One Slight Hitch
It isn’t every day you guess the exact setting of a play before the production even starts, but the stage of One Slight Hitch, playing at Newport Playhouse through May 15th, is instantly recognizable as middle-class-Ohio-80s. A killer soundtrack and bubblegum-colored outfits confirm the time and place within moments of the play starting, Lewis Black, one of the […]
Narragansett Valkyrie: War of All Against All
In a world premiere, Contemporary Theatre playwright-in-residence Andy Hoover imagines a virtual reality combat game, “Triad,” played by teams of three seated at their respective computers, the objective of which is to confront and defeat various incarnations of “leviathans,” computerized monsters with almost unlimited variations of forms and capabilities. Fairly accurately modeling air combat, each […]