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Marilyn A. Busch

Over the years Marilyn has worn more theatrical hats than she can count: actress, director, costume designer, playwright, make-up artist, comedienne, publicist, marketing guru, graphic designer and chauffeur, a talent that comes in handy to this day. A true Rhode Island girl, Marilyn saw her first musical at Theater by the Sea, fell in love with acting after having Looking Glass Theater visit to her school, spent her summers with Cumberland Company and received her BA in Theater Performance from RI College. Over the years Marilyn has worked with Trinity Rep, AS220, Perishable Theatre, Community Players, Alias Stage, National Black Theater Festival and has written for Providence Monthly, The NicePaper and more. Follow her on Twitter @madbusch or shoot her an email at marilynbusch@gmail.com.

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Epic’s Red Speedo Earns Gold with Fantastic Staging of Muscular New Play

  While many theaters have the boldness to market their next show as “the theatrical event of the year” it is admittedly more of a rarity when the experience lives up to the hype. Thankfully, in the case of Epic Theatre Company’s site-specific production of Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo, the event far exceeds its billing. […]

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Academy Players Delivers Romantic and Deeply Felt Bridges of Madison County

From the first melancholic notes of the opening number, “To Build a Home,” it is clear that this show aims to lay bare its very soul to audiences. Based on Robert James Waller’s 1992 novel, The Bridges of Madison County musical was written by the Tony Award-winning creative team of Jason Robert Brown (The Last […]

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The Crazy Time Proves What’s Good for the Goose is Just Groovy for the Gander

Newport Playhouse & Cabaret Restaurant’s newest offering is The Crazy Time, a laugh-filled look at men struggling to understand why the women they find so desirable don’t actually want to stick with them for very long. Being a Sam Bobrick comedy, the odds are that the lessons learned will be few, the jokes will be […]

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Ocean State Theatre Company’s “Titanic Tale: From the Theater’s Maiden Voyage to its Sudden Demise

What a difference a few years can make in the life of a theater. On March 9 of this year, Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC) issued an upbeat press release announcing the group’s plans for their 2017-2018 season. Producing Artistic Director Amiee Turner was “thrilled” to announce that tickets were on sale for the six-play […]

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Elizabeth Keiser’s Horror Navigates Current Events Using Humor as a Compass

  Risk + vulnerability = comic revelation. Actress and playwright Elizabeth Keiser’s work seems to thrive on this combustible combo in order to push her performances past safe zones and into more dynamic territory. Her newest project, intriguingly titled Horror, is out to explore America’s current state of chaos. Now playing monthly at Aurora Providence, […]

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Dog in the Night-Ttime Comes to PPAC

The eagerly awaited North American tour of the National Theatre production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time rolls into Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) February 7 – 12. The Tony Award-winning play by Simon Stephens, adapted from Mark Haddon’s best-selling novel, arrives with plenty of praise for the production’s innovative choreography, […]

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Good Things Come to Those Who Bait – Fishing for Meaning at 2nd Story’s Seascape

  At first glance, the plot of Edward Albee’s play Seascape sounds absolutely ridiculous: “On a deserted beach, a middle-aged couple encounter two ‘humanesque’ sea creatures contemplating the evolutionary leap to dry land.” Middle-aged couple captured mid-squabble about their life choices? Sure, sure, we’ve all seen Albee’s masterpiece Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A duo […]

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Carol’s Christmas at Arctic Playhouse Puts the Community Back into Theater

  I must admit that my jaw dropped when I opened my program and saw there were over 30 people involved in The Radioactive Theatre Company’s holiday show Carol’s Christmas. While the cast was, to borrow from our President-Elect, “YUGE,” the Artic Playhouse is most definitely not, and I was wondering how director David McLoud, […]

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