810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
Remember when blogs were supposed to be . . . well, the future of arts journalism?It wasn't so long ago - and yet it feels like a different era, doesn't it. When I began writing The Hub Rev…
Miranda July tries to get her bearings in The Future.I became a fan of Miranda July after seeing You and Me and Everyone We Know, and I'm still a fan after seeing The Future (I kind of like …
Sorry for the light posting recently, but we have been vacating with the partner unit's family in Acadia National Park (at left) this weekend, where the Boston arts scene seems very, ve…
Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdam wait for their lines.
People had told me that Midnight in Paris was different. That it was Woody Allen's best movie in years. That it made you fall in love wit…
Sir Tom Stoppard in thermodynamic repose.
I do love Arcadia; I've loved it ever since I read it, before I'd ever seen it. To me, it's Tom Stoppard's best play - and certainly one of th…
Sara Topham and Ben Carlson in The Misanthrope at Stratford.
Two or three years ago, Robert Brustein took back the notorious position he had sketched out in his 1967 call-to-arms, "No M…
19 Clarendon St. from Boston Ballet on Vimeo.Boston Ballet has announced the completion of a suite of renovations to its headquarters at 19 Clarendon Street. The project - led by J…
August is the kindest - rather than the cruelest - month in Boston; indeed, if a month could win "Best of Boston," it would be August, hands down. In fact the city's old hands know to vacati…
Most readers of the Hub Review know of my low opinion of playwright Paula Vogel (at left) - or at least of the influence she has wielded from her academic posts in the playwriting depar…
Gabriel Kuttner, Liz Hayes, and Daniel Berger-Jones get romantic in Love Song.
I admit that up until recently I kind of hated playwright John Kolvenbach. I detested his Fabuloso, …
My apologies for not posting for the past few days, but I've been on my annual trek to the Stratford Festival in Canada, where, yes, I saw even more Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus, Richard I…
You never know who you'll meet on the T - or in "The T Plays."
The Mill 6 Collaborative's "T Plays" have become, as fellow blogger Art Hennessey has noted, one of our small theatre scene's f…
Photo: Mark Simpson
I did promise I would try to find out more about the sudden "hiatus" announced this week by Boston's Publick Theatre (see post below), so I chatted with its (now former) …
This just in:Publick Theatre Boston announces the resignations of Artistic Director Diego Arciniegas and Producing Director Susanne Nitter. The theatre's board of directors has voted to put …
Why are these guys so ugly? Oh, yeah - they can actually play their instruments!I'm not sure why it should have happened, but recently, while I was watching a new play in which the lea…
Parolles (Fred Sullivan, Jr.) gets his comeuppance in All's Well that Ends Well.
The critics have been singing the praises of Commonwealth Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, so I stopp…
The arts blog at the Times has printed a letter Stephen Sondheim (left) has sent to the editor regarding its fawning coverage of Diane Paulus's "updating" of Porgy and Bess. And boy, do…
Kristine Nielsen and Jeremy Webb in She Stoops to Conquer.
I haven't caught much theatre in Boston of late, I'm sorry to say - I'm afraid other destinations have just proven too tempting. Ho…
Jonjo O'Neill as Orlando in As You Like It
I've been mulling my assessment of the Royal Shakespeare Company's visit to New York for about a week now - because the achievement and the experie…
The RSC's new mainstage in Stratford-on-Avon.My visit to the Royal Shakespeare Company festival down in New York last weekend inevitably reminded me that we don't really have a great stage f…
The female bird of prey in "Savage Beauty."The hottest ticket in New York right now is to a museum show - "Savage Beauty," the Met's tribute to bad-boy gay couturier Alexander McQueen. …
Tonight, I'm off to New York to see the Royal Shakespeare Company in As You Like It, Julius Caesar, The Winter's Tale and King Lear (above, the RSC stage under construction in the Park Avenu…
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Like every other blog worth reading, we continue the Hub Review tradition of posting the latest OK Go video, which this time is an amusing collaboration with Pilobolus. Enjoy (there are als…
Francisco Solorzano and Timothy John Smith share back stories in Last Day.There's been a bit of chatter of late in the blogosphere around new play development; a few influential theatre…
