Wilbury’s You Got Older Deals with Life’s Curve Balls
Dysfunctional families are pretty much a dime-a-dozen on stage. In Clare Barron’s You Got Older, however, the dysfunction is not attributed to family, but to life in its many ups […]
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Come From Away at PPAC Focuses on the Light in a Dark Moment
It’s a Christmas miracle. The lights came up, the actors bowed, and the audience didn’t head for the doors. Anyone who knows me knows about my never-ending gripe with the […]
Art Imitates Life: 210-year-old drop curtain depicts a PVD moment in time
“I call it a curtain, but it’s, of course, a drop scene,” says Richard Ring, deputy executive director for collections and interpretation at the Rhode Island Historical Society, as he […]
American Girlhood on Stage: Dance Nation powerfully portrays what it means to be a girl
Competition, jealousy and uncertainty plague all pre-teen girls, but in few places are they more pronounced than on a competitive dance team. Playwright Clare Barron exploits the tensions teeming within […]
Pawtucket’s Seussical Has Heart, But Lacks Focus
I went into this production of Seussical having never seen the show before. Like anyone, I know the classic Dr. Seuss lore, have a deep attachment to the characters and […]
CCRI’s Guest Artist Series Provides New Opportunities for Students and Loads of Entertainment
Working in college theater can be fantastically educational and rewarding; however, there are some inherent limitations, specifically for designers and technical engineers who are only exposed to their own school’s […]
No Humbugs Here: Holiday theater moves in to the Ocean State
A certain cynicism creeps in during the holidays as an evolutionary response to all of the unmitigated cheer that surrounds us before the gunmetal grey stoicism of the new year […]
Time to Dance, Sugar Plum!: ‘Tis the season for holiday dance to hit the stage
Whether it’s a vicarious urge to keep ourselves warm, or because something about graceful movement conjures associations with the holiday season, or just because “Happy Holidays” makes you feel like […]
On the Powwow Trail: The Quanah LaRose story
Quanah LaRose has lived a life that, if he wasn’t a real person, would be straight out of a movie. A celebrated powwow dancer and singer from the Ute tribe […]
Mamma Mia! What a Show!
I am going to admit something here, and once it’s in print, it is here forever — I really like Mamma Mia! And no, I’m not a closet ABBA fan. […]