ARTS & CULTURE

For the first time since the pandemic began, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra has announced live performances scheduled at Symphony Hall.

Musicians set conditions related to a federal labor board settlement as the Springfield Symphony Orchestra hired its second interim director in less than a year.

The head of a Northampton nonprofit that helps people addicted to drugs gave up his high-powered career after getting sober from opioids. Now he works to help others who are living on the streets with addiction.

Interpretations of the life of Amherst poet Emily Dickinson continue, even as Apple TV's show comes to an end.

How many winter holidays can you name besides Christmas? And Another Thing takes a look at the different celebrations happening during the winter season.

Several dioceses in Massachusetts are allowing individual communities to decide if masks will be needed during church services around the holiday season.

Khalif Neville devotes part of his musical efforts to keep alive the memory of his late father, Charles Neville.

This episode is rebroadcast from October 4, 2021.Reviving arts and cultural organizations in Massachusetts devastated by the economic impact of the…

Two years ago, Connecticut passed Public Act 19-12, which requires all high schools in the state to offer courses on African, Black, Puerto Rican and Latino studies beginning in 2022. But what exactly will students be learning? Connecticut Public Radio’s Brenda León takes us inside a classroom piloting the course and explores what’s included in the Latino studies part of the curriculum.

In the last year, I’ve been rejected about four dozen times. An amalgam of agents, literary magazines and contests said no — and that’s not counting the…