There is something of the laboratory to Anna Daegele’s Shelton Avenue studio with its scattering of what might be metal petri dishes with spiders in amber or samples of Hamlet’s “quintessence of dust.

Sunday is my last broadcast as host of Weekend All Things Considered at NPR West. I'm moving back to Boston, and with packing well underway, after the broadcast I'll be sleeping between piles of ...

When Geoff Sobelle gets in a groove, he’s sublime. The performer hits the sweet spot several times in his oddball solo show “The Object Lesson,” running at Studio Theatre as a kind of deadpan clown ...