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Sampan's Virginia Sun reviews the Dark Comedy ‘Dido of Idaho’.

Artist Vivian Tran's art installation at Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park on The Greenway is slated to run from April 23 to December 2026.

The themes of the indie film “Flying Lessons” are universal: death, grief, family and disability. But the way in which filmmaker Sarah Waldron tells the story is highly unique.

Can a friend write an objective biography? Let's take a look at Yoko Ono: A Biography to find out.

Ming Dynasty painting, the immortal Magu, is painstakingly restored and now on view at the Davis Museum.

Abilities Dance Boston will debut the world premiere of “Intersections V5,” April 17 and 18 at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge.

Sampan chats with Vietnamese American Artist Ngoc-Tran Vu about Little Saigon, art, and history

A group of area artists and historians are planning to connect the dots between historic places around Boston and their direct link to Chinatown today. “I think what this exhibition is trying to do is offer a space for us to remember who are the people who came before us — especially thinking about Chinatown’s history and memories,” said theater artist Wenxuan Xue, a co-curator for the diverse exhibit, “Temple of Our Ancestral Dreams” hosted by the Pao Arts Center from April

I n his 1934 book In Praise of Shadows, author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki writes, “Our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows.” For Yng-Ru Chen, Tanizaki’s words inspired her to establish her art gallery, Praise Shadows. They served as “the basis to form my own thoughts about opportunities for artists,” Chen said. “I recognized the many needs my artist friends had.” Much as how Tanizaki saw beauty in the shadows, Praise Shadows looked f

The exhibit “Busing the Buffer Zone” uses art and theater to explore the experience of Chinatown mothers who boycotted busing of students in Boston Public Schools in 1975. The exhibition, which includes a play by Christina R. Chan and an exhibition at the Pao Arts Center, runs through March 28. The stage readings are slated for March 28 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Pao Arts Center. An open rehearsal is March 20.

T hrough the smoke and gasoline of the literal fires that raged through cities like Washington, DC, and Atlanta as a result of the civil unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s May 25th 2020 murder at the literal knee of state-sanctioned legal justice, and through the similar apocalyptic scenes that have hit Minneapolis (in 2020 and 2026) and Los Angeles in the midst of an occupation by federal agents, we hear voices and see faces. The revolution is being televised. Truth is out

Daniel Rachel’s remarkable This Ain’t Rock and Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich shows that from the brutal brilliance of Leni Reifenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will” to the ghoulish strutting of Marilyn Manson’s “The Golden Age of Grotesque,” the fashion horrors of Hitler’s Third Reich have never fully gone away. And in a time when many are drawing comparisons between mass immigration raids and the Nazis, the book seems more relevant than ever. Rachel clarifies

Daphne Xu’s new project “Boston Busing in Chinatown, 1975,” a photographic installation, just opened early this month along the Greenway, near the Chinatown Gate.

he permanent exhibit, “Reclaiming History — A Journey Through Three Neighborhoods,” will officially open at the Josiah Quincy Upper School on April 27.

The Magic of Tết is one of the 10 works Windy Pham has published in her series of bilingual children books, aiming to celebrate Vietnamese heritage through highlighting the culture and language.

Playwright Stan Lai talks with Sampan.

Interview with Julie Masis, author of "How My Grandfather Stole a Shoe and Survived the Holocaust in Ukraine."

Hamilton, presented by Broadway in Boston recently at Citizens Opera House, brought the full vigor and verve that has made playwright Lin Manuel-Miranda’s hit musical so beloved over the last decade. Meticulously researched and rooted in Ron Chernow’s biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, the musical Hamilton brings to life the rise of this flawed, accomplished figure with an iconic musical score blending hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and Broadway.

The Voice of Hind Rajab is based on the true story of Hind, the five-year-old trapped for hours in a car in Gaza. She is there, next to her relatives who had just been killed by Israeli gunfire. She begs to be rescued, using her cousin’s cell phone to call for help.

This February the Galapagos Puppets will put on “The Fiery Mountain and Its Princess” with musician Jimmy Zhao and his daughter, Iris, who will perform at the Puppet Showplace Theatre in Brookline, Feb. 14 to 17.