810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
Photo: Mark S. HowardThis is just a quick note (from Venice - see masthead!) to urge you to catch Stoneham Theatre's current production of Doubt (which closes this weekend). Director C…
Yes, the Hub Review arrived in Florence, Italy, yesterday, for an extended stay in Tuscany, the Veneto, and Milan. (That's the Arno at sunset, above, shot from the Ponte Vecchio.)But f…
Christopher Chew hones his edge as Sweeney.I'll be honest: I found myself straddling a peculiar kind of critical fence as I watched the Lyric Stage's new production of Sweeney Todd.On the on…
Colm Feore before the madness descends.What makes a great production of Shakespeare great?Sometimes it can be less than you might imagine. The Stratford Festival's gripping King Lear, …
This post - one of an occasional series on The Hub Review - was inspired by a random image someone sent me of "The Kelpies," sculptor Andy Scott's tribute to the workhorses of rural Scotland…
Daver Morrison swings for Wilson's Fences.With Fences, the Pulitzer Prize winner which became a Broadway hit in 1987, playwright August Wilson seemed to swing for artistic pickets that …
Titania (Jonathan Goad) falls hard for Bottom (Stephen Ouimette) at Stratford.As gay marriage has swept the civilized world (and no, that does not include the Southland, or other Republican …
Patrick Varner and Sarah Elizabeth Bedard communicate via body language in Translations.Bad Habit Productions has a habit of producing eloquent versions of literate, large-ensemble plays fro…
Life looks better when you're stoned, and to be honest, so does this play. (Photo: Gary Ng)I'm happy to report that with its current show, 4000 Miles, feisty little Gloucester Stage has once…
Two obsessions - Nureyev and the color yellow.(This is the second of a three-part series on Jamie Wyeth, currently the subject of a major retrospective at the MFA. The first installment…
Brooks Reeves cooks up some comedy as Titus Andronicus.Just as the swallows return each spring to Capistrano, so it seems The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) returns ev…
Jamie Wyeth, "Self Portrait," 1969.James Browning Wyeth (at left) - son of Andrew Wyeth, and grandson of N.C. Wyeth - never outgrew his childhood nickname, "Jamie."And judging from his recen…
The widow and the wiseguy at Gloucester Stage. Photo: Gary Ng.Summer stock still lives!As a theatergoer, you may (or may not) be glad to know that - and of course "lives" may not be qu…
The world of Boston theatre just got a little smaller.For word has reached us that the venerable Factory Theatre, a long-time tenant in the rear basement of the famous "Piano Factory" at 791…
The fresh faces at Trinity can't save Shepard from his own bald symbology. Photos: Mark Turek.Dark theatrical clouds sometimes come embroidered with a silver lining (at least to those …
Confronting the drone wars: Lewis D. Wheeler and Nael Nacer. (Photo: Andrew Brilliant)One of the frustrating things about our current theatre is its refusal to confront the really difficult …
Eunice Wong and Roderick Hill hook up for some hot identity politics. Photos: T. Charles Erickson.All good plays cast long shadows, so perhaps it's unfair to feel disappointed with Lyd…
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Shepherdess (1752)I'm late with an appreciation of Grand Harmonie's latest effort, a performance of Mozart's Il re pastore (The Shepherd King), which attract…
The talented cast of Jacques Brel at Gloucester Stage. Photo: Gary Ng.When Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris debuted at the Village Gate in 1968, its title had an unsp…
Olivia D'Ambrosio and Deb Martin in Gidion's Knot.Close followers of the local scene already know that Bridge Rep, in just over a year, has already established itself as an artistic leader o…
Baritone Michael Chioldi as Belfiore. Photo: Kathy WittmanWatching Odyssey Opera's new production of Verdi's Un giorno di regno, it's hard to believe this charmer ever failed on its opening …
Danette Holden reaches musical heaven as Reno Sweeney. Photos: Paul Lyden.It's hard not to like the North Shore Music Theatre's current production of Anything Goes. After all, it's Any…
The talented cast of Into the Woods confronts a dream come true. Photo: Mark S. Howard.Now I know what you're thinking.You're thinking, "Do I really need to see Into the Woods aga…
Paula Langton takes a deep breath "on the verge." Photos: Andrew BrilliantI've always had a soft spot for the mild charms of Eric Overmyer's regional hit from 1987, On the Verge - …
As many of you know, the famous partner unit and I (above) have decamped for Belgium and France. We spent today in Brussels, at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts - site of Auden's famous po…
