Hot on the heels of the racist voter-suppression tactics of Republicans in Ohio, we learn of this recent episode in Vermont:"A county Republican Party chairman in Vermont apologized Monday a…
If you are an intelligent person, you already know this, but I'm posting it anyway, simply because it's somehow satisfying to watch evil people slip up. In case you haven't heard, the R…
Exhibit A in the three trials of Oscar Wilde.The contrasts over at the Boston Center for the Arts these days couldn't be more intense. You can choose - as Boston's mainstream critics have a…
A theatre company's reach should always exceed its grasp, I suppose - but that gap looms particularly large in the Happy Medium Theatre's current production of Romeo and Juliet (at left, whi…
Who's the Boss??I drove by Kenmore Square this evening, and with the windows open I could just hear the garbled echo of what sounded like "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" bouncing off the walls of …
Coriolanus in triumph. Photo: Andrew Brilliant.I finally caught Coriolanus on the Boston Common (across two nights; it closed Sunday), and as usual I was slightly mystified as to why p…
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Why . . . so . . . serious, Mr. Nolan?Was anyone really surprised when a masked figure stood up at the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, and opened fire on the packed au…
People who are unsympathetic to The Hub Review often collar me with questions like "Who are you to say what is art? And what is art, anyway? Can't anything be art?" Now these are valuable …
Peter Mark Kendall and Johnny Lee Davenport in "Master Harold" . . . and the boys.Athol Fugard is a playwright with a great subject - the now-dismantled system of apartheid that held sway in…
More cultural funding down the toilet.Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or cry at the way this benighted state doles out its support for the arts.Is there any fatter cat than Harvard…
. . . when a brilliant, aristocratic faggot had the balls to call William F. Buckley a crypto-Nazi to his face. On live television, no less! And how Buckley reacts is priceless - he k…
Millennial criticism of DWG (Dead White Guy) culture - particularly Shakespeare - has become almost de rigeur on many blogs and sites.So it's important to remember that Shakespeare is positi…
Kim Novak ponders taking the plunge in Vertigo.Word reaches us that after fifty years, Citizen Kane has finally been dislodged from its throne at the top of the Sight and Sound "greatest fil…
Is this what most MFA programs amount to?I've rarely been a fan of the HowlRound site, but they have posted an intriguing article by Marshall Botnivick which includes a very clever suggestio…
A friend just sent me the following pastiche of 2001:A Space Odyssey, re-cut as if it were being marketed as a summer blockbuster. In its bone-dumb acceleration into a meaningless…
Michael Fassbender plays at omnipotence in Prometheus.You know, I keep going to the cinema, and it keeps reminding me of why I go to the theatre instead. My latest foray to the multipl…
Leslie Ann Bradley and Ricardo Lugo make beautiful music in Don Pasquale.Okay, the short review of Boston Midsummer Opera's Don Pasquale is: go.And you have to go soon, as tomorrow is the la…
Suzy (Kara Hayward) on the lookout in Moonrise Kingdom.Some artists have to stumble onto their great subjects; but Wes Anderson (as I discussed in the first part of this critical diptych, se…
The famous "Telephone Hour" from Bye Bye Birdie.This is just a quick post-mortem on Reagle Music Theatre's Bye Bye Birdie, which closed last weekend. It was an enjoyable version of thi…
As the trusting Lili, Victoria Thornsbury only finds love at one remove.I'm torn over Gloucester Stage's current production of Carnival (which closes this weekend). On the one hand, th…
Let's take a good look at Wes Anderson, shall we? (A scene from Moonrise Kingdom.)Wes Anderson went to prep school in my hometown, Houston, and sometimes it seems that, at least in art…
This time seemed like a good one to revisit Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza, which I first posted at its premiere, but which Ian Thal has recently called "crude anti…
Kiki Samko, Michael Caminiti, Michael Underhill, Luke Murtha and Elizabeth Battey in Polaroid Stories.Sorry for much of the radio silence of late - and my sincere thanks to the six hundred d…
Boston's theatrical blogosphere is about to witness a landmark of sorts. Larry Stark's Theater Mirror, which I believe was the first website devoted to local theatre in Boston (it…