810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
Gil Rose and BMOP in action.Like almost everyone else (I'd bet), I went to the recent Boston Modern Orchestra Project production of Four Saints in Three Acts out of pure curiosity. Could Vir…
Yes, you read that right. When I arrived at my seat at Boston Lyric Opera's production of Lizzie Borden tonight (performed in the atmospheric Park Plaza Castle) there seemed to be some…
Soprano Deborah VoigtYou only have till tonight to catch "Voigt Lessons," a mix of reminiscence and music by soprano Deborah Voigt (left), which plays at the Calderwood as part of Celebrity …
Alex Pollock and Brandon Whitehead in Windowmen.After my recent cri de coeur over the sad state of the season's new plays, I felt I owed it to myself to check out Steven Barkhimer's Win…
So you can all stop sending me this clip, all you Abe Lincolns and Martin Luther Kings out there, who have endured my slings and arrows over the years. Although btw, I did get a kick o…
Meredith Stypinski goes for it as Selby. Photo: Chris McKenzieI admit Caryl Churchill's The After-Dinner Joke can sometimes feel like merely a witty aside to the rest of her oeuvre. Actually…
There is something about the miniature that always charms - just as the mechanical exudes its own tiny tug of fascination. Entwine them together, and you're halfway toward explaining the hyp…
Conductor Grant Llewellyn in action. Photo: Michael LutchIt's a nice problem to have, applause that won't stop. Some might not call it a problem at all. But whatever it was, it started…
It's hard to deny that in Boston, so far this has been the weakest theatrical season in memory. And it's not too hard to see why: in two words - new plays. This fall I've sat thr…
Francisco Graciano in Perpetual DawnWe haven't seen the Paul Taylor Dance Company in these parts for some time, so their recent appearance at Celebrity Series last weekend was more than mere…
Gary Lydon and Gavan O'Herlihy as Estragon and Pozzo.I wouldn't reckon that the Gare St. Lazare Players' production of Waiting for Godot (at Arts Emerson through this weekend) will light a f…
Martin PearlmanThe most recent installment of Boston Baroque's New Directions series, dubbed "Time Curves," played to half a house two weekends ago at Pickman Concert Hall, apparently becaus…
Lasha Khozashvili does know how to make an entrance. Photos: Gene Schiavone.La Bayadère is the ballet pageant to end all ballet pageants. Which may be both its great streng…
As Hub Review fans know, we're all about the time lapse. And here is a charming one taken at the recent Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. Shot and edited by Joel Schat (http://www.joels…
Every October, people begin asking for a replay of a Hub Review tradition - our list of "scary movies for smart people." It's almost too late to watch one of these on Hallowe…
Michael Underfhill in "Vampirella."I'll admit the only theatre piece I've seen this fall (aside from The Jungle Book) that has gotten me truly excited was Hairy Tales, a dramatization of two…
The chorus of the Handel and Haydn Society.A sad shadow seemed to linger over Handel and Haydn's season opener, Bach's Mass in B Minor (now some three weeks in the past!), as the orchestra h…
Matthew Bausone and Eric Folks in columbinus.Verbatim theatre, the hot stage trend of the millennium, seems to have slowly fallen apart at the seams. Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror…
As my Facebook friends know, the Hub Review has spent the last two weeks in sunny Spain. (Above, toasting the trip with the partner unit at a cafe across from the Prado - photo by my b…
Laura Latreille and Joseph Adams in God of Carnage. Photo: Meghan Moore.We've already seen Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage once in the Boston area (in a slightly awkward misfire at …
Erica Spyres introduces James Caverly to sign.There's nothing quite as touching as the poignant theatre of identity politics. I mean that. I, too, am touched by the victims who p…
Christina English and Aliana de la Guardia in No Exit. You have to give Guerilla Opera some serious props. A production like their recent version of Andy Vores' No Exit…
On the road with the cast at Trinity. Photo: Mark Turek.Like Boston Ballet, the venerable Trinity Rep down in Providence is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year; and to kick off …
Mowgli (Akash Chopra) with his best bud Baloo (Kevin Carolan). Photos: Liz Lauren.There's no denying that the great Mary Zimmerman's The Jungle Book (at the Huntington through October 20) is…
Photo: Daniel BlueLast Saturday marked not only the official beginning of Boston Ballet's 50th Anniversary Season, but also a big step up for the company in terms of the city's popular consc…
