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WHERE THERE IS CAKE, THERE IS HOPE: THE CAKE AT THE LYRIC STAGE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted January 21, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★★

 

Inspired by the now infamous case of the Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, Bekah Brunstetter uses that basic conflict as a jumping off point for The Cake ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Bekah Brunstetter, Chelsea Diehl, Courtney O'Connor, Fred Sullivan Jr, Karen MacDonald, Kris Sidberry, Lyric Stage, Theater Review

NOPE-DA-DOO: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS LIMPS AT LYRIC STAGE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted September 10, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★☆☆

 

If ever there was a musical that embodied the notion of “the little musical that could,” it would be Little Shop of Horrors, the kooky 1982 Off-Broadway musical that ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Alan Menken, Carla Martinez, Dan Prior, Howard Ashman, Jeff Marcus, Katrina Z Pavao, Lovely Hoffman, Lyric Stage, Pier Lamia Porter, Rachel Bertone, Remo Airaldi, Theater Review, Tim Hoover, Yewande Odetoyinbo

THE LITTLE FOXES CREW MAKES CASE FOR HELLMAN

Written by JUAN A. RAMIREZ Posted February 15, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

Lyric Stage considers Lillian Hellman’s opus and legacy

 

The Little Foxes cuts straight into the heart of American morality at a time when the nation is at a turning point. With women striving for recognition, shifting racial politics creating visible friction and ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Boston, Lyric Stage, review, theater

THE WOLVES SCORE BIG AT LYRIC STAGE

Written by JUAN A. RAMIREZ Posted January 23, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★★

 

“Maybe we shouldn’t use the B-word?”

 

The ways a group of teenage girls treat each other is often at the forefront of The Wolves. In the Lyric Stage production ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: A. Nora Long, Lydia Barnett-Mulligan, Lyric Stage, Sarah DeLappe

ROLAND IN THE DEEP: FRONT PORCH ARTS COLLECTIVE DEBUTS AT THE LYRIC STAGE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 12, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Davron S. Monroe with Asher Denburg. Photo by Mark S. Howard.

 

★★★★★

 

The Front Porch Arts Collective raised a few eyebrows this past spring when its name was found in the season announcements of three prominent Boston theater companies: Central Square Theater, Greater Boston Stage Company, and the Lyric Stage, Boston’s ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Asher Denburg, daniel beaty, Davron S. Monroe, Dawn M. Simmons, Doug Gerber, Front Porch Arts Collective, Lyric Stage, Maurice Emmanuel Parent, Nile Scott Hawver, roland hayes, Yewande Odetoyinbo

FRONT PORCH PUSHES THEATRICAL DIVERSITY

Written by JUAN A. RAMIREZ Posted November 29, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

A new black-led Boston theater company prepares its inaugural season

 

The hard truth about Boston is that it’s a fairly racist city. It’s evident in its social dynamics and made painfully (in)visible in its cultural scene. At least Dawn M. Simmons, the artistic director of the city’s first black-led professional theater ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Dawn M. Simmons, Front Porch Arts Collective, Lyric Stage, review, roland hayes, theater

REVIEW ROUNDUP: HAIRSPRAY, THE ROOMMATE, & PETER AND THE STARCATCHER

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted November 9, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Hairspray, The Roommate, & Peter and the Starcatcher

 

HAIRSPRAY AT NORTH SHORE MUSIC THEATRE

★★★★☆

 

Few modern musicals match the wit, heart, and craft of Hairspray, and Jeff Whiting’s production for North Shore Music Theatre is a mostly excellent reminder of just how ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: adrianne krstansky, Brooke Shapiro, Dave Barry, David Makransky, Hairspray, Hub Theatre Company, Jeff Whiting, Jen Silverman, Joey Pelletier, Jon Vellante, Lindsay Eagle, Lyric Stage, Michael John Ciszerski, North Shore Music Theatre, Paula Plum, Rick Elice, Ridley Pearson, Sarah Gazdowicz, Spiro Veloudos

OH, WHAT A MANGLED WEB: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN AT THE LYRIC STAGE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted September 11, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Eddy Cavazos and Taavon Gamble.

 

★★☆☆☆

 

It’s no wonder that Kiss of the Spider Woman, Kander and Ebb’s ambitious but faulty 1992 musical, is so rarely revived. It isn’t only that the score is second rate ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Franklin Meissner Jr, Fred Ebb, Janie E Howland, John Kander, Jonathan Carr, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Lyric Stage, Manuel Puig, Marian Bertone, Rachel Bertone, Terrence McNally

EH-PRIL THEATER ROUND-UP: HUB THEATRE’S TRUE WEST SHINES AMONG THE PAINFULLY DULL

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted April 26, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Christie Prades as Gloria Estefan and Company, ON YOUR FEET! Photo by Matthew Murphy

In The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruellest month.

 

And while he most certainly wasn’t talking about Boston theater, the same sentiment could be applied to the unusually shallow offerings popping up around town.

 

Aside from Moonbox’s ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Alex Jacobs, Alisha Jansky, Anna Christie, Ashley DiFranza, Bob Mussett, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Opera House, Charles Schoonmaker, christie Prades, Dan Whelton, Daniel Bourque, David Joseph Hansen, Dewey Dellay, Emilio Estefan, Eugene O’Neill, First Church, Gloria Estefan, Hub Theatre Company, James R. Milord, Janie Howard, Jerry Mitchell, Johnny Lee Davenport, Josh Glenn-Kayden, Karen Perlow, Lindsey McWhorter, Lyric Stage, Maureen Adduci, Mauricio Martinez, Miami Sound Machine, Nancy E. Carroll, Nicky Silver, On Your Feet, Phil Thompson, Robert Orzalli, Sam Shepard, Scott Edmiston, Sergio Trujillo, Shelley Brown, The Lyons, Titanic Theatre Company, True West, Victor Shopov

ROAD TO NOWHERE: ROAD SHOW AT THE LYRIC STAGE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted January 23, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Tony Castellanos and Neil A. Casey in Road Show. Photo by Maggie Hall.

★★☆☆☆

 

It’s not exactly a secret that Road Show isn’t a very good musical.

 

The Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical has undergone reinvention after reinvention—and title change after title change—from its 1999 premiere as  ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Cristina Todesco, Ilyse Robbins, John Weidman, Lyric Stage, Musical, Neil A Casey, Patrick Varner, review, Road Show, Spiro Veloudos, Stephen Sondheim, theater, Tony Castellanos

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