Thursday, January 12, 2012
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 …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:08PMWednesday, January 11, 2012
Four-year-old Alexei Orohovsky watched Ali's variation from Le Corsaire on Youtube, and then came up with his own version at his summer dance intensive. Enjoy! (And watch out for this kid in…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:21AMTuesday, January 10, 2012
A lot of people have been emailing to ask, "Why the hell are you diddling around with the sh*t that Parabasis says, when you're not covering the collapse of Opera Boston?"And I don't really …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:24PMAs has oft been noted, pop charts the national mood much the same way an analysand's chatter inevitably betrays his or her buried fears and desires.So I wonder - what should we make of our n…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:19AMSunday, January 8, 2012
J. Holtham, just to prove he's not really dedicated to smearing people's reputations and stifling discussion the way everyone thinks he is, has now gone and made himself look stupid as well …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:13PMThe recent, nasty brouhaha over at Tom Loughlin's "A Poor Player" reminded me again of one of the ironies of the blogosphere - that it's often riven by immature battle-royales between horrid…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:39PMPhoto by Kayan Szymczak for the Boston Globe.I'm terribly late with this review, and I feel especially guilty because the concert in question was delightful, as Boston Baroque's annual doubl…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:58PMWednesday, January 4, 2012
"A piece of shit, wonderfully executed."You can't help but admire Mike Daisey when you're watching him - even when, as was the case this New Year's Eve in Boston, he has nothing coherent to …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:15AMTuesday, January 3, 2012
I admit I'm mightily amused by the revulsion so many critics have suddenly evinced at the House that Ruhl Built (of string, no less). Whimsy? Quirk? A structureless narrative free-for-all…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:36PMMonday, January 2, 2012
If you're looking for New Year's resolutions, here are a few suggestions. Woody Guthrie's, from 1942 (below) are all classics - particularly "Stay glad," "Dance better," and "Love ever…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:34PMIt's going to be a slow week, so I thought to myself - what about filling up some space in the blogosphere with a self-retrospective, a "Best of the Hub Review," to go with my other annual "…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:35PMSaturday, December 31, 2011
Yes, the last night of the year has once more rolled around - only in these parts we call it "First Night" rather than "Last Night" (perhaps for obvious reasons). And once more hordes …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:17PMFriday, December 30, 2011
Candide at the Huntington2011. To be perfectly honest - it wasn't all that great a year (and I'm not talking about just the weather). In 2010, my "best of" list ran to 20 product…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:02PMThursday, December 29, 2011
I know, I know. As is its wont, the Globe has once again attacked the performing arts in the name of "saving" them. It's hardly news that journalists are closet culture-haters, I suppose -…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:20AMWednesday, December 28, 2011
I know, I know, it has only been a little more than a month since the last Hubbie Awards. But I have seen some pretty good shows since then! And I felt it was conceptually cleaner to …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:08AMTuesday, December 27, 2011
Ruby Rose Fox, Bill Barclay, and Gabriel Kuttner in various disguises. Photo(s): Stratton McCradyPart of the Actors' Shakespeare Project gestalt is the idea that they're always on the …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:42PMSaturday, December 24, 2011
We're up in the snowy woods of Maine, as we usually are at Christmas, with family and friends. So don't expect much blogging over the next day or so, as we'll be too busy eating and drinking…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:25PMFriday, December 23, 2011
The young singers of Stile Antico.Last weekend I got a double whammy of medieval and Renaissance polyphony - I caught the chart-topping Stile Antico (above) at the Boston Early Music Festiva…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:21AMWednesday, December 21, 2011
Blue Heron in flight. Photo by Liz Linder.The overflow crowd at Blue Heron Choir's Christmas concert last Friday was more evidence (if you needed any) that medieval polyphony - particu…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:45PMTuesday, December 20, 2011
Barlow Adamson and Andrew Cekala dream of a Red Ryder bb gun. Photo(s) by Andrew Brilliant.I'm quite sure A Christmas Story (at the New Rep through December 24) is a nostalgia piece, b…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:00AMSunday, December 18, 2011
The giant rukh takes flight in Arabian Nights.Arabian Nights, at the Central Square Theatre through December 31, isn't technically a Christmas show, I suppose (can you have a Muslim Chr…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:29PMSaturday, December 17, 2011
. . . I do want to point out that in the Times, Oskar Eustis of the Public Theater is quoted as saying:" . . .if we’re ever in a situation where we’re holding up a major nonp…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:24PMThursday, December 15, 2011
Mice rock!!! And for their next trick - Sandinista!!No one could claim that the Stoneham Theatre has played it safe this holiday season; their current Christmas show, in fact, is an ed…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:27PMWednesday, December 14, 2011
Boston Baroque in action.Once, a generation ago, Martin Pearlman was regarded as an ionoclast, and his vision of Handel's Messiah - performed on period instruments, with light, agile forces,…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:17PMTuesday, December 13, 2011
The Reduced Shakespeare CompanyOkay, folks, it's back to our regularly scheduled programming here at the Hub Review. When I heard that the Reduced Shakespeare Company (you know, the gu…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:12AMSunday, December 11, 2011
Charles Isherwood of the Times is back in the news, with a particularly clueless review of Lydia Diamond's Stick Fly, which has reached Broadway after taking several regional theatres by sto…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:37PMSaturday, December 10, 2011
As you probably know by now, the Boston Police moved in this morning at 5 AM with an overwhelming force and cleared Dewey Square of Occupy Boston, being careful to limit and block media acce…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:27PMFriday, December 9, 2011
Photo by Occupy BostonLast night it was easy to get drunk on the possibilities.I got to Occupy Boston late - about 11:30 pm, only half an hour before Mayor Menino's "deadline" for the evacua…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:55AMThursday, December 8, 2011
Watch live streaming video from occupyboston at livestream.comJust because tonight it might be interesting.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:52PMThe mayor in a mood.He has given the occupiers till midnight to clear out of Dewey Square. This is important. The number for the Mayor's office is 617-635-4500. The email is &nb…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:37PMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Jesse Levine plays like an angel. Photo(s): Kyle T. Hemingway.One of the sillier aspects of our age is the proliferation of pseudo-"rebellions" in the performing arts. As the populace…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 07:14PM 
