Theater

If you hang around with me long enough, you’ll notice a few lines I tend to repeat regarding my opinions on theater, including how it helps with reading comprehension and how it’s beautiful in its simplicity. In other words, all you need is a room and an audience. Epic Theatre Company has certainly taken this […]

  The legendary Tarzan swings into the Stadium Theatre August 10 through 12 in Tarzan: The Musical, based on Disney’s epic animated musical adventure and Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan of the Apes. Tarzan features music by Phil Collins, and a book by Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang. Rebecca Donald is directing. Jack Cappadona stars […]

Two rookie cops. Three unpredictable pilferers. Eight doors. In one room, an alleged embezzling mayor is due to meet with his female accountant to discuss the budget. Meanwhile, in the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. The sting goes awry when there’s some confusion as to who’s in which […]

Theatre By The Sea continues celebrating its 85th anniversary with 50-year-old Webber/Rice classic, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a show that owner/producer Bill Hanney describes as a “rousing, rollicking rock opera.” Rock? Well, let’s just say you are treated to a variety of styles in this musical with little dialogue, save for the Narrator’s […]

Head Trick is returning to its roots with a classic Shakespeare in the park. As the opener of their 2018-19 season, themed “Making a New World,” this is the first of three forays into reimagining classic plays as escapism, as seen from the perspective of women, the LGBT community and people of color, rather than […]

As far as festivals go, Rhode Island, in general, and Providence, in particular, has more than its share. Several of them focus on the Performing Arts, including AS2220’s FooFest and the City’s PVDFest, which both feature live performances, but The Providence Fringe Festival (better known as FRINGEPVD), focuses on theatrical presentation, traditional and devised and […]

  Director Joanne Fayan has returned to Epic Theatre Company “to helm the first of two summer shows that look at life and love from every angle of the imagination,” as written on the official Constellations Facebook page. Nick Payne’s Constellations takes us through the various stages of the way humans meet, hook up, break apart, […]

Often considered among the greatest films of all time, Gone with the Wind got off to a wildly inauspicious start. A few weeks into filming, producer David Selznick suddenly halted production. He fired the director and brought in Victor Fleming straight from the set of a little film called The Wizard of Oz. He then […]

With the tagline “Can one word alter the course of your life?” Nick Payne’s Constellations has become the surprise must-see (and must-produce) love story of the 2018 Rhode Island theater season. The Wilbury Theatre Group will present their version in early 2019 and the now-defunct 2nd Story had plans to mount a production as well. […]