810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic with Vadim Repin on violin.There's always something to be said for taking on a warhorse, I suppose, even if it's Beethoven's Fifth, that warhors…
Jeremy Denk at the keyboard - yes, this is a typical pose, and yes, it's a bit much.Yesterday I considered the case of Hilary Hahn, a brilliant violinist who seemed to only find her voice wh…
The performer in repose.Artistic affinity is both a fact of life and an utter mystery - and much on my mind of late, as last weekend's Celebrity Series performances by violinist Hilary Hahn …
Mark Zeisler and Ryan Barry see red in Red. Photo: Meghan Moore.Bostonians rarely get a chance to see a new script from two different perspectives - but we're enjoying just such a…
The Native-American holocaust strikes back - or does it? - in an iconic image from The Shining.There has been a long delay in my return to The Shining - and sorry for the tease; it…
GÃsli Örn Gardarsson as Grego Samsa in Metamorphosis. Photo by Eddi. As we all know, one morning, after a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa awoke to find that he had b…
Liz Hayes and Nael Nacer take a breather. Photo: Andrew Brilliant.One thing is clear about Lungs. You have to have amazing lung power to perform it.Particularly if, like the talented L…
Violinist Aisslinn Nosky.First, the bad news.Apparently the music of Franz Joseph Haydn is no longer enough of a draw to fill Symphony Hall; for last weekend's all-Haydn program from the Han…
This is just a quick post mortem on Trinity Rep's production of Crime and Punishment, which closed this weekend, and which must go down as one of the oddest misfires in that illustrious comp…
Marianna Bassham, stuck in Middletown. Photo: Stratton McCradyI left Middletown (at the Actors' Shakespeare Project through March 10) wondering exactly how a playwright as smart as Wil…
We haven't had a time lapse on the Hub Review for - well, some time now. This one was taken at the summit of New England's own Mount Washington. Apparently it was shot just this …
Phil Tayler and Daniel Berger-Jones. Photos: Timothy Dunn.Perhaps I was simply in the mood for any type of theatre done well by the end of last weekend (after I had suffered through th…
Cinderella's Castle at Disney World in Florida.The trouble with Mike Daisey's American Utopias, which opened ArtsEmerson's "The Next Thing" festival on Friday night (sorry, it closed Saturda…
What the heck is going on in this movie? Jack Nicholson in The Shining.Posting has been a bit light of late, I know, basically because many of last weekend's performances were washed out by …
The intrepid Gil Shaham braved winter's worst last weekend.Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night stayed violinist Gil Shaham from the completion of his appointed Celebrity Series con…
Can a tax break hook Broadway producers?Folks have been asking me what I think about the proposed bill to "woo" Broadway try-outs with a tax break.And I confess my first reaction is:Aren't w…
I'm pleased to report that an added performance of James MacMillan's Clemency (full review below) has been scheduled for tomorrow night, Monday, February 11, at 7 pm at the Artists…
David Kravitz welcomes strange travelers to his table in Clemency. Photos: Eric Antoniou.If you haven't been keeping up with Boston Lyric Opera's traveling "Annex" productions, then I'm…
Omar Robinson looks lost in Patrick Gabridge's Fire on Earth.I confess I'm only reluctantly writing about Patrick Gabridge's Fire on Earth (at the Factory Theatre from Fresh Ink Theatre…
The divas take a moment to relax on an earlier stop of their tour.You know, some days I feel so lucky to be able to do this. And one such day was last Sunday, when I was privileged to …
The cast of The Servant of Two Masters.It's hard to argue with comic virtuosity; and certainly the Yale Rep production of The Servant of Two Masters (at ArtsEmerson through Feb. 10) is comic…
This ad from SodaStream, targeting the environmental pollution caused by plastic soft drink bottles - was reportedly refused a berth in SuperBowl programming after pressure was applied by Co…
You-know-who on the West Bank barrier.The distinguished conductor Daniel Barenboim has insisted that his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, perhaps the only symphony in the world where …
We watch the career of Polly Carl (at left) over at Emerson's Center for Theater Commons with increasing interest. Recently, it was announced that Ms. Carl and her Center would be part…
Quicksilver in action at an earlier concert.Sometimes you can feel it in the air, that sense of a collective "Wow." It was certainly all but palpable at the Quicksilver conce…
