Tuesday, 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 09:04PMSilky perversity in Tales from Ovid. Photo by Jenni Wylie.I think what's most remarkable about the ArtsEmerson production of Whistler in the Dark's Tales from Ovid (through this weekend…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:00PMSunday, November 11, 2012
The prodigy today - it's not about her, it's about the music.We haven't heard from the great violinist Midori in these parts for some time - maybe a decade? So her return to the Hub wa…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:38AMFriday, November 9, 2012
Kelly McCormick expects the denizens of Runyonland to "Follow the Fold." Photos by Paul Lyden. By now there's little doubt that Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls is one of the signature ac…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:22PMThursday, November 8, 2012
Obama gets choked up while thanking his campaign workers.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:18PMThe heart-stoppingly gorgeous first act chorus - photos by Eric AntoniouPuccini's Madama Butterfly is one of the most oft-performed operas in the world - probably because it's among the…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:06PMChorus Pro Musica at a previous performance.I'm quite late with an appreciation of Chorus Pro Musica, and their "Poets and Psalms" program at Old South Church two (!) weekends ago. I le…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:24AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
I had to check the news this morning - was I dreaming last night?But the feeds all told the same story they had before: Barack Obama was re-elected with both an electoral and popular-vote vi…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:41AMTuesday, November 6, 2012
And much is riding on us, my friends. I hate to think what a Republican future for America would look like - but I can guess. Racist to its core, with an economic agenda designed to ma…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:02AMMonday, November 5, 2012
The musicians of Concerto Köln.A little over a week ago, one of the city's great annual musical pleasures began - the Boston Early Music Festival season (their next concert is the Tall…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:14PMSunday, November 4, 2012
I don't know if you've been following all of the recent Romney dirt. But you might be interested to learn the latest.The first point is that Bloomberg has done a little digging, and ha…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:25PMWhat's "in the intersection," honey.How is it?Well, disappointing. And I can't tell whether the people who put it together are in the end brave or cowardly - or just guiltily greedy. Are t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:33PMFriday, November 2, 2012
Two of Boston's best young actors - Zach Eisenstadt and Luke Murtha. Photos - Timothy DunnEvery segment of the theatre-going audience has its own sentimental theatrical genre, I suppos…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:44PMGet out the vote. Or else.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:14AMThursday, November 1, 2012
Jeffrey Cirio takes flight in Awake Only.Perhaps Boston Ballet's intriguing "Fall Program" (through this weekend at the Opera House) is title-free because the marketing department has finall…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:51PMWednesday, October 31, 2012
People have been asking for a reprise of a Hub Review tradition - our list of "scary movies for smart people." It's almost too late to watch one of these on Hallowe'en, of co…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:59PMKristen Sollek, David Trudgen, Amanda Forsythe, Andrew Garland and Owen Willetts let rip.I'm late with my thoughts on Partenope, from Boston Baroque - when I would generally have run for the…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:50PMTuesday, October 30, 2012
Here in Boston we largely dodged the wrath of Hurricane Sandy; but our friends to the south, of course, were not so lucky.At left, a photographer caught a rainbow "touching down" in Manhatta…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:12AMSunday, October 28, 2012
A recent Associated Press poll has revealed that Americans have become more, rather than less, racist since President Obama's election. In fact now a slight majority - 51% - of America…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:24PMSaturday, October 27, 2012
One Republican, at least, has spoken the truth.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 06:58PMAlas, it has been quite some time since I've handed out Hubbies - so some of the winners in this round were seen in the summer months. Somehow I don't think they'll mind the belated bo…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:25PMFriday, October 26, 2012
Ken Cheeseman and Cliff Odle wonder if they're up to the eightieth page yet at the New Rep.I can tell you precisely the moment I gave up on David Mamet's Race; it's the moment when one chara…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:42PMWednesday, October 24, 2012
In case you missed it, Republican "pundit" Ann Coulter recently called our president "a retard," tweeting "I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard."She rece…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:35PMTuesday, October 23, 2012
Just in case you haven't seen the latest twist on Psy's hilarious video.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:32PMSo when do we speed-the-play? The cast of Race at the New Rep.It's hard to remember, as you watch Race (at the New Rep through November 4), that David Mamet was once a great playw…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:25PMMonday, October 22, 2012
In a televised "master class" from 1979, these two great talents lead us through a guided tour of one of the late, great sonnets - #138 - in the process limning the braided density of meanin…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:16PMGrant MacDermott looks for a way out. Of this script.Just last month, with David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, the Huntington showed us how to do a political play. And now, with …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:55AMSaturday, October 20, 2012
Lubovitch does Morris doing Brahms.It's hard not to be dazzled by Lar Lubovitch and his dancers - who hold the stage for one more night (tonight!) at the Schubert, thanks to Celebrity Series…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:56AMFriday, October 19, 2012
Berenson and McEleny just before the madness.More bad news on the Bard front, I'm afraid. I've held off on my review of Trinity Rep's King Lear till the last minute because - well, actu…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:55AMThursday, October 18, 2012
The issues that Beverly Creasey and I have begun discussing in an ongoing series (and which we chewed over on Tuesday with the new task force on diversity that is forming at StageSource) see…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:55PMWar Horse showreel from Toby Olie on Vimeo.Footage from Toby Olie's performances in War Horse, starting as the hind puppeteer of Joey in the National Theatre's original production, alongside…
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