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The Lyric Stage Company of Boston

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Known as the intimate "4-star theatre" in Copley Square. The Lyric Stage Company is Boston's oldest theatre company, dedicated to presenting a wide range of the highest quality plays and musicals.

Directions and Parking

MBTA: Take the Green Line to Copley Square Station OR Take the Orange Line to Back Bay Station

Driving: Take Route 93 to Storrow Drive. From Storrow Drive, take the Copley Square exit (left exit). At the lights, take a right onto Beacon Street. At 2nd set of lights, take a left onto Clarendon Street. The theatre is located on the second floor of the YWCA Building on the corner of Clarendon Street and Stuart Street

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  • Contact Info

    The Lyric Stage Company of Boston

    140 Clarendon St.
    2nd floor
    Boston, MA 02116

    Phone: 617-585-5678   |   Fax: 617-585-5689   |   Email   |   Official Website

  • Current Events

    There are no current events available for this organization at this time.

  • Upcoming Events

    02/17/12- 03/17/12	Time Stands Still The Lyric Stage Company Time Stands Still Presented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston at The Lyric Stage Company February 17-March 17, 2012 By Donald Margulies Directed by Scott Edmiston Widely hailed as one of the best new plays on Broadway, Time Stands Still is the story of Sarah and James, a photojournalist and foreign correspondent, who are reeling after their recent brush with death while on an assignment. Will their relationship of nearly a decade be more threatened by a traditional go at domesticity than the roadside bombs of Baghdad?
    03/30/12- 04/28/12	The Temperamentals The Lyric Stage Company The Temperamentals Presented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston at The Lyric Stage Company March 30-April 28, 2012 By Jon Marans Directed by Jeremy Johnson This hit off-Broadway play tells the story of two men - the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and fashion designer Rudi Gernreich - as they fall in love while forming the first gay-rights organization in the pre-Stonewall United States. "Temperamental" was a necessary code word in the early 1950s - danger was always an underlying presence but with it, a heady, intoxicating secrecy also hung in the air. Backstage raved...
    05/11/12- 06/09/12	Avenue Q The Lyric Stage Company Avenue Q Presented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston at The Lyric Stage Company May 11-June 9, 2012 Music and Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx Book by Jeff Whitty Part flesh (humans), part felt (puppets), and packed with heart (universal), Avenue Q is a laugh-out-loud musical that tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. There, he meets the girl next door, a Republican, an internet sexpert, and Gary Coleman (need we say more?), along with other colorful types who help Princeton...

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  Upcoming Events

  • Current Events

    There are no current events available for this organization at this time.

  • Upcoming Events

    02/17/12- 03/17/12	Time Stands Still The Lyric Stage Company Time Stands Still Presented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston at The Lyric Stage Company February 17-March 17, 2012 By Donald Margulies Directed by Scott Edmiston Widely hailed as one of the best new plays on Broadway, Time Stands Still is the story of Sarah and James, a photojournalist and foreign correspondent, who are reeling after their recent brush with death while on an assignment. Will their relationship of nearly a decade be more threatened by a traditional go at domesticity than the roadside bombs of Baghdad?
    03/30/12- 04/28/12	The Temperamentals The Lyric Stage Company The Temperamentals Presented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston at The Lyric Stage Company March 30-April 28, 2012 By Jon Marans Directed by Jeremy Johnson This hit off-Broadway play tells the story of two men - the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and fashion designer Rudi Gernreich - as they fall in love while forming the first gay-rights organization in the pre-Stonewall United States. "Temperamental" was a necessary code word in the early 1950s - danger was always an underlying presence but with it, a heady, intoxicating secrecy also hung in the air. Backstage raved...
    05/11/12- 06/09/12	Avenue Q The Lyric Stage Company Avenue Q Presented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston at The Lyric Stage Company May 11-June 9, 2012 Music and Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx Book by Jeff Whitty Part flesh (humans), part felt (puppets), and packed with heart (universal), Avenue Q is a laugh-out-loud musical that tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. There, he meets the girl next door, a Republican, an internet sexpert, and Gary Coleman (need we say more?), along with other colorful types who help Princeton...

