Play: the Game – Haunting and Eccentric
Play: The Game Or Game: The Play is an exercise in experimental theater unlike anything I have ever seen. Glen (Rick Burkhardt) invites his friends Jonas (Jermaine Golden), Liz (Jayne […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Barker’s Assassins Hit the Target
Devoting an entire show to some of history’s most notorious murderers would seem to be a monumentally ill-advised idea. Doing the show as a musical would seem to be […]
Kill The Virgin — What’s the Point?
Kill the Virgin clearly intends to satirize the tropes of horror movies while providing a post-modern spin on them. Unfortunately, despite some funny moments, the play proves to be […]
Trinity’s Oklahoma One of the Year’s Best
Trinity Repertory Company could not have produced a more spectacular show to close out its 2015-2016 season than Oklahoma!. A first-rate group of performers, under the expert guidance of directors […]
Total Strangers Is Twisted Fun
Epic Theatre’s Company’s Total Strangers is essentially a remake of the classic Alfred Hitchcock film, Strangers on a Train. The major change writer/director Kevin Broccoli made was switching the genders […]
Gritty Miss Saigon has Soul
The Vietnam War-era love story Miss Saigon was given a first-rate production by Encore Repertory Company at the Stadium Theater in Woonsocket. The show ran from May 6 through 8. […]
For Colored Girls to Benefit Sojourner House
On Thursday, For Colored Girls, a series of poetic monologues written by Ntozake Shange, will be performed at Aurora on 276 Westminster Street at 6pm. For Colored Girls tells the stories […]
From the Boat to Obama
From the Boat to Obama features a unique combination of music, dance, poetry and dramatic vignettes to chart the history of African-Americans in the United States. Performed by Transforming Anew, […]
Jersey Boys Sparkle at PPAC
Some magnificent performances elevate Jersey Boys, which is basically an extended live episode of “Behind the Music.” That show, which aired on the VH1 network, told us all about rock […]
Brown’s Mr. Burns Is a Misfire
Mr. Burns – A Post-Electric Play begins with an intriguing premise – the survivors of a nuclear apocalypse gather together and reminisce about a classic episode of “The Simpsons” — […]