Holbein'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…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:02PM"Nobody ever knew what Mary Poppins felt about it, because Mary Poppins never told anybody anything."(The first part of this essay appeared earlier this week.)Pamela Lyndon Goff - who would …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:55PMWait, wait - before we forget all about the year that's gone!Sigh. Can it really be 2014?Well - yes, it can, so it's time to take a last minute look in the rear-view, and throw a few cr…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:47PMLeonardo's Gabriel from the Annunciation in the Uffizi.As I mentioned in an earlier post, conductor Scott Metcalfe had a busy holiday season - in one weekend he led both the Handel…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:55PMThe Disney version, and friend.I always thought Mary Poppins was a lesbian. Or at least even when I was a little boy, and even before I knew what a "lesbian" was, I somehow understood Mary P…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:32PMScott Metcalfe, music director of the Renaissance choir Blue Heron (below), has counted as a rising star ever since the New Yorker deigned to notice one of his CDs (anyone in the know i…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:59AMThat's photographer Ed Wheeler invading late Monet in a Santa suit, as he has much of Western art - indeed, Wheeler by now has a whole line of what he calls "Santa interventions," which…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:26AMMore requests have surfaced for another perennial Hub Review movie list - the 10 Best Christmas Movies That Aren't Christmas Movies. So in the spirit of our popular "Smartest Horror Mov…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:22PMFolks have once again e-mailed to ask that I reprise my analysis of "It's a Wonderful Life" - which, like my list of the Smartest Horror Movies ever made, has become a kind of Hub …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:34PMPhoto: Steve Dunwell.Now that we are reaching the actual Christmas holidays themselves, Messiah season is coming to a close. As usual, its two peaks were performances by the Handel and…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:31AMPhotos by Danny Kim.Critics have often been as confused and confounded by Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures as the Japanese were by the warships of Commodore Perry, whose arrival in Uraga…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:47PMAn installation from the "Plexus" series.No, the artwork above isn't some kind of high-tech hologram, and no prisms were involved in its production.Surprisingly enough, it's just thread…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:45PMPhoto by Meghan Moore.If you've already surfeited on sugarplums, and drunk too many cups of saccharine "cheer," then the Merrimack Rep in Lowell may have just the tonic you're looking for - …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:10PMA "magical," remote-controlled piano in Chicago's Union Station spreads a little holiday cheer - and witty comment. Absolutely charming. And always remember - don't be that guy s…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:56PMIt's hard to argue with technical brilliance - particularly when it comes to pianists. So many listeners - and critics - just don't.But sometimes it seems as if the technically brillia…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:34PMPhyllis Kay trades tragedy for Mark Larson's abs.It's great to see Trinity Rep firing on all cylinders again with Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang's latest hi-lo cultu…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:00PMEarnestly al fresco - Glen Moore, Poornima Kirby, Cat Claus and Andrew Winson.The trouble with the new Importance of Being Earnest from Moonbox Productions can be summed up in a single …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:19PMTrumpeter Jesse Levine in a previous performance.Last weekend I spent a pleasant afternoon - as I do every year, this time of year - in awe of the chorus and orchestra of the Handel and Hayd…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:22PMThe dancing snowflakes now drift through silver birches.This city clings to its traditions - perhaps it even clutches them - and so it should have come as no surprise that Boston Ballet's re…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:09PMSex becomes violence, and violence sex, in Mies Julie.To describe Mies Julie (at ArtsEmerson through this weekend) as "visceral" seems, well . . .. . . something of an understatement.In…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:29AMErica Spyres and Benjamin Evett as Guinevere and Arthur. Photos: Andrew Brilliant.Boston Globe editorial policy (like most local editorial policies) relentlessly prods reviewers toward …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:36AMCourtney Lewis in action with Discovery Ensemble.I have been late catching up with Discovery Ensemble, which has steadily built a reputation for itself with concerts devoted to a startl…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:07PMYes, today marks a truly unique event - Hanukkah and Thanksgiving are falling together for the first time in centuries (and maybe won't align again for tens of thousands of years). Bla…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:33AMDecline has rarely looked as good - or as exquisitely detailed - as it does at the Huntington.The standard line about playwright A.R. Gurney (whose late-80's opus The Cocktail Hour is …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:50AMThe seasons change, but beauty endures . . .I know - we haven't given out any Hubbies for quite a while, and whatever I've thought of the new play landscape, that doesn't mean people haven't…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:48AMGil Rose and BMOP in action.Like almost everyone else (I'd bet), I went to the recent Boston Modern Orchestra Project production of Four Saints in Three Acts out of pure curiosity. Could Vir…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:16PMYes, you read that right. When I arrived at my seat at Boston Lyric Opera's production of Lizzie Borden tonight (performed in the atmospheric Park Plaza Castle) there seemed to be some…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:06PMSoprano Deborah VoigtYou only have till tonight to catch "Voigt Lessons," a mix of reminiscence and music by soprano Deborah Voigt (left), which plays at the Calderwood as part of Celebrity …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:50PMAlex Pollock and Brandon Whitehead in Windowmen.After my recent cri de coeur over the sad state of the season's new plays, I felt I owed it to myself to check out Steven Barkhimer's Win…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:57PMSo you can all stop sending me this clip, all you Abe Lincolns and Martin Luther Kings out there, who have endured my slings and arrows over the years. Although btw, I did get a kick o…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:50PMMeredith Stypinski goes for it as Selby. Photo: Chris McKenzieI admit Caryl Churchill's The After-Dinner Joke can sometimes feel like merely a witty aside to the rest of her oeuvre. Actually…
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