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 […]
Through the Glass Theatre Ensemble presents Sarah Ruhl’s surrealist comedy Dead Man’s Cell Phone at AS220’s Black Box. Ruhl is known for her probing humor, vivid imagination and poignant humanity. Director Olivia M. Sahlin artfully takes on challenging topics in a world of ordinary people living extraordinary lives, and small coincidences opening into quirky metaphysical […]
Burbage Theatre Co presents The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, based on the novel by Mark Haddon, and adapted by Simon Stephens. Its title refers to a short story that features a Sherlock Holmes mystery. Director Karen Carpenter delivers a production that is as funny as it is moving. Meet Christopher, a […]
This is the second article in a series about community theaters located throughout RI. According to the American Theater Association, it has always been difficult to get an accurate count of community theaters in operation in the United States and its territories – currently guesstimated to be over 6,000 venues. This is because of their […]
Rhode Island’s oldest community theatre, The Community Players is proud to present Ken Ludwig’s award-winning comedy, Lend Me a Tenor. The title is a pun on “Lend me a tenner,” as in a ten-dollar bill. Directed by Jay Burns, the production opened on Valentine’s Day, and there was lots of love in the air for […]
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream may not have been the first play to parody amateur theater, but his depiction of the exceptionally incompetent Mechanicals certainly created the mold for more modern-day, like-minded British comedies like Noises Off and The Play That Goes Wrong. Christopher Guest’s now-iconic Waiting for Guffman – a mockumentary about the aspirations […]
Attleboro Community Theatre (ACT) presents The People vs. Frankenstein by Nicola Cuti and Kevin M. Glover. Things aren’t always what they seem, and the truth is about to be put on trial. The legendary creature stands accused, but is he truly a monster, or a victim of fear and misunderstanding? As the courtroom drama unfolds, […]
Gritty, profanity-laced, and unforgiving might be just the elixir audiences need these days and Gamm Theatre delivers via a gut-punch production of Between Riverside and Crazy. The dark comedy by Stephen Adly Guirgis and 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it should be. The reason is Guirgis’ […]