Theatre By The Sea proudly closes out their summer season with the Tony Award-winning celebration of Broadway, 42nd Street. To say this production is great fun would be a total understatement! From the minute the show starts at half curtain, you’re already beaming ear to ear and tapping your foot! This family-friendly classic features a […]
Great art often imitates life. It forces us to peel back the layers of our society and finally experience the raw emotions left out of the history books. When done well, art holds a mirror to all the beauty and ugliness that naturally escapes our traditional perspectives. It begs us to question realities that we […]
Rhode Island’s longest-running premiere sketch-comedy showcase, the Empire Revue, is a curation of original sketches and songs, with the music of the Empire Revue House Band featuring special guest comedians, musicians, and other performing artists. Summer is a great time to escape, and August 11, allowed us to do just that! The show is billed […]
In celebration of 91 years of Theatre By The Sea, owner/producer Bill Hanney is presenting the Tony Award-winning musical Tootsie. Making his Theatre By The Sea debut as director and choreographer is NYC/London-based Richard J. Hinds, who served as the associate director on the Broadway productions. He will be joined by Tommy Iafrate, who brings […]
Five days into Pride Month and Trinity Repertory Company launched a larger-than-a-teased-beehive celebration of love that leaves its audience crowing with laughter and welling with emotion. Trinity’s 60th season ends with a feisty production of Harvey Fierstein’s 1983 Broadway musical La Cage aux Folles, examining the concept of loving who you want romantically and within […]
Attleboro Community Theatre (ACT) celebrates William Shakespeare’s 460th birthday and concludes its 66th season with the Bard’s TWELFTH NIGHT (or WHAT YOU WILL), directed by Jay Burns, with original music and musical direction by Joey Kayan. This romantic comedy is believed to have been written circa 1602. The twelfth night after Christmas day was originally a Catholic holiday, and these were sometimes occasions for […]
Theatre by the Sea presents A Chorus Line, conceived and originally directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett, with book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, and music by Marvin Hamlisch. This musical has been a Broadway staple since it premiered in 1975, featuring beloved tunes such as “What I Did for Love” and “One.” The […]
Brilliantly directed by Jackie Davis, this Burbage Theatre production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherfucker With the Hat features an ensemble of five convincingly talented cast members who give very powerful performances. They take on such painstakingly human themes as addiction, betrayal, vengeance, and the Guy Code, which is aptly mansplained for us. How refreshing […]
The Wilbury Theatre Group presents the Tony Award-winning musical Once, with book by Irish Playwright Enda Walsh, featuring music/lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová. This production is directed by Josh Short, with music direction by Milly Massey. The cast features Nile Hawver and Alison Russo in the roles of Guy and Girl, and an ensemble of actor / musicians including Chelsea Aubert, Zan Berry, Jose […]
Founded by Susan Cat Collyer and Judith Clinton, the RI Theatre Makers Roundtable is what it sounds like: A literal table around which rousing discussion takes place, but also a figurative table, because there is no shortage of seating, everyone is welcome to pull up a “chair.” Regular meetings occur on the third Thursday of […]