Second Story’s Baldpate spins a tangled web of ever-escalating insanity Seven Keys to Baldpate, which began in previews on January 24 at Warren’s 2nd Story Theatre, is a dizzy, frenetically funny farce. It runs through February 23 at the UpStage theater. Directed by Ed Shea with a script that writer George M. Cohan based on a best-selling […]
“Despite all of the multi-layered wit, much of the play depends upon non-verbal communication by the cast.” — Epic Theatre’s Tribes at Theatre 82 The challenge of a play about tribal affiliation is that literally any arbitrary characteristic can be yanked out of thin air and turned into a criterion in order to draw a circle around […]
Murderous Aunts and a delusional nephew make for a wacky family dynamic in Aresenic and Old Lace The Community Players are having a bloody good time bringing the classic farce Arsenic and Old Lace to life on the stage of the Jenks Auditorium in Pawtucket. The show runs until January 19. Written in 1941 by Joseph […]
” This is a show that deals with life, death and everything in between–” The Lyons at 2nd Story The lives of a dysfunctional family take center stage in the black comedy The Lyons, which opened in previews January 10 and is running through February 9 at Warren’s 2nd Story Theatre. The Lyons was written by Nicky Silver […]
“Sooner or later at every 24-Hour Play Festival, there arrives a moment where everyone comes together for the common cause of ripping up tiny bits of paper.” – Andy Hoover, playwright (one of six) for CTC’s 24-Hour Play Festival. In February, 1920, a group of Princeton student thespians staged their first production. Their theater was […]
If Harold had his way, the world would exist solely at the tip of his purple crayon and maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing. What a child transfers from hand to paper is a direct manifestation of how they see the world, or at least as they would like it be. This notion […]
“If I could stick a knife in my heart Suicide right on stage Would it be enough for your teenage lust Would it help to ease the pain? Ease your brain?” – Jagger/Richards, “It’s Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It) “We created rock ‘n’ roll from our own image, it’s our child […]
When renowned masked puppet workshop Big Nazo produces visionary ghosts, no thin airy shoals are these. Charles Dickens prefaced his classic 1843 novella, “I have endeavoured in this ghostly little book, to raise the ghost of an idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, […]
Assembly Theater, in Harrisville, is presenting a black and white version of the yuletide classic Miracle on 34th Street, performed by the Rhode Island Stage Ensemble. The show opened December 6 and will be performed December 13 through 15. Paul Tourville plays Kris Kringle, who is hired as a department store Santa by Macy’s. He […]
If the children of Scientologists in their youthful innocence performed a stage musical in the mode of a Christmas pageant about their religious movement that has driven people to bankruptcy and suicide, complete with cheesy cardboard props and scenery, the result would presumably be this black humor extravaganza. The satire consists largely in simply exhibiting […]