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What we know about the fatal shooting on Alec Baldwin’s movie set
Authorities in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, are investigating what happened on the set of “Rust” when actor Alec Baldwin killed the film’s cinematographer and wounded its director by firing a gun that was being used as a prop.
MUSIC
Enigma Chamber Opera brings Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ closer to the community
Reformulation made the piece seem wholly relevant to beginning to edge back to normalcy after a pandemic.
DANCE REVIEW
Boston Dance Theater’s intriguing new work confirms the company’s here to stay
Global Arts Live brings Jessie Jeanne Stinnett's company back to the ICA, with a program of ambitious pieces.
TELEVISION
Expect more audaciousness in season 2 of ‘Hunters’
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, show creator David Weil said that the upcoming story line will involve “perhaps the most villainous character in history.”
MUSIC
Gubaidulina’s sonic alchemy makes for a dream of a show with the BSO
An all-Russian orchestral program was preceded by a tribute to Bernard Haitink, the late BSO emeritus conductor.
MUSIC
Bernard Haitink, 1929-2021: Conducting’s self-effacing titan
The BSO’s conductor emeritus was a venerated figure in classical music.
For music journalist Kelefa Sanneh, pop is a passion and a ‘portal into everything’
The New Yorker writer, whose musical education was shaped by jobs at Newbury Comics' Brighton warehouse and Harvard Square record shops, is the author of "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres.”
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
In TV shows and films today, journalists are bad news
In shows like "Succession" and "The Morning Show" — even "Ted Lasso" — the overall message is pretty clear: The people who bring us the news cannot be trusted with the power they wield.
MATTHEW GILBERT
With depth and candor, podcasts bring out the best in TV stars
I’m still surprised by the amounts of themselves actors are willing to share when they sit for an hour or more with a podcast host.
TELEVISION
‘Many Saints’ fell flat, but will still give rise to more ‘Sopranos’
Despite the tanking of the prequel movie, both creatively and at the box office, HBO Max is talking to David Chase about a new “Sopranos” series, according to Deadline.
BOOK REVIEW
In ‘Mr. Beethoven’ imagining what if the legendary composer had spent time in Boston
Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society wished to commission the great composer to produce a biblical oratorio that would premiere in Boston. Busy finishing his Ninth Symphony, Beethoven never responded — such is his stature that this snub is considered a notable piece of Society lore. Now the author and music critic Paul Griffiths writes a novel imagining he had visited the Hub.
BIBLIOPHILES
Kristen Radtke: Reading as an antidote to loneliness
Radtke’s graphic novel “Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness” couldn’t be more timely given one of the pandemic’s lingering side effects – isolation. Part essay, part science journalism, and part autobiography, the book is a finalist for the Kirkus 2021 Prize in nonfiction.
FOUR TAKES
On college, opportunity, and merit
More than 50 people have been accused in the now-infamous “Varsity Blues” admissions scandal. Four new books try to get at why college admissions have become a system so many families are trying to game — and what we can do about it.
THE TICKET
Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond
Music, theater, comedy, museum, and family events, and more, selected by Globe critics and writers.
BOOK REVIEW
A literary spark, dimmed too soon, in ‘Burning Boy’
Paul Auster's “Burning Boy” is thorough in its research, yet hurtles forward in its often intense, often moving enthusiasm for the subject. This is not a scholar’s biography of Stephen Crane. It is a fine novelist’s plunge into the life and mind of another artist.