Five Favorite PVD-Area Stage Productions, 2024
We live in a time when many theaters are still in a state of recovery from the crisis of closure and contraction caused by the pandemic. Fortunately, we live in […]
Events:
Monster Jam
Goddamn, the Monster Jam is back?! I thought this thing died in the early 2000’s. Maybe Hulk Hogan and our fearless President will make an appearance. Maybe Hulk Hogan will
January 31 - February 2RI VegFest
Attention plant lovers, the 5th annual RI VegFest is sprouting again! Featuring over 85 vegan-friendly restaurants, food producers, artists and creators.
February 1 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pmDavid Nail
An American country music artist and the frontman of David Nail & the Well Ravens.
February 1 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmSugar
Disco/funk/hip-hop/r&b for the sweet tooth.
February 1 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmSunday Funday with Steve Smith and the Nakeds
These guys rule the Sunday funday.
February 2 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pmThe 15th Annual NE Winter Blues Festival
Blues fans unite for this special night!
February 2 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pmBill Frisell
Featuring Eyvind Kang, Hank Roberts, Jenny Scheinman, Thomas Morgan & Rudy Royston.
February 5 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmDraw the Line
Aerosmith tribute.
February 7 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmHeartland Radio
Country music.
February 7 @ 9:00 pm - February 8 @ 12:00 amColby James & The Ramblers
Singer/songwriter who rambles on.
February 8 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmDustbowl Revival
A Venice, CA-based roots and brass collective.
February 8 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmThe Love Dogs
Rockin’ swingin’ septet from Boston playing original jump blues and r&b with big horns.
February 8 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pmPapercut
Linkin Park tribute. I remember buying Hybrid Theory and never taking it out of my car’s CD player… I think it died with the car.
February 8 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Christmas Past & Present: ‘Tis the Season for Dueling Dickens
Surely, you know the story. Set in mid-19th century London, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a morality tale about Ebenezer Scrooge’s one-night transformation from malevolent miser to charitable cherub. […]
From Summer Stock to Straw Hat: It’s beginning to look a lot like summer theater
Doing a Block Island retreat. Touring the East Bay Bike Path. Exploring some of the state’s 266 hiking trails and numerous world-class gardens. Lounging on the beaches that dot over […]
Twelfth Night: Gamm Theatre mines all that’s amusing in this Elizabethan comedy
There’s a tendency of late for directors to re-envision Shakespeare’s masterworks by staging them in a different time and territory, and with a more modern temperament, as if today’s audiences […]
Bringing ‘A Christmas Carol’ Up to Speed: Being Present in the moment
When Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was granted public domain status in the 1970s – when copyright for the work reached its term of the author’s life plus 100 years – […]
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, A LIVE RADIO PLAY: The charm alone is enough to get an angel its wings
If this Gamm Theatre production of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play was any more adorable, it would be licking your nose and following you home from the […]
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, THE MUSICAL: Quite the fan, I am
I can’t stand the Bard’s pentameter verse Though Gilbert & Sullivan bothers me worseBut the one writing style for which I’ve no useIs the preening rhymed scheming of one Dr. Seuss […]
A CHRISTMAS CAROL: Trinity Rep once again comes a’carolling
Charles Dickens’ play A Christmas Carol was so popular in London in 1843, the year the novella on which it was based was released, that there were eight stage productions […]