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Visual Arts

- Critic's picks - art (Boston Globe)
- Portraits of courage, in oil and words (By Sam Allis, Globe Staff)
- Things to do Harvard Square Holiday Fair features wares crafted from recycled materials (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
- ART REVIEW Artists illuminate poetry in two local exhibitions (By Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent)
- ART REVIEW Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit captures Paris in a moment (By Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent)
- Week Ahead The Week Ahead: Arts (Boston Globe)
- Scene survey Scene survey: Wall ball (Boston Globe)
- Behind the Scenes ‘Fiber of Life’ photographic exhibition in Cohasset (By Robert Knox, Globe Correspondent)
- Galleries Exhibitions in Boston by artists Yu-Wen Wu, Rob Douglas, and David Kapp (By Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent)
- Things to do A feminine palette (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
- Your take Your take: In her mind’s eye (Boston Globe)
- Party Lines by Bill Brett (Boston Globe)
- Things to do Wendy Artin’s ‘Columnae’ (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
- PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW In Harry Callahan’s photographs, many images show a singular approach (By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff)
- Architecture Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm offers a model for the future with an eye to the past (By Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent)

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'Nutcracker' jitters
Students from Boston Ballet School get ready for their big moment in the seasonal classic.
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Night at the museum
Geoff Edgers and his daughter spent a night at Harvard's Museum of Natural History.

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Their favorite things
The residents of West Cambridge sat for portraits by artist Michael Oatman, and 23 of the resulting 10-minute video portraits make up "The Cantabrigians."
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Robert Frank's landmark book revisited
To observe the 50th anniversary of Robert Frank's book "The Americans," the Met has organized a superbly comprehensive exhibition of the photographer's work.


How do actors memorize all those lines?
We may struggle to remember a three-item grocery list, and yet there the actors are onstage, smoothly reeling off Shakespeare soliloquies. Here are their secrets.

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Old soldiers of 'Heroes' still have a battle plan for life
In this small comic gem, a trio of WWI veterans in an old soldiers' home combat their fear of mortality.

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Artists add vigor to verses
Two exhibitions now up feature works that strive to embody poems in art objects. Left: Peter Grippe's illustration of a Dylan Thomas poem.

Performing Arts

- PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW Photographer Robert Frank’s landmark ‘The Americans’ revisited (By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff)
- Critic's picks - theater (Boston Globe)
- How do actors memorize their lines? (By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff)
- Threatened by the economy, Waltham’s Reagle Players troupe fights back (By Denise Taylor, Globe Correspondent)
- Where and when on the Reagle Players’ holiday show (Boston Globe)
- Things to do ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ at Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theatre (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
- STAGE REVIEW Old soldiers of ‘Heroes’ still have a battle plan for life (By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff)
- TODAY Ghosts of theater’s past (Boston Globe)
- TOMORROW A Capitol idea (Boston Globe)
- Theater Critic's picks (Boston Globe)
- Stages ‘POP!’ sets Warhol’s shooting, and scene, to music (By Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent)
- TODAY ‘Death By Chocolate’ at Boston Center for the Arts (Boston Globe)
- Week Ahead The Week Ahead: Arts (Boston Globe)
- Thing to do Boston Ballet celebrates holidays with 'The Nutcracker' (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
- At North Shore, the show may go on (By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff)
- STAGE REVIEW The presence of Christmases past in ‘Tru Grace’ (By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff)
- Things to do ‘Heroes’ onstage at Merrimack Rep. (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
- Holiday Preview: Dance ‘The Nutcracker’ is a sister thing (By Lucy Barber, Globe Staff)
- Globe North Arts Two 8-year-old dancers from Wakefield have parts in ‘Nutcracker’ (By Wendy Killeen, Boston Globe)
- Holiday Preview: Theater Picks (By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff)
- Holiday Preview: Dance Picks (By Karen Campbell, Globe Correspondent)
- Holiday theater lineups include sentimental favorites and edgy, adult-only shows (By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff)
- OPERA REVIEW Janacek’s haunting ‘From the House of the Dead’ finally arrives at the Met (By Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff)
- Dance Review Idaho, yes; small potatoes, no (By Karen Campbell, Globe Correspondent)
- Voices Kids should not be seen or heard in theater (By Doug Most, Globe Staff)
- Stages Merrimack Rep looks to the humanity behind ‘Heroes’ (By Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent)
- STAGE REVIEW Huntington’s ‘Civil War Christmas’ blends real-life drama with seasonal sentiments (By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff)
- TODAY Trey McIntyre Project: Stepping out of Idaho (By Milva DiDomizio, Globe Staff)
- Week ahead Arts listings (Boston Globe)
- Things to do ‘Best of Both Worlds’ at the ART (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
From the wires
- B'way ticket availability through Sunday, Nov. 22 (AP, 11/16/09)
- 'Hair' sets a London opening with its B'way cast (AP, 11/16/09)
- Sara Ruhl sets Broadway buzzing in two rooms (AP, 11/17/09)
- Broadway revival of 'Oleanna' to close Jan. 3 (AP, 11/17/09)
- Kander and Ebb have a new musical -- off-Broadway (AP, 11/17/09)
- Stage Stores posts smaller 3rd-qtr loss (AP, 11/19/09)
- Melodies still soar in Gershwins' 'Girl Crazy' (AP, 11/20/09)
- McKellen, Weisz win at London theater awards (AP, 11/23/09)
- Ahead of the Bell: 'New Moon' lifts theater chains (AP, 11/23/09)
- B'way ticket availability through Sunday, Nov. 29 (AP, 11/23/09)

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