Theater

Watch Larry Houbre Jr. Pull a Rabbit Out of His Hat in Harvey at YTI

  New Bedford’s Your Theatre Inc. (YTI) has a pleasant January planned with their upcoming production of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Harvey by Mary Chase. The volunteer community theater has been a non-profit mainstay of the cultural scene in the southcoast area for more than 70 years, producing a full season of shows annually. Suzanne […]

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Epic’s Mighty, Mighty House of Bernarda Alba Puts a Female Face to Fascism

Epic Theatre Company is kicking off 2019 with Emily Mann’s adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s acclaimed drama The House of Bernarda Alba under the direction of Carol Schlink. Federico Garcia Lorca is widely considered to be Spain’s most important playwright and poet. The author of Blood Wedding and Yerma, his last work, The House of […]

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Artists’ Exchange’s Carol Delivers a Bit of Magic

  Artists’ Exchange celebrated its 15th annual production of A Christmas Carol: The Musical Reclamation of Ebenezer Scrooge this holiday season. The production, adapted and directed by Rhiannon Lynn Annin, with original music by Ethan Miller, ran from December 6-22 at Theatre 82 in Cranston. Despite being performed every Christmas by various theatrical groups from […]

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A Doublewide, Texas, Christmas at Newport Playhouse: This Ain’t No Chekhov, Dammit

Newport Playhouse deploys an obviously talented cast in their production of A Doublewide, Texas, Christmas who struggle valiantly to elevate a script from the writing team billing themselves as “Jones, Hope, Wooten” – actually Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten – who collectively have authored nearly two dozen plays that possess all the humor, charm, and […]

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Futurity Makes the Sound of Present Action

When you enter to take your seat for Wilbury Theatre Group’s production of Futurity, you could be forgiven for thinking you’ve passed through the curtains into a slightly shifted dimension. Instead of a play, a chalkboard on stage advertises live music – “tonight at 7:30!” – played by “The Algorhythms.” Brien Lang, Futurity’s director, explained […]

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Barker’s Butterfingers Explores the People Behind the Greatest Story Ever Told

Each new adaptation of A Christmas Carol or Wonderful Life carries the burden of creating something fresh, bold, innovative and memorable. Then, there are the holiday plays that need no prompting to be different. Among these is William Gibson’s 1975 acid flashback Christmas pageant The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut, & the […]

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Curt Columbus, Trinity Artistic Director, Provides Full Experiences with the ’18 – ’19 Season

One of my favorite conversations as part of the AD’s World series was the conversation I had with Curt Columbus about Trinity Rep’s 2017 – 2018 Season. Curt was nice enough to sit down with me again and discuss the 2018 – 2019 season, which has already kicked off with a record-breaking production of “Pride […]

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