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Still like those old time musicals: SpeakEasy’s “The Drowsy Chaperone”

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SpeakEasy’s production of The Drowsy Chaperone is a perfectly executed comic romp through what is both musical theater’s golden age and awkward adolescence.

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Bros Before Hos: SpeakEasy’s “Reasons to Be Pretty”

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For the first 15 minutes of Neil LaBute’s Reasons to Be Pretty (in a production by SpeakEasy at the BCA through April 2nd) we wait to find out what Greg (Andy Macdonald) said over at his buddy Kent’s (Burt Grinstead) place to piss his girlfriend Steph (Angie Jepson) off so much that she starts tearing [...]

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Baker in Boston: The Huntington’s “Circle Mirror Transformation” and SpeakEasy’s “Body Awareness”

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Two plays of a three-play festival set in the quirky town of Shirley, VT, where nobody talks like characters in a play.

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A Trailer Park Pulls into the South End

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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”

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

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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” :)

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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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