Titanic: Alexandra Bonifield review
Triumph of the Soul’s Dark Night: Lyric Stage’s TITANIC When I attend Lyric Stage’s resplendent productions I often feel I am not just enjoying superior entertainment, I am gaining a unique, immersive...
View ArticleThe Golden Apple: Alexandra Bonifield preview
1950’s Broadway audiences backed away from The Golden Apple. It was all Greek, all intimidating Classical Greek, to them, they reasoned, even if it was sung in English. It didn’t follow the era’s...
View ArticleThe Golden Apple: Alexandra Bonifield review
Finding True Home with Lyric Stage’s “The Golden Apple” Imagine this : An American Puccini wins a Guggenheim grant and writes an epic American musical score based on Western civilization’s most...
View ArticleLyric Stage Sheds New Light on ‘Lady in the Dark’
The company’s landmark recreation of the Weill/Gershwin/Hart musical from 1941 sets out to recapture the show’s original glamour. BY ALEXANDRA BONIFIELD Accessibility or authenticity? Must these...
View ArticleMagnificently Grand: Critical Rant review by Alexandra Bonifield
Magnificently Grand: GRAND HOTEL at Lyric Stage Normally discussion of a show’s music jumps first off the page in a review of a work staged by a regional leading musical theatre presenter. In the case...
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