Reviews

  • The Waiting is the Hardest Part: Penelope at Lyric Stage

    Penelope at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston directed by Courtney O’Connor with music direction by Dan Rodriguez, turns its gaze away from the hero’s journey and toward the woman who stays behind. With music, lyrics, and arrangements by Alex Bechtel and a book by Bechtel, Grace McLean, and Eva Steinmetz, this one-person musical drops…

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  • Logging In to the Human Condition: JOB at SpeakEasy Stage

    JOB, written by Max Wolf Friedlich and directed by Marianna Bassham, is a razor sharp psychological thriller that unfolds inside a therapist’s office but quickly spirals far beyond it. An intake session between Jane, a young woman in crisis after a viral workplace incident, and Loyd, the therapist assigned to evaluate her, becomes a tense,…

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  • The Art of Belonging: Wonder at American Repertory Theatre

    ​​Wonder, directed by Taibi Magar, arrives at American Repertory Theatre as a new musical adaptation of R.J. Palacio’s novel about a young boy learning how to exist in a world that is not always kind. With a book by Sarah Ruhl and a pop-inflected score by Ian Axel and Chad King of A Great Big…

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