Lyric Stage Company

Theater Review: “Yellow Face” — Playing With Reality

June 8, 2024
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The Lyric Stage Company’s production of David Henry Hwang’s Obie award-winning play is serviceably absorbing.

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Theater Review: An On-Target “Assassins”

October 6, 2023
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Assassinations may be so-last-generation, but gun violence, and what it reflects about American culture and human depravity, defines our own era as much as any.

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Theater Review: “The Light” — Squeeze Play

June 12, 2022
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This is a quicksilver drama about how a loving couple reacts as devastating bolts of lightning strike.

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Theater Review: “The Roommate” — Iowan Yin Yang

November 9, 2018
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The moral of Jen Silverman’s yarn is straightforward enough: we are in a country where self-transformation has become an end in itself, re-invention a default response to omnipresent banality.

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Theater Review: “The Wiz”: Not in Kansas Anymore

June 5, 2018
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A delicious, comforting gumbo of a Wiz with all the right ingredients for an upbeat, entertaining evening (or afternoon) at the theater.

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Theater Review: “Orlando” — Asking What Gender Really Means

March 13, 2018
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There is much to love in this Lyric Stage Company production and I recommend it highly.

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Theater Review: “Road Show” — Sondheim’s Latest Gets Its Boston Premiere

January 23, 2018
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Tony Castellanos as Wilson Mizner, with cast of "Road Show."

Road Show is unlikely to top anyone’s list of Sondheim favorites, it’s an often entertaining take on a quintessentially American story.

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Theater Review: “Hold These Truths” — A Vital Lesson

December 11, 2017
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Hold These Truths is an invaluable reminder that alternative facts are not a new thing.

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Theater Review: “Souvenir” — An Intimate Gem

November 11, 2017
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Spiro Veloudos and his talented cast has given us an evening in the theater when all that makes us human comes to the fore.

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Theater Review: “Barbecue” — Not Enough Meat on These Bones

April 18, 2017
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Beneath Barbecue’s jokes there’s little but a chic cynicism.

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