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Theater Interview: The Lyric Stage’s Great Expectations

Like just about everything nowadays, the word epic has been downsized, cut and packaged for the short-attention-span generation. Sure, there are ballyhooed mammoth projects, such as the recent films of James Cameron, but the director/producer pulled them off after years of preparation and with millions of dollars at his disposal. By Chantal Mendes. You want […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Charles Dickens, David Edgar, Lyric stage company of boston, Spiro Veloudos, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Coming Attractions in Theater: October 2010

October brings in epics from the classics (Shakespeare and Dickens), ghost stories from the classics (Poe, Henry James), a tragicomedy from a classic (O’Neill), and a comedy from a classic (Ben Jonson). Annie Baker, Ethan Coen, and the Rude Mechanicals provide some welcome respite from the tried-and-true. Given the state of the economy and the […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: 11:11 Theater Company, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Actors' Shakespeare Project, Amost an Evening, Annie Baker, ArtsEmerson, Body Awareness, Charlestown Working Theater, Circle Mirror Transformation, Company One, David Edgar, Edgar Allan Poe, Four Places. Ben Jonson, Laurence Senelick, Lyric stage company of boston, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Nora Theatre Company, Robert Hatcher, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Stoneham Theatre, The Alchemist, The Aliens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Method Gun, The Turn of the Screw, William-Shakespeare

Coming Attractions in Theater: September 2010

A whole lot of deconstruction of the classics going on this month, along with productions of scripts by familiar homegrown names, from William Inge and David Mamet to Sarah Ruhl. A visit from a master puppeteer and a show about race that’s “recommended for mature audiences” look intriguing. By Bill Marx The Real Inspector Hound […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: Alice vs. Wonderland, art, ArtsEmerson, Blair Thomas, Boston, Boston Marriage, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Bus Stop, Charlestown Working Theater, David Mamet, Five Down One Across, Fraulein Maria, Hard Headed Heart, Huntington-Theatre-Company, ICA, Lyric stage company of boston, Michael Towers, New England, New Repertory Theatre, Nicholas Martin, Perfect Harmony, Publick Theater Boston, Stoneham Theatre, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Real Inspector Hound, The Shipment, Theater, Young Jean Lee

Theater Review: A Boffo ‘Blithe Spirit’

What makes a comedy a sure-fire hit? Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward. Directed by Spiro Veloudos. Staged by the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Boston, MA, through June 5. Reviewed By Helen Epstein That was one of the few questions I was taking the trouble to ask myself while giving in to the sheer enjoyment […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Blythe Spirit, Boston, Culture Vulture, Lyric stage company of boston, Noel-Coward, Spiro Veloudos, Theater

Theater Commentary: Isn’t It a Question of Relevance?

The reviews of the Huntington Theatre Company (HTC) production were generally ecstatic. And what could be timelier than an oft-produced American drama that focuses on the tragic costs of war profiteering?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: A Question of Mercy, All My Sons, American-Repertory-Theatre, Arthur Miller, BCAP, Boston, Bread and Puppet Theater, Clifford Odets, David-Rabe, Groundswell, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Jim Petosa, Lyric stage company of boston, Paradise Lost, Persona Non Grata, Relevance, Tear Open the Door of Heaven, Theater

Coming Attractions in Theater: November 2009

By Bill Marx Somewhere an enterprising graduate student is working on a trenchant study of the correlation between holiday stage entertainment and the American economy. When things were looking bright and profitable the shows became cynical and comic, with mischievous elves placing whoopee cushions under our delusions of good cheer. Now that unemployment is high […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: A Civil War Christmas, American Repertory Theater, Best of Both Worlds, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Boston-Conservatory, Charlestown Working Theater, Donald Margulies, Huntington Theater Company, John Kuntz, Lyric stage company of boston, Machinal, November theater picks, Out on the Edge, Paula-Vogel, Shipwrecked!, Theater Offensive, Zeitgeist Stage Company

Coming Attractions: Culture Vulture’s October Picks

by Helen Epstein I’m looking forward to what looks to be the best fall foliage season in years in the Berkshires. American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell at the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA through October 12. A very popular summer exhibit has been held over. It covers Rockwell’s entire 65-year career, interpreted and […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured Tagged: Barrington Stage, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cole-Porter, Culture Vulture, First Monday at Jordan Hall, Gloucester, kiss me kate, La Cause des Livres, Lyric stage company of boston, Norman Rockwell, October picks, Pittsfield, Rockwell Museum, Susan Erony, The Laramie Project, White-Ellery House

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