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A Trailer Park Pulls into the South End

Thumbnail image for A Trailer Park Pulls into the South End by Bryce Lambert May 12, 2010

The SpeakEasy Stage hauls some trailer trash into the South End with “The Great American Trailer Park Musical.”

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Add It Up: SpeakEasy’s “Adding Machine”

Thumbnail image for Add It Up: SpeakEasy’s “Adding Machine” by Victoria Petrosino March 18, 2010

Victoria Petrosino reviews SpeakEasy’s new musical spin on the 1923 Elmer Rice play “Adding Machine.”

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Thumbnail image for [title of post] by Bryce Lambert January 21, 2010

Whatever you say about SpeakEasy’s [title of show], you can’t say it’s not funny. I don’t even like contemporary musicals. The knock-off plots, simplified music, un-lyrical lyrics, gratuitous flamboyance, and high ticket prices don’t appeal to me, as much as I love the Golden Age Hollywood productions. But, [title of show] is the straight-up funniest [...]

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“Where the Magic Happens” :)

Thumbnail image for “Where the Magic Happens” :) by Bryce Lambert December 9, 2009

Last weekend, the SpeakEasy Stage did what more theater groups should probably be doing, staging a sort of spur-of-the-moment, simply produced one or two-night show that’s not on the season schedule. We get plenty of free readings from the A.R.T and Whistler in the Dark, but they’re not shows. Although not free, a show like [...]

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Inverted Christmas Trees: SpeakEasy’s Reckless

Thumbnail image for Inverted Christmas Trees: SpeakEasy’s <em>Reckless</em> by Bryce Lambert November 25, 2009

The SpeakEasy Stage Company’s production of Reckless isn’t your typical Christmas show, but you still get most of the trimmings–they’re just wrapped in a different color paper. Okay, that’s enough of the Christmas puns, maybe. In most Christmas shows or movies, A Christmas Carol and the Nativity being the models for nearly all of them, [...]