811 stories from The Hub Review
She calls this segment "The Drunk News." I hope it's on nightly!The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
The talented Georgia Lyman finds her way through Lee Blessing's shaggy dog story.Years ago, at the height of the cultural wars that inspired Lee Blessing's Chesapeake (at the New Rep through…
Landings at San Diego Int Airport Nov 23, 2012 from Cy Kuckenbaker on Vimeo.All landings at San Diego Int Airport on Black Friday Nov 23, 2012 between 1030am and 300pm.And if you're interest…
Jeffrey Cirio gives his cadets their marching orders before the Ballet's spectacular new Christmas tree.The Boston Ballet production of The Nutcracker has been oft been voted America's favor…
Historical genre . . . or historical "genre" . . . . where is the cultural energy these days?I've been thinking for some time about Steven Spielberg's Lincoln - without coming to any clear c…
Photo- Michael LamontOkay, I'm just going to get through this one fast - that way I won't dread writing it.The Pianist of Willesden Lane (at ArtsEmerson through December 16), a memory play p…
Mireille Asselin and Aaron Sheehan - photo: Kathy WittmanUnlike many art forms, opera kicked off with a masterpiece - Monteverdi's Orfeo still ranks as one of the most gorgeous ever written.…
A few folks have e-mailed to ask that I reprise my analysis of It's a Wonderful Life - perhaps, like my "Highbrow Halloween" post, this will become a kind of Hub Review classic. At any…
The Takács Quartet in action. You can tell a lot about a string quartet from its moniker, and the fact that the Takács Quartet (above) named itself simply "the weavers" (the …
Yes, Thanksgiving is over - so it's h-e-e-e-re! CHRISTMAS! The Tokyo Christmas decoration above kind of sums up how I feel about the mother of all holidays (reportedly it occasio…
Uncle Sam is inflated for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.As I grow older, Thanksgiving means more to me, it seems; perhaps because when I was younger, I hadn't really lost anything yet. …
It began with my noting (as I often do) that I had more to say about the Huntington production of Betrayal than anyone else in town did.Then I remembered how I'd scribbled something like 3,0…
Gretchen Egolf and Alan Cox in Betrayal. Photos: T. Charles Erickson.A year or two ago, after several failed Pinter productions at the ART and elsewhere, I wondered aloud, "Is Pinter s…
Labadie in action.When I first heard French-Canadian conductor Bernard Labadie a few years back, I wrote, "Remember that name - and if you get a chance to hear him . . . by all means t…
One of the remarkable Sandglass puppets.Last weekend the Charlestown Working Theater, which has earned a local reputation for taking surprising theatrical risks, presented the premiere of &n…
The Imaginary Beasts get lost in Maeterlinck's web.Perhaps no reputation has fallen faster - or further - than that of Maurice Maeterlinck. A century ago he was thought to all but pers…
The view down the Infinite Corridor during "MIThenge."In mid-November and late-January every year, the arc of the sun aligns with the central axis of MIT, my alma mater, sending a shaft of s…
Silky perversity in Tales from Ovid. Photo by Jenni Wylie.I think what's most remarkable about the ArtsEmerson production of Whistler in the Dark's Tales from Ovid (through this weekend…
The prodigy today - it's not about her, it's about the music.We haven't heard from the great violinist Midori in these parts for some time - maybe a decade? So her return to the Hub wa…
Kelly McCormick expects the denizens of Runyonland to "Follow the Fold." Photos by Paul Lyden. By now there's little doubt that Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls is one of the signature ac…
Obama gets choked up while thanking his campaign workers.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
The heart-stoppingly gorgeous first act chorus - photos by Eric AntoniouPuccini's Madama Butterfly is one of the most oft-performed operas in the world - probably because it's among the…
Chorus Pro Musica at a previous performance.I'm quite late with an appreciation of Chorus Pro Musica, and their "Poets and Psalms" program at Old South Church two (!) weekends ago. I le…
I had to check the news this morning - was I dreaming last night?But the feeds all told the same story they had before: Barack Obama was re-elected with both an electoral and popular-vote vi…
And much is riding on us, my friends. I hate to think what a Republican future for America would look like - but I can guess. Racist to its core, with an economic agenda designed to ma…
