(4.23) King Richard’s Faire will be holding auditions this weekend at AS220. Villager Cast auditions will run from noon to 5pm each day. Your audition does not have to be Renaissance-themed. Walk-ins are welcome on a first-come first-served basis. Actor/singers should be prepared to perform two contrasting songs and a one-minute monologue, demonstrate any special …
(3.11) The Motion State Dance Festival kicks off this Thursday with a screening of short dance films and an opening night party. All festival events take place at Wilbury Theatre Group in the WaterFire Arts Center. Go to the site for ticket prices. Live performances take place on Friday and Saturday nights, interspersed with dance …
“I always say Eugene is the only actual genius I’ve worked with.” High praise coming from Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels speaking to the New York Times in 2014. Within the past week we have learned of the deaths of two of Trinity Rep’s pioneering members: Adrian Hall, their founding artistic director; and Eugene …
From the Wilbury Theatre Group: It’s time to get real and rock out about the one thing we all have in common: We’re Gonna Die. Actor Helena Tafuri takes over the role originated by playwright Young Jean Lee. The work is a blend of storytelling, stand-up, music, and theater, and “lets us know we may …
Stephan Karam’s “The Humans” starts Thursday at the Wilbury Theatre Group, running through December 11th. Irish-American Erik Blake has brought his wife and his mother for Thanksgiving at the new home of his daughter and her boyfriend. His mother (affectionately referred to as “Momo”) is suffering from Alzheimer’s, and his other daughter Aimee has recently …
(9.25) Unpack your umlauts, it’s time for singing and dancing and beer outside in a biergarten or indoors in a bierhalle. Tickets are still available for this weekend’s Oktoberfest at the German American Cultural Society of RI just over the line in Pawtucket. Go here for the lineup of beers that will be on tap, …
The Wedding Cake House residencies program will be hosting a series of youth workshops and they are free and open to the public. The workshops will be held on the lawn and are geared to kids between 9 and 12 years of age. Registration required. Workshops run from 1:30pm to 4pm. Wednesday, July 13: Shadow …
(4.30) I know little about Walpurgis Night, the holiday celebrated on the last day of April in northern Europe and Scandinavia. Episcopalian households always ward off evil spirits with the 90-proof kind. In the olden days, villagers made loud noises and played pranks to frighten away the demons, but everyone knows now that the only …
(12.26) The Festival Ballet Providence will present a revamped version of its annual holiday classic, The Nutcracker, featuring new sets, new costumes, and new choreography by artistic curator Yury Yanowsky. And for the first time, the ballet will be performed at The Vets, offering twice as many performances as in years past. New additions include …
The Wilbury Theatre Group presents Charlie Thurston’s “Lifted,” a modern meditation on the Icarus myth, directed by Josh Short. Staged outdoors at the WaterFire Arts Center, the production features Daraja Hinds, Victor Neto and Jim O’Brien. “Lifted” is part absurdist family drama, part imaginative theatrical fantasia. In an environmentally ravaged near-future, birds have returned from …
We have singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb (’90) to thank for getting this off the ground: “Together Apart” is “a collection of 10 mini musicals about one life-changing year” written, composed, directed-by, and starring Brown University alumni. Donations will benefit The Actors Fund. Last summer a group of Brown musical theater alums got together for a Zoom …
(6.27) Grab a lawn chair or blanket and head over to the lawn of the Dalrymple Boathouse this Sunday for a free cultural tour of the islands courtesy of Polynesian dance troupe Napua O’ Polynesia. This will be the first in a series of performances scheduled throughout the summer at the Dalrymple Boathouse and the …
For the first time in over a year, Festival Ballet will return to in-person performing with Emergence, “a powerful mixed rep program promises to delight audiences with a wide range of works, from the bold and contemporary to the virtuosic classical.” The Projo got a sneak preview of the outdoor setting: Adding to the sense …
(10.9) They’re at it again, this time at the Steel Yard. Not sure where they are setting up . . . any number of options on that campus. Hosted by the Wilbury Theatre Group, the Steel Yard, and Brien Lang, it’s ‘Roadhouse: The Musical’ live! Are you too stupid to have a good time? Then …
(10.17) The Wilbury Theatre Group will once again take advantage of the wide-open performance spaces at the WaterFire Arts Center, with Fire Flowers and a Time Machine (Flores de Fuego y una Máquina del Tiempo), starting Thursday and running through October 17. ‘Fire Flowers’ is a bilingual performance event directed by Shey Rivera Ríos and featuring work …
The live feed runs all day, with soundtrack, and a ceremony is held every evening at 8:30pm. WaterFire Providence announces the creation of a new art installation in the WaterFire Arts Center. Surrounding the solitary brazier are a field of luminaria, each memorializing a Rhode Island soul lost to COVID-19. Each evening at 8:30 p.m., …