Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:02PMTuesday, September 6, 2011
Miranda July tries to get her bearings in The Future.I became a fan of Miranda July after seeing You and Me and Everyone We Know, and I'm still a fan after seeing The Future (I kind of like …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:31AMSunday, September 4, 2011
Sorry for the light posting recently, but we have been vacating with the partner unit's family in Acadia National Park (at left) this weekend, where the Boston arts scene seems very, ve…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:49PMThursday, September 1, 2011
Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdam wait for their lines.
People had told me that Midnight in Paris was different. That it was Woody Allen's best movie in years. That it made you fall in love wit…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:30AMTuesday, August 30, 2011
Sir Tom Stoppard in thermodynamic repose.
I do love Arcadia; I've loved it ever since I read it, before I'd ever seen it. To me, it's Tom Stoppard's best play - and certainly one of th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:21AMMonday, August 29, 2011
Sara Topham and Ben Carlson in The Misanthrope at Stratford.
Two or three years ago, Robert Brustein took back the notorious position he had sketched out in his 1967 call-to-arms, "No M…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:34AMFriday, August 26, 2011
19 Clarendon St. from Boston Ballet on Vimeo.Boston Ballet has announced the completion of a suite of renovations to its headquarters at 19 Clarendon Street. The project - led by J…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:41PMAugust is the kindest - rather than the cruelest - month in Boston; indeed, if a month could win "Best of Boston," it would be August, hands down. In fact the city's old hands know to vacati…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:43AMThursday, August 25, 2011
Most readers of the Hub Review know of my low opinion of playwright Paula Vogel (at left) - or at least of the influence she has wielded from her academic posts in the playwriting depar…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:11PMWednesday, August 24, 2011
Gabriel Kuttner, Liz Hayes, and Daniel Berger-Jones get romantic in Love Song.
I admit that up until recently I kind of hated playwright John Kolvenbach. I detested his Fabuloso, …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:39AMMonday, August 22, 2011
My apologies for not posting for the past few days, but I've been on my annual trek to the Stratford Festival in Canada, where, yes, I saw even more Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus, Richard I…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:47PMThursday, August 18, 2011
You never know who you'll meet on the T - or in "The T Plays."
The Mill 6 Collaborative's "T Plays" have become, as fellow blogger Art Hennessey has noted, one of our small theatre scene's f…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:24AMTuesday, August 16, 2011
Photo: Mark Simpson
I did promise I would try to find out more about the sudden "hiatus" announced this week by Boston's Publick Theatre (see post below), so I chatted with its (now former) …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:51PMMonday, August 15, 2011
This just in:Publick Theatre Boston announces the resignations of Artistic Director Diego Arciniegas and Producing Director Susanne Nitter. The theatre's board of directors has voted to put …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:31AMSunday, August 14, 2011
Why are these guys so ugly? Oh, yeah - they can actually play their instruments!I'm not sure why it should have happened, but recently, while I was watching a new play in which the lea…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:56AMThursday, August 11, 2011
Parolles (Fred Sullivan, Jr.) gets his comeuppance in All's Well that Ends Well.
The critics have been singing the praises of Commonwealth Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, so I stopp…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:51AMWednesday, August 10, 2011
The arts blog at the Times has printed a letter Stephen Sondheim (left) has sent to the editor regarding its fawning coverage of Diane Paulus's "updating" of Porgy and Bess. And boy, do…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:58PMKristine Nielsen and Jeremy Webb in She Stoops to Conquer.
I haven't caught much theatre in Boston of late, I'm sorry to say - I'm afraid other destinations have just proven too tempting. Ho…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:30AMMonday, August 8, 2011
Jonjo O'Neill as Orlando in As You Like It
I've been mulling my assessment of the Royal Shakespeare Company's visit to New York for about a week now - because the achievement and the experie…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:00PMThursday, August 4, 2011
The RSC's new mainstage in Stratford-on-Avon.My visit to the Royal Shakespeare Company festival down in New York last weekend inevitably reminded me that we don't really have a great stage f…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:39AMWednesday, August 3, 2011
The female bird of prey in "Savage Beauty."The hottest ticket in New York right now is to a museum show - "Savage Beauty," the Met's tribute to bad-boy gay couturier Alexander McQueen. …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 07:46AMFriday, July 29, 2011
Tonight, I'm off to New York to see the Royal Shakespeare Company in As You Like It, Julius Caesar, The Winter's Tale and King Lear (above, the RSC stage under construction in the Park Avenu…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:00PMThursday, July 28, 2011
Like every other blog worth reading, we continue the Hub Review tradition of posting the latest OK Go video, which this time is an amusing collaboration with Pilobolus. Enjoy (there are als…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:59AMWednesday, July 27, 2011
Francisco Solorzano and Timothy John Smith share back stories in Last Day.There's been a bit of chatter of late in the blogosphere around new play development; a few influential theatre…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:44AMMonday, July 25, 2011
The funniest thing onstage in Boston this summer - and maybe the funniest thing you'll see on a local stage all year - is the scene above, from And the World Goes 'Round (at the New Rep thro…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:27AMFriday, July 22, 2011
Jim Meskimen, man of a thousand vocal impressions, squeezes 25 of them into Clarence's famous monologue from Richard III, in a performance that's a kind of deep meditation on manner and mann…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:21PMOnly rarely does a work of art derived from Shakespeare equal - much less surpass! - the artistic standard set by its source. I can think of only one such case, in fact: Verdi's final opera,…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:14AMWednesday, July 20, 2011
Most of the cast of The Good Doctor.The fringe scene is enduring a blow right now: the Independent Drama Society, which has offered consistently high-quality productions over the past t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:07AMTuesday, July 19, 2011
It's hard not sound a little funny when you're talking about organs. For instance, when I say that Boston is home to some small organs, some beautiful organs, and some enormous organs (like …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:29PMMonday, July 18, 2011
Greg Cook, of the awesome blog New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, and I have been chatting recently about the recent developments at the Rose Art Museum. We thought we'd share those …
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