• Past
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  • Past Events

    01/06/12- 02/04/12	Superior Donuts The Lyric Stage Company
    11/17/11- 12/17/11	Ain't Misbehavin' The Lyric Stage Company
    10/17/11	Celebrity Autobiography featuring Rachel Dratch The Lyric Stage Company
    10/14/11- 11/06/11	Or, The Lyric Stage Company
    09/02/11- 10/08/11	Big River The Lyric Stage Company
    05/06/11- 06/04/11	Animal Crackers The Lyric Stage Company
    03/25/11- 04/23/11	Broke-ology The Lyric Stage Company
    02/11/11- 03/12/11	My Name is Asher Lev The Lyric Stage Company
    01/01/11- 01/29/11	The Understudy The Lyric Stage Company
    10/21/10- 12/19/10	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I and II The Lyric Stage Company
    09/03/10- 10/02/10	The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee The Lyric Stage Company
    08/12/10- 08/15/10	Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona The Lyric Stage Company
    08/11/10- 08/14/10	Jane Eyre: The Musical The Lyric Stage Company
    05/07/10- 06/06/10	Blithe Spirit The Lyric Stage Company
    03/26/10- 04/24/10	Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill The Lyric Stage Company
    02/12/10- 03/13/10	Legacy of Light The Lyric Stage Company
    01/01/10- 01/30/10	Groundswell The Lyric Stage Company
    11/27/09- 12/20/09	Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself) The Lyric Stage Company
    10/16/09- 11/14/09	Dead Man's Cell Phone The Lyric Stage Company
    09/04/09- 10/10/09	Kiss Me, Kate The Lyric Stage Company
    05/08/09- 06/06/09	Grey Gardens, the musical The Lyric Stage Company
    03/27/09- 04/25/09	Speech and Debate The Lyric Stage Company
    02/13/09- 03/14/09	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Lyric Stage Company

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    • Event Name: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I and II
      Article: Review: The Lyric does Dickens
      The Boston Phoenix - Nov 04, 2010
      By Carolyn Clay

      "A raucous, roughhewn display of Victorian economics, liberal compassion, picaresque exploit, and music-hall showmanship."
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      "A raucous, roughhewn display of Victorian economics, liberal compassion, picaresque exploit, and music-hall showmanship."
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    • Event Name: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I and II
      Article: A 'Nickleby' with plenty of personality
      The Boston Globe - Nov 02, 2010
      By Don Aucoin

      "A THOUROUGHGOING TRIUMPH"
      “Veloudos gathered a constellation of top Boston actors and gave them a chance to shine... and shine they do!”
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      "A THOUROUGHGOING TRIUMPH"
      “Veloudos gathered a constellation of top Boston actors and gave them a chance to shine... and shine they do!”
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    • Event Name: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I and II
      Article: 'Nickleby, Part II' is first-rate
      The Boston Herald - Nov 02, 2010
      By Jenna Scherer

      "NICKLEBY IS FIRST-RATE!
      HATS OFF TO VELOUDOS!"
      “Part I started out with a bang last week... the Lyric team is only more on its game for the even more complex second half of Nickleby.” Expand

      "NICKLEBY IS FIRST-RATE!
      HATS OFF TO VELOUDOS!"
      “Part I started out with a bang last week... the Lyric team is only more on its game for the even more complex second half of Nickleby.” Collapse

    • Event Name: Groundswell
      Article: "'Groundswell' simmers in a post-apartheid world"
      The Boston Globe - Jan 05, 2010
      By Don Aucoin

      "...the pace soon quickens and the tensions rise when a retired white businessman named Smith (Richard McElvain) arrives at the small hotel on South Africa’s west coast where Thami is employed as a caretaker and gardener and Johan sometimes work… Expand

      "...the pace soon quickens and the tensions rise when a retired white businessman named Smith (Richard McElvain) arrives at the small hotel on South Africa’s west coast where Thami is employed as a caretaker and gardener and Johan sometimes works as a handyman." Collapse

    • Event Name: Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself)
      Article: No country for old men
      The Boston Phoenix - Dec 07, 2009
      By Carolyn Clay

      "Louis de Rougemont makes James Frey look like a documentarian. A sickly Victorian lad who arose from his cot, knocked around the Southern Hemisphere for a while, and returned to England with a hifalutin new moniker and captivating tales of seaf… Expand

      "Louis de Rougemont makes James Frey look like a documentarian. A sickly Victorian lad who arose from his cot, knocked around the Southern Hemisphere for a while, and returned to England with a hifalutin new moniker and captivating tales of seafaring perils and aboriginal idylls, he was the subject of a popular serialized autobiography. Now he takes center stage in Shipwrecked! An Entertainment—The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself). Pulitzer-winning playwright Donald Margulies's small-scale tall tale is in its local premiere courtesy of the Lyric Stage Company of Boston (through December 20), in a brisk, busker-like production helmed by Scott LaFeber." Collapse

    • Event Name: Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself)
      Article: Lyric Stage spins entertaining yarn with ‘Shipwrecked!’
      Boston Herald - Dec 07, 2009
      By Jenna Scherer

      "Meet the original James Frey. Only instead of claiming to have cowboyed it through detox (as Frey did in “A Million Little Pieces”), Louis de Rougemont claimed he rode on the backs of wild sea turtles.
      
