In an age when comedy writers are influencers and punchlines are tweets, Laughter on the 23rd Floor is a nostalgic trip back to when humor came with nicotine, neurosis, and the steady clack of a typewriter. This production captures the manic charm and underlying melancholy of Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical play with an effervescent energy that […]
This is the fourth article in a series about community theaters located throughout Rhode Island. The Community Players’ first performance was the 1921 staging of Milestones, a three-act melodrama that followed an upper-middle-class English family over the span of 52 years. It appeared on the Old Star Theatre stage – a former Masonic Temple on […]
What began as a running sketch on a 1996 episode of The Simpsons has turned into a multi-cultural milestone. On July 10, 2024, the iconic hip-hop group Cypress Hill made pop culture history, performing a historic show with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall. Initially predicted by an episode of The Simpsons […]
This is the third article in a series about community theaters located throughout Rhode Island. “Our folks are up against it, and up against it good,” says actor Mickey Rooney as Mickey Moran, in the 1939 film Babes in Arms. He’s the teenaged son of vaudevillian performers whose careers have tanked after the advent of […]
A night full of laughs, tears, and a literal double rainbow, Motif’s 3rd annual RI Spoken Word Awards ceremony was one for the books. With live performances from Julius Morris, Rudy Ru, Simply Sara, Nelle Nel, Ren L[i]u, Othannah Tomasina, Marlon Carey, Sandra Levy, Sonya Priest, Blaq Sav, Doug Key, and Mikayla Lee, the night […]
Winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Choreography and Best Costumes, Some Like It Hot is a non-stop fun fest of top-notch singing, dancing and heartfelt jocularity! PPAC presents this tap-dancing, razzle-dazzling Broadway hit that won more theater awards than any show in its season, including a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Based […]
Jeff Church was born to play Hamlet. As lead in a retelling of the Shakesperean tragedy at Gamm Theatre, Church is physically and emotionally nimble, leaping and swashbuckling about the three-tiered stage to deliver iconic lines – “To be or not to be,” “To thine own self be true,” “To die, to sleep, perchance to […]
The Arctic Playhouse presents “Picnic” by William Inge and directed by Karen Besson. In 1953, when the play premiered on Broadway, Picnic won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Picnic explores themes of love, family, sexuality, repression, rites of passage, disappointment, and the complexities of human […]
The Community Players proudly present Merrily We Roll Along. The production follows three friends— Frank, Charley, and Mary— in reverse chronology, from the 1970s to the 1950s. In 1976, Franklin Shepard is a wealthy Hollywood producer, and as the story moves backwards in time the audience learns of his meteoric rise from penniless dreamer to […]
FAT HAM by James Ijames, directed by Don Mays, is a funny, poignant play that deftly transposes Hamlet to a family barbecue in the American South to grapple with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility, and honesty. Wilbury Theatre presents this 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama in a candid, hilarious and thought-provoking tragedy that presents more as […]