Romeo & Juliet: Experience the play as it was meant to be experienced
Few stories have been told and retold as many different times and in as many different forms as William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: from the West Side of New York […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Who Will We Speak For?: A review of Incident at Vichy, produced by Head Trick Theater at the Mathewson Street Church, June, 2023
A rail thin man, crippled in the war, is serving out his last few years commanding a small garrison in Vichy, France. He takes breakfast at the local café, makes […]
The Bodyguard The Musical: The greatest love of all
Jenay Naima (Rachel Marron) and the cast of The Bodyguard: The Musical playing at Theatre By The Sea thru August 5. Photos by Mark Turek. When challenged to stage a […]
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at Theatre by the Sea
It’s telling when the introduction to a musical includes the admonishment: “Just because you know the songs, doesn’t mean you need to serenade the other 491 people here.” Thus begins […]
The Rocket Man Show
Okee dokee folks… Forty seven years ago, July 4, 1976, I saw Elton John at Schaffer Stadium in Foxboro, MA. To date this is the biggest concert I have ever […]
Sweeney Todd at Trinity Rep: Meat pies, anyone?
“Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd,” as the opening lyrics entreat, and embark on an unusual theatrical journey. Written in the 1970s, this Victorian tale of love and revenge overlays […]
MY WAY: A Musical Tribute To Frank Sinatra
Christopher Brasfield, Alyssa Giannetti, Lucy Horton, and Danny Drewes in “MY WAY: A Musical Tribute To Frank Sinatra” at Theatre By The Sea thru June 11. Photo by Michael Derr. […]
Tina through the times: Motif reviews Tina, the musical at PPAC
Okee dokee folks; I am from the generation that watched Ike & Tina Turner on TV and heard them on the radio back in the 60’s and 70’s. I also […]
Oh, those Russians: The Gamm’s “Describe the Night” walks us through 100 years of Russian history
Deception has a way of weaving a complex, strangling web that changes lives and the course of history, a theme that basically defines life in Russia, historically and today. That […]
The Inheritance: The gay experience in America
Epic might seem a fitting word to describe the season opener at Trinity Repertory Company because it implies grandiosity, but while The Inheritance, Part 1 is certainly grand, it is […]