Lyric Stage Announces Anniversary Season

Into my In Box drops the 2008-09 season announcement from the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, actually listing five of the seven main stage productions the company will deliver in its 35th anniversary season. These are: "Follies," with Leigh Barrett and other local faves; "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof," with Lyric Stage Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos as Big Daddy; the Boston premiere of the musical "Grey Gardens"; the Boston premiere of "Speech and Debate" by Stephen Karam; and Nancy E. Carroll in  the New England premiere of Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking," based on her bestselling memoir of a tragic year that included the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Two more productions will be announced soon. Details and tickets are here.