Lyric stage company of boston

Theatre Review: These “Woods” Are Lovely, Dark, and Deep

May 22, 2014
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The Lyric Stage Company’s thoroughly enjoyable production more than does “Into the Woods,” Stephen Sondheim’s un-Disneyfied version of fairy tales, justice.

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Theater Review: A Moderately Powerful “Death of a Salesman” from The Lyric Stage Company

February 25, 2014
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A lack of dramatic combustion sometimes makes the Lyric Stage Company production, despite its intelligent detail, more staidly melodramatic than it should be.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Becky’s New Car” — A Song of the Open Road

December 7, 2013
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“Becky’s New Car” turns out to be a ride worth taking, especially if we suspend our disbelief long enough to embrace the notion that malice is not necessarily aforethought even though our actions might be construed to suggest otherwise.

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Theater Review: “One Man, Two Guvnors” — From Brighton to Boston

September 12, 2013
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Director Spiro Veloudos keeps the clockwork running smoothly, not just ensuring that that the actors keep the rhythm, but making use of a skilled backstage crew who engineer (miraculously and on time) scenery and costume changes.

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Theater Review: An Uneven Evening Out “On The Town”

May 20, 2013
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The Lyric Stage Company of Boston’s production can’t quite get its arms around all of the varied elements in this exhilarating musical, but some terrific performances make up for other weaknesses.

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Theater Review: “Time Stands Still” — A Too Distant Echo of the War in Iraq

February 25, 2012
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When young photographers went up to the famous war photographer, Robert Capa, and asked him what they could do to make their pictures more gripping, he said: “Go closer!”

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Theater Review: The Portrait of a 17th Century Artist as a Young Woman

October 19, 2011
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Liz Duffy Adams’ affectionate look at Aphra Behn’s rise to public prominence, despite prejudice against her gender, comes off as a sort of farcical love letter to an ink-stained ancestor that at times suggests a Shavian talk fest in a minor key.

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Theater Review: An Enjoyable If Unmemorable Trip Down the “Big River”

September 12, 2011
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The impressive cast and lovely, atmospheric design of the Lyric Stage production cannot completely overcome the flaws of “Big River,” but they make the trip a scenic, often amusing, and enjoyable theatrical journey.

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Fuse Theater Review: Death Be Not Sappy

April 10, 2011
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William King is a loving, self-sacrificing, salt-of-the-earth character mooning over the vanished past; Sonia is a saintly wife yearning for hubby to join her in Heaven; the sons care for each other and for their father—time to pull out your hankies. Broke-ology by Nathan Louis Jackson. Directed by Benny Sato Ambush. Staged by the Lyric…

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Fuse Theater Review: A Pleasant if Thin “Understudy”

January 9, 2011
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The tragicomic idea is that the existential futility of Franz Kafka’s world reflects life in the theater. The characters gloriously quixotic love for the stage battles against commercial greed, egomania, and psychological mess-ups. The Understudy by Theresa Rebeck. Directed by Larry Coen. Staged by the Lyric Stage Company of Boston at the 140 Clarendon Street…

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