Meredith 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…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:42AMThere is something about the miniature that always charms - just as the mechanical exudes its own tiny tug of fascination. Entwine them together, and you're halfway toward explaining the hyp…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:50PMConductor Grant Llewellyn in action. Photo: Michael LutchIt's a nice problem to have, applause that won't stop. Some might not call it a problem at all. But whatever it was, it started…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:42PMIt's hard to deny that in Boston, so far this has been the weakest theatrical season in memory. And it's not too hard to see why: in two words - new plays. This fall I've sat thr…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:24AMFrancisco Graciano in Perpetual DawnWe haven't seen the Paul Taylor Dance Company in these parts for some time, so their recent appearance at Celebrity Series last weekend was more than mere…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:46PMGary Lydon and Gavan O'Herlihy as Estragon and Pozzo.I wouldn't reckon that the Gare St. Lazare Players' production of Waiting for Godot (at Arts Emerson through this weekend) will light a f…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 06:01PMMartin PearlmanThe most recent installment of Boston Baroque's New Directions series, dubbed "Time Curves," played to half a house two weekends ago at Pickman Concert Hall, apparently becaus…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 06:00PMLasha Khozashvili does know how to make an entrance. Photos: Gene Schiavone.La Bayadère is the ballet pageant to end all ballet pageants. Which may be both its great streng…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:48PMAs Hub Review fans know, we're all about the time lapse. And here is a charming one taken at the recent Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. Shot and edited by Joel Schat (http://www.joels…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:05AMEvery October, people begin asking for a replay of a Hub Review tradition - our list of "scary movies for smart people." It's almost too late to watch one of these on Hallowe…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:27PMMichael Underfhill in "Vampirella."I'll admit the only theatre piece I've seen this fall (aside from The Jungle Book) that has gotten me truly excited was Hairy Tales, a dramatization of two…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:35PMThe chorus of the Handel and Haydn Society.A sad shadow seemed to linger over Handel and Haydn's season opener, Bach's Mass in B Minor (now some three weeks in the past!), as the orchestra h…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:37PMMatthew Bausone and Eric Folks in columbinus.Verbatim theatre, the hot stage trend of the millennium, seems to have slowly fallen apart at the seams. Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:46AMAs my Facebook friends know, the Hub Review has spent the last two weeks in sunny Spain. (Above, toasting the trip with the partner unit at a cafe across from the Prado - photo by my b…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:05AMLaura Latreille and Joseph Adams in God of Carnage. Photo: Meghan Moore.We've already seen Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage once in the Boston area (in a slightly awkward misfire at …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:01AMErica Spyres introduces James Caverly to sign.There's nothing quite as touching as the poignant theatre of identity politics. I mean that. I, too, am touched by the victims who p…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:00AMChristina English and Aliana de la Guardia in No Exit. You have to give Guerilla Opera some serious props. A production like their recent version of Andy Vores' No Exit…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:00PMOn the road with the cast at Trinity. Photo: Mark Turek.Like Boston Ballet, the venerable Trinity Rep down in Providence is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year; and to kick off …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:00PMMowgli (Akash Chopra) with his best bud Baloo (Kevin Carolan). Photos: Liz Lauren.There's no denying that the great Mary Zimmerman's The Jungle Book (at the Huntington through October 20) is…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 06:49PMPhoto: Daniel BlueLast Saturday marked not only the official beginning of Boston Ballet's 50th Anniversary Season, but also a big step up for the company in terms of the city's popular consc…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:43AMTiffany Chen, Aimee Doherty, and McCaela Donovan. Photos: Mark S. HowardThere's an inherent tension in commedia dell'arte between performer and author - and often in history, the perfo…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:11PMThe musical forces required by Rienzi. Photo: Kathy Wittman.Every day, I suppose, something surprising happens. But surely the brief local bow (one night only!) of Wagner's …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:58AMJust in case you haven't heard, Boston Ballet celebrates its 50th anniversary this weekend by taking its "Night of Stars" gala to Boston Common - offered free to the city at 7 pm on Saturday…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:47PMJordan Ahnquist is schooled by Sophori Ngin in Seminar. Photos: David Costa.My readers know I'm no fan of Theresa Rebeck; at her best she's a clever craftsman, but at her worst she's little …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:16PMTim Spears as Joseph (john) Merrick. Production photos: Andrew Brilliant.Ah, The Elephant Man. I've never quite understood the praise that playwright Bernard Pomerance's only success r…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:49AMThe talented cast of The Libertine.When it first swaggers on stage, Stephen Jeffreys' The Libertine seems truly seductive - rather like its eponymous hero, John Wilmot (the 2nd Earl of …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:20PMThe talented players of A Far Cry, with nary a conductor in sight. Photo: Yoon S. ByunIt isn't often that a music organization manages to unconsciously diagnose a deep problem in the culture…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:47PMYes, the fall season has begun in earnest - even if the music and dance scenes are only just beginning to come to life, the theatrical calendar is already crowded. This weekend alone I am se…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:53PMThat's the disturbing question moving behind Stephen Jimenez's new book, The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard, which substantially debunks the "official story"…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:29PMLindsay Crouse and Johnny Lee Davenport in Driving Miss Daisy. Photo: Gary NgIf you haven't noticed, it's beginning to feel like "That 80's Show" on the local theatre scene. The …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:24PMAs you no doubt have heard, Woody Allen's latest, Blue Jasmine, is one of his best in years.That doesn't mean, however, that it's an unqualified success; indeed, Jasmine is at least a partia…
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