Burbage Theatre Co premieres Lynn Nottage’s two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clyde’s, directed by Burbage’s founding artistic director, Jeff Church. A truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to keep them down, the staff members learn to reclaim their lives, find purpose, […]
The national tour of The Outsiders, coming soon to the Providence Performing Arts Center, will seem familiar. And not just because it’s the stage adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s seminal 1967 young adult novel – which was required middle school reading for most of us – and Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic 1983 film of the same […]
BY ALISON O’DONNELL ON FEBRUARY 20, 2026 Trinity Rep tells us their staging of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is a freewheeling blend of comedy and tragedy, a journey through jealousy, redemption, and second chances. In a fit of unfounded jealousy, King Leontes accuses his wife, Hermione, of infidelity, leading to heart-wrenching consequences. Sixteen years […]
With the waning of winter, there’s no better way to close out the season at Attleboro Community Theatre (ACT) than with The Winter Wolf by Joseph Zettelmaier, directed by Douglas Greene. “It’s Christmas night in young Cora’s house. She’s visited by her beloved grandfather, a man of high spirits despite his failing health. As the […]
In true comedic (not exactly musical) style, a cadre of eccentric Broadway devotees gather under the premise of discussing a new play. Everyone, including the producer, writers, director, financial backer, and the actors are ready to “put on a show.” It’s murder and mayhem in this whodunnit. Could it be the maid? The butler? Perhaps […]
Henrik Ibsen’s haunting masterpiece of moral reckoning, Ghosts, lays bare the corrosive power of secrets and the cost of keeping up appearances. In a remote Norwegian town, widow Helen Alving prepares to dedicate an orphanage in her late husband’s memory. Things take a turn for the worse when her son Oswald returns home. Buried truths […]
Seeing himself as a “roadie in training for a very, very long time”—having supported his mother’s country and classic-rock cover band, Roadhouse Band, on Long Island since childhood—lighting designer William Succoso first found himself mesmerized by the visual effects created by the lighting systems at summer concerts on Jones Beach. He tried his own hand […]
As the house lights dimmed on a nearly sold-out crowd of 3,000 at the Providence Performing Arts Center on January 29, the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, silhouetted in silence on stage, anticipated the arrival of singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov at the foreground. Under a shadow cast by a backlight stepped Isakov, with his solitary croon […]
Not since Oscar and Felix – or Laverne and Shirley – have we cackled so hard at the antics of mismatched roommates bumbling through life. Somehow the Trinity Repertory Company team knew what we needed this season, staging a show that delivers a one-hour-and-40-minute laughfest that cleanses the heaviness of winter and the news cycle […]
Harold, a spoiled young man, experiments with destructive ways of destroying himself in order to get the attention of his self-obsessed, affluent mother. Maude is peacefully wise, an old but youthfully vibrant, offbeat octogenarian who befriends him. What could possibly go wrong?! Colin Higgins’ screenplay has us falling in love with these opposites as they […]