“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 Race. “Watching somebody tell a story in this [Zoom] setting is like bad TV a lot of the time.” Binder says it was the Boston-based […]
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 we write about the moment we’re in?” It can seem like one of those lose-lose situations when we talk so much about needing to remember […]
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 it might be a good time to take stock and figure out what exactly I’ve learned and which mistakes I’ve made when it comes to […]
I should start by mentioning that even writing this would normally be considered a conflict of interest. That’s because for the past nine years, I’ve run a theater company. A small one. As in, “you could fit in the back of a pick-up” small. Part of running a small theater company, in addition to producing, […]
As a theater lover, this is usually one of my favorite parts of any season. January has become the de facto time for theaters to take on some of their most ambitious projects, and normally, that means tackling a classic. While a season opener sets the tone, and the season ender assists in you going […]
It’s possible you’re missing the New Year’s Eve party you would have had if this had been anything resembling a normal year, but it only stands to reason that some of most innovative partiers in the state are more than prepared to bring the December 31 festivities online. I spoke with some of the artists […]
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,’ returned the nephew. ‘Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything […]
“How dear of you to let me out of jail.” ~ Eleanor “It’s only for the holidays.” ~ Henry No matter how unconventional you think your holiday season is going to be this year, there’s no question that the royals of James Goldman’s The Lion in Winter have you beat. After keeping his wife, Eleanor […]
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.” ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche For its last two productions, the Players at The Barker Playhouse chose to go the audio route. The result were two highly entertaining listening experiences of The War of the Worlds and An Enemy of the […]
Last year, Providence was lucky enough to experience Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music thanks to FirstWorks and the Brown Arts Initiative from Brown University, and now judy is making a virtual return with Pomegranate Arts production of Holiday Sauce…Pandemic! This new digital iteration is being live-streamed, and features music from Mac’s acclaimed […]