Monday, April 16, 2012
Oh, 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 …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:50PMSunday, April 15, 2012
I caught the Wang Theatre taping of NPR's "Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me" show last week - mostly because the partner unit, an avid listener, wanted to go. For my part, I'm amused by …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:43AMSaturday, April 14, 2012
Salonen in action with Philharmonia.I confess that after Missa Solemnis a few weeks back, followed by a good-but-not-great "German Requiem," I felt like giving up on the BSO. I also didn't …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:05PMThursday, April 12, 2012
Mark Linehan and Phil Talyer connect in Floyd Collins. Photos: Sharman Altshuler.I went to Floyd Collins - the latest from Moonbox Productions, at the BCA through this weekend - somewhat ske…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:39PMWednesday, April 11, 2012
Kubínek in mid-flight.I did want to take a moment to look back - before they're too small in the rearview - at Tomáš Kubínek's performances at ArtsEmerson a little over a week ago. The …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:31PMTuesday, April 10, 2012
Yes, that's James Whiteside, Principal Dancer of Boston Ballet - or rather that's his alter ego, "JBDubs," breaking out into the club scene and channeling Beyoncé with his new (hopefully) h…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:39PMMonday, April 9, 2012
Will Lyman and Karen MacDonald channel the doomed Tyrones. Photos: Andrew Brilliant.I confess I'm on the fence about the New Rep's current version of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:49PMSunday, April 8, 2012
Welcome to San Francisco!Happy Eastah! We're taking a break from power-blogging at the Hub Review today, but here are some Eastah-themed videos to tide you over till Monday.First, what woul…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:21AMSaturday, April 7, 2012
Harry Christophers conducting soloists and orchestra in the St. Matthew Passion - photo: Kyle T. Hemingway.I've been pondering Handel and Haydn's version of Bach's St. Matthew Passion for so…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:16PMFriday, April 6, 2012
August Wilson was a playwright absorbed in his people's history; and now, of course, he himself is a part of that history (he passed away in 2005). This melancholy fact, coupled with t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:28AMHa! I got an e-blast from a local theatre company today, listing all the critical praise for its current production. (Nothing wrong with that, btw; indeed, more power to 'em!) Bu…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:26AMThursday, April 5, 2012
Rebecca Harris, Dennis Parlato, and Jay Ben Markson in Mrs. Whitney. Photos: Meghan Moore.With John Kolvenbach it always seems to be "one step forward, two steps back." This prol…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:29AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
Confronting Andersen's lost Dryad - actually, Auguste Clésinger's "Woman Bitten by a Snake"Where to begin with Robert LePage's The Andersen Project (which closed Sunday at ArtsEmerson)? &nb…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:59PMTuesday, April 3, 2012
While Americans tie themselves in knots over the obnoxious practice of "tweet seats," the Canadians have taken the intervention of the digital world - or perhaps the critical world - into th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:15AMSaturday, March 31, 2012
I'd love to argue more over The Andersen Project, but I'm afraid I have to run now to TOMÁŠ KUBÍNEK:CERTIFIED LUNATIC & MASTER OF THE IMPOSSIBLE (above), which is the other show at Ar…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:21PMFans of critical bickering may enjoy this. After my poke at Larry Stark's "What's a real play, Tom?? Please enlighten us!!" note in my review of The Play About the Baby, I got this ema…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:11PMFriday, March 30, 2012
The opera house as staging ground for the mind - Yves Jacques in The Andersen ProjectYou don't usually think of Hans Christian Andersen as a pre-eminent poet of modernity; but in the visiona…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:38PMThursday, March 29, 2012
Funeral games in The Play About the Baby.Hub Review readers by now are aware that I have a strong preference for what I like to call (to the consternation of critics who can't imagine what I…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:27PMWednesday, March 28, 2012
The performers of La Donna Musicale. Photo: Meiqian He.It's unusual that a musical "discovery" really counts as one; many "lost masterpieces," once revealed, turn out to have gorgeous momen…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:50PMTuesday, March 27, 2012
You normally don't think of Twitter as a hotbed of racism, but tweets in response to the hit movie The Hunger Games have revealed an ugly underside to the twitterverse. It seems many y…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:45AMMonday, March 26, 2012
Various folks had mentioned to me that I should check out Lyralen Kaye's St. John the Divine in Iowa, the latest from Another Country Productions - so I made it to one of the final perf…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:00PMSunday, March 25, 2012
Don't wait for my review, that won't happen for a few days. But get tickets to Robert LePage's The Andersen Project (video above, with LePage himself performing), which plays this week…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:27PMSaturday, March 24, 2012
It looks like more fun than it is.After enduring Next to Narcissism - oops, I meant Next to Normal! - at SpeakEasy Stage, I was in the mood (altered or otherwise) for a good production of Cr…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:40PMFriday, March 23, 2012
Yesterday's post on Next to Normal brought some (not entirely unexpected) e-mail, though no comments. Chief among these missives was the following from fellow IRNE critic Larry Stark, …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:02PMThursday, March 22, 2012
Diana (Kerry A. Dowling) ponders her private cast of characters.While I was watching Next to Normal (at Speakeasy Stage through April 15), I unexpectedly found myself reminded over and over …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:49PMWednesday, March 21, 2012
Aimee Rose Ranger and Alejandro Simoes ponder their twin fates. Photo: Chris McKenzieIn the past I've described Whistler in the Dark as the one company in town devoted to theatre for t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:24PMTuesday, March 20, 2012
But I also have a lot of reviews to plow through. (Unlike many other bloggers, I actually go to the theatre and review it!) As you may have picked up from my comments around the …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:19AMMonday, March 19, 2012
It has come to my attention that various um, "non-fans" of the blog have been claiming that my readership can't be what I claim it is - i.e., between 800-1000 viewers on days I post, and rou…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:40PMThat's what the nice lady at the Green Line stop asked me as we stepped onto the incoming B Line train on Saturday night, after what seemed like a half hour wait, during which time a parade …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:28AMSunday, March 18, 2012
An authentic Jackson Pollock, Lavender MistBakersfield Mist, the new play by Stephen Sachs, currently in a "rolling" national premiere at the New Rep, is a long meditation on a single painti…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:23PMSaturday, March 17, 2012
Dancers Travis Walker, Ashley Werhun, and John Michael Schert.Trey McIntyre has found - or rather created - an intriguing choreographic niche. Working with his eponymous Trey McIn…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:03PM 
