar Dashti.
Television

‘Hunters’ creator on killing Nazis and casting Al Pacino in his ‘Jewish superhero’ series

In David Weil's new Amazon series, premiering in February, Logan Lerman and Al Pacino lead a group of vigilantes on a mission to kill Nazis living secretly on U.S. soil during the '70s.
Dance

Three companies present Boston premieres at Global Arts Live’s new Winter Dance Fest

Rubberband, Philadanco, and Parsons Dance perform on consecutive weekends at the Cutler Majestic
pop music

Grace Potter’s a new mom with a new outlook

The singer put her career on indefinite hold during a chaotic few years. Now remarried and raising a toddler, she's become "who I wanted to be."
classical music

Most youth orchestras don’t do operas. At Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, a ‘signature’ tradition continues with Verdi’s 'Aida’

Music director Federico Cortese relishes putting these teenagers to the test.

Critics' picks

10 pop music concerts to warm up the winter

Boston’s 10 must-see museum shows for winter

10 dance shows to see this season

10 theater picks for winter, on stages big and small

10 of the season’s most promising TV shows

Boston’s best classical music events for the busy winter season