      Public deception was so much… Expand

      "Meet the original James Frey. Only instead of claiming to have cowboyed it through detox (as Frey did in “A Million Little Pieces”), Louis de Rougemont claimed he rode on the backs of wild sea turtles.
      
      Public deception was so much more fun in the 19th century."
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    • Event Name: Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself)
      Article: ‘Shipwrecked’ has tale to tell
      The Patriot Ledger - Dec 07, 2009
      By Iris Fanger

      Onstage at the Lyric, De Rougemont weaves wondrous tales – starring himself – about his years on the Coral Sea where he was set adrift in a whirlpool that demolished his ship and marooned him on a desert island. After he rescued a trio of aborigines,… Expand

      Onstage at the Lyric, De Rougemont weaves wondrous tales – starring himself – about his years on the Coral Sea where he was set adrift in a whirlpool that demolished his ship and marooned him on a desert island. After he rescued a trio of aborigines, he became their chief.
      
      With the help of playwright Donald Margulies, De Rougemont takes command of a bare stage to enthrall the audience with his life story in “Shipwrecked! An Entertainment – The Amazing Adventures of Louis De Rougemont (as Told by Himself).”
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    • Event Name: Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself)
      Article: An Emotional Journey, Real or Imaginary
      The Boston Globe - Dec 07, 2009
      By Don Aucoin

      "James Frey told us roughly the same thing. So did the parents of Balloon Boy. We’re conditioned nowadays to cock an eyebrow at stories that seem too good (or too bad) to be true, because we live in an age of self-promotion and embellishment and… Expand

      "James Frey told us roughly the same thing. So did the parents of Balloon Boy. We’re conditioned nowadays to cock an eyebrow at stories that seem too good (or too bad) to be true, because we live in an age of self-promotion and embellishment and outright fabrication, of faked memoirs and reality TV wannabes who pose as invited guests to crash White House parties, then gleefully post photos of their stunt on Facebook.
      
      But even a skeptical 21st-century audience may be inclined to go along for the ride with Louis de Rougemont, the eager-to-entertain protagonist of Donald Margulies’s “Shipwrecked!,’’ now receiving its Boston premiere at Lyric Stage under the direction of Scott LaFeber. When Louis’s story starts to fall apart, it seems less like a richly deserved comeuppance than a personal tragedy - and that, rather than in the enactment of his adventures, is when “Shipwrecked!’’ is at its most compelling."
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    • Event Name: Dead Man's Cell Phone
      Article: Of Life's Mysteries and Missed Calls
      The Boston Globe - Oct 20, 2009
      By Don Aucoin

      By this point, to build a play around the centrality of the cellphone in our lives is to do no more than acknowledge the obvious.
      But Sarah Ruhl takes it a meta-step further, suggesting that even in death, those tiny, all-powerful devices - par… Expand

      By this point, to build a play around the centrality of the cellphone in our lives is to do no more than acknowledge the obvious.
      But Sarah Ruhl takes it a meta-step further, suggesting that even in death, those tiny, all-powerful devices - part technological tool, part talisman - will make it possible for our lives to go on without us...
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    • Event Name: Kiss Me, Kate
      Article: A thrilling ‘Kiss’
      The Patriot Ledger - Sep 15, 2009
      By IRIS FANGER

      Lyric scores with Porter classic Expand

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    • Event Name: Kiss Me, Kate
      Article: The teaming of the shrewd
      The Boston Globe - Sep 15, 2009
      By Don Aucoin

      Porter and performers carry Lyric Stage’s ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Expand

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    • Event Name: Big River
      "Great Show"
      Review posted by: TGenereux from 1, Sep 17, 2011
      

      This has been one of my favorite shows for a long time. Loved the production at the Lyric. Amazing how they can pack such a large production on such a small stage. Cast is terrific, especially... Expand

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      This has been one of my favorite shows for a long time. Loved the production at the Lyric. Amazing how they can pack such a large production on such a small stage. Cast is terrific, especially Jim. Nothing beats a live orchestra too! Collapse

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    • Event Name: Animal Crackers
      "Great end to Lyric's season"
      Review posted by: William Cornwell from Salem, MA, Jun 13, 2011
      

      What a wonderful revival of this classic musical comedy. I was so impressed by Ed Hoopman in the role of Groucho--it was as if Groucho had come back to life. Hoopman had Groucho's voice, facial... Expand

