Wednesday, 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 07:14PMTuesday, December 6, 2011
The brilliant "bank run" scene from Capra's classic.I took last Saturday night "off," as it were, and let the performing arts fend for themselves - and instead curled up at home before…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:24AMSunday, December 4, 2011
Gandhi's statue at Occupy Boston.You know, I am not really an activist, but I do try to get out there when it counts, when showing up makes a difference. I support Occupy Boston financially…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:16AMSaturday, December 3, 2011
Robin Long, Lovely Hoffman, Davron S. Monroe, Lori Tishfield, and Calvin Braxton in Ain't Misbehavin'. Photo: Mark S. Howard.You've probably already heard the news about the Lyric Stage's Ai…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:05PMFriday, December 2, 2011
Joel Colodner, Adrianne Krstansky and Christine Power in Three Viewings. Photo by Andrew Brilliant.For those who appreciate the fine art of acting, I'd say that Three Viewings (at the …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:32AMThursday, December 1, 2011
Once again time has gotten away from me and I haven't gotten around to writing about something I meant to. This time that something is Man Ray/Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism, which…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:12PMDouglas Williams, Mireille Asselin and ensemble in Hades.What is period musical performance for?For its enthusiasts, the answer is simply the beauty of the music itself, which is most authen…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:44PMWednesday, November 30, 2011
Whitney Jensen sails through the Waltz of the Flowers. Photos: Gene Schiavone.I'm not sure I have anything left to say about The Nutcracker. I'm not sure anybody does. But as I settled…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:11PMTuesday, November 29, 2011
In these networked days, it's no surprise that literal nets have become an artform unto themselves - and the artist who has made them resonate best as public art is probably Janet Echelman, …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:26PMSunday, November 27, 2011
Sorry, I know it's wrong to make fun of people with mental challenges, but I can't resist the temptation to pile onto Michael Kaiser (who is, I can barely believe, a graduate of my own alma …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:44PMSaturday, November 26, 2011
By now the annual Boston Early Music Festival chamber opera production qualifies as an "event." And that event is tonight (above is the promo video, which gives you some sense of the i…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:47PMI didn't think it was possible to write a boring play about Adolf Eichmann.Nevertheless, fledgling playwright Evan M. Wiener has managed to do it, and the Huntington has staged it with all t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:53AMThursday, November 24, 2011
A scene from last year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.It's that time of year again - so here's a sincere wish for a Happy Thanksgiving from me to you.I also thought it was worth noting (in…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:02AMTuesday, November 22, 2011
Perlman in action in New York.I came to Itzhak Perlman's Celebrity Series appearance at Symphony Hall last weekend after a series of disappointing experiences at the theatre, and so the conc…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:57PMMonday, November 21, 2011
A tech rehearsal for The Balcony.In his program notes to The Balcony (which closed last weekend at Boston Conservatory), director John Kuntz tells us that he attempted to approach Jean Genet…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:56PMSaturday, November 19, 2011
Aimee Rose Ranger in Dogg's HamletI'm late with my thoughts on Whistler in the Dark's double bill of Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet and Cahoot's Macbeth, which has been "occupying" t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:10PMFriday, November 18, 2011
Whitney V. Hunter in Angel Reapers.Angel Reapers, the new meditation on the Shakers by choreographer Martha Clarke, playwright Alfred Uhry, and music director Arthur Solari (through this wee…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:26AMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Nate Gundy as "Banco" in Macbett.We may not have seen an actual production of Macbeth in, well, years, but two of the play's derivatives have been on the boards this season - first the …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:37PMTuesday, November 15, 2011
What do you want from me, it's football season!People sometimes ask me, "Why do you always have to post dirty pictures of hot guys (that's Vince Ramos above, btw) with the Hubbie Awards? &nb…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:56AMMonday, November 14, 2011
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.Long-time Hub Review readers know we are all about the time lapse. And this one is a beauty, stitched t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:14PMFriday, November 11, 2011
Carter Scott parties down as Lady Macbeth.When I ponder the Boston Lyric Opera's new production of Verdi's Macbeth (through this Sunday at the Schubert), I'm inevitably reminded of a line fr…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:08AMThursday, November 10, 2011
Conor Lovett in Moby Dick.One of my favorite stories about my stint writing for the Globe revolves around the time I tried to work a ref to Moby Dick into my review of a stage version of&nbs…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:45AMWednesday, November 9, 2011
Pretty but a little vacant: Andrew Murdock in Busk.Becoming a true artist requires talent - obviously.But it also requires a topic, too. A theme.And while choreographer Aszure Bar…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:36AMTuesday, November 8, 2011
This is a really cute idea - and yet sadly, some people still took the escalator. Which only goes to show you - something. Oh, well - gotta remember the glass is also half full, I sup…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:39PMThe Boston Early Music Festival had promised "fireworks" at its concert of Handel and Vivaldi last Saturday, which featured French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and the Cleveland-based ens…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:28PMMonday, November 7, 2011
Misa Kuranaga and Pavel Gurevitch in Romeo and Juliet. Photo(s): Rosalie O'ConnorWe're awash in "translated" Shakespeare right now - we've seen at least five operas and ballets based o…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:58PMSunday, November 6, 2011
Albert Bierstadt, Donner Lake from the SummitI can't get to everything, I tell myself. Still, when I haven't gotten around to writing about an exquisite show like Painting the American Visi…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:09AMFriday, November 4, 2011
Gordon Clapp as "Robert Frost"It's easy to be seduced, I think, by A.M. Dolan's This Verse Business (at the Merrimack Rep through November 13). And particularly easy to begin to imagine…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:30PMThursday, November 3, 2011
Welcome to the dollhouse, Nora! Photos: Richard TermineI don't like lectures much. I avoid Suze Orman and Deepak Chopra like the plague, and I remember my mind always tended to d…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:14AMWednesday, November 2, 2011
The dancer above is the amazing Charles "Lil Buck" Riley, familiar from Janelle Monae's "Tightrope" video and the new dance craze from Memphis (his hometown) known as jookin'. In some ways …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:51PMRinaldo Alessandrini in action.What makes the period music movement so exciting is that it's in such ferment that there are dozens of different musical voices and visions jostling for space …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:17PM 
