Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The place beyond the pecs . . . Ryan Gosling in Pines.It is hard, I admit, for me to argue with Ryan Gosling when he takes his shirt off. As he does immediately in the opening man-cand…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:53PMSaturday, April 20, 2013
You did have to be a little cuckoo to believe the hype. Photo(s): T. Charles Erickson.Okay - we've all sat through "Ryan Landry's M" now. And we've all seen that the Huntington made a …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:23PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Rebecca Gibel and Darien Battle get their Walking Dead groove on. Production photos: Mark Turek.White terror. Let's admit it, that's what stalks us these days. It's the ghost haunt…
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SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:00AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
A woman prays amid the carnage on Boylston Street.For Boston yesterday, it was like 9/11 all over again. Shock. Horror. Disbelief. That sickening sense of encountering naked huma…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:44AMMonday, April 15, 2013
The scene at Copley Square.My close friends have all called in, the kid from our lab who was running has tweeted he's safe, I've posted on Facebook and e-mailed the family that I'm okay. So …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:27PMThe talented women of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Photos: Johnathan CarrI've long maintained that the celebrated Lynn Nottage is more pedagogue than playwright - and I think that after seei…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:20PMSunday, April 14, 2013
Ian Watson at the keyboard in a previous Handel and Haydn performance.As the old joke goes, Vivaldi didn't write five hundred concertos, he just wrote one concerto five hundred times. …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:15AMThursday, April 11, 2013
The cast of Lebensraum - Photo: Natalia BoltukhovaIn case you hadn't noticed, another intrepid small theatre troupe has joined the fringe - the Hub Theatre Company of Boston (no relation to …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:59AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Amelia Broome channels the divine Maria.Theatre is about dreaming. Dreaming big.But there are limits. And I think everyone involved in Master Class at the New Rep was dreaming ju…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:13AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Work of art or house of mirrors? The SpeakEasy Clybourne Park. Photo(s): Craig Bailey.Every single theatre acquaintance I've bumped into over the past month has asked me the same…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:06AMMonday, April 8, 2013
Miss Cook in action.I spent Saturday night this weekend with an old friend, Barbara Cook (at left). No, Miss Cook doesn't know me personally - just as she doesn't know the two or three…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 07:57AMSaturday, April 6, 2013
A moment of stillness in Downshifting.You don't have to be a dance critic to sense immediately the appeal of Spellbound Dance Company; Italy's leading modern troupe (currently re-brandi…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:51PMThursday, April 4, 2013
Jeffrey Cirio and Misa Kuranaga, the perfect couple.To turn from Boston Ballet's "All Kylián" program of two weeks ago to the lush embrace of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty is to ex…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:18PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Keira Keeley and Colby Chambers ponder the music of the spheres. Photo: Meghan MooreAs a self-appointed high priest in the sacred temple of the theatre, I know I'm supposed to look dow…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:30PMMonday, April 1, 2013
Somehow the Hubbies always make us feel a little frisky.It has been a long winter, hasn't it. (And it's been even longer since our last Hubbie Awards post!)But spring seems finally to …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:52AMSunday, March 31, 2013
Mac Young is confused by Jesse Wood's theatrics in Our Country's Good. Photo: Christopher McKenzieAs readers of the Hub Review know by now, Boston's fringe is where the intellectual ac…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:44PMFriday, March 29, 2013
Photo: Robert Torres.The classical audience loves its institutions - and flautist Sir James Galway (above) is beyond all doubt an institution. "The Man with the Golden Flute" (by his own app…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:23PMThursday, March 28, 2013
The cast of A New Brain. Photo: Sharman Altshuler.Moonbox Productions counted as my big "find" on the fringe last year; their Floyd Collins was a remarkable achievement for a fled…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:05PMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Photo: Jimmy KatzI'd never heard pianist Jonathan Biss live before his Celebrity Series debut at Jordan Hall (he's back on April 12 with the Elias String Quartet).So I wasn't quite prepared …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:32PMMonday, March 25, 2013
Peanuts meets Glee - and Columbine. Photo(s): Debut Cinematic/Karen LadanyI don't think the Charles Schulz estate (much less United Features Syndicate!) looks kindly on Dog Sees God: C…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:35PMSaturday, March 23, 2013
Richard EgarrThere are very few sure things in this life, but Richard Egarr standing at the podium is surely one of them. His versions of Beethoven's Eighth, and Haydn's "The Clock," i…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:36PMFriday, March 22, 2013
Facing the facts of love: Caroline Worra, Thomas Allen, and Sandra Piques Eddy. Photos: Eric Antoniou.Sometimes, particularly when I'm watching his operas, I think Mozart's face (below…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:04PMWhy so sad, George?Fellow blogger Ian Thal has a brave and damning post up at the Clyde Fitch Report regarding recent shenanigans over at CitiCenter. It seems that Ian, a local co…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:47AMThursday, March 21, 2013
Caroline HendersonI admit it. I left Danish Dance Theatre's Love Songs (at Celebrity Series last weekend) a little bit in love myself.But not, I'm afraid, with Danish Dance Theatre.No, I fe…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:59PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
LeRoy McClain and Ashley Everage in A Raisin in the Sun. Photo: T. Charles Erickson.I'm not sure whether the theatre is more obsessed with race these days, or real estate. But th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:17PMSunday, March 17, 2013
Nathan Gunn. With a name like that, he could be James Bond's arch-rival. Or perhaps a lost cousin of Philip Marlowe.But no, Nathan Gunn (at left) is actually a baritone - in fact…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:57PMSaturday, March 16, 2013
Jeptha's Daughter, by Chauncey Bradley IvesBoston Baroque's intriguing program last weekend, "De Profundis," marked for this venerable organization a renewed focus on the chorus - and as is …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:26PMFriday, March 15, 2013
No more Phoenix, apparently - although we've heard this rumor before, this time it's apparently true. The paper that hijacked the counter-cultural bona fides of what became The Real Paper, a…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:34AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Paulo Arrais, Lia Cirio in Wings of Wax. Photos: Rosalie O'Connor"All Kylián," the current offering from Boston Ballet (at the Opera House through this weekend) may not tell the …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:11PMSunday, March 10, 2013
Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic with Vadim Repin on violin.There's always something to be said for taking on a warhorse, I suppose, even if it's Beethoven's Fifth, that warhors…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:17PM 
