Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Rinaldo 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 01:17PMTuesday, November 1, 2011
Philippe JarousskyWhat's on Boston's cultural plate this week? A lot, it turns out. Tonight I'm visiting the ICA, both to see the "Dance/Draw" exhibit, and to hear legendary choreographer …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:10PMThe school and company of the Boston Ballet.Last weekend Boston Ballet opened the fall season with its traditional "Night of Stars," a dazzling benefit that generally features the company's …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:53AMMonday, October 31, 2011
The talented cast of Trinity's Clybourne Park.I've been dragging my feet over writing up a response to Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park (through November 20 at Trinity Rep) and Hub Review reade…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:04AMFriday, October 28, 2011
The cast of Before I Leave You.Okay, I'm just going to say this fast, because there's no nice way to say it. The Huntington's latest show, Before I Leave You, by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, is…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:16PMThursday, October 27, 2011
I'm not quite sure what to make of You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce, the latest from The Civilians, at ArtsEmerson through this weekend. But then to be honest, the sh…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:26PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Last week I wrote about the fact that Boston often seems to be ahead of the national curve, theatrically - even ahead of New York (or at least neck-and-neck). That doesn't mean we're n…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:28AMJohn Lam in a stellar performance.The fall season is now at its height, so the week is overflowing with openings and premieres. Last night I caught You Better Sit Down, a meditation on…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:43AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
Boston Baroque, with soloists, in action.I confess that "In the beginning," as the saying goes, I was nervous. As Boston Baroque essayed the famous opening bars of Haydn's The Creation (Die…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:24PMMonday, October 24, 2011
Julie Boulianne and Sean Panikkar as Béatrice et Bénédict.Opera fans who don't have tickets yet for Béatrice et Bénédict will want to hustle: there's only one performance left (on Tues…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:36PMFriday, October 21, 2011
Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis in Porgy and Bess.I think what I'll remember most about the recent A.R.T. production of The Gershwins' 'Porgy and Bess' (henceforth just Porgy and Bess, btw) wa…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:41PMI guess I've been a little slow admitting to myself what a lot of other people have been saying for quite some time:Maybe Charles Isherwood does suck.I just finished reading a rave - and I m…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:26AMThursday, October 20, 2011
The Boston PhilharmonicLast weekend's season opener from Ben Zander's Boston Philharmonic proved full of surprises (even its press reception was a bit shocking) - and thus it provided a pret…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:39AMTuesday, October 18, 2011
This weekend is a crowded one, stacked with major events, even for a season in full swing. What I'm seeing: first, Trinity Rep's New England premiere of Bruce Norris's Pulitzer-winning…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:04PMLiz Hayes and Bobbie Steinbach in Collected Stories. Photo: Andrew BrilliantDonald Margulies chose an old, simple tale for the spine of his two-hander Collected Stories. Perhaps y…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:57AMMonday, October 17, 2011
Damian Cote, Notice: There will be no parade for this warIt was somehow culturally telling that the tenth anniversary of 9/11 became a national obsession - while the same anniversary p…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:23PMMary Zimmerman's definitive production of Candide gave its final performance yesterday at the Huntington, and you know the partner unit and I had to be there (it was our third time at the sh…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:20AMSaturday, October 15, 2011
The two are: Candide at the Huntington, and The Speaker's Progress at ArtsEmerson. Candide is a kind of masterpiece reborn; a truly incredible cast - led by the unbelievable Lauren Mol…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:02PMThis is just a quick post to note a trend that I think many of us have been conscious for a long time, and that can be summed up in the following question: is New York the new Peoria? …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:27PMFriday, October 14, 2011
A tableau on the Isle of the Dead. Photo: Gary Sloan.José Mateo remains as dependable as ever. His latest program, "Broken Shadows," (at the Sanctuary Theatre, near Harvard Squa…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:16AMThursday, October 13, 2011
Nassar Al Nassar and Faisal Al Ameeri grove with Shakespeare's Lord of Misrule.As Rodgers and Hammerstein might have said, the Arab Spring is bustin' out all over - we just saw the intriguin…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:20PMWednesday, October 12, 2011
What's behind Door Number 7? Bluebeard and his bride prepare to find out.When Béla Bartók and librettist Béla Balázs took on the themes of Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard's Castle," they w…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:56PMSometimes, wishes do come true. Only days ago, I discovered the new Jaume Plensa sculpture on the MIT grounds (above and at left, with frequent Hub Review contributor Ian Thal getting lost …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:33AMTuesday, October 11, 2011
In what has become a kind of ritual, Beyoncé has once again been accused of plagiarizing someone else's moves - this time those of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, a Belgian choreographer (…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:46PMI actually didn't think the Boston Police Department would be this stupid. But they were. The country's economy can be trampled to pieces as far as they're concerned, but NOBODY TOUCH THOS…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:13AMMonday, October 10, 2011
Jaume Plensa, The AlchemistSo I'm riding the Dudley Bus from Symphony to Harvard Square the other day (to get from Bluebeard's Castle to Jose Mateo), which I hardly ever do anymore now that …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:37PMDegas and the Nude, the utterly absorbing retrospective at the MFA through February 5th, contains no "official" self-portrait by the complicated French genius, I suppose.And yet at the same …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:42PMSunday, October 9, 2011
Laurel y Hardy bailan a Santana! This routine has been set to a lot of pop songs, but this is the classic.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:11PM . . . this very silly post needs no explanation. (Admit it, you laughed.)The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:58AMSaturday, October 8, 2011
Damien Cote - Banner hung in Boston last week to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Afghan War.As part of his commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the launching of the U.S. war in …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:14PMFrom Neil Gaiman's blog.Now if you were Amanda Palmer, and you went to the Edgar Degas exhibit at the MFA, ask yourself -What would you be inspired to do?Well. obviously, you'd strip. …
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