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      What a wonderful revival of this classic musical comedy. I was so impressed by Ed Hoopman in the role of Groucho--it was as if Groucho had come back to life. Hoopman had Groucho's voice, facial expressions, and body language down cold. The Harpo and Chico impersonators were less convincing--indeed, casting a female for Harpo was a bit distracting. Nonetheless, the zany spirit of the comedy was irresistable, and the song and dance routines charmed everyone in the audience. Like most of those old musicals, the plot doesn't make a lot of sense--the focus is on the comedy and the music, and this production delivers on that score. Full disclosure: I love the Marx Brothers and was predisposed to like the show, but I went with someone who hadn't seen the Marx Brothers films, and she loved the show too. Collapse

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    • Event Name: Animal Crackers
      "Not Groucho, but High Marx"
      Comment posted by: Andrew Horn from Cambridge, MA, Jun 13, 2011
      

      I spent much of Act I trying to forget Harpo and Chico, and spent all of Act II enjoying myself immensely.

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      I spent much of Act I trying to forget Harpo and Chico, and spent all of Act II enjoying myself immensely.

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    • Event Name: Animal Crackers
      "Tasty Crackers"
      Comment posted by: Elaine from Jamaica Plain, MA, Jun 13, 2011
      

      I had seen the play and thought it was good enough to give these tickets as a gift. I think, however, that it is dated and a bit draggy in places. Groucho makes it all worthwhile (assuming one has... Expand

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      I had seen the play and thought it was good enough to give these tickets as a gift. I think, however, that it is dated and a bit draggy in places. Groucho makes it all worthwhile (assuming one has memories of him). Collapse

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    • Event Name: Animal Crackers
      "Fresh Performance, Tired Material"
      Review posted by: Lenny B from Boston, MA, May 23, 2011
      

      The performers were great. However, the tired old jokes just don't work any more. This material is 80 years old or so. I will say, though, there were many older patrons who were laughing up a storm... Expand

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      The performers were great. However, the tired old jokes just don't work any more. This material is 80 years old or so. I will say, though, there were many older patrons who were laughing up a storm and having a ball. So, maybe it's an age thing. Anyway, the singing, the acting, and all the characters were well done. Collapse

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    • Event Name: Animal Crackers
      "animal crackers"
      Review posted by: paul oates from watertown, MA, May 23, 2011
      

      It was a fun show. It took me back to my childhood and the old Groucho Marx television show "You Bet Your Life". Zany and enjoyable

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      It was a fun show. It took me back to my childhood and the old Groucho Marx television show "You Bet Your Life". Zany and enjoyable

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    • Event Name: Animal Crackers
      "Not what i expected"
      Review posted by: WG from Boston, MA USA, May 23, 2011
      

      I was looking for a funny show to go and enjoy that night. I can say that the actors are good but the story, the dialogues and the characters where not very interesting and the funny parts were too... Expand

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      I was looking for a funny show to go and enjoy that night. I can say that the actors are good but the story, the dialogues and the characters where not very interesting and the funny parts were too few to enjoy it. In the end it felt like it would never end (cleary not having fun). I was actually very dissapointed. Collapse

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    • Event Name: Animal Crackers
      "An enjoyable show."
      Review posted by: J.Joy from Andover, MA, May 23, 2011
      

      This was a fun show, featuring an excellent cast. The three actors portraying the Marx Brothers were the best part of the show. But there was too much filler in the form of boring, corny,... Expand

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      This was a fun show, featuring an excellent cast. The three actors portraying the Marx Brothers were the best part of the show. But there was too much filler in the form of boring, corny, forgettable love songs. Collapse

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    • Event Name: Animal Crackers
      "Laugh out loud fun!"
      Review posted by: Susan from Waban from Waban, MA, May 23, 2011
      

      I wanted to spend Mother's Day laughing with my family so off to the Lyric Stage we went! Groucho was spot on! Cast was energetic and talented. Loved the character changes. Love the small... Expand

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      I wanted to spend Mother's Day laughing with my family so off to the Lyric Stage we went! Groucho was spot on! Cast was energetic and talented. Loved the character changes. Love the small venue. A MUST see!!!! Collapse

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    • Event Name: Broke-ology
      "Powerful story, surprisingly relevant, talented actors"
      Review posted by: Suzanne Gratton from Boston, MA, Apr 20, 2011
      

      I saw this play last Friday and it was incredible! Anyone who has moved away from their home town in search of greener pastures, those with aging parents, and especially anyone who has... Expand

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      I saw this play last Friday and it was incredible! Anyone who has moved away from their home town in search of greener pastures, those with aging parents, and especially anyone who has experienced parents in failing health will appreciate the sensitivity and poignant feelings this work evokes. Spoiler: bring tissues! Collapse

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