Saturday, October 8, 2011
From 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. …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:53AMFriday, October 7, 2011
"The Ish"NYT theatre critic Charles Isherwood (left) admitted today that he just doesn't get Adam Rapp. And after many a pan, he'd like to cut the playwright a little slack; maybe somebody …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:12PMOf the four best shows in town, three are closing this weekend. You only have till Sunday to catch the intriguing Persian Quarter up at Merrimack Rep, a pitch-perfect revival of T…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:51AMThursday, October 6, 2011
I received the note below earlier this week from Greg Cook, head of the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, friend of the Hub Review, and all-around agent provocateur:To mark the 10th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 07:15PMOmar Robinson and Marianna Bassham catch the wave in Twelfth Night. Photos: Stratton McCrady.Long-time Hub Review readers know I am fascinated by the Actors' Shakespeare Project. Some …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:12PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
Highlights from a pitch-perfect production at the North Shore.When theatrical entrepreneur Bill Hanney saved the North Shore Music Theatre a few years back, I didn't realize he was saving th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:31AMTuesday, October 4, 2011
Angela Brazil and Fred Sullivan, Jr. as Hildy Johnson and Walter Burns.They don't make 'em like they used to, do they. Really, they don't; looking across the new play landscape, I can only t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:33AMMonday, October 3, 2011
Dan Roach and Will McGarrahan shoot first and pray later in Next Fall.There has long been a certain gap in intellectual ambition at SpeakEasy Stage, as I've lamented before, but their produc…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:25AMSaturday, October 1, 2011
The screwball subtext of the original His Girl Friday?Recently I've been mulling the role of race in our theatre (once again!) as I've pondered two local productions, Porgy and Be…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:46PMFriday, September 30, 2011
Any accurate review of Laurie Anderson's Delusion (above, at ArtsEmerson, straight from BAM, through this weekend only), could, I think, be read as either a rave or a pan. Because the botto…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:13PMThis week Greg Cook of the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research and I have been engaged in an extended conversation on the newly opened Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the MFA…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:25AMThursday, September 29, 2011
Last weekend brought the season opener for the Handel and Haydn Society, and the return to our fair city of artistic director Harry Christophers. By now the success that I predicted for Chri…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:54PMWednesday, September 28, 2011
Yesterday, Greg Cook of the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research and I began an extended conversation on the newly opened Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the MFA. What follow…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:15AMTuesday, September 27, 2011
After Greg Cook of the Journal of Aesthetic Research and I bumped into each other at the opening of the new Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the MFA, we began talking about it, both…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:57AMFriday, September 23, 2011
Here at the Hub Review we're fans of the up-and-coming troupe Urbanity Dance, which has been growing by leaps and bounds since its founding just a few years ago. Led by the intrepid an…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:17PMGeoff Packard and Lauren Molina in a touching reunion from Candide.Sometimes the theatrical gods smile upon folly, and they're all but beaming right now at the Huntington, where Mary Zimmerm…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:39PMThursday, September 22, 2011
Imprisoned in history in The Persian Quarter. Photos: Megan MooreThere's a lot wrong with Kathleen Cahill's The Persian Quarter (at the Merrimack Rep through October 9). Its stru…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 07:29PMWednesday, September 21, 2011
It doesn't get much better than this.Expectations were high for the Huntington Theatre's 30th season opener, Mary Zimmerman's production of Bernstein's Candide. This is just a quick no…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:13PMWord arrives from Georgia that now the state won't even allow Troy Davis a polygraph test prior to his execution (Davis had hoped to make one last statement of his innocence, perhaps to sway…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:08PMTuesday, September 20, 2011
Photo(s): Megan MooreI'm still pondering The Persian Quarter (at left and at top), Kathleen Cahill's play about the Iranian hostage crisis and its aftermath, which is currently on the boards…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:11AMMonday, September 19, 2011
Gustave Caillebotte's Man at His Bath (1884)News broke today that the MFA will de-accession some eight works (including a Monet, Degas, and Gauguin) to purchase Man at his Bath, by Gustave C…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:51PMJust a few months ago, Robert Brustein was busy insisting in a panel discussion on The Merchant of Venice that Shakespeare was not only anti-Semitic, but sexist and racist, too (don't w…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:04AMFriday, September 16, 2011
Now I know you were shocked by my little attempt at emulating Jonathan Swift, "Here's to more dead Republicans (a modest proposal)," which I published a few days ago - but consider this late…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:33PMErwin E.A. Thomas does some moral accounting.There's an odd moment early in the Foundry Theatre's How Much is Enough? Questions of Value (now playing at ArtsEmerson) which inadvertentl…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:33AMWednesday, September 14, 2011
The exquisite cast.Okay, we've been veering more toward the bluntly political of late at the Hub Review (and in the process anticipating posts by Andrew Sullivan and Paul Krugman) - largely …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:43AMTuesday, September 13, 2011
The clip above from the recent Republican debate has been getting a lot of play on the Intertubes - and it is, indeed, pretty creepy; the Republican Party is now, you could credibly argue, t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:32PMMonday, September 12, 2011
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, and fallen FDNY Chaplain Mychal Judge.Well, the long weekend of 9/11 remembrance is now officially over. And one deep question lingers over all the covera…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:14PMA key moment of transmission from Patient Zero in Contagion.Steven Soderbergh's latest thriller puts an amusing new spin on the hoary old conventions of the pandemic movie: in Contagion, a l…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:45AMFriday, September 9, 2011
A satellite view of Manhattan on September 11, 2001.I still remember my shock ten years ago, when I first saw on television the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center into a r…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:27PMThursday, September 8, 2011
Andy Serkis rules this Planet of the Apes.What strikes first you about Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this summer's "reboot" of the pop-epic franchise of the 60's and 70's, is that its digi…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:53PMWednesday, September 7, 2011
Remember when blogs were supposed to be . . . well, the future of arts journalism?It wasn't so long ago - and yet it feels like a different era, doesn't it. When I began writing The Hub Rev…
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