810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
Cellist Guy Fishman - photo: Stu RosnerI was fortunate to be invited to a musical soirée given by players of the Handel and Haydn Society recently at the Museum of Fine Arts (well, perhaps …
Laura de Noves, believed to have been Petrarch's LauraIt's hard to exaggerate the contributions of Francesco Petrarca, known to the English speaking world as Petrarch, to the Renaissance, th…
Fragonard's The Lover Crowned.Boston Baroque made love and war last weekend, with a mostly sparkling program that yoked together that perennial odd couple, Venus and Mars - or at least their…
The full cast of Company.Today's sad news is that likable Moonbox Productions is still stuck in something of a sophomore slump. Early on, the company wowed the local scene with hits like Flo…
Schubert's Winterreise ("Winter Journey") is, by common accord, the darkest song cycle ever composed - in a tone of ever deepening despair, it follows a spurned lover who stumbles throu…
In which we continue our survey of the greatest meditations on love the cinema has so far produced - A Short Film About Love (1988)Krzysztof KieÅ›lowski's extension of an oblique vignett…
Keith Mascoll, Johnny Lee Davenport and Jesse Hinson in The Whipping Man.Sometimes one good idea - and a cast to put it over - is all a new play needs.Or at least that's what I thought as th…
Like beauty, romance lies in the eye of the beholder. So I shouldn't have been surprised, when I asked my friends in recent weeks, "What would you say are the most romantic films of all time…
Kirill GersteinRarely has a performance been curated with such subtle thematic intent as Kirill Gerstein's at Celebrity Series last weekend.Its calling card was the Boston premiere of wunder…
Jenna Lea Scott bids Baltimore a good morning in Hairspray.By now you've probably heard the word, but just in case you haven't, the Wheelock Family Theatre's Hairspray (through Feb. 23) is a…
I'm late with an appreciation of the Handel and Haydn Society's last concert, which is strange because I appreciated it quite a bit. But then I'm always intrigued by a concert when Richard E…
On the road with the Joads - and America - as the Great Recession and the Great Depression coalesce.For the foundation of their haunting, high-tech meditation on the Great Recession, House/D…
The Broadway baritone himself.Sometimes there's not much to say in a review - particularly in a rave about a performer who's already a known quantity. The talent is too obvious; the command …
Miche Braden as Bessie Smith. Bessie Smith lives.I know this because I've just seen (and heard) The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith (through this weekend at Merri…
Joel Colodner and Jeremiah Kissel in Imagining Madoff. Photo: Andrew Brilliant.A small shock wave rippled through theatrical circles in 2010, when Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel abrupt…
Catherine Manson and James Boyd in action.What a night.I'm actually still in something of a daze after last weekend's appearance by the London Haydn Quartet at the Boston Early Music Fe…
Go for the cheap food, not the cheap industrial chic - The Sinclair Kitchen in Cambridge.I routinely ignore the opinions of rock music fans on just about everything - but I admit their taste…
Aubin Wise, Lovely Huffman, and the color purple. Photos: Glenn Perry PhotographyI confess I've always had mixed feelings about Alice Walker's The Color Purple, and its trajectory throu…
Ryan Valente and Ayako Takahashi in rehearsal.I suppose "breaking down barriers" counts as one of our current cultural mantras. And as such slogans go - well, I suppose it's not bad. &…
William Schuller and Michael Underhill do do that voodoo in Rumpelstiltskin.You could argue that Matthew Woods' Imaginary Beasts never stray far from the precincts of childhood - even when t…
The happy couple in Venus in Fur.Playwright David Ives has been adamant that his source material for Venus in Fur, Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch's notorious ode to sado-masochism, is…
Thou Shalt Not Steal, 1918It's considered poor form to speculate on the sex lives of the dead, I know.And yet it's always tempting - particularly in such cases as John Singer Sargent's. &nbs…
Santa Maria della Salute, 1904Even in his lifetime, John Singer Sargent was aware of the critical rap against him: all flash, no substance - indeed, serious modernists still frown at the men…
"Brother Trucker" and his "rig." Photo: Mark S. HowardThe lowdown on Working (at the Lyric Stage through February 1) is that much of it doesn't quite work - and that goes both for the m…
Boston Baroque's New Year's Day galas have long been among the most enjoyable concert traditions in town; conductor Martin Pearlman (below left) always seems to bring just the right touch to…
