“This isn’t a sex play — it’s not an S&M play — that’s way too simple a frame for how smart it actually is. That’s just the entry point.” – Kate Kataja, director of Venus in Fur, BTC Playwright David Ives’ tango of sexual tension, Venus in Fur, succeeds on paper precisely because it’s not […]
For the 20th year, the RI Black Storytellers hosted and produced a Liar’s Competition on January 19 as part of FUNDA Fest, sometimes referred to as RIBS’ Fibs. The event was hosted by April Brown and Teju Ologboni, and played to a standing-room-only crowd at the Mixed Magic Theater at 560 Mineral Spring Ave in Pawtucket. […]
Whether by divine plan or just cosmic joke, the local theater stars have aligned this January to offer audiences the perfect companion piece to The Gamm Theatre’s much lauded new adaptation of Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya. This “super moon” of theatrical events comes in the form of a wonderfully staged and phenomenally acted production of […]
The hit musical On Your Feet will be presented at Providence Performing Arts Center from January 30 through February 4. On Your Feet tells the inspiring story of pop music superstar Gloria Estefan, who with her husband, Emilio, was responsible for several hits in the 1980s and ’90s, including “1-2-3,” “Conga,” “Rhythm Is Gonna Get […]
Starting with a breezy, witty and emphatically modern Russian-to-English translation by director Curt Columbus, the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre production of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov is a darkly comic and cerebral delight. It could be the best production of Uncle Vanya you’re ever likely to see. One of the epic dysfunctional families of drama slowly […]
Playwright Lillian Hellman was an awful person: Self-hating Jew, apologist for Stalin, plagiarist of the lives of other people, possessed of a remarkable talent for alienating friends, and prone to ruinous litigation. Hellman, perhaps because of her own deep character flaws, mastered an uncanny empathy in writing plays about awful people. Being evil is not […]
Shakespeare to Hiphop is a 90-minute show that is appropriate for all ages and introduces attendees to William Shakespeare with a three-piece band, incredible beats and a brilliant comedy duo. For the last four years, the show has been touring Boston public schools as well as some private schools and libraries. Most recently, it performed on […]
As I was sitting down to write this review, I was struck by one thing in particular. This is one of the rare times I have sat down to write a review of a play written by a woman, directed by a woman. Obviously I’ve done it before, but it’s been a little while for me, and […]
The Community Players continue their 97th season with the wry comedy Lovers and Other Strangers, a compilation of five comic scenes featuring New York couples in various stages of their relationships — from the first bloom of romance to a bedroom battle of the sexes to a long-married couple desperately trying to understand their […]
The Community Players are beginning the year with their production of Lovers and Other Strangers, a series of five comic one acts, each dealing with the ups and downs of relationships and marriage. Each story features partners of varied ages, from a planned seduction gone wrong, a groom experiencing cold feet before the wedding, to […]