I had the recent opportunity to speak with Trinity Rep’s conversationalist-in-residence, Christina Bevilacqua. Our conversation follows: Alison O’Donnell: What does a conversationalist-in-residence do, and what brought you to play that role at Trinity Rep? Christina Bevilacqua: I kind of made up the title! In the 11 years I spent producing humanities-based conversations at the Providence Athenaeum […]
My heart soars when I see a show that feels important. Word of mouth is the best marketing any show can get and sometimes a show leaves me not just feeling like I want to tell people about it, but rather to demand they see it due to its power. The Father, a play originally […]
The Gamm will open their 2018-2019 season with The Night of the Iguana on October 11. Fred Sullivan, a longtime member of Trinity Repertory Company, is directing the classic play by Tennessee Williams at The Gamm’s new home: the former Ocean State Theater Company building in Warwick. Tony Estrella stars as the Rev. T. […]
CCRI’s theater program offers students the opportunity to explore the theatrical arts academically, professionally and in performance. “I had a very profound experience helping people discover themselves as actors or lovers of theater,” said Ted Clement, CCRI theater program coordinator. CCRI’s Associate in Fine Arts degree in theater offers two tracks: performance and technical. Both […]
As a theater performance major at Rhode Island College (1988-1992), I was fortunate enough to experience part of what many feel were the “golden years” of the program. Given the choices to attend Emerson or NYU, I chose RIC, not just as a financial fallback, but also because RIC had the reputation as one of […]
The Guardian’s Michael Billington once wrote, “…at its best, farce makes us laugh uncontrollably while showing human beings reduced to a state of desperation.” This quote comes from an article intended as a response to critics of the form who decry the sexism often found in farce as well as the manner in which classical […]
Like many Rhode Islanders, I first saw Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive 20 years ago at Trinity Rep. How fitting it is, then, to celebrate this groundbreaking production with The Wilbury Theatre Group, a theater known for producing provocative and thought-provoking theater. Let’s begin with the set. Walking in, Monica Shinn’s set welcomes you […]
The Community Players open their 98th season with a community theater staple, Social Security, directed by James Sulanowski. It opened on Broadway in 1986 and ran for about a year, during which time it picked up a few awards, mostly for the set design. Locally, it has been performed by a few different community theaters […]
Academy Players officially opened the doors to the new James and Gloria Maron Cultural Art Center on September 13 with a foot-stomping, rafter-shaking and heart pumping production of Disney’s Newsies The Musical. The Tony-award winning musical is having its Rhode Island premiere under the direction of Academy Players artistic director Rita A. Maron, supported by the non-stop […]
There is something uniquely demanding in staging a production of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. As one of the most well-known murder mysteries of all time, your production must be clear enough for newcomers to follow, and yet still refreshing to those who know it already. This is the exact challenge undertaken by […]