“He went to China for basketball but quickly finds himself playing a very different game.”
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LOVE SPENT: THE TREASURER AT THE LYRIC STAGE
★★☆☆☆
In Max Posner’s The Treasurer, a middle-aged man who doesn’t love his mother—and seems to hate himself for it—finds himself in the position of having to take charge ...
ON STAGE NOW: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, DOLLY PARTON’S SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS CAROL, CHRISTMAS ON URANUS, AND OLIVER!
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS AT THE LYRIC STAGE
★★☆☆☆
Forget “whodunnit,” the bigger question is “who cares.”
An ensemble cast of beloved local actors doing their best is what Murder on the Orient Express ...
PEAK ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE: BOSTON’S LARGER STAGES DON’T NEED TO BE MORE LIKE THE MOVIES. THEY NEED TO BE MORE LIKE THE SMALL STAGES.
Boston’s larger stages don’t need to be more like the movies. They need to be more like the small stages.
IT’S TURKEY LURKEY TIME: LYRIC STAGE SCORES WITH THE THANKSGIVING PLAY
★★★★☆
Turkeys aren’t the only creatures on the chopping block in The Thanksgiving Play, an irresistible satire by Larissa FastHorse currently in its final week at the Lyric ...
ON STAGE NOW: THE FANGS THAT BIND, A CHURCH DIVIDED, AND ONE OF THE WORST PLAYS I HAVE EVER SEEN
BARE STAGE AT FESTIVAL THEATRE COMPANY
no stars
If I do nothing else this year but spare you from suffering through Michael Walker’s bare stage, then 2019 will have been a very successful year for me.
Undeniably the most miserable, misguided, and self-indulgent play I have ever seen, ...
TELL IT STRONG AND CLEAR
“I thought, there’s more than one woman in Camelot,” said Veloudos, “and to fill out the kingdom you have to have more women involved, or Guenevere is extremely busy during the ‘Lusty Month of May.’"
A FAMILY AFFAIR, WITH A TWIST: BARBECUE AT THE LYRIC STAGE
Don’t be fooled by the wide, bold brushstrokes that give life to Barbecue, Robert O’Hara’s invigoratingly original comedy that opens at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston on April 7.
INTERVIEW: SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY MORNING PLAYWRIGHT KATORI HALL
Rewriting the narrative and making history
ART-Y HANGS: REAP THE CULTURAL BOUNTY IN TOWN WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK
Whether you’re new to Boston or you’ve just returned for another semester, students—and young people in general—are eligible for some of the best deals in the city.
LABOR OF LOVE: INTIMATE APPAREL AT THE LYRIC STAGE COMPANY
Intimate Apparel the latest in a streak of vibrant representations of people of color.
HOT TICKET: ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE, AND NOW YOU CAN AFFORD IT
There are a couple hundred performing arts organizations in the area, and while we’d like to comb through the fine print of each and spotlight the ways to make them all accessible, well, we’d need a bigger boat. We also know you don’t have the attention ...
ACCESS THE ARTS: ENJOY ALL THE SCENE HAS TO OFFER
If you're a student who blew through your semester’s savings by the end of September, someone who hands over each paycheck directly to their landlord, or someone busy working to find work, sneezing next to one of greater Boston's many arts institutions can feel like an overdraft threat to your bank account. That should’t be the case, and in many instances, it’s not.
