“Selecting a dance instructor is a little bit like finding your own magic fairy” Being a dad is a real adventure with a learning curve that surpasses much else that I’ve done in life. I’m suspicious of anyone who says otherwise. When my little boy told me he wanted to dance, I mobilized my energy […]
The desperate lives of office workers are explored in Assistance, an edgy comedy being presented by Epic Theatre Company at Theatre 82 in Cranston. The show opened February 7 and runs through the 22nd. Written by Leslye Headland, the play is set in the office of Daniel Weisinger, an extremely wealthy and powerful man who […]
Armed with the inventive minds of pre-adolescents, a local theater company is invigorating a struggling community and promoting positive values. The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) is a non-profit group that gives underprivileged children from the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence a creative outlet by introducing them to the dramatic arts. Started in 2004, MAP features a […]
Playwright Alan Ayckbourn, prolific British author most well known for Absurd Person Singular and the trilogy The Norman Conquests, has a fascination for witty characters who feel they are missing out on something and are driven more or less crazy by that realization, something like Noël Coward for the looney bin. Comic farce about mental […]
Homer’s tale Iliad becomes a touchstone and a metaphor for all wars in An Iliad presented by the Willbury Group. Theater is a collaborative experience, even if the end result seems centered on one person. Even a self-penned, self-designed (and, in this age of no-overhead marketing, self-promoted) piece needs extra eyes to ensure that ego does not trump […]
Laugh hysterically while witnessing the mayhem of a 1950s sitcom desperately trying to stay afloat in the ratings in the Ocean State Theatre Company’s production of Neil Simon’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Ocean State Theatre Company marked its one year anniversary with the opening of Neil Simon’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor. And, thanks […]
Restaurants, like hotels, have ghosts. People meet, fall in love, fall out of love, gather, pray, eat, reunite, talk business and sometimes even pass away at these establishments built solely to offer rest and sustenance to the paying public. And while a hotel play (of which there are plenty), takes advantage of the various ways […]
Second Story’s Baldpate spins a tangled web of ever-escalating insanity Seven Keys to Baldpate, which began in previews on January 24 at Warren’s 2nd Story Theatre, is a dizzy, frenetically funny farce. It runs through February 23 at the UpStage theater. Directed by Ed Shea with a script that writer George M. Cohan based on a best-selling […]
“Despite all of the multi-layered wit, much of the play depends upon non-verbal communication by the cast.” — Epic Theatre’s Tribes at Theatre 82 The challenge of a play about tribal affiliation is that literally any arbitrary characteristic can be yanked out of thin air and turned into a criterion in order to draw a circle around […]
Murderous Aunts and a delusional nephew make for a wacky family dynamic in Aresenic and Old Lace The Community Players are having a bloody good time bringing the classic farce Arsenic and Old Lace to life on the stage of the Jenks Auditorium in Pawtucket. The show runs until January 19. Written in 1941 by Joseph […]