810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
I wish people would begin to see Obama's "lackluster" performance in the first debate as what it was: something like shell-shock before what may be the most brazenly dishonest performance in…
Allyn Burrows reacts to slashing something - maybe the text?I don't know why, but Macbeth seems to drive the Actors' Shakespeare Project crazy. Their last version of it was a…
Squaring off against Hamlet's own history?As I left the Shakespeare's Globe production of Hamlet (at ArtsEmerson through this weekend), I wondered myself at how much I had enjoyed it. …
At home in Southie with Lindsay-Abaire's Good People. . . Photos: T. Charles Erickson.Craft is such a rare thing in a new play that whenever it appears, I feel (to quote a certain high…
The young Paul Robeson. Eighty years after his Othello, it's still rare to see an African-American, Latino or Asian Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth.This is the first in what I hope will be a series …
This weekend, check out the "revolutionary street spectacle" that is the annual HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands, which began right here in Boston - in fair Somerville, to be exact - …
Les 7 doigts de la main (that's "The 7 Fingers of the Hand") are back in town. Through Sunday at ArtsEmerson. There, shouldn't that be review enough?Anyone who caught Psy, th…
Can a master actor pull off a masterly cinematic con? Philip Seymour Hoffman as "Lancaster Dodd."This weekend I sat through one of the worst movies of the year - simultaneously pretent…
. . . so my friends could guide me to websites like this one. Enjoy!The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
Our local theaters pretty much ignored Occupy Boston while it lived (it celebrates its first birthday this weekend, btw). Indeed, the only actor or writer I know to have engaged with t…
Bob Jolly cuts up as the Lord High Executioner in The Mikado. Photos: Mark S. Howard.I've no doubt The Mikado will be a joy forever; and right now at the Lyric Stage, where Spiro Velou…
Can you hear me now? Trying to communicate in The Motherfucker with the Hat. Photos by Craig Bailey.A kind of identity crisis has been creeping up on SpeakEasy Stage for some time…
Sigh. This weekend marks the final performances of Einstein on the Beach at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.And I really thought I was going to go.But somehow I just don't seem to be able to …
What's past is prologue in Homestead Crossing.William Donnelly's Homestead Crossing - at Merrimack Rep through September 30 - is the kind of new play that is just good enough that …
As you may know, local chanteuse and former "human statue" Amanda Palmer holds the record when it comes to begging gullible hipsters to fund her career - in fact, her foolish fans coughed up…
Purely Pacific Northwest from John Eklund on Vimeo.Notes from John Eklund: I am a photographer from Portland, Oregon. I want to share the beautiful NW region through my eyes with time-l…
The Kite Runner feels as if it's in the dark politically. Photos by Andrew Brilliant.Watching The Kite Runner (through September 30 at the New Rep), you can almost taste the …
It has already been a year since the military ended its policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," and lifted its ban on gay men and women in the service. And as was the case with gay marriage…
It has been harder than usual this year for me to shake off the summer, I admit. Or maybe it's just that this was a particularly lazy summer for me? Perhaps!At any rate, I went to my …
The Prophet Daniel, before and after cleaning.I returned to Rome first and foremost to see the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which I hadn't visited for something like thirty years, and whic…
The view from La Pergola is expensive.As you may have guessed, I'm a bit of an epicure - and while the partner unit is not, we were joined in Rome by a serious foodie, my friend Marie, who h…
. . . and I promise to start writing again. I know, I know - with me gone, "there's nothing to read!" It is, alas, true; yesterday I did the rounds of the blogosphere and only woke up abou…
Yes, that's yours truly, with my buddy Marie (the partner unit was behind the camera), in front of something even older than we are, the Pantheon; the Hub Review is in the Eternal City for a…
White conservatives and jazz . . . white conservatives and jazz . . . hmmmm. It's strange, is it not, that the avatars of the white hierarchy should so often love the music of the peop…
The Romney abortion-profit story has grown longer legs already - a synergy has been sparked in the blogosphere between it and another simmering Romney controversy. Indeed, even some Republi…
