810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
It happened. Again.Happy New Year, everyone, from yours truly!Whew. 2013. I'm beginning to think we've let this whole "march of time" thing go on far too long. But I do have a re…
I knew early on in Django Unleashed that I wasn't going to be able to take it seriously - even though according to A.O. Scott it's "a troubling and important movie about slavery and racism."…
One nice New Yawk family reacts. They've been to funerals that weren't so sad!!!The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
To continue my survey of the best of the year, I've once more singled out those local productions that I'd happily have squeezed into my top 10, if only there was room. So in no partic…
Well, what can I say . . . 2012 wasn't the end of the world. So that was disappointing!On the upside, it did prove a solid year for local theatre and performance art. T…
Artist and subject seem as one, but are actually often at odds.The famous subtitle of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is There and Back Again. And a major problem with Peter Jackson's giga…
Photo: Robert LorinoThe New Rep has a tradition of turning over their downstairs space to Boston's best performers, in pieces that sometimes amount to little more than vehicles - like t…
It's Christmas, so we're taking the day off, and hope you are, too. Happy Holidays from the Hub Review! After a whirlwind of holiday-season reviewing, we feel we've earned a few silent night…
Looking for a Christmas movie, but you've already had your annual helpings of It's A Wonderful Life, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and How the Grinch Stole…
Chorusmaster John Finney.I don't know why this should be so, but somehow it's always a surprise to encounter the sheer joy dancing through so much of the sacred music of Johann Sebastian Bac…
Phil Tayler and Harry McEnerny before their best laid schemes go awry. Photo: Craig BaileyMoonbox Productions first rose over the fringe two years ago, I believe; I didn't catch their …
Adrianne Krstansky and Michael John Ciszewski revel in the holiday memories. Photo: Andrew Brilliant.The traditional "Christmas show" has loosened its grip (somewhat) on the Bosto…
Like everyone, over the last few days I have been trying to make sense of the horror visited on the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Of course there is no sense to be made …
Anne Scurria and Barrie Kreinik discuss the how and the why down at Trinity. Photo: Mark TurekFirst the good news: in scientific terms, The How and the Why, at Trinity Rep through Decem…
Many observers (often self-interested observers) have bemoaned the "decline" in theatre criticism seen over recent years - and have simultaneously decried the resulting rise in theatre blogs…
Robinson Pyle sounds off on natural trumpet. Photo: Julian Bullitt.One returns to the Boston Baroque version of Messiah as one returns to an old friend; you already know precisely the way it…
Barlow Adamson and Celeste Oliva in Chinglish. Photos: Timothy Dunn.It's amusing (to me, at any rate) that so many critics have misinterpreted David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, which is i…
Therese Plaehn, David Cromer, and Derrick Trumbly in Our Town. Photo: T. Charles Erickson.This is just an early warning to fans of the Hub Review regarding the Huntington's re-mounting…
Or at least it's definitely in the top five! Bill Pinckney's Original Drifters sing White Christmas. Animation by Joshua Held. Just try not to sing along.The Hub Review, the guid…
Eugene Drucker, David Finckel, Lawrence Dutton and Philip Setzer - the Emerson String Quartet.The Emerson String Quartet has a devoted Boston following, but their recent Celebrity Series con…
Our annual Messiah season kicked off in a major way last weekend with the Handel and Haydn version, which in many ways reached a new artistic peak for that venerable organization. This…
The men of ChanticleerAn entire week has gone by since Chanticleer visited Celebrity Series, but I've been too distracted by shows with short runs to get around to throwing a few critical bo…
Your inner child is closer than you think - in fact, no further than the nearest Mummenschanz show, which actually is playing through this Sunday at the Schubert Theatre (thanks to Cele…
Two Disney franchises collide at ArtsEmerson.Rarely has a single YouTube served quite so well as a theatrical review as the one posted above, of La Belle et la Bête, by Lemieux Pilon 4D A…
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.
