Theater

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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POTUS: Or, behind every great dumbass are seven women trying to keep him alive

Trinity Rep jump starts its 61st season with Selina Fillinger’s POTUS, directed by Curt Columbus. With all the debating and mudslinging of late, why not take a farcical break from the inevitable political frenzy! The folks at Trinity know many of us dread the upcoming election, and suggest we face our fears and laugh at […]

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A Beautiful Noise Live at Providence Performing Arts Center

Okee dokee folks … I am VERY tempted to start off my review with the refrain, “So Good, So Good,” heard many times throughout the jukebox musical, A Beautiful Noise, but I am not that corny, or am I? Well, it was “So good!” The Story Behind a Beautiful Noise A Beautiful Noise is the […]

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A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical: An interview with a young Diamond

All it took was one glance at the audience for Nick Fradiani to settle into his character the first time he stepped onstage for the Broadway production, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical.  The Connecticut native proved that it’s a myth that actors are so blinded by the footlights they can’t see the audience, […]

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The (One-Act) Play That Goes Wrong: What could possibly go afoul?

Burbage Theatre Co. presents The (One-Act) Play That Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre. “We are thrilled to kick off Season 13 with a bang, or rather, a hilarious disaster! A return to what Burbage does best,” says  Artistic Director Jeff Church, who skillfully directed this raucous production […]

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