Don’t Miss If/Then
There are musicals that can define you in a way; they speak to you at a time in your life. Twenty years ago, people my age saw that in RENT. We […]
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The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
If/Then Lights Up PPAC
It is not every day that we have a chance to see Broadway caliber performances here in our creative capitol. PPAC is changing that this weekend with the national tour […]
The Fantasticks: Another Daring Choice for CTC
There’s a moment in The Fantasticks where Henry, an old Shakespearean actor, puts on his doublet to recite. “It’s torn, I know – forget it,” he says, asking El Gallo […]
Buddy Holly Dances into TBTS
Two sound cues provide a bittersweet frame for the trajectory of The Buddy Holly Story, now in a swaggeringly triumphant run at Bill Hanney’s Theatre by the Sea in Matunuck. […]
The Penelopiad Weaves a Wonderful Tale
If you’re anything like me, you read the Odyssey back in school and remember maybe a little about Odysseus’s wife Penelope. It’s not a spoiler for Epic Theatre’s production of […]
Before We Begin: Zen and the Theater of Mind and Body Maintenance
For most of us, our daily lives are full to the brim with the stress of our “daily grind.” Our world is overwhelmingly focused on meeting our work, family […]
Tuesdays with Morrie: Simple Truths
Tuesdays with Morrie is another triumph for 2nd Story Theatre, which seems to excel with intimate dramas. Once a week Mitch visits college professor Morrie Schwartz, who is dying […]
AD World: Theatre by the Sea’s Kevin Hill
This continues a series of interviews where Epic artistic director Kevin Broccoli interviews other ADs in the area to create a more in-depth conversation about theater in Rhode Island. This […]
PPAC’s Bullets Over Broadway Shoots Blanks
Bullets Over Broadway is a simply horrible musical. Woody Allen wrote the book, which was based on his screenplay for the 1994 motion picture. I did not see the movie, but […]
Why Is Women’s Work Never Done? Festival51 Women’s Playwriting Festival Takes Aim at the Issue Many American Theaters Want You to Ignore
According to a 2014 study, only 17% of the plays produced on US stages are written by women. As well-known playwright Marsha Norman sums it up, “That means, if life worked […]