The Ghost Light: A year in the theater
“Do you think theater will survive?” Believe it or not, I started getting asked this question long before the pandemic struck. I would be asked to come in and do […]
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Neal Vitullo and the Vipers
Award-winning blues/rockabilly/R&B/surf/American roots rock ‘n roll.
January 31 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmClub D’elf
Synthesis of Moroccan traditional music and electronic, dubbed-out funk. Probably not suitable for elves.
January 31 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Governor McKee Releases His $11.2 Billion Budget Proposal: New gov proposes an end to prohibition
Governor Dan McKee released his $11.2 billion budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year today in a budget briefing with the press. He inherits a big task from predecessor Gina […]
Treacherous Pen Pals: Head Trick Theatre presents Dangerous Liaisons web series
Providence’s Head Trick Theatre is all about live performance and sharing space with an audience; however, COVID forced them to shift. Their latest production is a web series, Dangerous Liaisons, […]
A Page A Day and You Might Have a Play: On writing right now
Every writer has a flaw specific to whatever it is that prevents them from writing. For me, it’s productivity. I spent years demanding that I write a lot, every day, […]
Adventures in Digital Theater: Or when the comments section strikes back
On President’s Day, I did a live digital reading of a play I’d written called Mayor Pete. It’s a one-man show about Pete Buttigieg, small-town mayor, former Presidential candidate, and […]
On “Plenty”: The play to read right now
There are certain plays I reread every year, because in some ways, it’s the best way to remind yourself how to write. David Hare has, sadly, become a rarely produced […]
Capture the Block — Stories from Ward 15: Building community block by block
The Wilbury Theatre Group has teamed up with The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities’ Culture is Key Initiative, and will soon be presenting the fruits of their labor with Capture […]
The Race: Wilbury’s latest offering was written for Zoom
“I’m a professional storyteller by trade, and I pretty much stopped working because of COVID,” says Mark Binder, the writer and playwright behind The Wilbury Group’s newest online offering, The […]
They Say Write What You Know: How (not) to write a play about a pandemic
This was my first week teaching classes as an adjunct professor in playwriting. One of my students asked a question I’ve heard from a lot of other writers lately. “Should […]
The Top Ten Things I’ve Learned from Going Digital: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zoom
Now that we’re careening toward the one-year anniversary of all us having to learn that our faces look best when a ring of light is aimed at them, I thought […]