810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
Ha! I got an e-blast from a local theatre company today, listing all the critical praise for its current production. (Nothing wrong with that, btw; indeed, more power to 'em!) Bu…
Rebecca Harris, Dennis Parlato, and Jay Ben Markson in Mrs. Whitney. Photos: Meghan Moore.With John Kolvenbach it always seems to be "one step forward, two steps back." This prol…
Confronting Andersen's lost Dryad - actually, Auguste Clésinger's "Woman Bitten by a Snake"Where to begin with Robert LePage's The Andersen Project (which closed Sunday at ArtsEmerson)? &nb…
While Americans tie themselves in knots over the obnoxious practice of "tweet seats," the Canadians have taken the intervention of the digital world - or perhaps the critical world - into th…
I'd love to argue more over The Andersen Project, but I'm afraid I have to run now to TOMÃÅ KUBÃNEK:CERTIFIED LUNATIC & MASTER OF THE IMPOSSIBLE (above), which is the other show…
Fans of critical bickering may enjoy this. After my poke at Larry Stark's "What's a real play, Tom?? Please enlighten us!!" note in my review of The Play About the Baby, I got this ema…
The opera house as staging ground for the mind - Yves Jacques in The Andersen ProjectYou don't usually think of Hans Christian Andersen as a pre-eminent poet of modernity; but in the visiona…
Funeral games in The Play About the Baby.Hub Review readers by now are aware that I have a strong preference for what I like to call (to the consternation of critics who can't imagine what I…
The performers of La Donna Musicale. Photo: Meiqian He.It's unusual that a musical "discovery" really counts as one; many "lost masterpieces," once revealed, turn out to have gorgeous momen…
You normally don't think of Twitter as a hotbed of racism, but tweets in response to the hit movie The Hunger Games have revealed an ugly underside to the twitterverse. It seems many y…
Various folks had mentioned to me that I should check out Lyralen Kaye's St. John the Divine in Iowa, the latest from Another Country Productions - so I made it to one of the final perf…
Don't wait for my review, that won't happen for a few days. But get tickets to Robert LePage's The Andersen Project (video above, with LePage himself performing), which plays this week…
It looks like more fun than it is.After enduring Next to Narcissism - oops, I meant Next to Normal! - at SpeakEasy Stage, I was in the mood (altered or otherwise) for a good production of Cr…
Yesterday's post on Next to Normal brought some (not entirely unexpected) e-mail, though no comments. Chief among these missives was the following from fellow IRNE critic Larry Stark, …
Diana (Kerry A. Dowling) ponders her private cast of characters.While I was watching Next to Normal (at Speakeasy Stage through April 15), I unexpectedly found myself reminded over and over …
Aimee Rose Ranger and Alejandro Simoes ponder their twin fates. Photo: Chris McKenzieIn the past I've described Whistler in the Dark as the one company in town devoted to theatre for t…
But I also have a lot of reviews to plow through. (Unlike many other bloggers, I actually go to the theatre and review it!) As you may have picked up from my comments around the …
It has come to my attention that various um, "non-fans" of the blog have been claiming that my readership can't be what I claim it is - i.e., between 800-1000 viewers on days I post, and rou…
That's what the nice lady at the Green Line stop asked me as we stepped onto the incoming B Line train on Saturday night, after what seemed like a half hour wait, during which time a parade …
An authentic Jackson Pollock, Lavender MistBakersfield Mist, the new play by Stephen Sachs, currently in a "rolling" national premiere at the New Rep, is a long meditation on a single painti…
Dancers Travis Walker, Ashley Werhun, and John Michael Schert.Trey McIntyre has found - or rather created - an intriguing choreographic niche. Working with his eponymous Trey McIn…
I'd like to point out this note from Rob Schmitz, one of Daisey's interrogators:What makes this [This American Life's actions] a little complicated is that the things Daisey lied about seein…
This American Life has suddenly announced that it is withdrawing its piece on Mike Daisey's The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and will "devote its entire program this weekend to detailing…
Even though I haven't quite caught up with my reviewing, the forced cultural march continues this weekend. I hope to finally pen an assessment of Bakersfield Mist on Saturday, and…
"The Universes" perform Ameriville.Ameriville, by the Universes (Steven Sapp, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, Gamal A. Chasten, and William Ruiz A.K.A. "Ninja," above) at ArtsEmerson through this weekend…
