Saturday, February 21, 2015
Beethoven at about the time of the First Symphony.Last weekend the Handel and Haydn Society performed a fascinating concert that may, in the end, have disproved its own thesis - but was ofte…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 7, 2015
Elizabeth Pearson, Erin Eva Butcher, and Michael Underhill get their panto on. Hub Review readers know by now I'm a big fan of the Imaginary Beast's winter pantos - but I confess it's …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2015
A perfect cast for A Future Perect. Photos: Cragi Bailey.Ken Urban's A Future Perfect (at SpeakEasy Stage through this weekend) comes saddled with some heavy baggage: its playwright is…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 31, 2015
Esme Allen and Lewis D. Wheeler in Muckrakers. Photo: Andrew Brilliant.I'd never argue that Muckrakers (at the New Rep through this weekend) is a perfect play - but it's still the kind …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 29, 2015
The cast of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Photos: Jim CoxPlaywright Christopher Durang has protested that he didn't intend to write a commercial vehicle when he penned Vanya and Sonia…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 24, 2015
I'm late with comments on Apollinaire's Midsummer and Merrimack Rep's The Best Brothers - and alas, that's basically because I didn't have too much encouraging to say about either one.Courtl…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Photo: Mark S. HowardKaren MacDonald's evocation of celebrated Texas columnist Molly Ivins (in Red Hot Patriot, at the Lyric Stage through January 31) is so luminous and thoughtfully cr…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 18, 2015
Seated Giant, 1818If you haven't had a chance to check out the MFA's Goya show, this is your last chance, as it closes tomorrow - and you owe it to yourself to try to catch it.But I only say…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2015
What makes a production one of the best of the year? I imagine there are as many answers to that as there are theatre-goers.But what makes a production one of the next best of the year…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Yes, it's that time of year again - although I'm actually a bit late with my annual look in the cultural rearview. And to tell true, 2014 was not the most spectacular of theatrical years; st…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 3, 2015
Scott Allen Jarrett, Sonja DuToit Tengblad, and the musicians of H&H. Photo: James DoyleIt's little known outside musical circles that Handel and Haydn offers a second Christmas concert …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Diana Albrecht, Kathryn Boren and Lauren Herfindahl. Photos: Liza Voll.I never got a chance to treat Boston Ballet's The Nutcracker in depth this year - but that doesn't mean I di…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 25, 2014
Thomas Nast, "Santa Claus," 1881The partner unit and I are now warmly ensconced with relatives in the Maine woods, far from the bustle of Boston - and hope that you, too, are with friends or…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Erica Schuller and Jesse Blumberg as Livietta and Tracollo. Photos: Kathy WittmanAlmost a month has gone by since the curtain rose and fell on Boston Early Music Festival's pastiche of Pergo…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 07:29AM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2014
Paul Greenwood and Penny Fuller in 13 Things About Ed Carpolotti. Photo: Meghan Moore.I suppose anything that brings the luminous Penny Fuller back to town is some cause for celebration.&nbs…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 18, 2014
Kander & Ebb get theirs in The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!Parodying musical theatre on its own terms hardly counts as a new idea - the Forbidden Broadway franchise ran for ye…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 06:14AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 13, 2014
Harry Christophers conducts. Photo: James Doyle.I was probably not alone in hoping that this year's Messiah at Handel and Haydn would be something special.And judging from the tumult t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Wil Moser, Laura Jo Trexler, and Andrew Barbato chart the stars in The Little Prince. Photos: Andrew Brilliant.Whenever I hear that another composer and lyricist are adapting Antoine d…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 7, 2014
The talented cast of The Tale of the Allergist's Wife. Photos: Mark S. HowardThere are almost too many reasons, I'm afraid, why the current Lyric Stage production of The Tale of the Al…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Will Lebow exhorts his family to awake and sing. Photos: T. Charles EricksonI can't think of the last time we've seen a play by Clifford Odets get a major production in the Hub. …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 30, 2014
Cicely Tyson shines for Jurnee Smollett-Bell in The Trip to Bountiful. Photos: Craig Schwartz.I've been around long enough to know a theatrical Rolls when I see one, and trust me, The T…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 27, 2014
Tilson Thomas conducting at a previous performance. Photo: Kristen LokenI'm very late with an appreciation of the San Francisco Symphony's visit to Celebrity Series last weekend, with …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:14PM[SHARE]At the left is J.C. Leyendecker's cover for the Saturday Evening Post on Thanksgiving 1924. And gazing at it this morning, I was struck by how it captured something essential to our vision o…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2014
Rainy-day theatre on an epic scale - the talented men of PigPen Theatre.I know it's a bit late to be raving about The Old Man and the Old Moon (from PigPen Theatre Company at ArtsEmerso…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 22, 2014
Isolt is forgiven by King Mark; Chelsea Basler and David McFerrin in The Love Potion. Photos: Eric AntoniouSometimes I wonder whether there isn't something in opera that hates the walls of t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2014
Matthew Zahnzinger and Johnnie McQuarley trade war stories in "Speaking of Tushy".It comes about halfway through "Six Hotels," the Hub Theatre Company's kicky compendium of six Israel Horovi…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2014
James Youmans' striking set for Ether Dome. Photos: T. Charles EricksonI suppose playwright Elizabeth Egloff makes no big mistakes in Ether Dome, her sprawling account of the discovery of an…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 16, 2014
Daphna attacks! Alison McCartan, Victor Shopov, and Gillian Mariner Gordon in Bad Jews. Photos: Craig BaileyI'm afraid anti-Semites will be disappointed with Bad Jews, Joshua Harmon's …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2014
Todd Lawson and D'Arcy Dersham in Dusk Rings a Bell. Photos: Meghan Moore.Not all the critics have been kind to Dusk Rings a Bell, the new script by Stephen Belber - who is perhaps bes…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:34AM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2014
Lakeside with the swan maidens. Photos: Rosalie O'ConnorExpectations were high on opening night of Boston Ballet's new version of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Artistic Director Mikko Nissin…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2014
I can't decide who's cuter, can you?Audiences seem to like the Lyric Stage's Dear Elizabeth, the love letter from Sarah Ruhl to two great American poets, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell -…
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