Broken Cup Teahouse imports a relaxing, tea-forward experience into Kendall Square
It’s hard to ignore Broken Cup’s unusual setting, but it’s also hard not to find it charming, like a friend’s hobby room that’s been tidied up for company.
Lewis’s ‘Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State’ attempts to reclaim the narrative
The 2026 Boston Book Festival opened with a conversation between the acclaimed authors Michael Lewis and Geraldine Brooks about Lewis’s latest nonfiction bestseller ‘Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State.’
BRED Gourmet launches ‘Work from BRED’
BRED Gourmet recently launched “Work from BRED” to encourage “students, remote workers, and young professionals” to dine and study in the space.
Latin American board games bring students back to their childhood
MIT students played hopscotch, Mikado, and dominoes to take a break from the first round of midterms with the Central American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban students associations.
BSO’s ‘The Nutcracker’ and ‘Eugene Onegin’ previews January Tchaikovsky festival
This weekend’s program wraps up Nelsons’s fall residency with promising anticipation.
New ‘Sense and Sensibility’ adaptation poorly translates its source material
Film adaptations of books must necessarily make compromises and cuts, and the work of carving out the heart of a story to transplant it intact from one medium to another is precarious. While revisions are necessary, the ones made in ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (2026) undermine the story, leaving it mutilated rather than translated.
Nelsons’s BSO performs all-Rachmaninoff program with soloist Seong-Jin Cho
Volunteers handed out roses outside Symphony Hall before the concert, campaigning to keep conductor Andris Nelsons on the podium.
Possessing individuality and community: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin explores the relationship between loyalty to community, themes of homeland, and an individual’s desire to share humanity among these worlds rather than being bound by loyalty to one.
Boston Ballet’s Fall Experience: Prickly, then profound
What do cacti mean in ballet?
Award-winning author Celeste Ng discusses ‘Everything I Never Told You’ at MIT
On April 28, award-winning author Celeste Ng discussed her debut novel, ‘Everything I Never Told You,’ at an MIT Libraries community event titled “Hidden Truths & Human Ties.”
A collage of Baroque dances and celebrations
On April 12, the Handel and Haydn Society returned from an unusually long silence with an afternoon of royal pageantry, court dances, and polished playing, but the program’s identity proved more elusive than its execution.
Bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe presents ‘London Falling’ at WBUR CitySpace
On April 21, bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe presented his new true-crime book ‘London Falling’ at WBUR CitySpace in Boston.
Bob Odenkirk and Derek Kolstad on ‘Normal’
The creatives behind ‘John Wick’ and ‘Nobody’ sit down for an insider look into their newest collaboration.
Broadway’s ‘The Outsiders’ Captures the Heart of S.E. Hinton’s Beloved Novel
‘The Outsiders’ musical, on a North American tour, was performed at the Citizens Opera House in Boston from March 31 to April 12.
Jordan Harrison’s ‘The Antiquities’: What do we leave behind?
Jordan Harrison’s ‘The Antiquities,’ performed at SpeakEasy Stage’s Roberts Studio Theatre from March 6 to 28, is unsettling: humanity is extinct, and what remains of us is a museum.
Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson makes his solo debut at Boston’s Symphony Hall on March 20
On March 20, acclaimed pianist Víkingur Ólafsson made his solo debut at Boston’s Symphony Hall.
Andris Nelsons to leave Boston after 13 seasons as music director of the BSO
On March 6, Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) President and CEO Chad Smith announced that Andris Nelsons, the orchestra’s music director since 2014, would conclude his tenure at the end of the 2027 Tanglewood season. This decision was shocking for an institution that had seemed, just months before, secure in its artistic vision.
‘Daughters’ documentary directors Angela Patton and Natalie Rae talk about the emotional toll of parental incarceration at WBUR CitySpace
On Friday, March 27, WBUR CitySpace hosted a screening and discussion of ‘Daughters,’ a documentary about four girls who prepare a special father-daughter dance with their incarcerated fathers in a Washington, D.C. jail.
‘A Terribly Nasty Business’ is as much of a romp as its predecessor
Julia Seales continues to affectionately poke fun at Jane Austen and regency romance while weaving a mystery filled with unexpected twists and turns that is simultaneously clever and delightfully ridiculous.
The BLO’s ‘Das Lied von der Erde’: immense tragedy in slim form
A reimagined performance of Mahler’s symphony inaugurates the BLO’s new performance space.