Email Author Amy Lyons

2012 Stories by Amy Lyons

• Cymbeline

  published October 11, 2012

  Shakespeare's underperformed romance is a mishmash of familial ties tested, lighthearted foppery, dark betrayals and supernatural interventions.... More >>

• Shakespeare's Hamlet

  published July 12, 2012

  Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, but it’s certainly not the performance of Rafael Goldstein as the revenge-bent prince. This... More >>

• Very Still and Hard to See

  published June 14, 2012

  Steve Yockey's series of haunted tales is strung together with expert eeriness by director Michael Matthews. Inspired in part by Japanese... More >>

• A Child Left Behind

  published April 26, 2012

  Alan Aymie takes aim at the Los Angeles Unified School District and the L.A. Times in his solo show A Child Left Behind, about his... More >>

• Two Gentlemen of Chicago

  published April 5, 2012

  The latest Shakespearean modern-music mash-up from the Troubies is yet another hit for the cheeky troupe of triple-threat performers. Proteus... More >>

• The Seagull

  published March 8, 2012

  Both Itzin and McShane bring insightful shades to the unsatisfied Sorin, though each makes drastically different stylistic choices. Itzin's Sorin... More >>

• Hoodoo Love

  published March 1, 2012

  1930s Memphis blues and African-American traditional folk magic add moody layers to Katori Hall's narrative about an oppressed woman struggling... More >>

• Elemeno Pea

  published February 9, 2012

  Exposure to excessive wealth warps reality for one member of a sister duo in Molly Smith Metzler's lively play. Hailing from blue-collar Buffalo,... More >>

• The Beauty Queen of Leenane

  published January 19, 2012

  Playing a 40-year-old virgin whose spinsterhood is made certain by her energy-draining mother's omnipresence, Ferrell Marshall boils with a... More >>