News and reviews from our reporters, including coverage of pop music, classical music, visual art, dance, movies, music, television and theater.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we celebrate the microphone and look at its role in music. Plus hot mics, mic drops, and more.
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This hour, we discuss an American dance form that has captured hearts for decades: tap! We look at the evolution of this dance style and how local artists are keeping the tap tradition alive.
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This hour, we take your calls … about whatever you want to talk about.
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Tuesday is Tolkien Reading Day. As libraries across º£½Ç»»ÆÞ prepare to transport readers to the Shire, we ask: What is it about Tolkien’s writing that excites generation after generation of readers?
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The Yale Center for British Art is preparing to reopen to the public on March 29 after being closed for two years for a building conservation project.
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For the first time, TheaterWorks Hartford is partnering with Hartford Stage for a performance of "Sweeney Todd" in 2026.
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Does history repeat itself? Or does it rhyme? WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends eight books that remind us the current moment is just a reprise and a remix of things humanity has seen and endured before.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we learn about º£½Ç»»ÆÞ's trails from out in the woods.
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March Madness is here! So this hour, we get an improv comedian and the actual Bill Curry together to talk basketball for an hour on the radio.
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This hour, we take your calls about whatever you want to talk about.
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This hour, our pop culture round table, The Nose, looks at the Academy Award-winning ‘I’m Still Here’ and the near total absence of old movies on Netflix.
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A new production of Nikolai Gogol’s ‘The Inspector’ opens this week in New Haven. And his short story ‘The Nose’ might well be intertwined with mythology of this very show. This hour, a look at Nikolai Gogol.