810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
John Ambrosino, Davron S. Monroe, and Erica Spyres with Princeton and Kate Monster. Photos: Mark S. HowardPeople are always asking me, "So what's the best show in town, Mr. Hub Review?" And …
The man himself.There's just something comforting about Emmanel Ax (above); he is invariably modest in demeanor, but brilliant in accomplishment (a combination that is becoming rare indeed, …
James Whiteside, Paul Craig and Isaac Akiba kick up their heels in Fancy Free. Photos: Gene Schiavone.It's actually rare that a Boston Ballet program doesn't hang together thematically…
But here's another hilarious Romney lie making the rounds - a pink flyer handed out at 2002 Gay Pride, offering then-gubernatorial candidate Mitt Romney's wishes for a "Great Pride Weekend!"…
The crazy kids of AssassinsAh, the "interesting failure." Every major theatrical artist has one, even Shakespeare - and Stephen Sondheim has a couple - among which Assassins, from 1990…
Perhaps you can't evict it, but some Boston theatre people would like to co-op it.You may have heard this already, but I felt I should announce it on the blog: actor Danny Bryck has refused …
Amanda Dolan, Rebecca Gibel and Liz Dolan are flying the 60's dream down at Trinity.Time has not been kind to the sex comedy - and it has been particularly harsh to those dinner-theatre romp…
Owen Willetts sings and suffers in Orfeo ed Euridice.Over the past few years, Martin Pearlman's Boston Baroque has developed its own rather unique approach to baroque opera. Usual…
Why . . . so . . . serious? Meet the Joker.I'm not really sure what else we need to know about Mitt Romney.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
I owe at least a short nod to Fresh Ink Theatre's Trog and Clay (An Imagined History of the Electric Chair), by up-and-coming playwright and screenwriter Michael Vukadinovich.Fresh Ink was l…
No, it's not Les Miz, even if it looks like it. Photo(s): Stratton McCradyOf all Shakespeare's "problem" plays, none may be more problematic than Troilus and Cressida. In it,…
Bill Mootos has a gas as Blake Pfeil looks on. Photos: Andrew Brilliant.When it comes to Little Shop of Horrors, the doo-wop musical based on the cult Roger Corman film of the same nam…
My gut tells me "no," because I feel his re-election is absolutely crucial for the future of the country. Although perhaps I should really say, "if the country is to have a future;" I'm not …
George II at his coronation, for which Handel composed Zadok the PriestThe weekend before last (yes, I'm that late with this!) the Handel and Haydn Society had almost everything required for…
The "celebration" from Where the Wild Things Are.Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
Bishop Packard is arrested on May 1.After reading the dispiriting news that Bernard Law is still making vicious mischief in Rome (he was largely behind the Vatican's current attack on Americ…
Spend the day in a strangely toy-like Venice thanks to Joerg Niggli and the miracles of time lapse and tilt shift. Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that mat…
I don't have time this morning to pound out a full review, but early music fans will not want to miss Boston Baroque's current production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (in its original Italia…
The Emerson String QuartetLast Friday Celebrity Series welcomed the Emerson String Quartet (above) in what felt a bit like a farewell concert - although it was really only a farewell to cell…
Everybody dance now - the Ideal Woman on the hoof in Don Quixote. Photos by Gene Schiavone.Okay, let's get the truth-in-advertising part out of the way: Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote, w…
I know.It gets soooo tiring being as civilized as we are here at the Hub Review.Well, perhaps these "highlights" from the Danish answer to Jackass, Dumt & Farligt (that's "stupid and dan…
Dan Kremer and Rebecca Harris in The Ghost-Writer.We've all heard of the "ghost in the machine," that famous tag for one of philosophy's central conundrums, the mind-body problem.But now, in…
Outer Space from Sander van den Berg on Vimeo.Above is "Outer Space," Sander van den Berg's almost-abstract tone poem to the rings and moons of Saturn (with an occasional glimpse of Jupiter)…
Shalita Grant and Francesca Choy-Kee in The Luck of the Irish.Over a year ago, I wished in a widely noted post that Boston theatres, rather than relying on Athol Fugard or some other proxy w…
I winced throughout last night's horrifying edition of 60 Minutes, the geriatric television news magazine, in which correspondent Lesley Stahl granted a fawning interview to unconvicted war …
