“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
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