Lyric Stage News

Madison Lyric Stage will present the world premiere of Marc Deaton’s new play Elegy for a Fallen Angel, for two performances August 12-13.   Featuring original music by Nathaniel Baker, utilizing themes by Purcell and Handel, Elegy explores a world of child neglect and abandonment, as it intersects with a fantasy realm of angels, demons and monsters.  

 Madison Lyric Stage presents Spring Awakening, running now through July 30.  Check out all new photos here!

Witness the inspiring true story of Carole King at the Award-winning New London Barn Playhouse' production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, now running July 19th - August 6th.

Celebrated for creating diverse, timely and relevant opera, activist opera company White Snake Projects (WSP) and its founder Cerise Lim Jacobs today announced the upcoming world premiere of MONKEY: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable on the Robert J. Orchard Stage at Boston's Emerson Paramount Center.

Gloucester Stage Company is excited to announce the highly anticipated opening of THE DING DONGS, a comedic thriller by Cape Cod playwright Brenda Withers and directed by Gloucester Stage's Artistic Director Rebecca Bradshaw. A part lesson in how power evolves and how intimidation works, audiences will have the opportunity to experience this thought-provoking play beginning Friday, August 11, through Friday, August 27, at the Gloucester Stage Company's historic waterfront theater.

Don't miss Annette Miller as she returns to Shakespeare & Company in the iconic role of Golda Meir in Golda's Balcony. Experience the inspiring true story of the Russian immigrant-turned-American school teacher and fourth Prime Minister of Israel. Additional performances have been added, so get your tickets now!

Madison Lyric Stage presents the electrifying rock musical Spring Awakening, July 21-30. Check out all new photos here!

Lyric Stage will present Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (Broadway Version) August 24-27, 2023 at the Majestic Theatre.

The cast has been revealed for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare & Company, directed by Artistic Director Allyn Burrows and staged August 1 through September 10, opening Friday, August 4 outdoors at the New Spruce Theatre.

Madison Lyric Stage, a professional theater company on the Connecticut shoreline, will present the electrifying rock musical Spring Awakening, July 21-30.  Based on Frank Wedekind's controversial play from 1891, Spring Awakening is a groundbreaking musical that explores the tumultuous journey of self-discovery, teenage angst and burgeoning adulthood. 

The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced full casting for the revival of Yasmina Reza’s savagely dark comedy God of Carnage, in a translation by Christopher Hampton, which won both the Tony and Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 2009, as well as picking up Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actress for Marcia Gay Harden.

176 Keys and The Lyric Stage Company of Boston present Fascinating Rhythm: A dazzling journey through the music of George Gershwin & Leonard Bernstein told with four hands, two voices, & 176 keys. 

Single tickets go on sale tomorrow — Thursday, June 15 at 10 a.m. CT — for Lyric Opera of Chicago’s compelling 2023/24 Season.

Gloucester Stage Company, under the leadership of Rebecca Bradshaw, Artistic Director, and Christopher Griffith, Managing Director, is thrilled to announce the regional premiere of Zora Howard's critically acclaimed play, STEW, a moving story of women, family, overcoming emotional obstacles and the healing power of cooperative cooking.

The cast has been revealed for The Contention (Henry VI, Part II) at Shakespeare & Company, directed by Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer and staged June 17 through July 15, opening Saturday, June 24.

Madison Lyric Stage, a professional theater company serving the Connecticut shoreline, is currently presenting Tony Kushner’s award-winning Angels in America: Part I, Millennium Approaches, through June 18. Check out production photos here!

Berkshire Theatre Group (BTG) and Kate Maguire (Artistic Director, CEO) have announced casting for two of its summer 2023 shows: Million Dollar Quartet, a three-time Tony Award–nominated once-in-a-lifetime musical evening back by popular demand with some of the same cast as 2017 and Photograph 51, an intriguing portrait of the race to discover the mysteries of the DNA double helix. 

Madison Lyric Stage, a professional theater company serving the Connecticut shoreline, will present internationally renowned tenor Marc Deaton in Postcards from Pierrot, his original theatrical journey through great masterpieces of the twentieth century by Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. 

 American Theater Group (ATG) has announced the cast of its next production -- Right to Be Forgotten -- a searing new drama by Sharyn Rothstein.  The show will run June 8-10th at JCC MetroWest in West Orange, NJ and June 15-18th at the Sieminski Theater in Basking Ridge. 

What makes us human? Is it our outward appearance – our features, clothing or even language? Or is it something a bit deeper – a study of what’s in our hearts? In a nod to the nostalgia of the 90s, Lyric Stage explored those questions – and a few more – in its production of Disney’s Tarzan. c Stage?