810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
Joey C. Pelletier and Mike Budwey get to know each other.Charles Busch's Psycho Beach Party is always something of a showcase for its star (Busch himself played the lead in its premiere); bu…
The working class confronts the "protector" (Therese Plaehn) who could be an enemy. Photos: Gary Ng.The women of Gloucester's fish industry have it hard. Or at least they take it hard in Isr…
Who goes there? The Conjuring sends Lili Taylor on a classic quest.I admit I was skeptical as I took my seat at The Conjuring last weekend. Could James Wan, the director who help…
It's summertime, and the livin' is easy; so many feel the theatre should be, too. And no doubt those folks would be quite taken with Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore, whic…
See that little white dot in the lower right of the above photograph? That is the Earth. That is you, me, and everyone we know. All of humanity, in fact, with all its atten…
No cutting remarks allowed!Now I'm not going to say "I told you so."But read my lips.Back when Polly Carl was searching for potential critics to carry out her directive of "positive inquiry"…
Ryan McKinny as the Dutchman. Photos: Karli Cadel.The eponymous hero of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman is supposed to make landfall only once in seven years - and here I've …
Mikko NissinenMikko Nissinen assumed the artistic directorship of the Boston Ballet in 2001, when he was only 39. At that time the organization was in seeming disarray - compromised artistic…
The Flying Man from Marcus Alqueres on Vimeo.. . . is this video, The Flying Man, by Marcus Alqueres (remember that name, I'd say). In just a few minutes it tears apart the pop ideology of …
The vestal paraphernalia of The Virgin Suicides.I was disappointed by the failure of Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring, which I caught last weekend (don't bother), because like a lot of pe…
Circuit Theatre's The Amish ProjectI confess I'm writing today about a production I almost decided not to cover at all - The Amish Project, by Jessica Dickey, which the new Circuit Theatre C…
Yes, it's that time again, when we look back in a slight daze at roughly a quarter-year of the city's theatrical life, find some hot picture of a male model, and put together our person…
Phyllis Kay and Fred Sullivan, Jr. - Ayckbourn's would-be Pyramus and Thisbe. Photos: Mark Turek.As Hub Review readers may recall, I left Trinity Rep's production of Alan Ayckbourn's H…
Colin Hamell in Jimmy Titanic - photo: Michael and Suz Karchmer.We live, it seems, in an age of theatrical vehicles. Playwrights are short on vision these days, and the culture is far from c…
Robert Mealy leads the BEMF Orchestra. Photo: Kathy WittmanSorry for the delay, but I still have remaining thoughts about a few performances from last week's Boston Early Music Festival (per…
As another weather warning was just issued this afternoon, it seems appropriate to post this frightening, majestic video of the kind of cloud Yahweh might have spoken out of - a superc…
Dame Emma KirkbyI looked at my partner about halfway through Dame Emma Kirkby's concert at the Boston Early Music Festival last week and had to deadpan, "Are we sad yet?"He could only chuckl…
Paper City from Maciek Janicki on Vimeo.Here is your chance to take a breather from BEMF and check it out.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
Mozart's viola.It's the rare man or woman who is indifferent to the holy relic. Indeed, you could argue the cult of authenticity underpinning our entire system of cultural value finds its ap…
Ulrike Hofbauer as Princess Almira. Photos: Kathy Wittman.Classical music buffs think they know Handel.But do they?The official story goes that the great German composer, who already h…
A toast to feminist theory - and Kate Shindle, Nancy E. Carroll, and Shannon Esper. Photos: T. Charles Erickson.It's hard to get excited about Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn (throu…
A double dose of the author and his favorite subject.This morning I'm pondering the first "half," if you will, of the regional premiere (at Providence's Trinity Rep) of Alan Ayckbourn's…
Phil Tayler, Zach Eisenstat and John Ambrosino go . .. well, On the Town. Photos: Mark S. HowardThe original musical On the Town has been so overshadowed by its 1949 film treatme…
Daniel Jones as Hamlet/Bond.It's hard not to like John J. King's From Denmark with Love (through this weekend only at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre) - just as it's hard not to like th…
Composer Mason BatesOk, it's time to play catch up. A vacation and a bad cold have meant little posting of late - my thanks to all those who have been showing up at the site anyway, ho…
