Thursday, October 18, 2012
War 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…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:57AMWednesday, October 17, 2012
. . . but as we have said, wherever craft is brought to bear on a cultural artifact, attention must be paid! So we thought we 'd post this amazing half-time show by the Ohio Stat…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:55PMDetail from Botticelli's Madonna of the MagnificatI'd been looking forward to the Handel and Haydn season opener - a Bach orgy focused on the Magnificat - because artistic director Harr…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:18PMHere it is again, in case you missed it. (Sorry for the ad! Hat tip to Mike Daisey, who else.)The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:16AMMonday, October 15, 2012
Merrimack Rep takes the Kerouac legend off-road with Beat Generation.Last weekend Merrimack Rep played host to a minor - maybe even a major - literary event: the world premiere of Lowell hom…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:13PMSunday, October 14, 2012
I wish people would begin to see Obama's "lackluster" performance in the first debate as what it was: something like shell-shock before what may be the most brazenly dishonest performance in…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:56PMAllyn Burrows reacts to slashing something - maybe the text?I don't know why, but Macbeth seems to drive the Actors' Shakespeare Project crazy. Their last version of it was a…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:14PMSaturday, October 13, 2012
Squaring off against Hamlet's own history?As I left the Shakespeare's Globe production of Hamlet (at ArtsEmerson through this weekend), I wondered myself at how much I had enjoyed it. …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:00PMThursday, October 11, 2012
At home in Southie with Lindsay-Abaire's Good People. . . Photos: T. Charles Erickson.Craft is such a rare thing in a new play that whenever it appears, I feel (to quote a certain high…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:32PMTuesday, October 9, 2012
The young Paul Robeson. Eighty years after his Othello, it's still rare to see an African-American, Latino or Asian Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth.This is the first in what I hope will be a series …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:27PMSaturday, October 6, 2012
This weekend, check out the "revolutionary street spectacle" that is the annual HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands, which began right here in Boston - in fair Somerville, to be exact - …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:20PMWednesday, October 3, 2012
Les 7 doigts de la main (that's "The 7 Fingers of the Hand") are back in town. Through Sunday at ArtsEmerson. There, shouldn't that be review enough?Anyone who caught Psy, th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:58PMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Can a master actor pull off a masterly cinematic con? Philip Seymour Hoffman as "Lancaster Dodd."This weekend I sat through one of the worst movies of the year - simultaneously pretent…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:34AMMonday, October 1, 2012
. . . so my friends could guide me to websites like this one. Enjoy!The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:01AMSunday, September 30, 2012
Our local theaters pretty much ignored Occupy Boston while it lived (it celebrates its first birthday this weekend, btw). Indeed, the only actor or writer I know to have engaged with t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:13PMFriday, September 28, 2012
Bob Jolly cuts up as the Lord High Executioner in The Mikado. Photos: Mark S. Howard.I've no doubt The Mikado will be a joy forever; and right now at the Lyric Stage, where Spiro Velou…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:28AMThursday, September 27, 2012
Can you hear me now? Trying to communicate in The Motherfucker with the Hat. Photos by Craig Bailey.A kind of identity crisis has been creeping up on SpeakEasy Stage for some time…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:47AMFriday, September 21, 2012
Sigh. This weekend marks the final performances of Einstein on the Beach at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.And I really thought I was going to go.But somehow I just don't seem to be able to …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:24PMThursday, September 20, 2012
What's past is prologue in Homestead Crossing.William Donnelly's Homestead Crossing - at Merrimack Rep through September 30 - is the kind of new play that is just good enough that …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:17PMWednesday, September 19, 2012
As you may know, local chanteuse and former "human statue" Amanda Palmer holds the record when it comes to begging gullible hipsters to fund her career - in fact, her foolish fans coughed up…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:07PMTuesday, September 18, 2012
Purely Pacific Northwest from John Eklund on Vimeo.Notes from John Eklund: I am a photographer from Portland, Oregon. I want to share the beautiful NW region through my eyes with time-l…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:47AMMonday, September 17, 2012
The Kite Runner feels as if it's in the dark politically. Photos by Andrew Brilliant.Watching The Kite Runner (through September 30 at the New Rep), you can almost taste the …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:33PMSunday, September 16, 2012
It has already been a year since the military ended its policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," and lifted its ban on gay men and women in the service. And as was the case with gay marriage…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:38AMSaturday, September 15, 2012
It has been harder than usual this year for me to shake off the summer, I admit. Or maybe it's just that this was a particularly lazy summer for me? Perhaps!At any rate, I went to my …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:38AMFriday, September 14, 2012
The Prophet Daniel, before and after cleaning.I returned to Rome first and foremost to see the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which I hadn't visited for something like thirty years, and whic…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:44PMWednesday, September 12, 2012
The view from La Pergola is expensive.As you may have guessed, I'm a bit of an epicure - and while the partner unit is not, we were joined in Rome by a serious foodie, my friend Marie, who h…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:44AMTuesday, September 11, 2012
. . . and I promise to start writing again. I know, I know - with me gone, "there's nothing to read!" It is, alas, true; yesterday I did the rounds of the blogosphere and only woke up abou…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:49AMWednesday, September 5, 2012
Yes, that's yours truly, with my buddy Marie (the partner unit was behind the camera), in front of something even older than we are, the Pantheon; the Hub Review is in the Eternal City for a…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:48AMWednesday, August 29, 2012
White conservatives and jazz . . . white conservatives and jazz . . . hmmmm. It's strange, is it not, that the avatars of the white hierarchy should so often love the music of the peop…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:16AMMonday, August 27, 2012
The Romney abortion-profit story has grown longer legs already - a synergy has been sparked in the blogosphere between it and another simmering Romney controversy. Indeed, even some Republi…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:50AMSunday, August 26, 2012
Hot on the heels of the racist voter-suppression tactics of Republicans in Ohio, we learn of this recent episode in Vermont:"A county Republican Party chairman in Vermont apologized Monday a…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:06PM 
