An Exploration of Gay Lifestyle Staging Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, especially in an intimate space like Epic Theatre’s 82 Rolphe Square, is a daunting task that takes artistic courage and strong acting. This production has both. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, is a 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning play in two parts. […]
The Cool Collective Presents an Exciting Multi-Media Experience The Cool Collective from the Resources for Human Development-Rhode Island (RHD-RI) presents an original play, Pizza World for one weekend only on Friday, June 6 at 7pm and Saturday, June 7 at 2pm at 95 Empire Street, Providence. An exciting, multi-media presentation, in development since last September, […]
Satirical Comedy Comes to the Artist’s Exchange There truly is a wonderful gaggle of talented actors in Rhode Island. And they’re not just at the “professional” venues; they are everywhere. Orson’s Shadow, by Austin Pendleton, is currently playing at the Artists’ Exchange on Rolfe Street in Cranston and it provides a vehicle to showcase the […]
The Burbage Theatre Company shows that the teenage years of our lives are truly the horror years in their production of Doctor Cerebrus After a brief absence from the local theater scene, the Burbage Theater Company returns with great fanfare in the form of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s play, Doctor Cerberus. Dr. Cerberus (Rico Lanni) is the […]
Giving the people what they want for 30 years and counting We are fortunate to have theater enthusiasts throughout the state of Rhode Island. In fact, the demand for the arts has grown larger over the years. And within the past 10 years, residents finally have given in to travelling outside of their own neighborhoods […]
The Epic Theatre Company presents a story of past traumas that effect present life in Amy Herzog’s The Great God Pan A young man’s life turns upside down when a childhood friend shares a shocking secret in The Great God Pan, a provocative and darkly humorous play being presented by Epic Theatre Company. The show, […]
“An invitation to cut loose, break free and live a little” Neil Simon’s first notable comedy from Broadway, Come Blow Your Horn, is the current production of the Theater Company of R.I. in Harrisville (Burrillville). Simon’s family-centered “comedy of errors” stories became the well-known playwright’s signature style. With all the serious dramatic and tragic work […]
Expectations are high for The Gamm Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth Shakespeare has been enjoying a banner year on New York stages recently, but the truth is that there’s always something running somewhere, particularly in academic circles, for those who need a little Will in their lives. Rhode Island, always mirroring both the variety […]
Ben Jolivet’s Get Rough With Me is a comical and enjoyable product of Rhode Island theatre When Fifty Shades of Grey hit the shelves in 2011, it certainly wasn’t a watershed moment for literature, nor was it even the most noticeable kink in the thread of erotic fiction that has been dampening the brows of housewives […]
Head Trick Theatre’s production of Tonight We Improvise is 1930s improvisation modernized Some theater strives to create the illusion of reality – to coax the audience into forgetting that they are watching actors on a stage, and immerse them in the story and emotions playing out before them. Other shows break the fourth wall, addressing […]