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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.05 – 4/8/21

Scott Edmiston

IT’S TURKEY LURKEY TIME: LYRIC STAGE SCORES WITH THE THANKSGIVING PLAY

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted November 5, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★☆

 

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Amanda Collins, Barlow Adamson, Grace Experience, Janie Howland, Jesse Hinson, Larissa FastHorse, Lyric Stage Company, Rachel Padula, Scott Edmiston

ON STAGE NOW: THE FANGS THAT BIND, A CHURCH DIVIDED, AND ONE OF THE WORST PLAYS I HAVE EVER SEEN

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted February 27, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Bare Stage, The Christians, and The Little Foxes

 

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, ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Alison Meirowitz McCarthy, Amelia Broome, Anne Gottlieb, Apollinaire Theatre Company, Bare Stage, Brooks Reeves, Cheryl D Singleton, Dewey Dellay, Janie E Howland, Karen Perlow, Lillian Hellman, Lucas Hnath, Lyric Stage Company, Michael John Ciszewski, Michael Poignand, Michael Walker, Rosa Procaccino, Scott Edmiston, The Christians

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

SUMMER SMOCK: HARVEY FIERSTEIN’S CASA VALENTINA

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted October 19, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

SpeakEasy presents the Boston premiere of Harvey Fierstein’s newest play

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Casa Valentina, Harvey Fierstein, Scott Edmiston, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Will McGarrahan

ABSO-BLOOMIN-LUTELY: MY FAIR LADY GETS A FRESH FACE FOR FALL

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted August 21, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

"...it’s a wonderful moment to revisit what some people have called the most perfect musical ever written."

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: broadway, George Bernard Shaw, Jennifer Ellis, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, My Fair Lady, pg wodehouse, Pygmalion, Scott Edmiston

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