Sunday, 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 11:17PMSaturday, March 9, 2013
Jeremy Denk at the keyboard - yes, this is a typical pose, and yes, it's a bit much.Yesterday I considered the case of Hilary Hahn, a brilliant violinist who seemed to only find her voice wh…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:44PMFriday, March 8, 2013
The performer in repose.Artistic affinity is both a fact of life and an utter mystery - and much on my mind of late, as last weekend's Celebrity Series performances by violinist Hilary Hahn …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:43PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Mark Zeisler and Ryan Barry see red in Red. Photo: Meghan Moore.Bostonians rarely get a chance to see a new script from two different perspectives - but we're enjoying just such a…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:47AMSunday, March 3, 2013
The Native-American holocaust strikes back - or does it? - in an iconic image from The Shining.There has been a long delay in my return to The Shining - and sorry for the tease; it…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:51PMFriday, March 1, 2013
Gísli Örn Gardarsson as Grego Samsa in Metamorphosis. Photo by Eddi. As we all know, one morning, after a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa awoke to find that he had been t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:29AMThursday, February 28, 2013
Liz Hayes and Nael Nacer take a breather. Photo: Andrew Brilliant.One thing is clear about Lungs. You have to have amazing lung power to perform it.Particularly if, like the talented L…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:17PMTuesday, February 26, 2013
Violinist Aisslinn Nosky.First, the bad news.Apparently the music of Franz Joseph Haydn is no longer enough of a draw to fill Symphony Hall; for last weekend's all-Haydn program from the Han…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:40PMSunday, February 24, 2013
This is just a quick post mortem on Trinity Rep's production of Crime and Punishment, which closed this weekend, and which must go down as one of the oddest misfires in that illustrious comp…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:38AMSaturday, February 23, 2013
Marianna Bassham, stuck in Middletown. Photo: Stratton McCradyI left Middletown (at the Actors' Shakespeare Project through March 10) wondering exactly how a playwright as smart as Wil…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:20PMFriday, February 22, 2013
We haven't had a time lapse on the Hub Review for - well, some time now. This one was taken at the summit of New England's own Mount Washington. Apparently it was shot just this …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:56PMWednesday, February 20, 2013
Phil Tayler and Daniel Berger-Jones. Photos: Timothy Dunn.Perhaps I was simply in the mood for any type of theatre done well by the end of last weekend (after I had suffered through th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:06PMMonday, February 18, 2013
Cinderella's Castle at Disney World in Florida.The trouble with Mike Daisey's American Utopias, which opened ArtsEmerson's "The Next Thing" festival on Friday night (sorry, it closed Saturda…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:00PMFriday, February 15, 2013
What the heck is going on in this movie? Jack Nicholson in The Shining.Posting has been a bit light of late, I know, basically because many of last weekend's performances were washed out by …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:23PMWednesday, February 13, 2013
The intrepid Gil Shaham braved winter's worst last weekend.Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night stayed violinist Gil Shaham from the completion of his appointed Celebrity Series con…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:27PMTuesday, February 12, 2013
Can a tax break hook Broadway producers?Folks have been asking me what I think about the proposed bill to "woo" Broadway try-outs with a tax break.And I confess my first reaction is:Aren't w…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:24PMSunday, February 10, 2013
I'm pleased to report that an added performance of James MacMillan's Clemency (full review below) has been scheduled for tomorrow night, Monday, February 11, at 7 pm at the Artists…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:35PMSaturday, February 9, 2013
David Kravitz welcomes strange travelers to his table in Clemency. Photos: Eric Antoniou.If you haven't been keeping up with Boston Lyric Opera's traveling "Annex" productions, then I'm…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:57PMThursday, February 7, 2013
Omar Robinson looks lost in Patrick Gabridge's Fire on Earth.I confess I'm only reluctantly writing about Patrick Gabridge's Fire on Earth (at the Factory Theatre from Fresh Ink Theatre…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:12PMWednesday, February 6, 2013
The divas take a moment to relax on an earlier stop of their tour.You know, some days I feel so lucky to be able to do this. And one such day was last Sunday, when I was privileged to …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:49PMMonday, February 4, 2013
The cast of The Servant of Two Masters.It's hard to argue with comic virtuosity; and certainly the Yale Rep production of The Servant of Two Masters (at ArtsEmerson through Feb. 10) is comic…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:00PMSunday, February 3, 2013
This ad from SodaStream, targeting the environmental pollution caused by plastic soft drink bottles - was reportedly refused a berth in SuperBowl programming after pressure was applied by Co…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:11PMSaturday, February 2, 2013
You-know-who on the West Bank barrier.The distinguished conductor Daniel Barenboim has insisted that his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, perhaps the only symphony in the world where …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:57AMFriday, February 1, 2013
We watch the career of Polly Carl (at left) over at Emerson's Center for Theater Commons with increasing interest. Recently, it was announced that Ms. Carl and her Center would be part…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:43PMQuicksilver in action at an earlier concert.Sometimes you can feel it in the air, that sense of a collective "Wow." It was certainly all but palpable at the Quicksilver conce…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:57AMThursday, January 31, 2013
Henry Purcell, England's greatest composer.Last weekend Handel and Haydn gave props to a composer they've rarely performed in the past - Henry Purcell (perhaps, as is often claimed, the grea…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:33PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
Jill Rogati, Christopher Nourse and Kiki Samko listen up.If you haven't heard, the Beasts are back - the Imaginary Beasts, that is, and "back" with their annual winter panto, this time (loos…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:26AMTuesday, January 29, 2013
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SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:07PMYes, it's that time of year again - time to compile my list of nominees for this year's Independent Reviewers of New England Awards. (I've been a bad boy, actually, I'm at the very dea…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:20AMMonday, January 28, 2013
Home for the holidays in Palm Springs.Okay, I have to ask this right up front:Do you really care about aging Republicans in Palm Springs?Because I don't.And that's one reason I struggled wit…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:15PMSunday, January 27, 2013
Ta-da! I have nothing new to say, and that's fabulous! Photo: Michael J. Lutch.For those of you have written in to ask, I did indeed go see Diane Paulus's production of Pippin at the A…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:37AM 
