No, 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,…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:27AMBill Mootos has a gas as Blake Pfeil looks on. Photos: Andrew Brilliant.When it comes to Little Shop of Horrors, the doo-wop musical based on the cult Roger Corman film of the same nam…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:45AMMy gut tells me "no," because I feel his re-election is absolutely crucial for the future of the country. Although perhaps I should really say, "if the country is to have a future;" I'm not …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:11AMGeorge II at his coronation, for which Handel composed Zadok the PriestThe weekend before last (yes, I'm that late with this!) the Handel and Haydn Society had almost everything required for…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:30AMThe "celebration" from Where the Wild Things Are.Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:09AMBishop Packard is arrested on May 1.After reading the dispiriting news that Bernard Law is still making vicious mischief in Rome (he was largely behind the Vatican's current attack on Americ…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:43AMSpend the day in a strangely toy-like Venice thanks to Joerg Niggli and the miracles of time lapse and tilt shift. Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that mat…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:27AMI don't have time this morning to pound out a full review, but early music fans will not want to miss Boston Baroque's current production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (in its original Italia…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:02AMThe Emerson String QuartetLast Friday Celebrity Series welcomed the Emerson String Quartet (above) in what felt a bit like a farewell concert - although it was really only a farewell to cell…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:55PMEverybody dance now - the Ideal Woman on the hoof in Don Quixote. Photos by Gene Schiavone.Okay, let's get the truth-in-advertising part out of the way: Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote, w…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:47PMI know.It gets soooo tiring being as civilized as we are here at the Hub Review.Well, perhaps these "highlights" from the Danish answer to Jackass, Dumt & Farligt (that's "stupid and dan…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:43AMDan Kremer and Rebecca Harris in The Ghost-Writer.We've all heard of the "ghost in the machine," that famous tag for one of philosophy's central conundrums, the mind-body problem.But now, in…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:18PMOuter Space from Sander van den Berg on Vimeo.Above is "Outer Space," Sander van den Berg's almost-abstract tone poem to the rings and moons of Saturn (with an occasional glimpse of Jupiter)…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:37PMShalita Grant and Francesca Choy-Kee in The Luck of the Irish.Over a year ago, I wished in a widely noted post that Boston theatres, rather than relying on Athol Fugard or some other proxy w…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:35PMI winced throughout last night's horrifying edition of 60 Minutes, the geriatric television news magazine, in which correspondent Lesley Stahl granted a fawning interview to unconvicted war …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:26PMAh, the pleasures of YouTube! So far over two million people have watched this spoof of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. I wonder why.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 07:22PMYes, it's past time for another edition of the Hubbie Awards - and luckily I found just the piece of vintage soft core to serve as graphic accompaniment! I know this has been a long ti…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:19PMI can't stand Theresa Rebeck's TV mini-hit Smash, which is unsurprising; I can't stand Theresa Rebeck, period. But the New Yorker - which I also often can't stand (I once threw up whil…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:43AMI had a chance to chat with visionary director Robert Lepage this past week, after a lecture he gave at MIT (he's currently in residence there, and has received the Institute's McDermott Awa…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:10PM"I am not a crook!" - the political rogues' gallery of The Inspector. Photos: Erik Jacobs.I know, I know - the words "opera" and "laugh riot" rarely meet in the same sentence.But Boston Lyri…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:44AMAs most of you know, this year marked my return to the IRNE Awards, which, as I like to say, are like sex; you never know what you're going to get, or how long it's going to take. Usua…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:18AMPerhaps the most gorgeous sequence ever from the International Space Station.What you see over the course of the flight: :01 -- Stars over southern United States :08 -- US west coast …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:00PMThe guys try to take it all off at Stoneham.I've become something of an expert on The Full Monty of late - I got a chance to catch it again at the Stoneham Theatre, where it's pla…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:41AMSorry for no post today, but preparations are underway for the annual IRNE Awards, tonight at 7:30 pm at the Cyclorama, in which the Independent Reviewers of New England honor their choices …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:45PMCeleste Fraser and John Irvin as Blanche and her brother.Right now is a very good time for opera in the Hub. I just got back from a truly hilarious operatic satire at Boston Lyric, The…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:06PMDirty words on the news! Admit it, you laughed.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:38AMMelody Madarasz in Café Variations The music of George Gershwin is a good thing; a very good thing. Which is a very good thing for director Anne Bogart, as it repeatedly saves he…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:13PMAnd here's the whole thing. Wesley Morris will be reviewing shortly.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:27PMDo they look temperamental? Not really.Sigh. I admire the Lyric Stage for taking chances on scripts with a political dimension - really I do - and I wish I could back that admira…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:50AMThis is what the Tea Party and the Boston Police look like. A Boston police officer "pushes" by the neck an Occupy Boston protester identified by name ("Allie"), but not gender, during…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:17AMOh, man, rarely has SNL nailed it as it does here, with this wicked takedown of the new soft core hobbit porn series, HBO's Game of Thrones. I've just sat through the first few episodes of …
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