The Players at the Barker Theater at 400 Benefit Street in Providence start their 107th Season with The Octette Bridge Club. The play, written in 1985 by P.J. Barry, has been performed in over 850 theaters since that time. Barry was born and grew up in West Warwick, Rhode Island. The Octette Bridge Club has […]
The Odd Couple, now playing at Newport Playhouse, is a bachelor-centric story about the relationship between two recently divorced men, their lovable card playing cronies and, albeit vaguely, the women who satellite around them. Oscar, played by Fred Davison, is an easy going, devil-be-damned sports writer who lives in a dirty, eight-room apartment in New […]
While the television plagues America with an onslaught of social injustices carried throughout the nation, we here in Rhode Island seem to have been spared viral police videos, save one, and adding names to the litany of unarmed victims struck down by law enforcement. Why are we so different? What are we doing that can possibly […]
Just in time for Halloween comes a musical production featuring America’s spookiest family. Katie Clark stars as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family: The Musical, which opened at Ocean State Theatre Company on September 30 and runs through October 25. Clark is having a good time bringing Morticia to life. “She’s fun to play because she […]
Dry Land, written by Ruby Rae Spiegel is directed by The Wilbury Theatre Group’s artistic director, Josh Short, for its New England premiere. The play, set in a high school girl’s swim team locker room, focuses on two girls navigating teen friendship and an unwanted pregnancy. Amy, played by Andrea Reid, is the so-called “mean […]
The Theater Company of Rhode Island is celebrating its 30th year in a new venue in Chepachet. It’s a great benefit to theater lovers in Rhode Island to have companies from north to south. The September play, Best Of Friends by James Elward, is a lively comedy that takes us through family clashes, secrets and […]
Day of Absence, now being performed at Pawtucket’s Mixed Magic Theatre, is a scathing satire of racism set in the deep South. Written in 1965 by Douglas Turner Ward, a black playwright who founded the Negro Ensemble Theatre, the play examines the effect on the white residents of a small town when all the black […]
Sitting down for Trinity Repertory’s production you know one thing: This is not going to be your run-of-the-mill production. We all know the story. Julius Caesar is killed by conspirators in Rome. We know the famous lines uttered by Caesar, “et tu Brute?” and Marc Antony’s famous “friends, Romans, countrymen.” So how does a theater […]
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical will begin its national tour on September 15 at the Providence Performing Arts Center. Based on the life of singer-songwriter Carole King, the show features many of her hits, including “It’s Too Late,” “So Far Away,” “The Locomotion,” “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” and “Pleasant Valley Sunday.” King and her songwriter husband, Gerry […]
Pug-let, Shakespeare’s Hamlet performed by pug dogs, is sweeping the theater world like a furry tornado – with established actor, playwright and Epic Theatre Artistic Director Kevin Broccoli in the role of Toto. Started as a satirical joke on Kickstarter (“To Pee or Not to Pee: An All-Pug Hamlet Media Frenzy,” Sep 4, 2014), the […]