Sex sells. The folks at the Granite Theatre in Westerly know that, choosing Tim Firth’s Calendar Girls as their current production. The audience had a great time, and for good reason. The script is touching, witty and at times, laugh-out-loud funny. This production had several challenges that worked against the script, but in the end […]
Epic Theatre Company’s summer of satire is underway, and insanely ironic if you read our piece on James Franco and Me. The second installment in the summer rep shows is an original offering by Kevin Broccoli titled Dorothy, Rose, Sophia, and Blanche. Let’s begin with this rockstar cast. This show was destined to have a […]
The smash Disney musical Beauty And The Beast will charm audiences at Theatre By The Sea (TBTS) beginning July 19. The Broadway production was nominated for nine 1994 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and won London’s Olivier Award for Best Musical, and it is the tenth longest running show in Broadway history. The score, […]
As 2nd Story Theatre closes in on the final weekend of its charming, melancholic take on Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s (by way of Richard Greenberg’s taut adaptation of the original novella), a transformation is taking place. Upstairs, Holly Golightly is sweetly fast-talking her way into our hearts, while, in the basement, the bones of […]
I approached last year’s FringePVD a little bit differently than usual. Normally organizing and planning what I’d like to see, last year I decided to simply head to an evening location and let the tides of fate carry me where they would. I’m not sure it’s the best way to attack a festival – as […]
Looking to experience the inside of a brain, have a drink with Jesus, hang out with an AI in a post-apocalyptic world, become trapped in Vogue magazine advertisement, attend a kid’s birthday party and see a metal opera, all in a period of five days? Probably not, as the possibility likely never crossed your mind. Such […]
The work of several playwrights will be featured in the 12th Annual One Act Play Festival, which kicks off July 21 and runs until August 12 at Theatre 82. The plays include comedies, dramas, a holiday parody and a few ghost stories. Jessica Chace, who is the festival’s artistic director, said there were 1,000 […]
Everyone thinks their family has a monopoly on weird. Maybe that explains our fascination with quirky families in fiction: They show us that however strange we think our families are, it can always be much worse. This is in no way a new phenomenon — quite likely, as long as there have been families, there […]
My favorite plays to see are the brand-new ones. Last season I was fortunate enough to see Epic Theatre’s James Franco and Me, written by Kevin Broccoli, the “me” in the title. In the play, Kevin sits in a hospital, waiting to see if his father will live through the night. His only company is actor/celebrity James […]
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which was first published in 1892 and has lived on in college syllabi ever since. It’s an important piece of literature as it explores women’s physical and mental health, and it is one of the go-to pieces many people think of when it comes to […]