Lyric Stage Company of Boston set for The Light

The Light by Loy A. Webb takes the audience inside a relationship as a newly engaged couple navigates the revelation of long-kept secrets while the power of love is tested. This enthralling, surprising, and thought provoking play will have audiences talking long after they have left the theater and closes the 2021/22 Season featuring the Lyric Stage directorial debut of Jacqui Parker, who has been onstage in past shows including Miss Witherspoon, Follies, and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill.

On the night of their engagement, long-simmering discord bubbles to the surface for Genesis, a Principal at a Chicago charter school and Rashad, her firefighter boyfriend of two years. Long-buried secrets and painful revelations threaten to splinter the couple's relationship when a gift of concert tickets is given. What should be one of the happiest days of their life begins to unravel, layers of truth and doubt are peeled away, and the power of love and reconciliation is tested.

Returning to the stage is Dominic Carter (Twelfth Night) and Yewande Odetoyinbo (Breath & Imagination, The Wiz, Little Shop of Horrors) known for her unforgettable roles in Lyric Stage musicals and now making a triumphant dramatic turn in a heart-stopping role.

Scenic Design is by Baron E. Pugh, Costume Design by Jez Insalaco, Lighting Design by Elmer Martinez, Sound Design by Owen Meadows.

Director Jacqui Parker says, "I am always thrilled when I have the opportunity to direct a universal play that includes the humor, banter, cultural music, and complexities of love. The Light is important because, like other well-written plays, it crosses the divides of race, religion, gender, and age. The relationship between Genesis and Rashad is filled with really cool banter that has a jazzy, soulful blues quality to it. The play has its secrets, but its foundation is love and having the courage to love-if only we could all be so brave. This play, with this talented cast and team of designers, is my theater song. It haunts me day and night and changes from moment to moment. I will no doubt leave a piece of my soul on this sacred stage, one of my favorite places in the world. I practically grew up here. Lyric Stage is my family."