Thursday, February 16, 2012
The Presto from Vivaldi's Summer concerto.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
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The talented Christina Day Martinson.We're so accustomed these days to what is essentially an academic approach to sacred music that we almost seem to have forgotten a central question about…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:55PMTuesday, February 14, 2012
Local early music aficionados know that Richard Egarr is one of the most exciting conductors alive - his recent interpretations of Haydn's "Clock" Symphony and Beethoven's Eighth (at Handel …
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Alone in The Lighthouse - photos: Erik JacobsOpera is meant to be a synthesis of every art form, but most opera lovers care about one thing and one thing only: the star voices at the center …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:35PMSaturday, February 11, 2012
The announcement came in yesterday, but I didn't open it till this morning. Jim Petosa of BU, who helmed the New Rep's recent success Three Viewings, and also directed Opus there, has …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:22AMFriday, February 10, 2012
I suppose David Valdes Greenwood's Wandaleria (through this weekend at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre, presented by Argos Productions) technically isn't a "gay play" - everybody in it …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:23PMIt's a busy weekend for arts fans, but the do-not-miss event is Boston Lyric Opera's production of Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse (above), at the JFK Library, through this weekend only…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:03AMThursday, February 9, 2012
By now it's obvious that period performance has begun to fracture into different national schools. And if last Sunday's concert by Europa Galante at the Boston Early Music Festival was any …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:55PMThe house for Pieter Wispelwey was only about two-thirds full last Friday night at Celebrity Series - I suppose because Yo-Yo Ma is the only cellist people have heard of in these parts.Ah, b…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:12AMMonday, February 6, 2012
How about an Australian theatre blog called "Shit on Your Play"?The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:45AMPolanski in close quarters with his stars.Now that the Huntington's production of God of Carnage has closed, I think it's safe to let you in on the secret that there has been a better v…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:19AMSunday, February 5, 2012
The Boston Globe's critics are generally useless (okay, Sebastian Smee finally said something worthwhile about the MFA's Egyptian and Old Master galleries; finally), but the paper has …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:42PMI've gotten a few outraged emails, as I knew I would, about yesterday's rant regarding "gay plays." But to the question one irritated reader posited, "What should we be writing plays a…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:53AMSaturday, February 4, 2012
I just sat through another "gay play" this week, which was a little dispiriting. Actually it was a closeted gay play, in which women subbed for the gay men, just as they did fifty year…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:42PMFriday, February 3, 2012
Danny Bryck - but which one? - with Mark Cohen in A Number.Whistler in the Dark has taken to a kind of "expanded," "Season 2.0" approach to their programming these days - works come in pairs…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:07PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
Don Cornelius 1936-2012. Ah, Soul Train. Was there ever another show this innocently wonderful on television? I hope wherever Mr. Cornelius is now, there's a line dance goin' on.T…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:15PMThe subtle cast of Fen.I suppose we'll never be rid of the minor female playwrights who insist we only think they're minor because of our sexism. (I just read another of these screeds …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:03PMFriday, January 27, 2012
Violinist Aisslinn NoskyLast weekend's Handel and Haydn concerts may have been devoted to The Four Seasons, but there was only one major change of musical season during the program - the shi…
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This season ArtsEmerson has explicitly stated that some of its presentations have been in a state of development. I'm not sure that's the official line on Robbie McCauley's one-woman s…
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We're having our Yasmina Reza moment in Boston right now: this week you can catch the Huntington's production of God of Carnage, or the Polanski film version (just Carnage), OR an…
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Photo(s): Megan MoorePeriod music is all the rage in classical circles; indeed, these days it's often in the engagement with the past that (ironically enough) we feel serious music's most th…
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This is just a note to apologize for some tardiness in reviewing - I know, the shows are backed up behind me like Boeings at Logan. But I also have to get out my IRNE nomination form (…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:59AMSaturday, January 21, 2012
Last night at Symphony Hall (I was there for Handel and Haydn's excitingly quirky take on The Four Seasons, you should go on Sunday) the audience once more sat through the usual Symphony dri…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:16PMThursday, January 19, 2012
The Imaginary Beasts bring the British panto to American shores.Local impresario Matthew Woods has been producing his "pantos" (that's short for "pantomime," although "pantos" are far from s…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:33PMWednesday, January 18, 2012
See this? Mark Rothko rarely did this.Local reviewers have called John Logan's Red (at SpeakEasy Stage through Feb. 4) "a great work of art," "a masterpiece," and "a play of ideas…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:00PMMonday, January 16, 2012
I've already deconstructed Charles Isherwood's review of Lydia Diamond's Stickfly - do I really have to do the same thing for the New Yorker's equally-erratic theatre queen, Hilton Als? &nbs…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:55PMI wish I could say the current Apollinaire Theatre production of Uncle Vanya was truly great, rather than just pretty good; it's the kind of production that you root for, because it's a chal…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:53AMSunday, January 15, 2012
Well, the Globe story on the Opera Boston mess dropped today, revealing that the company's closing seems to have been not so much a case of malfeasance (as I once speculated), as a case of c…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:58AMSaturday, January 14, 2012
Christy Pusz gets in touch with God. Photo: T. Clark Erickson.There's a telling moment in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage (at the Huntington through Feb. 5) in which Alan, an alpha-male …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:44PMFriday, January 13, 2012
It's not like it's news, but I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I read things like this.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
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Will LeBow and Omar Robinson plot their next move against Starbucks. Photo by Mark S. Howard.The Lyric Stage definitely has a superior cast to serve up Superior Donuts; they just …
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