The logistics, physical, and emotional demands of the production are mind-boggling – one actor spending 80 minutes morphing among 12 characters with unique accents and mannerisms while delivering lines almost non-stop and, amazingly enough, in rhyme. While it might sound overwhelming at best or gimmicky at worst, the reality of The Smuggler, opening the 2026-27 […]
If there is such a thing as too much of a good thing, The Getaway Driver at Trinity Repertory Company is it. The world premiere of the two-person play by Deborah Salem Smith and Charlie Thurston that opens Trinity’s 2026-27 season runs one hour and 40 minutes with no intermission, approximately 20 minutes longer than […]
The challenge to staging a production of “Titanic: The Musical” isn’t in retelling the familiar story but in captivating the audience in the grandeur and horror of it all without seeming trite. A tour decades ago opted for multiple scenery changes to transport audiences among the three classes aboard the massive ocean liner and used […]
The Next to Normal audience is exposed to waves of raw emotions drowning your soul and dampening your eyes. You may wish you had premedicated with any of the behavioral health medications lacing the lyrics. The rock musical, now performing at Trinity Repertory, is one prolonged gut punch stretching two and a half hours as […]
Artistic Director Tony Estrella tells the audience that Gamm Theatre saved the best for last with a riveting season-ending production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and he is not wrong. The Tennessee Williams classic is an epic (close to three hours with two intermissions) and painfully sobering look at human frailties and the […]
Not since Oscar and Felix – or Laverne and Shirley – have we cackled so hard at the antics of mismatched roommates bumbling through life. Somehow the Trinity Repertory Company team knew what we needed this season, staging a show that delivers a one-hour-and-40-minute laughfest that cleanses the heaviness of winter and the news cycle […]
Slapstick comedy, overly dramatized characters, and a Byzantine maze of a set buoy a comedic stage production that evolved from the popular murder mystery board game “Clue.” On a Broadway tour stop at the Providence Performing Arts Center, the show drew heavily on the 1985 black comedy film featuring a brilliant ensemble cast that included […]
Is it true love or a rewarding romp in the sack? You’ll go back and forth for two hours trying to decide in “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.” What’s undisputed is the sparking chemistry and riveting banter between the diner waitress and cook on their first date. Specifically, the show, playing at […]
Just when you think you’ve experienced all live theatre can do, the line is pushed even further into the realm of utter amazement. The latest “did-you-see-that?” moments come in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, at Providence Performing Arts Center through Oct. 4. Mind-warping visual trickery and clever direction take this written-for-stage franchise extension to […]
Power to the playwrights who can effortlessly weave together disparate themes and characters, something Ro Reddick manages deftly with Cold War Choir Practice, making its world premiere at Trinity Repertory Company. In a gritty Syracuse roller-skating rink in the waning days of the Cold War, she crafts a satirical, genre-defying look at power – Ronald […]