Every week millions of viewers tune into the reality TV show “The Amazing Race,” a competition where participants race to be the first to reach a variety of foreign checkpoints. Today travel agencies offer all-inclusive packages allowing vacationers to circumvent the globe. But there was once a time when such glob trekking travel was thought […]
Once upon a time I was a freshman at Scituate Jr. Sr. High School auditioning for the school play. The play was Sweeney Todd, and I have been in love with not only theater, but Stephen Sondheim ever since. With that background, I was more than a little excited about the Contemporary Theatre Company’s production […]
Memoirs of the Last Sicilian: A One Man Play has one more weekend of performances at Theatre82’s black box space on Rolfe Square and not for nuthin’ — you would be hard pressed to find a better show around these parts for a ten spot. Nick Albanese is a gifted storyteller and comedian, having honed […]
I never thought I’d get to see Davey Crockett eat out the goddess Artemis, but thanks to the magic of theater, the image is indelibly seared into my brain. I don’t know what else I expected going to a play called American Strippers. Especially a play called American Strippers by Kevin Broccoli. Epic Theatre’s latest […]
The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry, being presented at Brown University’s Stuart Theatre, is one of the most seriously confused plays I have ever seen. Set in the 1800s, the story is a fictional account of the lives of the Seminole Indians and the Seminole Freedman, which was a band of the Seminole Nation. […]
Ocean State Theatre Company will be running what’s being billed as “the original amazing race” this month with their latest production, a new stage adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic Around the World in 80 Days. On stage now through November 22 is the epic tale of adventurer Phileas Fogg, who has made a ridiculously large […]
The classic pop and rhythm and blues songs from the 1960s and 1970s are brought to life in the rousing high-energy Motown: The Musical, which opened at the Providence Performing Arts Center on Tuesday. The show is about legendary record executive Berry Gordy, who launched the careers of superstars Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, […]
Renaissance City Theatre‘s production of the popular musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, now playing at Granite Theatre in Westerly, is a hilarious all-singing, all-dancing gem of a show. Based on the successful 1988 film starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels boasts a script chock-a-block full of raunchy jokes penned by TV writer Jeffrey […]
It’s difficult to review a production of a show after seeing it numerous times elsewhere on stage and literally many hundreds of times on screen, because the inevitable tendency is to emphasize what is different or unusual. However, most audience members think of The Rocky Horror Show as perhaps the definitive iconic Halloween theater piece, […]
God is kind of a dick. Why does he allow so much suffering? Why all the smiting? What is his obsession with blood sacrifice? For their latest production, The Wilbury Group staged the world premiere of Ben Jolivet’s Cain + Abel, a thoughtful take on the impotence of God in a world of temptation and […]