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LOVE SPENT: THE TREASURER AT THE LYRIC STAGE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted February 25, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★☆☆☆

 

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Chelsea Kerl, Cheryl McMahon, Ken Cheeseman, Kristin Loeffler, Lyric Stage Company, Max Posner, rebecca bradshaw, Theater Review

THE WAY THEY WERE: BRIGHT HALF LIFE AT ACTORS’ SHAKESPEARE PROJECT

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted January 28, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: ACTORS’ SHAKESPEARE PROJECT, Cristina Todesco, Lyndsay Allyn Cox, Megan Sandeberg-Zakian, Tanya Barfield, Theater Review

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

LIFE TO THE EVERLASTING CAT: THE BOLD REVOLUTION—AND WELCOME RETURN—OF CATS

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted January 14, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★☆

 

Hi, my name is Chris, and I’m a Cats fan. 

 

Ever since Cats premiered almost 40 years ago, it’s been the ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andy Blankenbuehler, Broadway in Boston, Cameron Mackintosh, Citizens Bank Opera House, David Hersey, Gillian Lynne, John Napier, Natasha Katz, PJ DiGaetano, Theater Review, Trevor Nunn

ALL THE MILLION HOURS: PARADE AT MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 17, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★☆

 

Moonbox Productions continues its impressive run of presenting complicated, adult musicals with more polish, professionalism, and nuance than most other companies in the Boston area, even those with more cash and more clout.

 

Parade  ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Aaron Patterson, Alfred Uhry, Anna Bortnick, Chelsea Kerl, Dan Prior, Elizabeth Cahill, Gable Kinsman, Hayley K. Clay, Jason Monica, Jason Robert Brown, Leo Frank, Lindsay Genevieve Fuori, moonbox productions, Phil Tayler, Theater Review

ALTERING THE COURSE: MOBY-DICK AT THE AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 17, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: american repertory theater, Bradley King, Dave Malloy, Eric Berryman, Eric F. Avery, Herman Melville, Manik Chokshi, Mimi Lien, Rachel Chavkin, Theater Review, Tom Nelis

ON STAGE NOW: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, DOLLY PARTON’S SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS CAROL, CHRISTMAS ON URANUS, AND OLIVER!

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

 

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  ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Dolly Parton, Emerson Colonial Theatre, Gold Dust Orphans, Lyric Stage Company, New Repertory Theater, Theater Review

THE CHAOS OF DREAMS AND IMAGES: ARLEKIN’S THE SEAGULL IS REMARKABLE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted November 12, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★★

 

Only about once—maybe twice—a year does a production come along that makes me feel as if I’ve been ignited from the inside out. It takes a special kind of vision—along with all the different theatrical stars lining up just right—to turn a long ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Anne Gottlieb, Arlekin Players, Chekhov, Darya Denisova, Dev Luthra, Eliot Purcell, Igor Golyak, Irina Bordian, Jakov Jakoulov, Jeff Adelberk, Nael Nacer, Nastya Bugaeva, Needham, Nikolay Simonov, Theater Review

A CACOPHONY OF CHINTZ: SPONGEBOB SINKS AT THE WANG

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted October 22, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★☆☆☆

 

When it was announced in 2015 that Nickelodeon would be bringing a SpongeBob musical to Broadway, you can imagine how many people reacted with a giant eye roll, particularly those of us who had PTSD from the Broadway production of  ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Boch Center, nickelodeon, Spongebob Squarepants, 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

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