Ken Ludwig’s stage version of Murder on the Orient Express is an enjoyable diversion.
Spiro Veloudos
Theater Review: “Pacific Overtures” — A Civilization on the Brink of Change
Pacific Overtures offers a history lesson — but it is an entertaining, moving, thought-provoking, and timely one.
Theater Review: “The Roommate” — Iowan Yin Yang
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.
Theater Review: “Souvenir” — An Intimate Gem
Spiro Veloudos and his talented cast has given us an evening in the theater when all that makes us human comes to the fore.
Fuse Theater Review: “Company” — What We Sing About When We Sing About Love
There’s a lot of love in the Lyric Stage Company’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 Tony Award winning show, Company.
Theater Review: Peter Pan Prequel — A Little Too Heavy to Take Off
At the Lyric Stage Company, Peter and the Starcatcher charms, but doesn’t quite take flight.
Fuse Theater Review: “Sondheim on Sondheim” — A Terrific Overview of the Man Behind the Musicals
The revue is a moving and hilarious mixture of reminiscences and stories about Sondheim’s life and a well-chosen sampler of his songs.
Theater Review: Lyric Stage’s “City of Angels” — A Witty, Jazzy Delight
The Lyric Stage Company’s entertaining production of this Tony-winner for best musical, book, and score hits most of the right noirish notes.
Theatre Review: These “Woods” Are Lovely, Dark, and Deep
The Lyric Stage Company’s thoroughly enjoyable production more than does “Into the Woods,” Stephen Sondheim’s un-Disneyfied version of fairy tales, justice.
Theater Review: A Moderately Powerful “Death of a Salesman” from The Lyric Stage Company
A lack of dramatic combustion sometimes makes the Lyric Stage Company production, despite its intelligent detail, more staidly melodramatic than it should be.