Cibber-Vanbrugh’s The Provok’d Husband, a comedy about an extravagant wife, was a huge success in Newport. And Nicholas Rowe’s brooding The Tragedy of Jane Shore, inspired by the life of the mistress […]
This is the seventh in a series about community theaters located throughout and adjacent to Rhode Island. The West Bay Community Theater, North Kingstown, RI “Those who can, do. Those […]
This is the sixth article in a series about community theaters located throughout and adjacent to Rhode Island. With its 2024 production of The Lucky Chance — a 17th-century comic […]
By Bob Abelman This is the fifth article in a series about community theaters located throughout and bordering on Rhode Island. One of the defining features of community theaters – […]
It’s the season of splendor, abundance, and vibrancy. We are, of course, referring to the summer theater scene in Rhode Island and its varied, homegrown bumper crop of entertaining and […]
This is the fourth article in a series about community theaters located throughout Rhode Island. The Community Players’ first performance was the 1921 staging of Milestones, a three-act melodrama that […]
This is the third article in a series about community theaters located throughout Rhode Island. “Our folks are up against it, and up against it good,” says actor Mickey Rooney […]
This is the second article in a series about community theaters located throughout RI. According to the American Theater Association, it has always been difficult to get an accurate count […]
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream may not have been the first play to parody amateur theater, but his depiction of the exceptionally incompetent Mechanicals certainly created the mold for more […]
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 […]