Friday, September 6, 2013
As 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…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:59PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Jason Myatt and Janelle Mills meet cute in The T Plays.I was probably the first critic with a substantial audience to pay any attention to the T Plays, so ever since its premiere season I've…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:16AMMonday, September 2, 2013
An eloquent testament to the slow destruction of life as we (used to) know it.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:43AMFriday, August 30, 2013
Portrait by Ross WilsonDigging Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun.Under my window, a clean rasping soundWhen the spade sinks into gravelly ground:My father…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:54PMWednesday, August 28, 2013
In the digital age, "Easter egg" has assumed a double meaning: today we use it to refer to a little lagniappe tucked away in an app, or nestled in a file hidden somewhere in a disc, which ca…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:51PMMonday, August 26, 2013
The graceful bar at Lineage.My second Restaurant Week outing of the summer brought me to Lineage, just outside Coolidge Corner, which is best known for its subtle way with seafood. But…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:52PMFriday, August 23, 2013
Restaurant Week always draws my partner and I out of our culinary rut to new spots we haven't tried before - and this week we took advantage of the $38 three-course menus at La Voile on Newb…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:38PMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Surconsommation by AssoEnTouteFranchiseI don't know too much about it - only that its title, appropriately enough, is Overconsumption . . . (And amusingly enough, you have to sit through an …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:16PMTuesday, August 20, 2013
Envy (Graham Abbey) meets jealousy (Dion Johnstone) in the Stratford Festival's Othello.Shakespeare's tragedies often set Aristotle on his ear, one way or another. Taken together, they…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:52PMFriday, August 16, 2013
Seana McKenna and Ben Carlson in Mary Stuart.Hub Review readers are familiar with my annual trek to Canada's Stratford Festival, now inarguably the greatest classical theatre in the hemisphe…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:15AMWednesday, August 14, 2013
Ayckbourn's characters share a cup of Christmas cheer in Absurd Person Singular. Photo: A.R. Sinclair.I'm a bit surprised by the positive reviews for the Nora Theatre's Absurd Person Singula…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:06PMSunday, August 11, 2013
John prepares for action.I'm afraid I must pause today to note the passing of a musician and a friend: John Ernest Grimes (at left), timpanist of the Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baro…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:57AMFriday, August 9, 2013
The talented cast of Why Torture is Wrong, etc.There's a special dismay in realizing your own politics don't make for great theatre - it's a strangely sinking feeling that dogged my experien…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:11PMWednesday, August 7, 2013
Around Saturn from fabio di donato on Vimeo.This montage of imagery from the spacecraft Cassini is not only a startling scientific document, it's also a wry tribute to Stanley Kubrick, as it…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:46PMTuesday, August 6, 2013
We return now to a conversation we began with Mikko Nissinen, Artistic Director of the Boston Ballet, some weeks ago, just before the company embarked on a successful tour to London. H…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:02PMSaturday, August 3, 2013
Joey C. Pelletier and Mike Budwey get to know each other.Charles Busch's Psycho Beach Party is always something of a showcase for its star (Busch himself played the lead in its premiere); bu…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:40AMThursday, August 1, 2013
The working class confronts the "protector" (Therese Plaehn) who could be an enemy. Photos: Gary Ng.The women of Gloucester's fish industry have it hard. Or at least they take it hard in Isr…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:58PMTuesday, July 30, 2013
Who goes there? The Conjuring sends Lili Taylor on a classic quest.I admit I was skeptical as I took my seat at The Conjuring last weekend. Could James Wan, the director who help…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:33AMWednesday, July 24, 2013
It's summertime, and the livin' is easy; so many feel the theatre should be, too. And no doubt those folks would be quite taken with Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore, whic…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:56PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
See that little white dot in the lower right of the above photograph? That is the Earth. That is you, me, and everyone we know. All of humanity, in fact, with all its atten…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:15PMMonday, July 22, 2013
No cutting remarks allowed!Now I'm not going to say "I told you so."But read my lips.Back when Polly Carl was searching for potential critics to carry out her directive of "positive inquiry"…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:14PMFriday, July 19, 2013
Ryan McKinny as the Dutchman. Photos: Karli Cadel.The eponymous hero of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman is supposed to make landfall only once in seven years - and here I've …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:06PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
Mikko NissinenMikko Nissinen assumed the artistic directorship of the Boston Ballet in 2001, when he was only 39. At that time the organization was in seeming disarray - compromised artistic…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:56PMSaturday, July 13, 2013
The Flying Man from Marcus Alqueres on Vimeo.. . . is this video, The Flying Man, by Marcus Alqueres (remember that name, I'd say). In just a few minutes it tears apart the pop ideology of …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:54AMSunday, July 7, 2013
The vestal paraphernalia of The Virgin Suicides.I was disappointed by the failure of Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring, which I caught last weekend (don't bother), because like a lot of pe…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:22PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
Circuit Theatre's The Amish ProjectI confess I'm writing today about a production I almost decided not to cover at all - The Amish Project, by Jessica Dickey, which the new Circuit Theatre C…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:55PMSunday, June 30, 2013
Yes, it's that time again, when we look back in a slight daze at roughly a quarter-year of the city's theatrical life, find some hot picture of a male model, and put together our person…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:10AMFriday, June 28, 2013
Phyllis Kay and Fred Sullivan, Jr. - Ayckbourn's would-be Pyramus and Thisbe. Photos: Mark Turek.As Hub Review readers may recall, I left Trinity Rep's production of Alan Ayckbourn's H…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:59PMTuesday, June 25, 2013
Colin Hamell in Jimmy Titanic - photo: Michael and Suz Karchmer.We live, it seems, in an age of theatrical vehicles. Playwrights are short on vision these days, and the culture is far from c…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:19PMSaturday, June 22, 2013
Robert Mealy leads the BEMF Orchestra. Photo: Kathy WittmanSorry for the delay, but I still have remaining thoughts about a few performances from last week's Boston Early Music Festival (per…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:43AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
As another weather warning was just issued this afternoon, it seems appropriate to post this frightening, majestic video of the kind of cloud Yahweh might have spoken out of - a superc…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:48PM 
