We recently sat down with The Treasurer director Rebecca Bradshaw to discuss her experience with the production. Find out what various aspects of the show mean to her and how she approached the rehearsal process! Rebecca Bradshaw on… Seeing The Treasurer for the first time I saw it at Playwrights' Horizons about two years ago. Wow, it was great. I found
Courtney O’Connor, Artistic Director and Matt Chapuran, Executive Director Ron Ritchell and Polly Hogan, Founders (1974), Artistic Directors (1974-1997) Spiro Veloudos, Producing Artistic Director (1998-2019) The Lyric Stage Company of Boston announced today that Courtney O’Connor has been named as the third Artistic Director of the Lyric Stage Company of Boston. Matt Chapuran continues on as Executive Director,
We're busy building the set for Pacific Overtures, but we wanted to share with you a sneak peek of the beautiful set, designed by Janie E. Howland ( United Scenic Artists (USA-Local 829))! Learn More About This Production! About Pacific Overtures This startling, entertaining, and thrilling masterpiece puts a cap on Spiro Veloudos’ multi-year Sondheim Initiative. An unlikely friendship is forged
Pilgrims, romance, murder, and cake: our 45th season has all that and more! We are proud to continue to bring both beloved classics and innovative new works to our stage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve9O686uMf0&t=2s Learn More About Our 45th Season!
We asked all of our directors this season the question “why?” Here are the answers from the director of our upcoming show, Twelfth Night. Photo of Paula Plum by Gary Ng. Why this play? Because we love love stories when they’re both comic and sad. These characters are all looking for love in the wrong places. And for me, it’s
Amelia Broome, Craig Mathers, and Anne Gottlieb in The Little Foxes. Photos by Mark S. Howard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIDfgYSJ6oU If Regina Giddens is the complex and compelling anti-hero at the heart of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, her sister-in-law, Birdie is her charming dramatic foil. We sat down with Ameila Broome to learn how she brings Birdie to life in this great American hurricane of a play! About
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGiTdREZgwg&t=11s The Little Foxes stars Michael John Ciszewski and Rosa Procaccino sat down for an installment of Theatre Talk and were brilliant! Check out the full interview above and then see them on stage, now through March 17th! About Michael John Ciszewski – Leo Michael John Ciszewski (Leo) is making his Lyric Stage debut. Recent credits: Peter and the Starcatcher (Hub Theatre Company of Boston), Midsummer Night’s
This post is excerpted from the full DigBoston review section. ★★★★★ Lillian Hellman’s thrilling 1939 play about the greed that tears apart a Southern family has been given a first-rate revival at the Lyric Stage Company in a profoundly impressive production directed by Scott Edmiston. Anne Gottlieb is a forest fire as Regina, a woman willing to do anything—and step over
by Aliza Kenney At the age of 15, Lillian Hellman stole a ring from her uncle which she pawned in order to buy books. When she confessed what she had done, her uncle said, “So you've got spirit after all. Most of the rest of them are made of sugar water.” This statement would go on to define Hellman’s
This review was originally Posted on Boston and Beyond/Art & Entertainment. It has been said that, "blood is thicker than water," but not with the seemingly genteel, Southern Hubbard family. States Addie, the black maid in Regina's household, “Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are