Lizard Boy: A New Musical at Stanford Calderwood Pavilion

Lizard Boy: A New Musical

Stanford Calderwood Pavilion
527 Tremont St. Boston

Trevor doesn't get out much?but tonight, everything changes. What starts as a first date turns into an unexpected adventure in this funny, offbeat, and deeply moving new musical. Featuring a genre-blending indie-rock score and three Drama Desk nominations, Lizard Boy is a heartfelt and wildly inventive coming-of-age story about self-acceptance, connection, and becoming the hero of your own life.

Presented by Speakeasy Stage

Thru - Nov 22, 2025

Wednesdays: 7:00pm

Thursdays: 7:00pm

Fridays: 7:30pm

Saturdays: 2:00pm & 7:30pm

Sundays: 3:00pm

Show Type: Musical

Box Office: 617-933-8600

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Lizard Boy: A New Musical Reviews

Average Rating based on 4 reviews

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The Boston Globe - Somewhat Recommended

"...If you experience life's traumas and troubles through the generational filter of commercial superhero culture; if your idea of peak musical theater is a songbook that starts with the knobs cranked to 11 and amps up from there; if the stage is for you an arena of therapeutic self-healing rather than narrative engagement - then you are likely very young and "Lizard Boy" is for you. I do not say this cynically; theater kids of all ages are hereby welcome to the SpeakEasy Stage production of Justin Huertas's heartfelt Rorschach blot of alienation and belonging. Theatergoers seeking a drama of adult concerns and professional staging should probably avoid."

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- Ty Burr

Stage and Cinema - Somewhat Recommended

"...I generally count on SpeakEasy Stage for stellar productions of innovative and ground-breaking plays and musicals. But that history, along with fine performances and charming musicianship from Keiji Ishiguri as Lizard Boy Trevor, Peter DiMaggio as his friend Cary, and Chelsie Nectow as Siren are not enough to rescue this production from Justin Huerta's weak script. Even director Lyndsay Allyn Cox's considerable directorial skills and Zoe Sundra's appealingly bright costumes fail to keep this indie rock musical dragon tale from dragging."

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- Lynne Weiss

METR Mag - Recommended

"...As directed by Lyndsay Allyn Cox, with music direction by Violet Wang, in the comic-book stylized "LIZARD BOY," we are introduced to Trevor (Keiji Ishiguri), an anxious young man beset by his own self- consciousness brought about by his noticeable green scaly complexion."

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- Kevin T. Baldwin

On Boston Stages - Highly Recommended

"..."Lizard Boy" is a wildly original, witty and clever work. As Kermit the Frog and The Incredible Hulk often reminded us, being green ain't easy, and that goes double if you're a young, gay, insecure young man who hides from the world because of the greenish shade of his skin. Bit by bit, we learn that Trevor was an elementary school student who found himself in the middle of an infamous dragon attack, leaving him covered with dragon blood that turned into lizard scales."

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- Rich Fahey

Lizard Boy: A New Musical at Stanford Calderwood Pavilion