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Remember the Lyric

By Lynda Sturner · Aug 1, 2000 · Boston

Spiro Veloudos of the Lyric Stage Company chats with Lynda Sturner about the theater's growth and development.

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MA, VT, NH, ME

By Caroline Nesbitt · Aug 1, 2000 · Boston

The hills are alive--and so are the Cape, the coast, and the islands--with summer theater. Caroline Nesbitt takes stock of the situation in New England.

Review

King Hedley II

By Iris Fanger · Jun 13, 2000 · Boston

August Wilson's ambitious undertaking of writing a drama for each decade of the 20th century about the African-American experience has taken on many of the attributes of Richard Wagner's Ring cycl...

Review

The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told

By Michael Bettencourt · Jun 13, 2000 · Boston

Despite the waterfall of gay themes and references that sluices through Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, the "story" of the play has a quite traditional feel to it: In the end, only...

Review

Fall

By Michael Bettencourt · May 26, 2000 · Boston

Michael Bettencourt finds a shim-sham fest, scuba flying--and a problematic Lolita lesson--in Bridget Carpenter's award-winning new play at Trinity Rep.

Review

The Winter's Tale

By Iris Fanger · May 26, 2000 · Boston

Macedonian theatrical wizard Slobodan Unkovski gives Shakespeare's late Romance the flavor of Mussolini-era Italy. Iris Fanger reviews the imaginative A.R.T. production.

Review

Joan of Arkansas

By Michael Bettencourt · May 16, 2000 · Boston

What would you call a musical production that has buckets of "finger-f**kin' fierce" fried chicken being handed around the audience, a score that sounds like Garth Brooks by way of Weird Al, a cast so...