Thursday, November 6, 2014
I can't decide who's cuter, can you?Audiences seem to like the Lyric Stage's Dear Elizabeth, the love letter from Sarah Ruhl to two great American poets, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell -…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:35AMTuesday, November 4, 2014
The talented cast of Assassins at the New Rep. Photos: Andrew Brilliant.Before I knew it, the New Rep's Assassins had closed, and I had never given it full consideration while it was still o…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:44PMSunday, November 2, 2014
An impromptu memorial downtown.Tom Menino was often called the "Neighborhood Mayor" - and sometimes the "Re-development Mayor."But I also wanted to note, on the day before he is finally laid…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:31PMSaturday, November 1, 2014
I admit to loving Pilobolus, even if my serious-dance friends tend to sniff at my affection for them. "Yes, they're fun, but . . . aren't they just frat boys in tights?" seems to be th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:42PMThursday, October 30, 2014
Every October, people begin asking for a replay of a Hub Review tradition - our list of "scary movies for smart people." This is a bit last minute, of course, but there still…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:44PMThe Juilliard String Quartet: Joseph Lin, Joel Krosnick, Roger Tapping, and Ronald Copes. Photo: J. ShermanIt has been years since we've seen the Juilliard String Quartet in these part…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:48PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
Michael Underhill prepares a gaggle of IRNE critics for the journey into Language of Angels. Photo by the author.This weekend marks the last bow of the Factory Theatre, long a mainstay …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:04PMMonday, October 27, 2014
Teresa Wakim and Danielle Reutter-Harrah. Photos: Kathy Wittman.Sigh. What has taken me so long to rave about the Boston Early Music Festival's transporting concert, "Monteverdi Madrigals: S…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:42PMFriday, October 24, 2014
Pauline Malefane as the Queen of the Night. Photo by Keith PattisonMozart's Die Zauberflöte ("The Magic Flute") is not only immortal but universal; I think Boston last saw it set in a Mayan…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:25PMMonday, October 20, 2014
Joseph Marcell rages in King Lear.The touring production of King Lear that Shakespeare's Globe opened last week at ArtsEmerson (where it plays through this Thursday) proved a true rarity: an…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:40PMSunday, October 19, 2014
Titan's Venus of UrbinoToday's Globe features an essay from critic Sebastian Smee (sorry, it might be behind a pay wall) on the greatest art in New England - which is unfortunately burd…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:01PMSaturday, October 18, 2014
Photo: James DoyleIn case you haven't heard, our own Handel and Haydn Society is now 200.As in years old. Which makes it the oldest continuously active performing arts organization in the co…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:03PMThursday, October 16, 2014
Michael Wade Lee woos Anya Matanovic at a pivotal moment of La Traviata.Somewhere, I suppose, the curtain is always rising on La Traviata - and no wonder, as it's blessed with one of Verdi's…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:30PMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Michael Underhill (I think) and Joey Pelletier in Knock!. Photos: Roger MetcalfWith the passing of the late, lamented Whistler in the Dark, Imaginary Beasts became the leading (perhaps the o…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:34PMMonday, October 13, 2014
My postings about the now closed Opera Boston on the Hub Review, like all my postings, are purely an avocation, not a vocation. I am not compensated for what I write. I rather write in…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:31PMSunday, October 12, 2014
Photo: Robert TorresBoston has been waiting a long time to hear Maurizio Pollini; it has been nearly four years, I think, since his last concert date here (he canceled a few due to illness, …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:45PMWednesday, October 8, 2014
On the town, but in the closet in Far from Heaven. Production photos: Craig Bailey.I've held my peace about SpeakEasy's current production of Far from Heaven, the musical based on Todd…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:26PMTuesday, October 7, 2014
A video sampler of "Traces." Those in the theatrical know already know what to expect from Montreal's most "millennial" circus troupe, Les 7 Doigts de la Main ("The Seven Fingers of the…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:18PMSaturday, October 4, 2014
The talented cast of Guess Who at the Huntington. Photos: Paul MarottaLike a lot of people, I was dismayed to hear that the Huntington would open its current season with an adaptation of Gue…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:06AMThursday, October 2, 2014
A Far Cry hangs out somewhere idyllic. Photo: Yoon S. Byun.My apologies - almost three weeks have gone by since I heard A Far Cry's season opener, "Back to the Idyll," and I am only now post…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:13PMFriday, September 26, 2014
Photo: Mark S. HowardThis is just a quick note (from Venice - see masthead!) to urge you to catch Stoneham Theatre's current production of Doubt (which closes this weekend). Director C…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:17AMFriday, September 19, 2014
Yes, the Hub Review arrived in Florence, Italy, yesterday, for an extended stay in Tuscany, the Veneto, and Milan. (That's the Arno at sunset, above, shot from the Ponte Vecchio.)But f…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:16AMTuesday, September 16, 2014
Christopher Chew hones his edge as Sweeney.I'll be honest: I found myself straddling a peculiar kind of critical fence as I watched the Lyric Stage's new production of Sweeney Todd.On the on…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:57PMThursday, September 11, 2014
Colm Feore before the madness descends.What makes a great production of Shakespeare great?Sometimes it can be less than you might imagine. The Stratford Festival's gripping King Lear, …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:16AMSunday, September 7, 2014
This post - one of an occasional series on The Hub Review - was inspired by a random image someone sent me of "The Kelpies," sculptor Andy Scott's tribute to the workhorses of rural Scotland…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:09PMThursday, September 4, 2014
Daver Morrison swings for Wilson's Fences.With Fences, the Pulitzer Prize winner which became a Broadway hit in 1987, playwright August Wilson seemed to swing for artistic pickets that …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:50PMSaturday, August 23, 2014
Titania (Jonathan Goad) falls hard for Bottom (Stephen Ouimette) at Stratford.As gay marriage has swept the civilized world (and no, that does not include the Southland, or other Republican …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:53PMFriday, August 15, 2014
Patrick Varner and Sarah Elizabeth Bedard communicate via body language in Translations.Bad Habit Productions has a habit of producing eloquent versions of literate, large-ensemble plays fro…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:16PMSaturday, August 9, 2014
Life looks better when you're stoned, and to be honest, so does this play. (Photo: Gary Ng)I'm happy to report that with its current show, 4000 Miles, feisty little Gloucester Stage has once…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:00AMMonday, August 4, 2014
Two obsessions - Nureyev and the color yellow.(This is the second of a three-part series on Jamie Wyeth, currently the subject of a major retrospective at the MFA. The first installment…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:26AMThursday, July 31, 2014
Brooks Reeves cooks up some comedy as Titus Andronicus.Just as the swallows return each spring to Capistrano, so it seems The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) returns ev…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:49PM 
