Terry Shea

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s Bob is almost impossible to summarize in any linear way, even though the storyline is more or less chronological. Consider a play set in the following location: “All over the United States of America, interiors and exteriors. Plus one scene in Mexico. The play often changes rapidly from location to location and […]

Ramping up the pace established by the pleasantly disjointed Wave One, The Artists’ Exchange continues its 8th Annual One Act Play Festival with a second wave of original short plays at the new black box space at 82 Rolfe Square. Where Wave One seemed a little hit or miss, Wave Two is a much more […]

The thrill of live theater lies in the implied promise that something could go wrong at any moment. A forgotten line, a failed prop, a disruptive audience member – anything can and often does happen in a live setting that cannot be accounted for in rehearsals. Audiences adore watching actors navigate the shaky precipice of […]

Edward Albee’s startlingly beautiful and disturbing debut, The Zoo Story, gets few airings, despite its notoriety. Professional productions are prohibited, which leaves this challenging one-act to academic and amateur settings. To further narrow the possibilities for production, The Zoo Story is not your typical community theater fare, and often needs to be paired with similar Absurdist shorts […]

This is an interesting time for Rhode Island theater, as the seemingly isolated and disparate companies proliferating the Ocean State are beginning to form some interesting collaborative partnerships. Aside from the Rhode Island Performance Exchange (an informal communal gathering of the state’s performing entities, pro and amateur alike) there is the newly formed Rhode Island […]