Thursday, 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 02:41PMWednesday, December 19, 2012
Adrianne Krstansky and Michael John Ciszewski revel in the holiday memories. Photo: Andrew Brilliant.The traditional "Christmas show" has loosened its grip (somewhat) on the Bosto…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:43AMTuesday, December 18, 2012
Like everyone, over the last few days I have been trying to make sense of the horror visited on the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Of course there is no sense to be made …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:08PMMonday, December 17, 2012
Anne Scurria and Barrie Kreinik discuss the how and the why down at Trinity. Photo: Mark TurekFirst the good news: in scientific terms, The How and the Why, at Trinity Rep through Decem…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:48PMSunday, December 16, 2012
Many observers (often self-interested observers) have bemoaned the "decline" in theatre criticism seen over recent years - and have simultaneously decried the resulting rise in theatre blogs…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:36PMSaturday, December 15, 2012
Robinson Pyle sounds off on natural trumpet. Photo: Julian Bullitt.One returns to the Boston Baroque version of Messiah as one returns to an old friend; you already know precisely the way it…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:20PMFriday, December 14, 2012
Barlow Adamson and Celeste Oliva in Chinglish. Photos: Timothy Dunn.It's amusing (to me, at any rate) that so many critics have misinterpreted David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, which is i…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:37PMThursday, December 13, 2012
Therese Plaehn, David Cromer, and Derrick Trumbly in Our Town. Photo: T. Charles Erickson.This is just an early warning to fans of the Hub Review regarding the Huntington's re-mounting…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:53AMOr at least it's definitely in the top five! Bill Pinckney's Original Drifters sing White Christmas. Animation by Joshua Held. Just try not to sing along.The Hub Review, the guid…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:19AMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Eugene Drucker, David Finckel, Lawrence Dutton and Philip Setzer - the Emerson String Quartet.The Emerson String Quartet has a devoted Boston following, but their recent Celebrity Series con…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:10PMTuesday, December 11, 2012
Our annual Messiah season kicked off in a major way last weekend with the Handel and Haydn version, which in many ways reached a new artistic peak for that venerable organization. This…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:10PMSaturday, December 8, 2012
The men of ChanticleerAn entire week has gone by since Chanticleer visited Celebrity Series, but I've been too distracted by shows with short runs to get around to throwing a few critical bo…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:46PMFriday, December 7, 2012
Your inner child is closer than you think - in fact, no further than the nearest Mummenschanz show, which actually is playing through this Sunday at the Schubert Theatre (thanks to Cele…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:05AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Two Disney franchises collide at ArtsEmerson.Rarely has a single YouTube served quite so well as a theatrical review as the one posted above, of La Belle et la Bête, by Lemieux Pilon 4D Art…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:12PMTuesday, December 4, 2012
She calls this segment "The Drunk News." I hope it's on nightly!The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:25PMThe talented Georgia Lyman finds her way through Lee Blessing's shaggy dog story.Years ago, at the height of the cultural wars that inspired Lee Blessing's Chesapeake (at the New Rep through…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:48AMMonday, December 3, 2012
Landings at San Diego Int Airport Nov 23, 2012 from Cy Kuckenbaker on Vimeo.All landings at San Diego Int Airport on Black Friday Nov 23, 2012 between 1030am and 300pm.And if you're interest…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:30PMSaturday, December 1, 2012
Jeffrey Cirio gives his cadets their marching orders before the Ballet's spectacular new Christmas tree.The Boston Ballet production of The Nutcracker has been oft been voted America's favor…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:25PMThursday, November 29, 2012
Historical genre . . . or historical "genre" . . . . where is the cultural energy these days?I've been thinking for some time about Steven Spielberg's Lincoln - without coming to any clear c…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:23PMWednesday, November 28, 2012
Photo- Michael LamontOkay, I'm just going to get through this one fast - that way I won't dread writing it.The Pianist of Willesden Lane (at ArtsEmerson through December 16), a memory play p…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:43PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
Mireille Asselin and Aaron Sheehan - photo: Kathy WittmanUnlike many art forms, opera kicked off with a masterpiece - Monteverdi's Orfeo still ranks as one of the most gorgeous ever written.…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:54AMSunday, November 25, 2012
A few folks have e-mailed to ask that I reprise my analysis of It's a Wonderful Life - perhaps, like my "Highbrow Halloween" post, this will become a kind of Hub Review classic. At any…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:58PMSaturday, November 24, 2012
The Takács Quartet in action. You can tell a lot about a string quartet from its moniker, and the fact that the Takács Quartet (above) named itself simply "the weavers" (the mean…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:42PMFriday, November 23, 2012
Yes, Thanksgiving is over - so it's h-e-e-e-re! CHRISTMAS! The Tokyo Christmas decoration above kind of sums up how I feel about the mother of all holidays (reportedly it occasio…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:42AMThursday, November 22, 2012
Uncle Sam is inflated for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.As I grow older, Thanksgiving means more to me, it seems; perhaps because when I was younger, I hadn't really lost anything yet. …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:30AMMonday, November 19, 2012
It began with my noting (as I often do) that I had more to say about the Huntington production of Betrayal than anyone else in town did.Then I remembered how I'd scribbled something like 3,0…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:44PMGretchen Egolf and Alan Cox in Betrayal. Photos: T. Charles Erickson.A year or two ago, after several failed Pinter productions at the ART and elsewhere, I wondered aloud, "Is Pinter s…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:59PMSaturday, November 17, 2012
Labadie in action.When I first heard French-Canadian conductor Bernard Labadie a few years back, I wrote, "Remember that name - and if you get a chance to hear him . . . by all means t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:06PMFriday, November 16, 2012
One of the remarkable Sandglass puppets.Last weekend the Charlestown Working Theater, which has earned a local reputation for taking surprising theatrical risks, presented the premiere of &n…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:10PMWednesday, November 14, 2012
The Imaginary Beasts get lost in Maeterlinck's web.Perhaps no reputation has fallen faster - or further - than that of Maurice Maeterlinck. A century ago he was thought to all but pers…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:13PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
The view down the Infinite Corridor during "MIThenge."In mid-November and late-January every year, the arc of the sun aligns with the central axis of MIT, my alma mater, sending a shaft of s…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:04PM 
