Presenting our 2025/26 Season Many years ago, my mentor (the late Maureen Shea) was chatting with me about a play she was directing, and she said something that tickled me: “It’s a love letter, Courtney, a little valentine.” As I was looking at our titles altogether for the 2025/26 season, I realized that in fact, all of them are
Our Town September 19-October 19, 2025 By Thornton Wilder Directed by Courtney O’Connor Every minute is a gift. An American classic for our time. The day starts and ends pretty much the same way in Grover’s Corner. Beyond the humdrum of daily life, glimmers of joy, flickers of melancholy, and secret desires are hidden away in the mundane. It’s in the eyes of young
Boston play "Art" explores the differences in friendship using a controversial painting WBZ/CBS By Courtney Cole In the play "Art," currently running at the Lyric Stage in Boston, three men find their friendship tested after one buys an expensive white painting. Asking tough questions It asks the question: Can you just put aside an important difference of opinion when a friend's outlook on
‘Crumbs From the Table of Joy’ opens 2025 lineup at Lyric Stage Bay State Banner Celina Colby Lyric Stage launches into 2025 with “Crumbs From the Table of Joy,” a play by Lynn Nottage that centers the experience of a young woman and her sister navigating the loss of their mother and the remarriage of their father in racially charged 1950s Brooklyn. This is
For a fast-moving ‘Noises Off ,’ set designers used every inch of the stage By Terry Byrne, Globe correspondent Updated November 14, 2024 The Lyric Stage set for the comedy “Noises Off” includes two stories, seven rooms, eight doors, a window characters step through, and a staircase. As if that weren’t complicated enough, the set rotates to expose the backstage shenanigans underway