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Terry Shea

Terry Shea has been involved in RI Theater since 1986 and graduated with a BA in Theater Performance from Rhode Island College in 1992. Since then, he has been working in Theater, TV and Radio on a regular basis and co-created the RI Theater review website, MoreTeeth, in 2010. Reviewing for Motif since November 2012, Terry is still (mostly) active as an actor, director and sound designer and also as a voiceover talent for 990WBOB internet radio. Sometimes he brings his kids to the shows to keep his reviews from being too jaded, but they're more cynical than he is. | tbshea@hotmail.com | 413-429-1872|

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Posted on January 8, 2014January 17, 2022
Terry Shea
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Contemporary Plays Around for 24 Hours

“Sooner or later at every 24-Hour Play Festival, there arrives a moment where everyone comes together for the common cause of ripping up tiny bits of paper.” – Andy Hoover, playwright (one of six) for CTC’s 24-Hour Play Festival. In February, 1920, a group of Princeton student thespians staged their first production. Their theater was […]

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Posted on December 20, 2013January 17, 2022
Terry Shea
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The Artists’ Exchange’s Christmas Carol Brings Tidings of Joy

If Harold had his way, the world would exist solely at the tip of his purple crayon and maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing. What a child transfers from hand to paper is a direct manifestation of how they see the world, or at least as they would like it be. This notion […]

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Posted on December 12, 2013January 17, 2022
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Created In Our Image

“If I could stick a knife in my heart Suicide right on stage Would it be enough for your teenage lust Would it help to ease the pain? Ease your brain?” – Jagger/Richards, “It’s Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It) “We created rock ‘n’ roll from our own image, it’s our child […]

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Posted on November 30, 2013January 17, 2022
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A Chorus of Christmas Carols

Nominal Christians (or “Chreasters” as some like to call them) are often derided for the practice of showing up to church once or twice a year at the Big Masses and calling it good for another trip around the sun. Likewise, even the most reluctant of theatergoers who pay lip service to the dramatic arts, […]

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Posted on November 23, 2013January 17, 2022
Terry Shea
Theater, Things to do in Providence
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Good People Gets a Positive Judgement

“You have to be a selfish prick to get anywhere.” (David Lindsay-Abaire, Good People) We all know someone who pulled themselves up by the bootstraps, worked hard and made good. We often congratulate them and praise their achievements. It is at this point that the judging begins. Did the success change them? Are they still […]

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Posted on November 23, 2013January 17, 2022
Terry Shea
Theater, Things to do in Providence
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Nico Rises Above

The 95 Empire space, now controlled by AS220, was the home for one of the most formidable productions in RI theater history, Perishable’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a punk rock opera “visiting” Providence and taking up a decadent residency in the black brick room that still has the promise of grimy theatrical possibility hanging […]

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Posted on October 29, 2013January 17, 2022
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2nd Story Previews Impressive Sons of the Prophet

2nd Story Theatre’s dominance of the East Bay continues as they solidify their expansion in Warren with a production of Stephen Karam’s 2012 Pulitzer finalist, Sons of the Prophet. Having just concluded a magnificent showing of Dancing at Lughnasa in the main theater (UpStage), 2nd Story’s new space downstairs (DownStage) follows the celebrated Lobby […]

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Posted on October 24, 2013October 28, 2013
Terry Shea
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A Night of Improvised Horror with Redrum Reunion

The market for frightening, Halloween-related theme events is at its seasonal peak and Providence, especially, affords many opportunities for experiential adventures beyond the standard haunted corn maze parking lots. Walking along Benefit Street alone can be a Lovecraft-themed adventure, as evidenced by the ambitious Executor that Theater of Thought delivered a couple of years back. […]

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Posted on October 10, 2013January 17, 2022
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CTC’s Assassins Slays ‘Em

There hasn’t been a full-blown, well-publicized presidential assassination attempt in quite some time (Motif’s publisher would very much like us to point out that this is a good thing). No president goes unthreatened, though, and the misfits portrayed in Sondheim’s Assassins have good company in the similarly pathetic brethren who have challenged the existence of […]

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Posted on September 28, 2013October 8, 2013
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Detroit Explores Who Lives on the Other Side of the Fence

What latent dreams lurk behind well-to-do complacency? The desperation behind every neatly mowed lawn and white picket fence has been explored in all manner of media, pointing to one irrefutable conclusion – we all have hidden desires to climb out of whatever pigeonhole we’re in and explore our secrets. As a wise man once said […]