Sunday, 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 10:37AMSaturday, January 26, 2013
For future reference.Sometimes the disinterest with which the Globe arts staff views its hometown is almost embarrassing.Just a few weeks ago, a seemingly ignorant Jeffrey Gantz innocen…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:29PMFriday, January 25, 2013
Vernoica Barron, bassist Tony Leva, and the witches of Vinegar Tom.Caryl Churchill liked to call her script Vinegar Tom (through Feb. 2 from Whistler in the Dark) "a play about wit…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:57PMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Lost in Havel's untranslatable idiom.Václav Havel, who died last year, was one of the few playwrights who can claim to have had a larger role on the political stage than the dramatic one.Bo…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:17PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Your basic U-Cheeseburger.Whenever I write about a restaurant, someone always emails to say (with an unseen eye-roll), "Yes, Thomas Garvey, we know you can get great food in town for $75 a h…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:32PMMonday, January 21, 2013
One Day, written and recited by Richard Blanco, at 44 the youngest inaugural poet. He is also the first immigrant, first Latino, and first openly gay inaugural poet.The Hub Review, the guid…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:01PMRichard Parker, burning bright . . .It took me a while to catch up to Life of Pi, because I believed the claims of some the dimmer movie critics: with its soulful, shirtless young star (Sura…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:33PMFriday, January 18, 2013
Remember to explain the rules of the trust fall IN EVERY DETAIL. Otherwise you could end up like this poor little kid - traumatized for life! (But admit it, you laughed.)The Hub …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:16PMAs most Hub Review readers know, every summer I make a pilgrimage to the Stratford Festival to see Shakespeare the way it should be done; and I always spend at least part of that sojourn wor…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:44PMThursday, January 17, 2013
Jodie Foster Inspires Teens To Come Out Using Vague, Rambling Riddles (Sigh. If only they could nail better ads! Ugh.)The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Bost…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:47PMThe "Invisible Man" blindly battles for a chance to attend college.Some sixty years ago, Invisible Man hit America's literary scene - and its racial consciousness - like a bombshell; an…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:38PMMonday, January 14, 2013
A barbershop quartet ("The Entertainers") lets rip with "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" in a Tim Horton's in Ontario. Any questions? (Hat tip to Gregg Sorensen.)The Hub Review, t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:29AMPhil Tayler and Erica Spyres in Marry Me a Little. I think they're both heterosexual here.You know what's great about Boston theatre right now? The talent pool has gotten so deep…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:59AMSunday, January 13, 2013
Survival of Serena briefly graced Petrosino Square in Manhattan last summer.You know, sometimes this art thing really isn't so hard.While surfing the web today, I was reminded of sculptress …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:45AMSaturday, January 12, 2013
I've been wondering why I've had so much trouble cheerleading for the new Andrew W. Mellon Foundation initiative placing resident playwrights in theatres across the country.I mean I fee…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:37PMFriday, January 11, 2013
Paula Plum faces the infinite in 33 Variations.Sigh! The Vanya on 42nd Street Effect has struck again!What's that effect, you may ask? Well actually, that's just my shorthand for the p…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:51AMWednesday, January 9, 2013
Photo of earlier Boston Baroque performance by Kayana Szymczak.Boston Baroque always breaks out the bubbly for its New Year's Day concert - both the musical bubbly and the literal bubbly (ev…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:46PMSunday, January 6, 2013
Historical fact - or Tarantino fetish? Or both?Whippings, and the welts they left on the backs of slaves, are a constant motif of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (above, one …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:08PMSaturday, January 5, 2013
Wandering across the web today, I found this little gem documenting a recent base jumping event in Kuala Lumpur, sponsored by Turbolenza (an Italian sportswear brand). Despite the…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:24PMWednesday, January 2, 2013
It's unusual for me to plug a local restaurant on the Hub Review, but Kitchen, at 560 Tremont (right across from the BCA theatres) is an unusual case in several respects.Wait, let me back up…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:50AMTuesday, January 1, 2013
It happened. Again.Happy New Year, everyone, from yours truly!Whew. 2013. I'm beginning to think we've let this whole "march of time" thing go on far too long. But I do have a re…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:24AMMonday, December 31, 2012
I knew early on in Django Unleashed that I wasn't going to be able to take it seriously - even though according to A.O. Scott it's "a troubling and important movie about slavery and racism."…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:05PMOne nice New Yawk family reacts. They've been to funerals that weren't so sad!!!The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:36AMSunday, December 30, 2012
To continue my survey of the best of the year, I've once more singled out those local productions that I'd happily have squeezed into my top 10, if only there was room. So in no partic…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:22PMSaturday, December 29, 2012
Well, what can I say . . . 2012 wasn't the end of the world. So that was disappointing!On the upside, it did prove a solid year for local theatre and performance art. T…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:46AMFriday, December 28, 2012
Artist and subject seem as one, but are actually often at odds.The famous subtitle of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is There and Back Again. And a major problem with Peter Jackson's giga…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:19AMThursday, December 27, 2012
Photo: Robert LorinoThe New Rep has a tradition of turning over their downstairs space to Boston's best performers, in pieces that sometimes amount to little more than vehicles - like t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:22PMTuesday, December 25, 2012
It's Christmas, so we're taking the day off, and hope you are, too. Happy Holidays from the Hub Review! After a whirlwind of holiday-season reviewing, we feel we've earned a few silent night…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:54AMSunday, December 23, 2012
Looking for a Christmas movie, but you've already had your annual helpings of It's A Wonderful Life, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and How the Grinch Stole…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:10AMFriday, December 21, 2012
Chorusmaster John Finney.I don't know why this should be so, but somehow it's always a surprise to encounter the sheer joy dancing through so much of the sacred music of Johann Sebastian Bac…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:14PMThursday, December 20, 2012
Phil Tayler and Harry McEnerny before their best laid schemes go awry. Photo: Craig BaileyMoonbox Productions first rose over the fringe two years ago, I believe; I didn't catch their …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:41PM 
