Theater
A Theater Primer for the Uninitiated
Rhode Island theater, for the uninitiated, can be a complex mess of posters, social media events and pages of listings ...
To Pee or Not to Pee: An All-Pug Hamlet Media Frenzy
Kevin Broccoli is a serious man: artistic director of Rhode Island’s Epic Theatre, author of plays and monologues that have ...
Dancing Into Fall
With summer drawing to a close, a common theme echoed by many is that it was too short and it ...
Fall Theater Preview
PROFESSIONAL It couldn’t be a better time to be a theater-goer in Rhode Island. With eight professional theaters to choose ...
Art: In the Eye of the Beholder
I don’t know about art, but I know what I like. This frustrating aphorism creates boundaries and absolves the person ...
Theatre by the Sea’s Spamalot Is Predictably Wonderful
In 1987, Theatre by the Sea was still a Tommy Brent operation and this writer was a teenage intern learning ...
All Hail Caesar!
Burbage Theater Company crafted a first-rate production of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar at the William Hall Library in Cranston. A ...
Forever Plaid Hits A High Note
The Plaids are a 1950s singing group that never was. As an offstage speaker informs us, the four clean-cut males ...
Cock, or the Rooster Play: That’s not a euphemism
Plays with titles intentionally chosen to be unprintable in the mainstream press are usually terrible. The New York Times reviewed ...
The Female Playwrights Issue Takes Center Stage
I’ve been lamenting the representation of women playwrights on the American stage since I learned that only 17 percent of ...
