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The Education of Stephanie Umoh
A surprise opportunity adds a twist to Stephanie Umoh's final days at Boston Conservatory.
- Video Watch Umoh perform
Things to Do
Family Entertainment
Boston Globe writers share strategies for satisfying many kinds of kid — from the hipster to the hiker.
Photos
Rebirth of the ICA
We look back at some key people and principal exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art since its waterfront opening.
2007, the year in arts
Take a look back at the local theater, dance, and visual arts scenes of 2007.
Comedy
globe critics
Features
Video
Review UniverSoul's thrills are inclusive, inventive, and fun
Audio Slideshow
From streets to gallery
The artist known as Skunk puts a new spin on old bicycle parts and odd bits of junk.
Audio Slideshow
Art Review Earth in the balance
Hub galleries
Fourteen key galleries will have subdivided, closed, moved, or gone on hiatus by the end of the summer.
- Map Changing gallery landscape
- Photos Galleries on the move
Video
62nd annual Tony Awards
- Photos Onstage highlights
- Photos Red carpet
Stage Review
Over-the-top satire makes this 'After School' special
John Kuntz's energetic "After School Special" offers a delicious treat that is as irreverent and ridiculous as ABC's original "After School Specials" were earnest.
Stage review
A haunting 'Pillowman'
How do you wrest humor and insight out of tales of tortured children? Very gingerly - or, if you're the hot-ticket British playwright Martin McDonagh, boldly, with great art and assurance.
Stage review
In 'Going to St. Ives,' a stirring clash of cultures
"Going to St. Ives" is receiving a crisp and often riveting production from Gloucester Stage artistic director Eric C. Engel.
Artist is bitten by desire to put greenheads on canvas
Sam Holdsworth has channeled his respect for the Tabanus americanus Forester into a series of paintings now on display at the Cape Ann Museum.
'St. Ives' challenges actresses
Written by Lee Blessing, "Going to St. Ives" explores the meeting of two women, from distinctly different worlds, who discover they have more in common than they thought.
Tricks of the light at Yale
Joseph Wright's Liverpool work is subtle and unsettling. "Two Girls Decorating a Cat by Candlelight" shows the artist's interest in candlelight scenes.
Art Review
Morell's photos balance austerity and playfulness
With his camera obscura photographs, Abelardo Morell explores the truism that all art is about other art.
More from the globe
- Stage Review Over-the-top satire makes this 'After School' special (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
- Pop How can we resist you? (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
- THEATER 'Hay Fever' (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
- DANCE Choreographers' Project Showcase (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
- Globe West best bets (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
- Globe South best bets (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
- Globe NorthWest best bets (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
- Road trips (Boston Globe, 7/23/08)
- THEATER Fools rush in (Boston Globe, 7/23/08)
- THEATER Grand slam (Boston Globe, 7/22/08)
From the wires
performing arts
- Demand extends 'Little House' musical run 2 weeks (AP, 7:03 p.m.)
- Richard Nelson dissects fans of all-things English (AP, 6:17 p.m.)
- Piven, Esparza and Moss set for 'Speed-The-Plow' (AP, 7/22/08)
- De Vega upstages the Bard at Stratford Festival (AP, 7/22/08)
- 'A Tale of Two Cities' sings on Broadway Sept. 18 (AP, 7/21/08)
visual arts
- Ohio furniture maker says bank forced shutdown (AP, 4:36 p.m.)
- 'Art of the Olympians' shows athletes' other side (AP, 11:20 a.m.)
- Cindy Baier named new Movie Gallery CFO (AP, 7/23/08)
- North Carolina furniture plant to add 100 workers (AP, 7/23/08)
- X-ray shows Picasso's 'Guernica' is not in danger (AP, 7/23/08)