Rapid-fire shifts have Boston?s theater community rattled

Emerson College is considering new uses for the Colonial Theatre, which  was lit up for performances only 100 days over the past two years.

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Are recent transformations ? concussive and breathtakingly swift ? simply coincidence? Or are they somehow related?

President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton listened in 1999 to a Rwandan woman?s stories of surviving the 1994 genocide. Bill Clinton has said he is haunted by the massacres.

State Dept. aided Clinton-backed Rwanda effort

Bill Clinton wanted to build a new health system in Rwanda. Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department delivered big time.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_Cohen_490988.jpg Amputee?s high heels come courtesy of bombing survivor

Hillary Cohen is set to be the first person to receive a prosthetic leg donated by a foundation established by Marathon bombing survivor Heather Abbott.

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Museums special section

What?s happening in local museums

Exploring how we keep museums vital today, plus a look at Vermeer groupies, late-night museum-going, and, of course, things to see and do.

Racers prepared for the start of their races near the Mass. Ave. bridge during the 2014 Head of the Charles Regatta.

10 tips on how to enjoy the Head of the Charles Regatta

Here?s expert advice to help you navigate the annual rowing festival in Boston.

Hospital personnel were escorted out of Brigham and Women?s Hospital after a shooting there in January.

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

KEVIN CULLEN

Brigham security fight shows failure to communicate

Nurses at the hospital say more security is needed after a doctor?s killing there, and say their calls have nothing to do with contract talks.

Ambassador John Bolton

The UN doesn?t work. Here?s a fix

The world body has become a conglomerate overwhelmed by unsustainable ambitions and inadequate capacities.

Your Home: Kitchens & Baths

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/09/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/mag1018_HomeB1.jpg Restoring an 18th-century North Reading home

Working room by room, the owner freed the post-and-beam house of linoleum and plywood from previous owners.

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While there have been many unsuccessful attempts to revitalize the city?s downtown, word has spread that momentum is finally taking hold.

Aisling Brady McCarthy.

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Yvonne Abraham

Middlesex DA?s office shows troubling attitude about evidence

Prosecutors are supposed to make their cases on the merits, and not by sitting on evidence that could benefit the accused.

Terry Rozier may not play much as a Celtics rookie but he dreams of becoming an All-Star eventually.

Terry Rozier?s long outside shot

The speedy Celtics rookie outran a lot: a turbulent childhood, a father behind bars. Talent and love ? including his father?s from afar ? saved him.

Patriots at Colts | 8:30 p.m. | NBC

Colts fans are realistic about game against Patriots

The Colts are struggling to score while the Patriots have run roughshod through their first four opponents.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/18/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/caa73d97226a41979e5e967be3dc8ea0-caa73d97226a41979e5e967be3dc8ea0-0.jpg For Tracy Morgan, a triumphant return to ?SNL?

The comedian made his first appearance on the show since a 2014 vehicle crash that left him severely injured.

JEFF JACOBY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/15/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Jeff_Jacoby_150px-1379.jpg No, Bernie Sanders, Scandinavia is not a socialist utopia

The prosperity that Denmark, Sweden, and Norway enjoy today was built with free-market reforms in the past.

Two found dead after Chicopee house fire

Two people died in a house fire at 333 James St. on Sunday morning, police said.

Concern mounts on opioid crisis? toll on children

Doctors, judges, and drug counselors say they are seeing more and more cases of neglect and abuse of children due to opioid-addicted parents.

Director Danny Boyle (left) and Michael Fassbender on the set of ?Steve Jobs.?

Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin take on ?Steve Jobs?

In Danny Boyle?s new film, ?Steve Jobs,? opening Friday, the complex Steve Jobs?s personal failings are on full display.

Woman accused of endangering ailing son by fleeing Pa.

The woman triggered an Amber Alert after she allegedly drove more than seven hours to Boston to have her son treated at Children?s Hospital.

The Big Picture

Protesters opening their umbrellas, symbols of the pro-democracy movement, in 2014.

Reuters

The Umbrella Movement, one year later

A year after Hong Kong riot police fired tear gas at pro-democracy protesters, a Reuters photographer revisited the scenes.

BetaBoston

Innovation Economy

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/16/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/reminder-tease-4914--90x90.jpg Startups serve up ways to get patients to take meds

They?re part of the entrepreneurial drive to solve a problem that costs the health care system hundreds of billions of dollars.

Crux

JOHN L. ALLEN JR. | ALL THINGS CATHOLIC

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/09/07/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/allen_20140906.jpg Synod on families must not lose sight of bigger issues

Bishops may find themselves accused of having spent the last three weeks fiddling, while everyplace other than Rome burns.