Opinion: The College Conundrum
I’ve long contended that the overwhelming factor that accounts for the consistent increase in college tuition at about three times the rate of inflation over at least the past 30 […]
Events:
A Christmas Carol
Everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, is back! The humbug’s wrenching, covetous, and cares more for money than all else. When the clock strikes midnight one fateful Christmas Eve, the ghost
November 23 - December 29A Christmas Carol
With a cast of five amazing actors playing all of the parts, this is the wonderful holiday story and tradition that you love with CTC flair. Full of fun, energy,
December 5 - December 22Buddy Cavaleri
Musician/composer. Not Buddy Cianci.
December 22 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pmPolar Express
Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that traverses the uncanny valley to visit the North Pole. I’m ready whenever!
December 23 @ 4:30 pm - 7:30 pmJoe Potenza & Friends
Jazz from some of the best friends in RI.
December 23 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmIt’s a Wonderful Life
A classic holiday movie that will bring tears to your eyes.
December 23 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmAli Siddiq
In the Shadows tour for the Houston-based observational comic.
December 24 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmSons of Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd experience… Whoa man.
December 28 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmSugar Ray and The Bluetones
There’s a halo hanging on the corner of my girlfriend’s four post bed.
December 28 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmPitbull
There is so much I want to say. If you were in middle school from 2012 onward, you know the hold this man had on the world.
December 29 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmNeal & The Vipers
9th Annual New Years Eve party – see you in the new year with these blues-rock RI legends.
December 31 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pmAndrew Victor
Folk music for the new year.
January 1, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmThree Stooges Festival
Annual Three Stooges Film Festival featuring Larry, Moe, and Curly at their comical best in classic episodes from the 1930s and 1940s. Nyek, nyek, nyek.
January 3, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmFunky White Honkies
Big party band.
January 3, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmMarie Claude
Listen to some music and drink your coffee.
January 4, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pmSaints in the City
Bruce Springsteen tribute band.
January 4, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmPearly Baker
This band plays Grateful Dead music their way, with some Stones, Beatles, Allman Bros, and JJ Cale pearls thrown in for good measure.
January 4, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmRoger Ceresi’s All Starz
Paying tribute to the great music legends of the ‘50s & ‘60s.
January 8, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmMoxie
’90s & 2000s rock, with some old-fashioned attitude.
January 10, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm1964 The Tribute
Beatles tribute.
January 10, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol: Not Dead Yet
An impressively minimalist take on a very familiar story, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, written by playwright Tom Mula and performed by the Rhode Island Stage Ensemble (RISE) employs four actors, […]
Little Women: Not Exactly the Book
A musical stage version of a classic book beloved by young adults for over a century is a daring challenge inherently difficult to do. Despite many adaptations for the stage […]
Freelancing: Rising Creative Trend
As permanent employment in some fields shifts by employer choice to temporary and even outsourced workers, a complementary movement toward freelancing by employee choice is gaining strength in the creative […]
Rocky Horror Show: Punk Tranvestites from Transsexual, Transylvania
It’s difficult to review a production of a show after seeing it numerous times elsewhere on stage and literally many hundreds of times on screen, because the inevitable tendency is […]
Glengarry Glen Ross: Is Coffee Only for Closers?
Playwright David Mamet in 1983 very much captured what would later be elsewhere called the “greed is good” era with this Tony and Pulitzer award-winning look into an office of […]
Cannabis: The Industry Turns Professional
Cannabis is legal for medical use in 26 states (“Legality of cannabis by U.S. jurisdiction” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_U.S._jurisdiction ), but nearly all producers are very small operations, usually comprising only one or […]
Pug-let: And Your Little Dog, Too!
Pug-let, Shakespeare’s Hamlet performed by pug dogs, is sweeping the theater world like a furry tornado – with established actor, playwright and Epic Theatre Artistic Director Kevin Broccoli in the […]
As You Like It: Won’t You Join the Dance?
Elaborately and creatively choreographed dance in an Elizabethan style is the highlight of Head Trick Theatre’s outdoor production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Because most of this light comedy […]
Forbidden Knowledge
I. The Plan “Knowledge wants to be free!” The increasingly impassioned assistant professor defended his plan to the chief librarian who had summoned him to this awkward and unpleasant meeting […]