810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
The funniest thing onstage in Boston this summer - and maybe the funniest thing you'll see on a local stage all year - is the scene above, from And the World Goes 'Round (at the New Rep thro…
Jim Meskimen, man of a thousand vocal impressions, squeezes 25 of them into Clarence's famous monologue from Richard III, in a performance that's a kind of deep meditation on manner and mann…
Only rarely does a work of art derived from Shakespeare equal - much less surpass! - the artistic standard set by its source. I can think of only one such case, in fact: Verdi's final opera,…
Most of the cast of The Good Doctor.The fringe scene is enduring a blow right now: the Independent Drama Society, which has offered consistently high-quality productions over the past t…
It's hard not sound a little funny when you're talking about organs. For instance, when I say that Boston is home to some small organs, some beautiful organs, and some enormous organs (like …
Greg Cook, of the awesome blog New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, and I have been chatting recently about the recent developments at the Rose Art Museum. We thought we'd share those …
I know it's NSFW, but hey, it's the weekend.People have been asking - will I still be handing out Hubbies, now that I've sworn off several theatre companies due to the their participation in…
Rie Ogura and Joshua Andino Nieto as Laurie and Curly in the "dream ballet."Anyone in the Boston area who cares about musical theatre will want to be one place this weekend: in the auditoriu…
Red Priest in action.It's hard not to get a kick out of Red Priest (above), a British baroque ensemble that injects a little 80's metal attitude into the early music scene (I really wish the…
Drew Pulver with (L to R): TS Burnham & Zachary Magee; Back: Haley Sullivan & Mark Turner.Right now Gloucester Stage is on a roll. They just closed an impeccable production of Alan A…
This isn't a picture, actually, of MilkMilkLemonade - but it is of Heart and Dagger, and it's very them!When my old buddy Joey Pelletier asked me to see his current show, MilkMilkLemonade (i…
The talented cast of Sisters of Swing.I had a nice time at Stoneham Theatre's Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters (which plays through July 24). And I have a hunch that i…
My friend and fellow blogger Greg Cook seems to be branching out from art criticism to the thing itself - or at least that's how I feel after checking out a recent post on his blog, The New …
The Cherry Orchard gets lost in wheat, fields of wheat at the National Theatre.The simulcast phenomenon has been widely praised for bringing world-class performances to …
The news is good from ArtsEmerson, even if the Globe doesn't want you to think so.The Boston Globe includes an interesting statistic today - you have to look for it, though; it's buried in a…
Last weekend I had the opportunity to catch up with Kelley Donovan and Dancers at the Dance Center in Cambridge. Donovan is a leading light of the local dance scene, and performs regularly …
There's no lovelier place to listen to classical music in the Boston area than the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport. If you doubt me, merely cast a glance northward; that'…
Politically and culturally, ours is a backward-looking nation. In our politics, we endlessly battle over the legacy of the 60's, and much of our pop culture still takes its cues from the 70'…
. . . you could do worse than 'cast' a glance at this posting on the Stage Source blog. (Be sure to read the comments.) The post, by Member Services Manager Jeremy Joh…
Chihuly's Ikebana Boat: shouldn't some Oompa-Loompas be rowing this thing?Recently something very strange occurred in the pages of the Boston Globe. Its star art critic, Sebastian Smee, whos…
Lindsay Crouse and Richard Snee in Living Together.Last summer it seemed I was alone in raving over Gloucester Stage's production of Table Manners, the first play in Alan Ayckbourn's ce…
As I'm sure many Hub Review readers are aware, the world-famous Barnes Foundation (above), which many consider the greatest private collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, and early…
Jesse Blumberg and Amanda Forsythe in Niobe, Regina di Tebe.The Boston Early Music Festival's production of Agostino Steffani's Niobe, Regina di Tebe is, in a way, precisely what an accurate…
I haven't been able to find out much about this performance, dubbed "Chinese Hands" on the web, but it's so striking I thought I'd share it with you. What few scraps of info I've been able …
There's been a resurgence of interest of late in My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe's classic musical transformation of Shaw's Pygmalion. The Stoneham Theatre did a strong production last year,…
