‘The Roommate’ – Written by Jen Silverman, Directed by Spiro Veloudos; Scenic Design, Jenna McFarland Lord; Costume Design, Tobi Rinaldi; Lighting Design, Chris Hudacs; Sound Design & Original Music, Dewey Dellay; Presented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston through November 18, 2018

 

If you’re thinking that the plot from The Roommate – two middle-aged people who couldn’t be more different from one another find themselves living together – sounds a little too familiar, forget about it. Other than the basic set-up and delivering a lot of laughs (early on anyway), The Roommate couldn’t be more different from The Odd Couple than say, Felix is from Oscar. And in the case of the Lyric’s twistedly comic production, that’s a good thing.

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