Sweeney Todd: Thought-Provoking and Beautiful
Once upon a time I was a freshman at Scituate Jr. Sr. High School auditioning for the school play. The play was Sweeney Todd, and I have been in love […]
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The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Memoirs of the Last Sicilian: A One Man Play You Can’t Refuse
Memoirs of the Last Sicilian: A One Man Play has one more weekend of performances at Theatre82’s black box space on Rolfe Square and not for nuthin’ — you would […]
Just Ass for All: Epic’s American Strippers
I never thought I’d get to see Davey Crockett eat out the goddess Artemis, but thanks to the magic of theater, the image is indelibly seared into my brain. I […]
Powerful Performances in The Road Weeps Don’t Save a Confusing Script
The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry, being presented at Brown University’s Stuart Theatre, is one of the most seriously confused plays I have ever seen. Set in the 1800s, […]
Around the World in 80 Days at OSTC
Ocean State Theatre Company will be running what’s being billed as “the original amazing race” this month with their latest production, a new stage adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic Around […]
A Fabulous “Motown”
The classic pop and rhythm and blues songs from the 1960s and 1970s are brought to life in the rousing high-energy Motown: The Musical, which opened at the Providence Performing […]
Hustle Down to Granite Theatre to Catch Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Renaissance City Theatre‘s production of the popular musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, now playing at Granite Theatre in Westerly, is a hilarious all-singing, all-dancing gem of a show. Based on the […]
Rocky Horror Show: Punk Tranvestites from Transsexual, Transylvania
It’s difficult to review a production of a show after seeing it numerous times elsewhere on stage and literally many hundreds of times on screen, because the inevitable tendency is […]
Book of Jolivet: Wilbury Group’s World Premiere of Cain + Abel
God is kind of a dick. Why does he allow so much suffering? Why all the smiting? What is his obsession with blood sacrifice? For their latest production, The Wilbury […]
In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play Generates a Lot of Buzz at URI
Sarah Ruhl’s In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, directed by URI associate professor Bryna Wortman, delivers — in multiples — exactly what the titillating subtitle promises. Yes, this […]