The Lyric Stage Company of Boston

Theater Review: “The Treasurer” — Lives of Quiet Disconnection

February 25, 2020
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Cheryl McMahon is quietly spectacular as Ida, who tries desperately to conceal her cognitive decline behind a wall of egocentric cheerfulness that borders on the frantic.

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Theater Review: “The Little Foxes” — American Greed Triumphant

March 2, 2019
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The Lyric Stage Company’s The Little Foxes is taut, tense, and eerily reflective of our own uneasy, pernicious times.

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Theater Review: “Dear Elizabeth” — Letters That Celebrate Love, Friendship, and Literary Art

October 20, 2014
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Whether or not you’re familiar with Elizabeth Bishop or Robert Lowell, their worlds or their poetry, you should hasten to this show.

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Theater Review: Cut and Slash Done With Panache — Lyric Stage Delivers a High-Caliber “Sweeney Todd”

September 13, 2014
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To darken a story that already hinges on rape, murder, and cannibalism takes some doing, but the edgy Lyric Stage production pulls it off.

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Theater Review: “Water by the Spoonful” — Needy Pen Pals in Cyberspace

November 1, 2013
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Director Scott Edmiston’s carefully staged production generates sympathy chiefly because of some deft acting rather than the writing.

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Theater Review: “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” — Take Two

April 9, 2013
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“By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” suggests the dismissive attitude the public has toward African American actors, but the script doesn’t go far enough to make its title character three-dimensional.

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Theater Review: “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” — On Race and Hollywood

April 6, 2013
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The chief glory of the Lyric Stage production: an ensemble of eight actors that agilely accents the humor dramatist Lynn Nottage utilizes to temper her examination of the darker racial and political subtexts of the period.

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Theater Review: A Compelling “33 Variations”

January 9, 2013
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The Lyric Stage actors and pianist Catherine Stornetta do an excellent job making all of “33 Variations” intelligible and, sometimes, very funny.

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Theater Review: A “Mikado” That’s a Joy to Hear and Behold

September 13, 2012
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The well sung, classically staged Lyric Stage production of “The Mikado” supplies plenty of trip down memory lane satisfactions.

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