810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
Aimee Rose Ranger in Dogg's HamletI'm late with my thoughts on Whistler in the Dark's double bill of Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet and Cahoot's Macbeth, which has been "occupying" t…
Whitney V. Hunter in Angel Reapers.Angel Reapers, the new meditation on the Shakers by choreographer Martha Clarke, playwright Alfred Uhry, and music director Arthur Solari (through this wee…
Nate Gundy as "Banco" in Macbett.We may not have seen an actual production of Macbeth in, well, years, but two of the play's derivatives have been on the boards this season - first the …
What do you want from me, it's football season!People sometimes ask me, "Why do you always have to post dirty pictures of hot guys (that's Vince Ramos above, btw) with the Hubbie Awards? &nb…
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.Long-time Hub Review readers know we are all about the time lapse. And this one is a beauty, stitched t…
Carter Scott parties down as Lady Macbeth.When I ponder the Boston Lyric Opera's new production of Verdi's Macbeth (through this Sunday at the Schubert), I'm inevitably reminded of a line fr…
Conor Lovett in Moby Dick.One of my favorite stories about my stint writing for the Globe revolves around the time I tried to work a ref to Moby Dick into my review of a stage version of&nbs…
Pretty but a little vacant: Andrew Murdock in Busk.Becoming a true artist requires talent - obviously.But it also requires a topic, too. A theme.And while choreographer Aszure Bar…
This is a really cute idea - and yet sadly, some people still took the escalator. Which only goes to show you - something. Oh, well - gotta remember the glass is also half full, I sup…
The Boston Early Music Festival had promised "fireworks" at its concert of Handel and Vivaldi last Saturday, which featured French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and the Cleveland-based ens…
Misa Kuranaga and Pavel Gurevitch in Romeo and Juliet. Photo(s): Rosalie O'ConnorWe're awash in "translated" Shakespeare right now - we've seen at least five operas and ballets based o…
Albert Bierstadt, Donner Lake from the SummitI can't get to everything, I tell myself. Still, when I haven't gotten around to writing about an exquisite show like Painting the American Visi…
Gordon Clapp as "Robert Frost"It's easy to be seduced, I think, by A.M. Dolan's This Verse Business (at the Merrimack Rep through November 13). And particularly easy to begin to imagine…
Welcome to the dollhouse, Nora! Photos: Richard TermineI don't like lectures much. I avoid Suze Orman and Deepak Chopra like the plague, and I remember my mind always tended to d…
The dancer above is the amazing Charles "Lil Buck" Riley, familiar from Janelle Monae's "Tightrope" video and the new dance craze from Memphis (his hometown) known as jookin'. In some ways …
Rinaldo Alessandrini in action.What makes the period music movement so exciting is that it's in such ferment that there are dozens of different musical voices and visions jostling for space …
Philippe JarousskyWhat's on Boston's cultural plate this week? A lot, it turns out. Tonight I'm visiting the ICA, both to see the "Dance/Draw" exhibit, and to hear legendary choreographer …
The school and company of the Boston Ballet.Last weekend Boston Ballet opened the fall season with its traditional "Night of Stars," a dazzling benefit that generally features the company's …
The talented cast of Trinity's Clybourne Park.I've been dragging my feet over writing up a response to Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park (through November 20 at Trinity Rep) and Hub Review reade…
The cast of Before I Leave You.Okay, I'm just going to say this fast, because there's no nice way to say it. The Huntington's latest show, Before I Leave You, by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, is…
I'm not quite sure what to make of You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce, the latest from The Civilians, at ArtsEmerson through this weekend. But then to be honest, the sh…
Last week I wrote about the fact that Boston often seems to be ahead of the national curve, theatrically - even ahead of New York (or at least neck-and-neck). That doesn't mean we're n…
John Lam in a stellar performance.The fall season is now at its height, so the week is overflowing with openings and premieres. Last night I caught You Better Sit Down, a meditation on…
Boston Baroque, with soloists, in action.I confess that "In the beginning," as the saying goes, I was nervous. As Boston Baroque essayed the famous opening bars of Haydn's The Creation (Die…
Julie Boulianne and Sean Panikkar as Béatrice et Bénédict.Opera fans who don't have tickets yet for Béatrice et Bénédict will want to hustle: there's only one performance left (on Tues…
