Theater

AD World: An Interview with Tony Estrella of The Gamm

This is the second in a series on 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 month’s interview is with Gamm artistic director Tony Estrella. Kevin Broccoli: Like many other people, I was so impressed by Streetcar. I’m […]

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Story Theater Makes Warm Fuzzies

It’s December and the word “story” might create subconscious associations with certain themes, namely, A Christmas Story, The Nutcracker, The Night Before Christmas and other holiday plays. If you are looking for an escape from the expensive, glitzy, glittery, orchestral pieces of theater so well represented this time a year, you will find reprieve at […]

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8 Reasons Delightful “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” Should Be Your New Holiday Tradition

Don’t be fooled into thinking this hit Broadway musical show is at all creak with no crackle and pop! Despite its lineage going all the way back to the 1954 Bing Crosby & Danny Kaye-led film, this touring production is bursting at the seams with youthful energy and show stopper numbers that took my breath away. Full disclosure? I’ll stand […]

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Planet Christmas: Until the Sea Shall Free Them

A new and original work of prodigious audacity, Planet Christmas by Contemporary Theater Company playwright-in-residence Andy Hoover, is unlike any holiday-themed stage production you’ve ever seen. It draws from a diverse variety of sources ranging from H.G. Wells to Leonard Cohen, sometimes planting allusions so obscure that, like James Joyce, Hoover seems to be playing […]

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Stadium Theatre Brings a Warm and Wonderful Christmas Carol to Life in Woonsocket

Ah, A Christmas Carol … who doesn’t know and love this holiday chestnut from one of its many incarnations? Whether your favorite adaptation stars Michael Caine, Mr. Magoo or Patrick Stewart, we all happily revisit this age-old tale of that one fateful Christmas Eve when miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited upon by the ghosts of […]

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