Joseph Marrella, Kelby T. Akin, Paula Plum and Ken Baltin in Death of a Salesman. Photo: Mark S. HowardWhen playwright Arthur Miller died in 2005, you could sense a slight condescensio…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:47PMConductor Harry Christophers (Photo: Stu Rosner)I've dawdled over reviewing the Handel and Haydn Society's rendition of Vivaldi's Gloria (which took its final bow over a week ago) large…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:09PMLeonidas Kavakos and the "Abergavenny" Strad.This post is partly a valentine to Leonidas Kavakos, the celebrated violinist who played Jordan Hall last weekend as part of Celebrity…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:43PMTynberly Canale and Mikhail Baryshnikov share a dance in "About Love." (Photo: T. Charles Erickson)You couldn't say that Man in a Case, at ArtsEmerson through this weekend only, isn't intere…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:57AMWhitney Jensen and Jeffrey Cirio in C. to C. (Close to Chuck) Reborn. (Photo: Rosalie O'Connor)I think Bostonians know by now that an evening of contemporary work from Boston Ballet is…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:09AMCellist Guy Fishman - photo: Stu RosnerI was fortunate to be invited to a musical soirée given by players of the Handel and Haydn Society recently at the Museum of Fine Arts (well, perhaps …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:44PMLaura de Noves, believed to have been Petrarch's LauraIt's hard to exaggerate the contributions of Francesco Petrarca, known to the English speaking world as Petrarch, to the Renaissance, th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:59PMFragonard's The Lover Crowned.Boston Baroque made love and war last weekend, with a mostly sparkling program that yoked together that perennial odd couple, Venus and Mars - or at least their…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:03PMThe full cast of Company.Today's sad news is that likable Moonbox Productions is still stuck in something of a sophomore slump. Early on, the company wowed the local scene with hits like Flo…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:20PMSchubert's Winterreise ("Winter Journey") is, by common accord, the darkest song cycle ever composed - in a tone of ever deepening despair, it follows a spurned lover who stumbles throu…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:44PMIn which we continue our survey of the greatest meditations on love the cinema has so far produced - A Short Film About Love (1988)Krzysztof Kieślowski's extension of an oblique vignette f…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:30PMKeith Mascoll, Johnny Lee Davenport and Jesse Hinson in The Whipping Man.Sometimes one good idea - and a cast to put it over - is all a new play needs.Or at least that's what I thought as th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:52PMLike beauty, romance lies in the eye of the beholder. So I shouldn't have been surprised, when I asked my friends in recent weeks, "What would you say are the most romantic films of all time…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:05AMKirill GersteinRarely has a performance been curated with such subtle thematic intent as Kirill Gerstein's at Celebrity Series last weekend.Its calling card was the Boston premiere of wunder…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:54PMJenna Lea Scott bids Baltimore a good morning in Hairspray.By now you've probably heard the word, but just in case you haven't, the Wheelock Family Theatre's Hairspray (through Feb. 23) is a…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:09AMI'm late with an appreciation of the Handel and Haydn Society's last concert, which is strange because I appreciated it quite a bit. But then I'm always intrigued by a concert when Richard E…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:55PMOn the road with the Joads - and America - as the Great Recession and the Great Depression coalesce.For the foundation of their haunting, high-tech meditation on the Great Recession, House/D…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:40PMThe Broadway baritone himself.Sometimes there's not much to say in a review - particularly in a rave about a performer who's already a known quantity. The talent is too obvious; the command …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:48PMMiche Braden as Bessie Smith. Bessie Smith lives.I know this because I've just seen (and heard) The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith (through this weekend at Merri…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:17PMJoel Colodner and Jeremiah Kissel in Imagining Madoff. Photo: Andrew Brilliant.A small shock wave rippled through theatrical circles in 2010, when Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel abrupt…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:34PMCatherine Manson and James Boyd in action.What a night.I'm actually still in something of a daze after last weekend's appearance by the London Haydn Quartet at the Boston Early Music Fe…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:17AMGo for the cheap food, not the cheap industrial chic - The Sinclair Kitchen in Cambridge.I routinely ignore the opinions of rock music fans on just about everything - but I admit their taste…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:25PMAubin Wise, Lovely Huffman, and the color purple. Photos: Glenn Perry PhotographyI confess I've always had mixed feelings about Alice Walker's The Color Purple, and its trajectory throu…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:55PMRyan Valente and Ayako Takahashi in rehearsal.I suppose "breaking down barriers" counts as one of our current cultural mantras. And as such slogans go - well, I suppose it's not bad. &…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:20PMWilliam Schuller and Michael Underhill do do that voodoo in Rumpelstiltskin.You could argue that Matthew Woods' Imaginary Beasts never stray far from the precincts of childhood - even when t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:29AMThe happy couple in Venus in Fur.Playwright David Ives has been adamant that his source material for Venus in Fur, Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch's notorious ode to sado-masochism, is…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:02PMThou Shalt Not Steal, 1918It's considered poor form to speculate on the sex lives of the dead, I know.And yet it's always tempting - particularly in such cases as John Singer Sargent's. &nbs…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:39AMSanta Maria della Salute, 1904Even in his lifetime, John Singer Sargent was aware of the critical rap against him: all flash, no substance - indeed, serious modernists still frown at the men…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:49PM"Brother Trucker" and his "rig." Photo: Mark S. HowardThe lowdown on Working (at the Lyric Stage through February 1) is that much of it doesn't quite work - and that goes both for the m…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:58PMBoston Baroque's New Year's Day galas have long been among the most enjoyable concert traditions in town; conductor Martin Pearlman (below left) always seems to bring just the right touch to…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:09PMHolbein's portrait is quite a bit better than Shakespeare's.I'll say it right up front: Henry VIII, Shakespeare's "last play" - which recently closed at the Actors' Shakespeare Project - isn…
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