If you’re 35 this year, you are in good company: Taylor Swift was famously born in 1989. Nina Dobrev of Vampire Diaries fame is 35; so is Daniel Radcliffe, Jason Derulo, Alyson Michalka, Rory McIlroy, the list goes on. But if you’re 35 this year, you might feel a lurking sense of pressure to have […]
Trinity Repertory Company presents August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Fences, directed by Christopher Windom. August Wilson was a Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright, best known for his 10-play American Century Cycle, which explores the heritage and experiences of African Americans throughout the 20th century decade by decade. Fences, the sixth play in the Cycle, is […]
Burbage Theatre Co. continues their 12th season with the RI premiere of Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties by playwright Jen Silverman, directed by resident artist Allison Crews. Their clever metaphor to describe the play puts it bluntly: “Do you remember when you were in middle school and you read about Shackleton and how […]
There’s a tendency of late for directors to re-envision Shakespeare’s masterworks by staging them in a different time and territory, and with a more modern temperament, as if today’s audiences needed an assist in finding the plays’ relevancy. This misguided movement was recently touched on by satirical digital news source The Onion in a mock […]
Wilbury Theatre Group presents Wolf Play, by Hansol Jung and directed by Marcel A. Mascaró. When an online adoption process goes sideways, the young boy caught in the middle launches himself into a lone wolf’s journey to find a pack he can call his own. South Korean playwright Jung has been hailed as one of […]
Okee dokee folks… I attended the first night of a three night run of The Cher Show, a jukebox musical about the life and times of Cher, at The Boch Wang Center in Boston. Growing up with the music of Sonny and Cher, their weekly TV variety show, and having seen them in concert in […]
The Future is NOW! proclaims the marquee at Providence Performing Arts Center’s (PPAC) grand entrance where a retrofitted DMC DeLorean is parked in celebration of the 2024-2025 Broadway season reveal. Following a performance by Frozen’s Katie Mariko Murray, PPAC President and CEO J.L. “Lynn” Singleton along with Joseph W. Walsh, Esq, Chairman, PPAC Board of […]
Frozen: The Musical, based on the 2013 Disney film by the same name, comes to us from author and playwright Jennifer Lee, with direction from Michael Grandage, and music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. Frozen: The Musical features the songs you know and love from the original Oscar-winning film, including ‘Let It […]
In the wake of Rafael Trujillo’s regime, Josefina “Doña Fefa” Rosario arrived in New York City from the Dominican Republic. In 1960, she moved to Rhode Island with her husband and became a pillar of the local Latine community. Not long after, she opened Fefa’s Market on La Broa’ (Broad Street), which was the first […]
Attleboro Community Theatre (ACT) proudly presents Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, in a production directed by Philip Markella. The play is billed as a “fast-paced comedy about everyone’s favorite detective solving his most notorious case. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must crack the mystery of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ before a family […]