This is PSO Music Director Eckhart Preu’s first time conducting the annual concert.
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Feeling Scrooge-y? Get over it with ‘A Christmas Carol’ at Footlights
The cast displays its versatility playing multiple roles both fearsome and funny.
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A perfect Buddy leads Lyric cast in ‘Elf – the Musical’
Personal growth and drama evolve when the honorary elf meets his birth family in this exuberant production.
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Thomas Edison’s brilliant life, told in reverse
Biographer Edmund Morris wrote one last book. “Edison,” published posthumously, reveals Morris’ trademark energy and boundless curiosity (much like his subject).
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In a 1915 Chicago amusement park, a teenage girl makes a terrifying discovery
Elizabeth Hand’s latest novel, “Curious Toys,” includes real and fictional characters, gender identity, surrealistic art, movies’ early years … and serial murder.
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Art review: Behind Meatyard’s masked subjects in ‘Stages for Being’
Organized by the University of Kentucky Art Museum, the exhibit, now up at Bates College, includes photographs that previously hadn’t been shown.
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Concert review: Boston Camerata covers early American repertory, from marches to Shaker music
The early music group performed at Hannaford Hall on Sunday.
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Review: ‘Queen & Slim’ is romantic, urgent and beautiful
‘Queen & Slim’ is an urgent, beautiful and socially conscious trip through the American racial psyche in 2019.
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Maine State Ballet keeps holiday tradition alive in ‘The Nutcracker’
The familiar story is told with comedy, athleticism as well as a surprise guest, much to the delight of young attendees.
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What happened on a December day in 1986?
A little bit of everything, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Gene Weingarten’s new book, ‘One Day.’