Detail from Rembrandt's 1665 Portrait of the Artist.I spent the weekend down in Houston, sweltering in 99-degree heat, doing (happy) family stuff, escaping only long enough to drop by H…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:51AMJacquelyn Piro Donovan leads the singing waiters in the title tune.Slowly, up in Beverly, a small theatrical renaissance has been going on at the North Shore Music Theatre. As loyal re…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 06:03PMYou may have already heard of young Emily White, who has quickly become the poster girl for clueless millennial cultural destruction. But if you haven't, you may want to peruse her nar…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:15PMI know, I know. Criticizing Bill Marx is like shooting fish in a barrel. But sometimes I just can't resist.Bill has always been under the delusion that he writes trenchant, incisive critic…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:00PMSamuel L. Jackson goes after A.O. Scott.When Samuel L. Jackson "hit back" at New York Times critic A.O. Scott over his review of The Avengers, Jackson only typed 105 characters into his Twit…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:57PMGabriela Martinez"Headshots" (as photographic portraits of performers are known the world over) are designed to enhance physical strengths - and conceal physical flaws. In the case of …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:27PMI got two of these mailers just yesterday from local theatres. Full-color, stapled booklets, with images "bleeding" off the edge - basically the most expensive thing you can print. One of th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:52PMAllyn Burrows and Melis Aker in I Capture the Castle.Theatre people are always singing the praises of taking a risk. Risk, risk, risk. It's all about risk!But there's nothing mor…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:58PMWaterston and Amato begin their next lover's quarrel. Photo(s): Paul Marotta.If you haven't noticed (and why should you have?), the debate over new plays vs. classics has once again coughed …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:57PMDenise Drago makes her move on Will Schuller in Your Wildest DreamsLast weekend I checked out one of the final performances of my buddy Joey Pelletier's play Your Wildest Dreams, produc…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:51AMAnton Ego, the epicene food critic of Pixar's Ratatouille.Since the seeming "triumph" of capitalism with the fall of the Berlin Wall, our modes of cultural discourse have, almost unconscious…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:36PMI came across this on Art's site. He found it on the Times site.And it is so fucking stupid it makes me want to cry.This sad excuse for a "conversation" seems to have been sparked by Samuel…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:15PMAt its best, Xanadu is highly a-musing; Photos: Craig BaileyOnce upon a time - perhaps as late as, say, 1980 - every English major in the Western world (and most college graduates) knew that…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:33AMGil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra ProjectIt has been a big year for Gil Rose, founder and conductor of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, which two weekends ago (!) mounted a pleasi…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:01PMTwo future critics engage in a free exchange of ideas.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:43PMHelen (Aimee Rose Ranger) faces down the Trojan Women.To paraphrase Browning, a theatre's reach should exceed its grasp - so there's no shame, I think, in Whistler in the Dark's earnest, wel…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:19AMI'm late with several reviews - and one of those is the note I've been meaning to post for over a week regarding Boston Ballet's "Next Generation" performance, which occurred during the run …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:17PMLate night YouTube surfing brought me unexpectedly to the opening sequences of Brazil, certainly one of the greatest movies of the last thirty years. And I was shocked at how much more…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:45AMEmer O'Toole, hirsute Shakespearean critic.Everyone can stop sending me this link. I cannot change what dumb white chicks think! (Can anyone?) This particular one, Emer O'T…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:48PMPretty vacant: Mark Morris's SocratesI've always been a fan of Mark Morris, so I was surprised as anyone that his big premieres at Celebrity Series last weekend proved so boring. …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:25AMJohn Ambrosino, Davron S. Monroe, and Erica Spyres with Princeton and Kate Monster. Photos: Mark S. HowardPeople are always asking me, "So what's the best show in town, Mr. Hub Review?" And …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:49PMThe man himself.There's just something comforting about Emmanel Ax (above); he is invariably modest in demeanor, but brilliant in accomplishment (a combination that is becoming rare indeed, …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:09AMJames Whiteside, Paul Craig and Isaac Akiba kick up their heels in Fancy Free. Photos: Gene Schiavone.It's actually rare that a Boston Ballet program doesn't hang together thematically…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:36AMBut here's another hilarious Romney lie making the rounds - a pink flyer handed out at 2002 Gay Pride, offering then-gubernatorial candidate Mitt Romney's wishes for a "Great Pride Weekend!"…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:06PMThe crazy kids of AssassinsAh, the "interesting failure." Every major theatrical artist has one, even Shakespeare - and Stephen Sondheim has a couple - among which Assassins, from 1990…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:56AMPerhaps you can't evict it, but some Boston theatre people would like to co-op it.You may have heard this already, but I felt I should announce it on the blog: actor Danny Bryck has refused …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:45PMAmanda Dolan, Rebecca Gibel and Liz Dolan are flying the 60's dream down at Trinity.Time has not been kind to the sex comedy - and it has been particularly harsh to those dinner-theatre romp…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:33AMOwen Willetts sings and suffers in Orfeo ed Euridice.Over the past few years, Martin Pearlman's Boston Baroque has developed its own rather unique approach to baroque opera. Usual…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:49AMWhy . . . so . . . serious? Meet the Joker.I'm not really sure what else we need to know about Mitt Romney.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:23PMI owe at least a short nod to Fresh Ink Theatre's Trog and Clay (An Imagined History of the Electric Chair), by up-and-coming playwright and screenwriter Michael Vukadinovich.Fresh Ink was l…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:49PMNo, it's not Les Miz, even if it looks like it. Photo(s): Stratton McCradyOf all Shakespeare's "problem" plays, none may be more problematic than Troilus and Cressida. In it,…
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