Epic Journey: Trinity’s Black Odyssey Is a Powerhouse
Trinity Rep opens the new year with a play that is epic indeed: Marcus Gardley’s Black Odyssey, which transposes Homer’s story of Ulysses’ decades-long journey to come home from the […]
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 29Le Vent du Nord
Quebec’s progressive francophone folk music.
November 24 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pmHeavy Rescue
Everyone’s favorite cover band.
November 24 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pmPearly Baker
Grateful Dead Tribute.
November 26 @ 5:30 pm - 8:30 pmViolin River
Acoustic sounds of the Grateful Dead. Isn’t there already too much violins in our society?
November 27 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmThe Schemers
Annual Thanksgiving show.
November 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmMystic Dead
Music of the Grateful Dead.
November 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmOrnament
Trans-Siberian Orchestra tribute.
November 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmJames Montgomery Blues Band
A unique journey from Detroit to the Delta by this originally-RI musician. Hear the stories while he captivates you with his masterful harp.
November 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmEverybody Wants Some
Van Halen tribute.
November 30 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmRoomful of Blues
A blues and swing revival big band that travels the world from RI.
November 30 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmThe Agents/ Nick and the Adversaries
Traditional ska, reggae, swing and surf.
November 30 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmJabbawaukee
Psychedelic jam.
November 30 @ 9:00 pm - 11:30 pmThe Four Horsemen
Metallica tribute
November 30 @ 9:00 pm - December 1 @ 12:00 amAudiofields
Bass music & DJ.
November 30 @ 10:00 pm - December 1 @ 2:00 am
Futurity Makes the Sound of Present Action
When you enter to take your seat for Wilbury Theatre Group’s production of Futurity, you could be forgiven for thinking you’ve passed through the curtains into a slightly shifted dimension. […]
Trinity’s Powerful Ragtime Evokes a Sense of Community
Going to the theater is always a communal experience. Even in a movie theater — who’s never experienced a time when fellow audience members applauded at the end, or cheered […]
The Gamm’s Strong Actors Shine in Earnest
The Gamm opened their season last week with Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Fred Sullivan, Jr. It’s a strong, albeit thoroughly traditional, production of the play; […]
Mr. Burns Survives the Apocalypse
Telling people that I was going to review the Wilbury Group’s production of Mr. Burns, I got a few variations on the same response: “Maybe I don’t know a lot […]
The Gamm’s Arcadia Is a Modern Masterpiece
There’s a lot going on in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, currently opening the season at The Gamm. A viewer unfamiliar with the play might expect the poetry or the landscape design […]
The Fantasticks: Another Daring Choice for CTC
There’s a moment in The Fantasticks where Henry, an old Shakespearean actor, puts on his doublet to recite. “It’s torn, I know – forget it,” he says, asking El Gallo […]
The Penelopiad Weaves a Wonderful Tale
If you’re anything like me, you read the Odyssey back in school and remember maybe a little about Odysseus’s wife Penelope. It’s not a spoiler for Epic Theatre’s production of […]
MAC: How Many Characters in a Deck?
Describing MAC to someone else makes it sound like little more than the nth in a line of gimmicky reworkings of Shakespeare, or of Macbeth specifically. The Scottish Play as […]
A Little Trash and a Dash of Hope, and It’s a Spaceship Now
It’s a testament to the feats achieved by NASA in the past few years that parts of Stuart Wilson’s one-man show It’s a Spaceship Now, premiered in 2013, already feel […]