CARVING A NICHE
For many of us, the recorder brings to mind shrill renditions of “Hot Cross Buns” best left behind in elementary school.
ASK AWAY
Award-winning actress, comedian and author Carol Burnett could be on her way back to television, as she’s filming a pilot for Household Name, a comedy produced by Amy Poehler that stars Burnett as a former movie star forced to share her mansion with a young family.
MAKE IT REIGN
Singer, actress, and film and television producer Queen Latifah is lending her Grammy-winning talents to the Boston Pops to kick off the 2017 spring season at Symphony Hall.
NOBODY’S BUSINESS
Oscar- and Tony- nominated actress Anna Kendrick can now add author to her list of accomplishments with this month’s release of Scrappy Little Nobody.
IN THE ACT
Award-winning actor John Lithgow will receive the honor from his alma mater as a kickoff to the free Arts First festival he helped create.
POETRY IN MOTION
The Poetry Brothel brings sexy scribes to Cambridge.
STRIP TEASE
Coming off a six-year run of her international Strip Strip Hooray! tour, burlesque star Dita Von Teese just kicked off her new burlesque variety show The Art of the Teese.
STATE OF THE ART
Nothing against bronze sculptures, but Boston’s latest public art projects feel a little less, well, stiff.
DRATCH UP
Saturday Night Live alum and Lexington native Rachel Dratch will celebrate Patriots’ Day at home this year as she joins the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival on April 17-19.
JAIL CALL
Piper Kerman’s memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison made the Brookline native a best-selling author—and the inspiration for the hit Netflix show, premiering its third season in June.
HE'S ON A KROLL
His recent characters include “The Douche” and a spin instructor with IBS, but funnyman Nick Kroll gets serious in his latest role as a failed entrepreneur who moves back in with his sister in Adult Beginners.
WISECRACKER
Philadelphia drag cabaret performer Martha Graham Cracker (aka Dito van Reigersberg) brings singing, dancing and improve entertainment to Oberon.