Theater

A Legendary RI Treasure Takes Grand Stage

Just when The Providence Performing Arts Center was grappling with final arrangements for its 2024-25 season – kicking off with back-to-back premiers of two national stage tours (A Beautiful Noise, Shucked) – President and CEO J.L. “Lynn” Singleton received an interesting email from Trinity Repertory and its executive director, Kate Liberman. A grand stage inspired […]

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Tara Moses, Trinity Rep/Brown MFA candidate, on the direction of directing

We recently sat down with Brown/Trinity Rep’s MFA in Directing candidate Tara Moses. Although it was too late to include in our recent Indigenous Issue, the wide-ranging discussion included Moses’ thoughts on Indigenous directing and where that form can fit in modern theater. You can see an example Nov 9 and 10 at the Pell […]

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PPAC Presents Shucked: Well, Yeah, It’s corny

Shucked is a Tony Award–winning musical comedy featuring the book by Robert Horn, a score by the Grammy Award–winning songwriting team of Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally and directed by Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien; this corn-fed, corn-bred American musical promises to satisfy your appetite for great musical theater. The lighthearted story starts with the […]

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What the Constitution Means to Me: Positive Rights Are Active Rights

Wilbury Theatre Group presents Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me. Schreck is also a screenwriter and performer. As a teenager, she earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the country. Her semi-biographical play was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best […]

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The Effect: Review of new play at The Gamm Theater

Humans know precious little about brain function, something that doesn’t change – and might actually worsen – in viewing “The Effect.” British playwright Lucy Prebble’s work, on stage at The Gamm Theatre, centers on two scientists and two volunteers in a sequestered medication study of the effect different doses have on depression. As doses increase, […]

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FRANKENSTEIN: “ALL I ASK IS THE POSSIBILITY OF LOVE”

Who doesn’t love Frankenstein’s monster, the hideous creature unnaturally created in a lab from deceased humans’ and animals’ parts? Yes, he does evil things, but who can blame him? Since the publication of Mary Shelley’s popular novel in 1818, the name “Frankenstein” has often been used, erroneously, to refer to the monster rather than to […]

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LA EXITOSA MAGIA DEL TEATRO ECAS/ THE SUCCESSFUL MAGIC OF THE ECAS THEATER

Hace año y medio tuve la oportunidad de entrevistar a Francis Parra Guerra, la Directora Ejecutiva y Artística del Teatro ECAS. Días antes de que se abrieran las puertas de lo que se convertiría en el primer hogar propio y permanente de la compañía teatral hispanohablante, camine con Francis hablando sobre la trayectoria y la […]

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