Events:

Mary DeBerry

Mary DeBerry is active throughout the arts community. In Rhode Island, DeBerry has given countless hours to the arts community through her creative, organizational, promotional and networking skills. While living in New Hampshire. DeBerry wrote a weekly theater column for the state newspaper. She served as Publicist for Daydream Theatre in NYC. In RI her articles and interviews have been published for Imagine Magazine, Ahtspot.com, RI International Film Festival, RI Film Collaborative, and SENE (the Southeast New England Film, Music and Art Fest). DeBerry is published in the "Mug of Woe" book series and is a produced screenwriter. Currently producing the short biographical film, "Children of the Asylum" for Tony Demings, DeBerry was previously a producer for Public Television.

Theater

Posted on November 12, 2013January 17, 2022
Mary DeBerry
Theater
Leave a comment

Epic Theatre Explores The Other Place

Epic Theatre Company, in residence at The Artists’ Exchange in Cranston, RI, continues its Year of Fear with The Other Place, a new contemporary drama by Sharr White. It runs from now until November 23 at the Black Box, 50 Rolfe Square. This play is so new it premiered on Broadway less than a year […]

Theater

Posted on November 3, 2013January 17, 2022
Mary DeBerry
Theater
Leave a comment

Daydream Theatre Company Loves Lucy

Daydream Theatre reveals Lucille Ball’s off-screen life Even if you’ve only seen Lucille Ball as the red-headed, off-key clown in her half-hour comedy show “I Love Lucy,” you’ve been exposed to her on-screen charms. Her training as a model and dancer helped her maintain a graceful stance and figure throughout her career. However, as with […]

Theater

Posted on October 16, 2013January 17, 2022
Mary DeBerry
Theater
Leave a comment

Epic Theatre Weighs The Normal Heart

The Normal Heart is an heroic production about a group of young men in New York City in the midst of the early 1980s AIDS crisis. Do not dismiss this as “old news.” It is not intense because of fireworks on stage, highly emotional performances, or even lots of shouting. Its intensity washes over the audience […]

Events

Posted on October 15, 2013January 17, 2022
Mary DeBerry
Events, Theater, Things to do in Providence
Leave a comment

Stand Aside Knave! The Show Must Go On!

Government shutdown, government shmutdown Fie! Fie I say to the government. A plague on both your houses! For the past two weeks, we have run into snags in our lives since the U.S. Government shut down. Some people even lost jobs. Public outrage has grown as we see more and more poignant pictures of elderly […]

Theater

Epic Theatre Joins the Artists’ Exchange for Exponential Creativity

Well-known writer, actor and director Kevin Broccoli, a native Rhode Islander, is an amazing theater resource. Broccoli is widely known as prolific and talented. However, one of Broccoli’s largest contributions to the theater community is his prescient idea of reaching out to work with others throughout the state. Broccoli rejected the idea that the only […]

Theater

Posted on August 13, 2013September 27, 2021
Mary DeBerry
Theater
Leave a comment

Trinity Opens its Doors and Performance Spaces to All

The happening on August 17, at 201 Washington Street in Providence, is a celebration, an anniversary, a Free-For-All, a … BLOCK PARTY! Starting at noon, Trinity Repertory Theater, often viewed as the professional, perhaps a tad stodgy, theater at the center of town, is getting down and partying with everyone and anyone. It is Trinity […]

Theater

Posted on June 11, 2013September 27, 2021
Mary DeBerry
Theater
Leave a comment

Counter-Productions Theatre Gives God-Speed to the Plow

Speed The Plow, by playwright David Mamet, is a cross between the popular television show, “Mad Men” (about cut-throat ad salesmen) and Mamet’s earlier work, Glengarry Glen Ross (about cut-throat real estate men). In the new Theatre 82 in Cranston, Mamet’s classic tale of how Hollywood works is brought to life with great energy by […]

Theater

Posted on June 6, 2013September 27, 2021
Mary DeBerry
Theater
Leave a comment

Burbage Theatre Tackles “The Liar”

Go see The Liar, a play of quick wit. It serves up such laughter, you’ll guffaw and spit! Admittedly, that is silly poetry. But it is the faintest hint of what you will experience at the Burbage Theatre Company’s riotous production of The Liar. The Liar is an inventive David Ives adaptation of a play from the 1600s French farce by Pierre Cornielle. Ives is a favorite […]

Music

Next Gen Theatre Explores Intimacy

All This Intimacy reminds us that connecting with other people in this day and age is easy; however, it does take more than physical contact and a few casual conversations to develop and secure real intimacy. At first blush, All This Intimacy appears to be a Neil Simonesque comedy with several intertwined relationships. However, after the initial jokes, […]

Theater

Cranston Artists’ Exchange Celebrates Its Own Community with “Our Town” Play

While Our Town is a Pulitzer Prize winning classic, its simplicity belies its depth. The Artists’ Exchange, under the mature direction of Rich Morra, reminds us of the messages Thorton Wilder intended. The play is set in the early 1900s, yet as always with well-written stories, there are universal truths that are everlasting. Of course, there are […]