Presenting our 2025/26 Season Many years ago, my mentor (the late Maureen Shea) was chatting with me about a play she was directing, and she said something that tickled me: “It’s a love letter, Courtney, a little valentine.” As I was looking at our titles altogether for the 2025/26 season, I realized that in fact, all of them are
Our Town September 19-October 19, 2025 By Thornton Wilder Directed by Courtney O’Connor Every minute is a gift. An American classic for our time. The day starts and ends pretty much the same way in Grover’s Corner. Beyond the humdrum of daily life, glimmers of joy, flickers of melancholy, and secret desires are hidden away in the mundane. It’s in the eyes of young
Boston play "Art" explores the differences in friendship using a controversial painting WBZ/CBS By Courtney Cole In the play "Art," currently running at the Lyric Stage in Boston, three men find their friendship tested after one buys an expensive white painting. Asking tough questions It asks the question: Can you just put aside an important difference of opinion when a friend's outlook on
‘Crumbs From the Table of Joy’ opens 2025 lineup at Lyric Stage Bay State Banner Celina Colby Lyric Stage launches into 2025 with “Crumbs From the Table of Joy,” a play by Lynn Nottage that centers the experience of a young woman and her sister navigating the loss of their mother and the remarriage of their father in racially charged 1950s Brooklyn. This is
For a fast-moving ‘Noises Off ,’ set designers used every inch of the stage By Terry Byrne, Globe correspondent Updated November 14, 2024 The Lyric Stage set for the comedy “Noises Off” includes two stories, seven rooms, eight doors, a window characters step through, and a staircase. As if that weren’t complicated enough, the set rotates to expose the backstage shenanigans underway
‘Yellow Face’ Explores Identity Across Generations, Continents by HARMONY WITTE SAMPAN “I’m always thinking about, ‘why are we doing this play now?’,” actor Michael Hisamoto told the Sampan of the Lyric Stage production of “Yellow Face.” Hisamoto has a key role in the play, written by David Henry Hwang. The semi-autobiographical show is about the playwright, who appears in the play and is
You’ll laugh so hard you’ll…well, you get the idea. A greedy and unethical corporation profits from the citizens of a city in the middle of a water shortage by banning public toilets forcing the people to pinch their pennies for the “privilege to pee.” But revolution is in the air. Led by Bobby Strong, a hopeful hero who
Editorial on Trouble in Mind and American Fiction By Marketing Assistant, Samantha Boutureira I couldn’t help but think of Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress as I was watching the Oscar nominated film American Fiction directed by Cord Jefferson. Wiletta, the protagonist of Trouble in Mind, is in a similar position as the lead character Monk in American Fiction. I was
In honor of our current production, Trouble in Mind, the show’s cast and artistic team along with the Lyric Stage staff compiled a Spotify playlist of songs that remind us of the show. Here are some of our favorites Talkin’ Bout a Revolution - Tracy Chapman “'Cause finally the tables are starting to turn Talkin' 'bout a revolution 'Cause finally the tables
My first job at Lyric Stage was as the Non-Equity Assistant Stage Manager for The Miracle Worker in January of 2002. Courtney O'Connor directed. Before taking the job, I had stage managed exactly one show and participated in a performance that was part of an art installation in which I helped with a costume change and paged a