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
Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe Spiro Veloudos, one of the most colorful and consequential figures in Boston theater history, has died at the age of 71. His death in his Boston home was confirmed Monday night by his sister, Shelia Demetriadis, who lives just outside of Richmond, Va. Demetriadis said she did not know the cause of death. Mr. Veloudos had
In honor of our current production, Assassins, 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: $20 - boygenius Mama told me that it don’t run on wishes, but that I should have fun Pushing the flowers that come up into the
Lyric Stage Boston Names Courtney O’Connor Producing Artistic Director The Lyric Stage Boston Board of Trustees has appointed Courtney O’Connor to Producing Artistic Director. President of the Lyric Stage Board of Trustees Ron Sudol says, “I am thrilled that Courtney has accepted the position of Producing Artistic Director of Lyric Stage Boston. After long experience as a stage director and theater
Courtney O’Connor Has A Vision For Lyric Stage Company By R.J. Donovan, special to Boston Irish June 7, 2023 Courtney O’Connor has a solid history in the Boston theater community as a Director, Educator and Arts Administrator. Having directed several shows at The Lyric Stage Company of Boston over the years, she joined the full-time staff at Lyric in 2018 and
Compiled by MJ Jepsen About Trees by Katie Holten The Language of Trees Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake Love is Green: Compassion as responsibility in the ecological emergency
Monica Gagliano is an Italian scientist and Research Professor in Evolutionary Ecology at the Biological Intelligence Lab at Southern Cross University, south of the Gold Coast in Australia. Throughout Rooted, she serves as a role model to Emery because of her studies in plant behavior and cognition. Gagliano has pioneered the field of plant bioacoustics, an observation and
Watch the full story on WBZ/CBS Boston HERE BOSTON – Boston's Lyric Stage Company has a new program designed to show local students what it takes to make theater happen. Lyric Backstage brings classes to the Back Bay Theater, where they hear from members of a design team and then see a one-act play commissioned just for them. The students learn about
Deborah Zoe Laufer Playwright and Author of Lyric Stage Company's production of "ROOTED" By Kevin T. Baldwin Lyric Stage Company presents "ROOTED," the second play in a planned trilogy by playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer. In a recent interview with METRMag, Laufer describes her childhood as living in a small rural community, growing up in the woods and raising animals in Liberty, New York in the Catskill Mountains. She mentions how her stories "BE HERE NOW" and "ROOTED" are
As an amateur scientist, Emery Harris’s hypothesis can be summarized as follows; given enough encouragement and a consistent routine, plants can learn to trust their human caretakers. Emery’s larger ambition is to inspire the followers of her experiments to go out and affect the planet for the better. She, however, has almost exclusively relinquished herself to affecting her