810 stories by "Thomas Garvey"
Tiffany Chen, Aimee Doherty, and McCaela Donovan. Photos: Mark S. HowardThere's an inherent tension in commedia dell'arte between performer and author - and often in history, the perfo…
The musical forces required by Rienzi. Photo: Kathy Wittman.Every day, I suppose, something surprising happens. But surely the brief local bow (one night only!) of Wagner's …
Just in case you haven't heard, Boston Ballet celebrates its 50th anniversary this weekend by taking its "Night of Stars" gala to Boston Common - offered free to the city at 7 pm on Saturday…
Jordan Ahnquist is schooled by Sophori Ngin in Seminar. Photos: David Costa.My readers know I'm no fan of Theresa Rebeck; at her best she's a clever craftsman, but at her worst she's little …
Tim Spears as Joseph (john) Merrick. Production photos: Andrew Brilliant.Ah, The Elephant Man. I've never quite understood the praise that playwright Bernard Pomerance's only success r…
The talented cast of The Libertine.When it first swaggers on stage, Stephen Jeffreys' The Libertine seems truly seductive - rather like its eponymous hero, John Wilmot (the 2nd Earl of …
The talented players of A Far Cry, with nary a conductor in sight. Photo: Yoon S. ByunIt isn't often that a music organization manages to unconsciously diagnose a deep problem in the culture…
Yes, the fall season has begun in earnest - even if the music and dance scenes are only just beginning to come to life, the theatrical calendar is already crowded. This weekend alone I am se…
That's the disturbing question moving behind Stephen Jimenez's new book, The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard, which substantially debunks the "official story"…
Lindsay Crouse and Johnny Lee Davenport in Driving Miss Daisy. Photo: Gary NgIf you haven't noticed, it's beginning to feel like "That 80's Show" on the local theatre scene. The …
As you no doubt have heard, Woody Allen's latest, Blue Jasmine, is one of his best in years.That doesn't mean, however, that it's an unqualified success; indeed, Jasmine is at least a partia…
Jason Myatt and Janelle Mills meet cute in The T Plays.I was probably the first critic with a substantial audience to pay any attention to the T Plays, so ever since its premiere season I've…
An eloquent testament to the slow destruction of life as we (used to) know it.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
Portrait by Ross WilsonDigging Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun.Under my window, a clean rasping soundWhen the spade sinks into gravelly ground:My father…
In the digital age, "Easter egg" has assumed a double meaning: today we use it to refer to a little lagniappe tucked away in an app, or nestled in a file hidden somewhere in a disc, which ca…
The graceful bar at Lineage.My second Restaurant Week outing of the summer brought me to Lineage, just outside Coolidge Corner, which is best known for its subtle way with seafood. But…
Restaurant Week always draws my partner and I out of our culinary rut to new spots we haven't tried before - and this week we took advantage of the $38 three-course menus at La Voile on Newb…
Surconsommation by AssoEnTouteFranchiseI don't know too much about it - only that its title, appropriately enough, is Overconsumption . . . (And amusingly enough, you have to sit through an …
Envy (Graham Abbey) meets jealousy (Dion Johnstone) in the Stratford Festival's Othello.Shakespeare's tragedies often set Aristotle on his ear, one way or another. Taken together, they…
Seana McKenna and Ben Carlson in Mary Stuart.Hub Review readers are familiar with my annual trek to Canada's Stratford Festival, now inarguably the greatest classical theatre in the hemisphe…
Ayckbourn's characters share a cup of Christmas cheer in Absurd Person Singular. Photo: A.R. Sinclair.I'm a bit surprised by the positive reviews for the Nora Theatre's Absurd Person Singula…
John prepares for action.I'm afraid I must pause today to note the passing of a musician and a friend: John Ernest Grimes (at left), timpanist of the Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baro…
The talented cast of Why Torture is Wrong, etc.There's a special dismay in realizing your own politics don't make for great theatre - it's a strangely sinking feeling that dogged my experien…
Around Saturn from fabio di donato on Vimeo.This montage of imagery from the spacecraft Cassini is not only a startling scientific document, it's also a wry tribute to Stanley Kubrick, as it…
We return now to a conversation we began with Mikko Nissinen, Artistic Director of the Boston Ballet, some weeks ago, just before the company embarked on a successful tour to London. H…
