810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
The Presto from Vivaldi's Summer concerto.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
The talented Christina Day Martinson.We're so accustomed these days to what is essentially an academic approach to sacred music that we almost seem to have forgotten a central question about…
Local early music aficionados know that Richard Egarr is one of the most exciting conductors alive - his recent interpretations of Haydn's "Clock" Symphony and Beethoven's Eighth (at Handel …
Alone in The Lighthouse - photos: Erik JacobsOpera is meant to be a synthesis of every art form, but most opera lovers care about one thing and one thing only: the star voices at the center …
The announcement came in yesterday, but I didn't open it till this morning. Jim Petosa of BU, who helmed the New Rep's recent success Three Viewings, and also directed Opus there, has …
I suppose David Valdes Greenwood's Wandaleria (through this weekend at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre, presented by Argos Productions) technically isn't a "gay play" - everybody in it …
It's a busy weekend for arts fans, but the do-not-miss event is Boston Lyric Opera's production of Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse (above), at the JFK Library, through this weekend only…
By now it's obvious that period performance has begun to fracture into different national schools. And if last Sunday's concert by Europa Galante at the Boston Early Music Festival was any …
The house for Pieter Wispelwey was only about two-thirds full last Friday night at Celebrity Series - I suppose because Yo-Yo Ma is the only cellist people have heard of in these parts.Ah, b…
How about an Australian theatre blog called "Shit on Your Play"?The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
Polanski in close quarters with his stars.Now that the Huntington's production of God of Carnage has closed, I think it's safe to let you in on the secret that there has been a better v…
The Boston Globe's critics are generally useless (okay, Sebastian Smee finally said something worthwhile about the MFA's Egyptian and Old Master galleries; finally), but the paper has …
I've gotten a few outraged emails, as I knew I would, about yesterday's rant regarding "gay plays." But to the question one irritated reader posited, "What should we be writing plays a…
I just sat through another "gay play" this week, which was a little dispiriting. Actually it was a closeted gay play, in which women subbed for the gay men, just as they did fifty year…
Danny Bryck - but which one? - with Mark Cohen in A Number.Whistler in the Dark has taken to a kind of "expanded," "Season 2.0" approach to their programming these days - works come in pairs…
Don Cornelius 1936-2012. Ah, Soul Train. Was there ever another show this innocently wonderful on television? I hope wherever Mr. Cornelius is now, there's a line dance goin' on.T…
The subtle cast of Fen.I suppose we'll never be rid of the minor female playwrights who insist we only think they're minor because of our sexism. (I just read another of these screeds …
Violinist Aisslinn NoskyLast weekend's Handel and Haydn concerts may have been devoted to The Four Seasons, but there was only one major change of musical season during the program - the shi…
This season ArtsEmerson has explicitly stated that some of its presentations have been in a state of development. I'm not sure that's the official line on Robbie McCauley's one-woman s…
We're having our Yasmina Reza moment in Boston right now: this week you can catch the Huntington's production of God of Carnage, or the Polanski film version (just Carnage), OR an…
Photo(s): Megan MoorePeriod music is all the rage in classical circles; indeed, these days it's often in the engagement with the past that (ironically enough) we feel serious music's most th…
This is just a note to apologize for some tardiness in reviewing - I know, the shows are backed up behind me like Boeings at Logan. But I also have to get out my IRNE nomination form (…
Last night at Symphony Hall (I was there for Handel and Haydn's excitingly quirky take on The Four Seasons, you should go on Sunday) the audience once more sat through the usual Symphony dri…
The Imaginary Beasts bring the British panto to American shores.Local impresario Matthew Woods has been producing his "pantos" (that's short for "pantomime," although "pantos" are far from s…
See this? Mark Rothko rarely did this.Local reviewers have called John Logan's Red (at SpeakEasy Stage through Feb. 4) "a great work of art," "a masterpiece," and "a play of ideas…
