810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
Highlights from a pitch-perfect production at the North Shore.When theatrical entrepreneur Bill Hanney saved the North Shore Music Theatre a few years back, I didn't realize he was saving th…
Angela Brazil and Fred Sullivan, Jr. as Hildy Johnson and Walter Burns.They don't make 'em like they used to, do they. Really, they don't; looking across the new play landscape, I can only t…
Dan Roach and Will McGarrahan shoot first and pray later in Next Fall.There has long been a certain gap in intellectual ambition at SpeakEasy Stage, as I've lamented before, but their produc…
The screwball subtext of the original His Girl Friday?Recently I've been mulling the role of race in our theatre (once again!) as I've pondered two local productions, Porgy and Be…
Any accurate review of Laurie Anderson's Delusion (above, at ArtsEmerson, straight from BAM, through this weekend only), could, I think, be read as either a rave or a pan. Because the botto…
This week Greg Cook of the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research and I have been engaged in an extended conversation on the newly opened Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the MFA…
Last weekend brought the season opener for the Handel and Haydn Society, and the return to our fair city of artistic director Harry Christophers. By now the success that I predicted for Chri…
Yesterday, Greg Cook of the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research and I began an extended conversation on the newly opened Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the MFA. What follow…
After Greg Cook of the Journal of Aesthetic Research and I bumped into each other at the opening of the new Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the MFA, we began talking about it, both…
Here at the Hub Review we're fans of the up-and-coming troupe Urbanity Dance, which has been growing by leaps and bounds since its founding just a few years ago. Led by the intrepid an…
Geoff Packard and Lauren Molina in a touching reunion from Candide.Sometimes the theatrical gods smile upon folly, and they're all but beaming right now at the Huntington, where Mary Zimmerm…
Imprisoned in history in The Persian Quarter. Photos: Megan MooreThere's a lot wrong with Kathleen Cahill's The Persian Quarter (at the Merrimack Rep through October 9). Its stru…
It doesn't get much better than this.Expectations were high for the Huntington Theatre's 30th season opener, Mary Zimmerman's production of Bernstein's Candide. This is just a quick no…
Word arrives from Georgia that now the state won't even allow Troy Davis a polygraph test prior to his execution (Davis had hoped to make one last statement of his innocence, perhaps to sway…
Photo(s): Megan MooreI'm still pondering The Persian Quarter (at left and at top), Kathleen Cahill's play about the Iranian hostage crisis and its aftermath, which is currently on the boards…
Gustave Caillebotte's Man at His Bath (1884)News broke today that the MFA will de-accession some eight works (including a Monet, Degas, and Gauguin) to purchase Man at his Bath, by Gustave C…
Just a few months ago, Robert Brustein was busy insisting in a panel discussion on The Merchant of Venice that Shakespeare was not only anti-Semitic, but sexist and racist, too (don't w…
Now I know you were shocked by my little attempt at emulating Jonathan Swift, "Here's to more dead Republicans (a modest proposal)," which I published a few days ago - but consider this late…
Erwin E.A. Thomas does some moral accounting.There's an odd moment early in the Foundry Theatre's How Much is Enough? Questions of Value (now playing at ArtsEmerson) which inadvertentl…
The exquisite cast.Okay, we've been veering more toward the bluntly political of late at the Hub Review (and in the process anticipating posts by Andrew Sullivan and Paul Krugman) - largely …
The clip above from the recent Republican debate has been getting a lot of play on the Intertubes - and it is, indeed, pretty creepy; the Republican Party is now, you could credibly argue, t…
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, and fallen FDNY Chaplain Mychal Judge.Well, the long weekend of 9/11 remembrance is now officially over. And one deep question lingers over all the covera…
A key moment of transmission from Patient Zero in Contagion.Steven Soderbergh's latest thriller puts an amusing new spin on the hoary old conventions of the pandemic movie: in Contagion, a l…
A satellite view of Manhattan on September 11, 2001.I still remember my shock ten years ago, when I first saw on television the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center into a r…
Andy Serkis rules this Planet of the Apes.What strikes first you about Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this summer's "reboot" of the pop-epic franchise of the 60's and 70's, is that its digi…
