811 stories from The Hub Review
Beethoven at about the time of the First Symphony.Last weekend the Handel and Haydn Society performed a fascinating concert that may, in the end, have disproved its own thesis - but was ofte…
Elizabeth Pearson, Erin Eva Butcher, and Michael Underhill get their panto on. Hub Review readers know by now I'm a big fan of the Imaginary Beast's winter pantos - but I confess it's …
A perfect cast for A Future Perect. Photos: Cragi Bailey.Ken Urban's A Future Perfect (at SpeakEasy Stage through this weekend) comes saddled with some heavy baggage: its playwright is…
Esme Allen and Lewis D. Wheeler in Muckrakers. Photo: Andrew Brilliant.I'd never argue that Muckrakers (at the New Rep through this weekend) is a perfect play - but it's still the kind …
The cast of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Photos: Jim CoxPlaywright Christopher Durang has protested that he didn't intend to write a commercial vehicle when he penned Vanya and Sonia…
I'm late with comments on Apollinaire's Midsummer and Merrimack Rep's The Best Brothers - and alas, that's basically because I didn't have too much encouraging to say about either one.Courtl…
Photo: Mark S. HowardKaren MacDonald's evocation of celebrated Texas columnist Molly Ivins (in Red Hot Patriot, at the Lyric Stage through January 31) is so luminous and thoughtfully cr…
Seated Giant, 1818If you haven't had a chance to check out the MFA's Goya show, this is your last chance, as it closes tomorrow - and you owe it to yourself to try to catch it.But I only say…
What makes a production one of the best of the year? I imagine there are as many answers to that as there are theatre-goers.But what makes a production one of the next best of the year…
Yes, it's that time of year again - although I'm actually a bit late with my annual look in the cultural rearview. And to tell true, 2014 was not the most spectacular of theatrical years; st…
Scott Allen Jarrett, Sonja DuToit Tengblad, and the musicians of H&H. Photo: James DoyleIt's little known outside musical circles that Handel and Haydn offers a second Christmas concert …
Diana Albrecht, Kathryn Boren and Lauren Herfindahl. Photos: Liza Voll.I never got a chance to treat Boston Ballet's The Nutcracker in depth this year - but that doesn't mean I di…
Thomas Nast, "Santa Claus," 1881The partner unit and I are now warmly ensconced with relatives in the Maine woods, far from the bustle of Boston - and hope that you, too, are with friends or…
Erica Schuller and Jesse Blumberg as Livietta and Tracollo. Photos: Kathy WittmanAlmost a month has gone by since the curtain rose and fell on Boston Early Music Festival's pastiche of Pergo…
Paul Greenwood and Penny Fuller in 13 Things About Ed Carpolotti. Photo: Meghan Moore.I suppose anything that brings the luminous Penny Fuller back to town is some cause for celebration.&nbs…
Kander & Ebb get theirs in The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!Parodying musical theatre on its own terms hardly counts as a new idea - the Forbidden Broadway franchise ran for ye…
Harry Christophers conducts. Photo: James Doyle.I was probably not alone in hoping that this year's Messiah at Handel and Haydn would be something special.And judging from the tumult t…
Wil Moser, Laura Jo Trexler, and Andrew Barbato chart the stars in The Little Prince. Photos: Andrew Brilliant.Whenever I hear that another composer and lyricist are adapting Antoine d…
The talented cast of The Tale of the Allergist's Wife. Photos: Mark S. HowardThere are almost too many reasons, I'm afraid, why the current Lyric Stage production of The Tale of the Al…
Will Lebow exhorts his family to awake and sing. Photos: T. Charles EricksonI can't think of the last time we've seen a play by Clifford Odets get a major production in the Hub. …
Cicely Tyson shines for Jurnee Smollett-Bell in The Trip to Bountiful. Photos: Craig Schwartz.I've been around long enough to know a theatrical Rolls when I see one, and trust me, The T…
Tilson Thomas conducting at a previous performance. Photo: Kristen LokenI'm very late with an appreciation of the San Francisco Symphony's visit to Celebrity Series last weekend, with …
At the left is J.C. Leyendecker's cover for the Saturday Evening Post on Thanksgiving 1924. And gazing at it this morning, I was struck by how it captured something essential to our vision o…
Rainy-day theatre on an epic scale - the talented men of PigPen Theatre.I know it's a bit late to be raving about The Old Man and the Old Moon (from PigPen Theatre Company at ArtsEmerso…
