Lyric Stage Company

Theater Review: The Lyric Stage Company is not “Afraid of Virginia Woolf”

January 30, 2017
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Edward Albee’s bitter masterwork is a tough nut for a company to crack as well as a hard play to watch.

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Theater Review: “Mr. Burns” at the Lyric Stage — Not so Electrifying

April 14, 2016
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Anne Washburn has a number of good ideas in this play, but the execution falls short.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Sondheim on Sondheim” — A Terrific Overview of the Man Behind the Musicals

January 24, 2016
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The revue is a moving and hilarious mixture of reminiscences and stories about Sondheim’s life and a well-chosen sampler of his songs.

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Theater Review: A ‘Loverly’ “My Fair Lady” From the Lyric Stage

September 7, 2015
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Simplicity is the key to director Scott Edmiston’s passionate vision for this musical.

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Theater Review: Lyric Stage’s “City of Angels” — A Witty, Jazzy Delight

April 7, 2015
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The Lyric Stage Company’s entertaining production of this Tony-winner for best musical, book, and score hits most of the right noirish notes.

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Theater Review: “Working, A Musical” — A Pleasantly Uneven Hymn to the Working Man

January 6, 2014
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The challenges of this musical are to keep things buoyant yet insightful (and with some backbone) about a subject many of us dread, namely work and its drudgery.

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Culture Vulture: Answer this “Dead Man’s Cell Phone”

October 19, 2009
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Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Carmel O’Reilly. Produced by the the Lyric Stage Company at the YWCA Building on the corner of Clarendon Street and Stuart Street, Boston, MA, through November 14. Reviewed by Helen Epstein Improbable though it seems these days with multiple requests to turn off electronics before performances,…

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