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Oscar winner?

The Lyric’s Importance of Being Earnest
The Lyric offers some sly, Wildean touches in a discreetly pruned, generally creditable production.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 13, 2008

Paint by numbers

Three Tall Women at the Lyric; 7 Blowjobs from Theatre on Fire
Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women are really one tall woman, and she’s a tall order.
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 01, 2008

Impossible dreamer

The Lyric Stage resurrects Man of La Mancha
If it’s “The Impossible Dream” you’ve come for, you’ll hit paydirt.
By IRIS FANGER | September 12, 2007

Lyric Stage’s Arms and the Man ; Gold Dust Orphans’ The Milkman Always Comes Twice
Guns and cocoa butter are the subjects of George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 Arms and the Man , the first of the great Irish contrarian’s “Plays Pleasant.”
By CAROLYN CLAY | May 10, 2007

Songbird and Snowbirds

Souvenir at Lyric Stage; Almost, Maine at SpeakEasy
For Shakespeare’s Orsino, music is the food of love. For soprano Florence Foster Jenkins, it was the food of delusion — and she had a voracious appetite.
By CAROLYN CLAY | February 20, 2007

Best on the boards

Certainly Nicholas Martin will leave the Huntington a livelier place than when he took over.
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
By CAROLYN CLAY | February 20, 2007

Threesomes

See What I Wanna See; Design for Living
Truth is in the eye of the beholder in See What I Wanna See , Michael John LaChiusa’s musically lush riff on stories by Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 09, 2007

A winter’s tale

The season ahead on area stages
Even as the family drama of your holiday comes to a close, there’s no need to don a kerchief and settle in for a long winter’s nap.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH | December 28, 2006

Best on the boards

A year in theater
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
By CAROLYN CLAY | December 19, 2006

Freedom fighters

The Pillowman at New Rep; 1776 at Lyric Stage
Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, which is getting its area premiere at New Repertory Theatre (at the Arsenal Center for the Arts through October 1), is a superficially clever play.
By STEVE VINEBERG | September 12, 2006

Five By Tenn, Olly’s Prison win big

The Elliot Norton envelope please
The Boston Theater Critics Association put on its annual Elliot Norton Awards fandango Monday night, intended to honor the best on local stages as well as the memory of their namesake, dean of American theater critics Elliot Norton, who clocked 48 years on the Boston aisle.
By CAROLYN CLAY | May 24, 2006

Loners

Talley’s Folly , Auntie & Me , The Good Body
What do you give an audience after The Goat , Edward Albee’s 2002 Tony winner about a prize-winning architect sexually bewitched by an animal?
By CAROLYN CLAY | March 28, 2006

Animal farm

The Goat at Lyric Stage of Boston, Indoor/Outdoor at Trinity Rep
The word tragedy means “goat song” in ancient Greek, and indeed, the protagonist of Edward Albee’s The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? is making beautiful music with a mistress of the caprine persuasion.
By CAROLYN CLAY | March 02, 2006

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