810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
The scene at Copley Square.My close friends have all called in, the kid from our lab who was running has tweeted he's safe, I've posted on Facebook and e-mailed the family that I'm okay. So …
The talented women of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Photos: Johnathan CarrI've long maintained that the celebrated Lynn Nottage is more pedagogue than playwright - and I think that after seei…
Ian Watson at the keyboard in a previous Handel and Haydn performance.As the old joke goes, Vivaldi didn't write five hundred concertos, he just wrote one concerto five hundred times. …
The cast of Lebensraum - Photo: Natalia BoltukhovaIn case you hadn't noticed, another intrepid small theatre troupe has joined the fringe - the Hub Theatre Company of Boston (no relation to …
Amelia Broome channels the divine Maria.Theatre is about dreaming. Dreaming big.But there are limits. And I think everyone involved in Master Class at the New Rep was dreaming ju…
Work of art or house of mirrors? The SpeakEasy Clybourne Park. Photo(s): Craig Bailey.Every single theatre acquaintance I've bumped into over the past month has asked me the same…
Miss Cook in action.I spent Saturday night this weekend with an old friend, Barbara Cook (at left). No, Miss Cook doesn't know me personally - just as she doesn't know the two or three…
A moment of stillness in Downshifting.You don't have to be a dance critic to sense immediately the appeal of Spellbound Dance Company; Italy's leading modern troupe (currently re-brandi…
Jeffrey Cirio and Misa Kuranaga, the perfect couple.To turn from Boston Ballet's "All Kylián" program of two weeks ago to the lush embrace of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty is to …
Keira Keeley and Colby Chambers ponder the music of the spheres. Photo: Meghan MooreAs a self-appointed high priest in the sacred temple of the theatre, I know I'm supposed to look dow…
Somehow the Hubbies always make us feel a little frisky.It has been a long winter, hasn't it. (And it's been even longer since our last Hubbie Awards post!)But spring seems finally to …
Mac Young is confused by Jesse Wood's theatrics in Our Country's Good. Photo: Christopher McKenzieAs readers of the Hub Review know by now, Boston's fringe is where the intellectual ac…
Photo: Robert Torres.The classical audience loves its institutions - and flautist Sir James Galway (above) is beyond all doubt an institution. "The Man with the Golden Flute" (by his own app…
The cast of A New Brain. Photo: Sharman Altshuler.Moonbox Productions counted as my big "find" on the fringe last year; their Floyd Collins was a remarkable achievement for a fled…
Photo: Jimmy KatzI'd never heard pianist Jonathan Biss live before his Celebrity Series debut at Jordan Hall (he's back on April 12 with the Elias String Quartet).So I wasn't quite prepared …
Peanuts meets Glee - and Columbine. Photo(s): Debut Cinematic/Karen LadanyI don't think the Charles Schulz estate (much less United Features Syndicate!) looks kindly on Dog Sees God: C…
Richard EgarrThere are very few sure things in this life, but Richard Egarr standing at the podium is surely one of them. His versions of Beethoven's Eighth, and Haydn's "The Clock," i…
Facing the facts of love: Caroline Worra, Thomas Allen, and Sandra Piques Eddy. Photos: Eric Antoniou.Sometimes, particularly when I'm watching his operas, I think Mozart's face (below…
Why so sad, George?Fellow blogger Ian Thal has a brave and damning post up at the Clyde Fitch Report regarding recent shenanigans over at CitiCenter. It seems that Ian, a local co…
Caroline HendersonI admit it. I left Danish Dance Theatre's Love Songs (at Celebrity Series last weekend) a little bit in love myself.But not, I'm afraid, with Danish Dance Theatre.No, I fe…
LeRoy McClain and Ashley Everage in A Raisin in the Sun. Photo: T. Charles Erickson.I'm not sure whether the theatre is more obsessed with race these days, or real estate. But th…
Nathan Gunn. With a name like that, he could be James Bond's arch-rival. Or perhaps a lost cousin of Philip Marlowe.But no, Nathan Gunn (at left) is actually a baritone - in fact…
Jeptha's Daughter, by Chauncey Bradley IvesBoston Baroque's intriguing program last weekend, "De Profundis," marked for this venerable organization a renewed focus on the chorus - and as is …
No more Phoenix, apparently - although we've heard this rumor before, this time it's apparently true. The paper that hijacked the counter-cultural bona fides of what became The Real Paper, a…
Paulo Arrais, Lia Cirio in Wings of Wax. Photos: Rosalie O'Connor"All Kylián," the current offering from Boston Ballet (at the Opera House through this weekend) may not tell th…
