Arts & Culture

Ask Bernie Sanders to pick his favorite musical and he might just name "Little Shop of Horrors." A blend of camp, comedy, and horror, the Alan Menken-Howard Ashman collaboration first performed in 1982 ultimately sends...

Late on August 7, 1974, the night before he announced his resignation, President Richard Nixon summoned Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to join him in his favorite White House retreat, the cozy Lincoln Sitting Room....

Informing and naming names are rampant. Rumors and hysteria become as persuasive as fake news. Many religious and civic leaders embrace silence rather than decry repression and detentions without due process. Does all of this...

North Shore artist Yetti Frenkel is one of more than 40 sculptors whose work is on display at the tenth annual Flying Horse Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit on the campus of Pingree School in South Hamilton...

Last season, talented artistic director Igor Golyak examined the odyssey of a maturing fictional Russian writer in the drama “Dead Man’s Diary” at Arts Emerson’s Liebgott Theatre with remarkable sensitivity. Now Arlekin Players opens its...

Every so often, a play so resonates with its time that the audience can’t stop thinking and talking about it for days afterwards. “The Lifespan of a Fact,” at the Gloucester Stage Theatre through Sept....

MARBLEHEAD – “Pain travels through family lines until someone is ready to heal it in themselves,” wrote an unknown author. Marblehead director and playwright Anne Marilyn Lucas has written two plays that explore the effects...

OGUNQUIT – Could “Murder on the Orient Express” contain a subtle allusion to the rise of Nazism and eventual global war? After all, the 1934 Agatha Christie mystery classic – adapted in 2017 for the...