Let’s face it – when it comes to live entertainment, sometimes you want the Bard, sometimes you like it avant-garde and sometimes you just want your theater like a nice shot of tequila (fast, salty and with a twist). Murder on Us has been in the business of giving folks a bawdy and satisfying good […]
Playwright Lenny Schwartz delves into a topic we don’t always like to face in America in his play, Our Distance Between Stars. What happens to those left behind in war? Schwartz has written a beautiful script that focuses on the greatest generation, and specifically the women of the Women Auxiliary Corps. It is touching, funny and leaves you thinking. It […]
Have I mentioned that I love black box theater? It is, in my opinion, the rawest and most intimate form of theater. Take a room, some black paint, chairs; fill it with hard-working performers and voila! You have a night of something truly magical. The element of a story, stripped down to the bones. I […]
Outside the theater walls the rain fell and the wind howled, perfectly setting the mood for Ocean State Theatre Company’s season opening production of the macabre musical comedy The Addams Family. Directed by producing artistic director Amiee Turner, it is smart, funny, clever, racy, irreverent and just plain fun. Based on cartoons by Charles Addams […]
The Community Players have recreated the world of sock hops, convertibles, greasers, and teenage romance in their production of Grease. The guys and gals of Rydell High are obsessed with cars, celebrities in movie magazines and falling in love. Fresh-faced newcomer Sandy Dumbrowski (Kiki Maples) becomes friends with the Pink Ladies: Frenchy (Aubrie Bagdasarian), Marty […]
Newsies, the high-energy, Tony Award-winning musical leaps into Providence for a limited run October 20-25 at the Providence Performing Arts Center. While on Broadway, the show broke numerous attendance records and received 23 theatrical award nominations. The show has developed an almost cult-like following of fans across the country. Joey Barreiro stars in the touring […]
Everett Stage is presenting The Freedom Project, a multi-media theatrical experience interweaving dance, personal stories and videos detailing the lives of men and women in our nation’s prisons, specifically the lives of African-Americans. The United States has 5% of the world population and 25% of world prisoners. African-Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the […]
The Players at the Barker Theater at 400 Benefit Street in Providence start their 107th Season with The Octette Bridge Club. The play, written in 1985 by P.J. Barry, has been performed in over 850 theaters since that time. Barry was born and grew up in West Warwick, Rhode Island. The Octette Bridge Club has […]
The Odd Couple, now playing at Newport Playhouse, is a bachelor-centric story about the relationship between two recently divorced men, their lovable card playing cronies and, albeit vaguely, the women who satellite around them. Oscar, played by Fred Davison, is an easy going, devil-be-damned sports writer who lives in a dirty, eight-room apartment in New […]
While the television plagues America with an onslaught of social injustices carried throughout the nation, we here in Rhode Island seem to have been spared viral police videos, save one, and adding names to the litany of unarmed victims struck down by law enforcement. Why are we so different? What are we doing that can possibly […]