Theater

Fledgling Festival

Theatre, Dance, Music, Gay puppets, we got it all. Perishable Theatre’s Fledgling Festival is 4 and it promises to be an experimental theatre extravaganza! What’s it is all about? Bringing new works from local and not so local artists and different performing art genres together. Experience performances from Fledgling Festival Curator Peter Deffet, artists Nancy […]

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Blood From a Turnip Continues

“The Adventures of Fat Nancy & Crisco” continues at Perishable Theatre’s Blood from a Turnip Late Night Puppet Salon Providence, RI: Perishable Theatre, The May edition of Blood From a Turnip will feature: Ergot Players from New Bedford-The Ergot players are guerilla theater, manic, tense, and at all times curious. Chloe Paisley from Brown University-Watch

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Tonight at Black Rep: First LOOK Reading Series

Before Black Rep’s weekly open mic and genre-friendly artist showcase, Polyphonic hosted by Chachi, the second of three seasonal staged readings will be going down. This installment, written by Brown MFA in playwriting Christine Evans and directed by Black Rep affiliate artist and educator Nadia Mahdi, is an adaptation of Euripides’ classic tragedy Trojan Women.

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Hip-Hop Dance Theatre ONE NIGHT ONLY!!

Perishable Theatre and Everett Dance Theatre present Scratch & Burn on Friday February 22 at 8pm For one night only…. Perishable Theatre and Everett Dance Theatre will be burning up the stage with “SCRATCH & BURN” By Teo Castellanos/D-Projects ( Miami, FL) Friday February 22, 2008 at 8 p.m. The Auditorium in Roberts Hall Nazarian

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Hope High student wins Shakespeare Competition

This is pretty cool news, off of the East Side Public Education Coalition’s website: Arts supporters and dedicated ESPEC readers will remember that the theater progam at Hope High was almost killed in the summer of 2006, but was saved at the last minute through the efforts of many supporters. This week, Ari showed us

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What happened at Black Rep …

I can’t believe I haven’t found the time to post re: the ceiling collapse at Black Rep, but now that we’re opening our doors again tonight for Latin Jazz & Salsa, I think it is finally appropriate to lay the cards on the table and dispel any last remaining rumors. From Artistic/Executive Director Donald W.

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Foundling Baroque Orchestra Concert

The French Phantom?? Sunday, January 6, 2008, 3:30 PM Grace Church, 175 Mathewson St, Providence, RI The Program Clérambault: La Muse de l’Opéra Leclair: Violin Concerto in A Minor Mouret: Fanfare Suite Tickets General, $25 Senior, $20 Student, $10 Low-income, $10 Supporter, $50 Available at ArtTixRI.com, (401) 621-6123, or at the door Please bring diapers,

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Black Rep’s newest work in progress is an Afro-Diasporic bricolage

If you didn’t catch Black Rep’s “Two Can Play,” you missed the first performance in a season of thought-provoking, heart-wrenching, sometimes even hilarious American stories. This weekend, on Friday and Saturday at 8pm for $5 and Sunday at 3pm for the people’s pay-what-you-can matinee, Donald King and Black Rep’s affiliate artist company premiere a workshop

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Last weekend of “Weightless”

Last WEEKEND of Weightles MUST CLOSE NOVEMBER 11 !!!!!! Weightless Oct 26-Nov 11, 2007 Perishable Theatre 95 Empire Street Providence, RI Weightless, A New Play by Christine Evans. A kind of sci-fi mirror-world vision of the U.S. set in a scarily close future, has been enjoying great reviews! Get your tix today! Providence Journal says

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11/8 Happenings at Brown

Thursday 8 November to Sunday 18 November Melancholy Play and Discussion with Playwright Sarah Ruhl Brown Theatre presents Melancholy Play, a comedy by MacArthur-winning playwright (and Brown alumna) Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Ken Prestininzi, shows run Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Leeds Theatre, 77 Waterman St. Tickets are

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