Lyric at the Plaza
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Don’t be a Scrooge

Larry Laneer

Lyric Theatre presents an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic that, through humor and poignancy, will delight even us professional Scrooges. It’s two hours of purely enjoyable theater. When working with such dreadfully familiar, albeit first-class, material as “A Christmas Carol,” the challenge for an adapter and director is to make the story fresh. Artistic director […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Don’t be a Scrooge

Larry Laneer

Lyric Theatre presents an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic that, through humor and poignancy, will delight even us professional Scrooges. It’s two hours of purely enjoyable theater. When working with such dreadfully familiar, albeit first-class, material as “A Christmas Carol,” the challenge for an adapter and director is to make the story fresh. Artistic director […]

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Boy bands + Jesus = weird

Larry Laneer

It’s hard to tell what the musical “Altar Boyz” is supposed to be. Funky appeal to blind faith? Toothless satire? It’s a good-natured little show, and although “Boyz” pokes fun at church customs, mainly just by referring to them, this Lyric at the Plaza production won’t have the faithful squirming in their seats. But it […]

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Dance cubed

Charles Martin

With dancers nimbly lifting off the ground and drifting gracefully above the stage, it’s easy to get distracted by the beauty of the trapeze and miss the deceptively cerebral concepts of Perpetual Motion’s aerial piece, “Stillness at the Center.” The troupe’s spring show, “Floored!,” premieres Friday on a revamped cube apparatus in a theater at […]

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