Monday, 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 …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:37AMSunday, July 17, 2011
I know it's NSFW, but hey, it's the weekend.People have been asking - will I still be handing out Hubbies, now that I've sworn off several theatre companies due to the their participation in…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:55AMFriday, July 15, 2011
Rie Ogura and Joshua Andino Nieto as Laurie and Curly in the "dream ballet."Anyone in the Boston area who cares about musical theatre will want to be one place this weekend: in the auditoriu…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:22AMWednesday, July 13, 2011
Red Priest in action.It's hard not to get a kick out of Red Priest (above), a British baroque ensemble that injects a little 80's metal attitude into the early music scene (I really wish the…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:57AMMonday, July 11, 2011
Drew Pulver with (L to R): TS Burnham & Zachary Magee; Back: Haley Sullivan & Mark Turner.Right now Gloucester Stage is on a roll. They just closed an impeccable production of Alan A…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:38PMSaturday, July 9, 2011
This isn't a picture, actually, of MilkMilkLemonade - but it is of Heart and Dagger, and it's very them!When my old buddy Joey Pelletier asked me to see his current show, MilkMilkLemonade (i…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:36AMThursday, July 7, 2011
The talented cast of Sisters of Swing.I had a nice time at Stoneham Theatre's Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters (which plays through July 24). And I have a hunch that i…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:48AMWednesday, July 6, 2011
My friend and fellow blogger Greg Cook seems to be branching out from art criticism to the thing itself - or at least that's how I feel after checking out a recent post on his blog, The New …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:35AMTuesday, July 5, 2011
The Cherry Orchard gets lost in wheat, fields of wheat at the National Theatre.The simulcast phenomenon has been widely praised for bringing world-class performances to …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:13AMSunday, July 3, 2011
The news is good from ArtsEmerson, even if the Globe doesn't want you to think so.The Boston Globe includes an interesting statistic today - you have to look for it, though; it's buried in a…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:11PMSaturday, July 2, 2011
Last weekend I had the opportunity to catch up with Kelley Donovan and Dancers at the Dance Center in Cambridge. Donovan is a leading light of the local dance scene, and performs regularly …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:25PMThursday, June 30, 2011
There's no lovelier place to listen to classical music in the Boston area than the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport. If you doubt me, merely cast a glance northward; that'…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:15AMTuesday, June 28, 2011
Politically and culturally, ours is a backward-looking nation. In our politics, we endlessly battle over the legacy of the 60's, and much of our pop culture still takes its cues from the 70'…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:19AMSaturday, June 25, 2011
. . . you could do worse than 'cast' a glance at this posting on the Stage Source blog. (Be sure to read the comments.) The post, by Member Services Manager Jeremy Joh…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:13AMFriday, June 24, 2011
Chihuly's Ikebana Boat: shouldn't some Oompa-Loompas be rowing this thing?Recently something very strange occurred in the pages of the Boston Globe. Its star art critic, Sebastian Smee, whos…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:20AMThursday, June 23, 2011
Lindsay Crouse and Richard Snee in Living Together.Last summer it seemed I was alone in raving over Gloucester Stage's production of Table Manners, the first play in Alan Ayckbourn's ce…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:37AMTuesday, June 21, 2011
As I'm sure many Hub Review readers are aware, the world-famous Barnes Foundation (above), which many consider the greatest private collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, and early…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:40PMThursday, June 16, 2011
Jesse Blumberg and Amanda Forsythe in Niobe, Regina di Tebe.The Boston Early Music Festival's production of Agostino Steffani's Niobe, Regina di Tebe is, in a way, precisely what an accurate…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:10PMI haven't been able to find out much about this performance, dubbed "Chinese Hands" on the web, but it's so striking I thought I'd share it with you. What few scraps of info I've been able …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:32AMWednesday, June 15, 2011
There's been a resurgence of interest of late in My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe's classic musical transformation of Shaw's Pygmalion. The Stoneham Theatre did a strong production last year,…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:23PMIt's all been very hush-hush till now, but if all goes well, the lower level restrooms at the Museum of Fine Arts will be, well, "flush" with art by Boston artists right about now.…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:00PMTuesday, June 14, 2011
Detail of Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburg, painted in 1632, when Rembrandt was 26. Sometimes, yes, the Hub Review makes mistakes (we're partial, however, to self-admitted ones - don't look so s…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:12PMMonday, June 13, 2011
. . . because this week the Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition is in full swing across the city. The centerpiece of the Festival is always a lavishly mounted "lost" opera, comp…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:17PMThe cast of The Drowsy Chaperone.It doesn't much happen anymore, but for a period of years I often found myself facing a friendly question like this one:"Oh - you're a critic? What did you t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:44AMSaturday, June 11, 2011
Metro Stage Company can't seem to catch a break publicity-wise - they still haven't garnered any interest from the print press (I guess because their productions are usually low-tech); and e…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:38PMFriday, June 10, 2011
The strange finale of Caesarean Section.American theatre doesn't really do "raw" anymore. In fact I can't think of a professional show I've seen in the last oh, five years or so that d…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:08AMThursday, June 9, 2011
I know, I know, I'll get around to posting some reviews eventually. In the meantime, enjoy a little space weather that looks even hotter than what we're enduring today.The Hub Review, the g…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:49AMTuesday, June 7, 2011
I just love this. With a hat tip to Art Hennessey. (Audio NSFW, btw.)The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:48AMMonday, June 6, 2011
The Aurora from TSO Photography on Vimeo.I've always wanted to see the aurora borealis. Till I make it up a little closer to the Arctic Circle, however, I'll have to be satisfied with this w…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:15AMTuesday, May 31, 2011
The Word made gay flesh: Stephen Spinella and Michael Esper in iHo.In the beginning was the Word, St. John tells us. Only Tony Kushner might add, "And in the middle was the Word. Plus in the…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:09PM 
