(12.9) The CCRI Players present “Bad Jews” by Joshua Harmon. The patriarch of a Jewish family has died and the grandchildren are arguing over the inheritance. But who is most deserving to inherit their grandfather’s Chai ornament? Liam is a declared atheist, while Daphna has ferociously attached herself to every aspect of her Jewish heritage, […]
The Wilbury Theatre Group presents ‘Hype Man: A Break Beat Play,’ the latest from celebrated break beat poet and playwright Idris Goodwin. Directed by Don Mays, and starring Wilbury artist Phoenyx Williams in the title role, ‘Hype Man’ asks: Who has the responsibility to speak up in the face of social injustice? Frontman Pinnacle and his
(8.4) The following guide to the Providence Fringe Festival comes courtesy of Wilbury superfan, and friend of The Dose, Renee Bessette. There are many moving parts to this week-long festival and Renee is just the person to make sense of it all. An opening night reception will be held Monday at the Wilbury Theatre’s new
[Update: Dexter Armory performance postponed due to rain.] “O brave new world, that has such people in it!” Trinity Rep and Rhode Island Latino Arts (RILA), announces the third year of its program Teatro en El Verano (Theater in the Summer). This year’s production features the bilingual English-Spanish adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (La
(2.17) ‘Too Much of a Good Thing’ is Rhode Island’s first Shakespeare Shorts Festival, gathering together traditional and experimental work inspired by the works of William Shakespeare. The festival packs each evening with six to eight acts. New experimental work is coming from artists such as David Higgins, Elizabeth Keiser, Ellen Zahniser, and Susan Bergeron.
The Manton Avenue Project (MAP) will present four performances of “Olneyville, The Operetta!” at the AS220 Black Box Theater starting this Thursday, November 30. I’m going to let Matthew Lawrence of The Law & Order Party explain this one: Newcomers to town might find it odd that this season’s most hotly anticipated new play was
“The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People” opens tonight at the Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket. The play runs through October 15. A farcical masterpiece with rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters, The Importance of Being Earnest is Wilde’s last and most celebrated play. In late Victorian London, companions-in-cavorting Jack Worthing and Algernon “Algy”
(9.10) Trinity Repertory Company is throwing a party to celebrate the start of its new season. The adjacent Adrian Hall Way will be cordoned off for scenes, soliloquies, and interactive installations. The ProJo reports, According to Rebecca Noon, Trinity’s community engagement coordinator, that involves cordoning off Adrian Hall Way . . . and inviting assorted
(7.20) “How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night. Like softest music to attending ears!” What better place for that soft “music” than the Temple to Music in Roger Williams Park. Adapted by Brown/Trinity Rep MFA student Marcel Mascaro, this new bilingual English-Spanish adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet features local actors from the community, Brown/Trinity Rep
Trinity Rep, in partnership with Rhode Island Latino Arts, announces the second year of its program Shakespeare en el Verano (Shakespeare in the Summer). This year’s production premieres a new bilingual English-Spanish adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Adapted by Brown/Trinity Rep MFA student Marcel Mascaro and co-directed by Mascaro and Trinity Rep’s associate artistic director Tyler Dobrowsky. Two
Another great poster from Gamm, this one for their production ‘The Nether’ written by Jennifer Haley. Is it the blue that makes it creepy, or the little girl. About the play, Log in. Choose an identity. Live out your private dreams. This is life in the Nether—a lush, virtual wonderland offering total sensory immersion, free of
I used to teach girls this age and I think I speak for teachers everywhere when I say . . . aaaarrrrgghhh! I first encountered this startling image walking up Angell Street where a bus shelter features a large poster for the play. A flashback ensued: palpitations, shortness of breath, the smell of napalm. So
Shakespeare is getting a real workout lately, it being the 400th anniversary of his death. Having your work in the public domain ensures immortality, but also, Shakespeare is really really good. Gamm is celebrating with a production of The Winter’s Tale. A royal family is ripped apart when crazed King Leontes of Sicilia imprisons his
Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, written by Anne Washburn and directed by Connie Crawford starts a short run this Thursday at the Leeds Theatre of the Brown University Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. The play is about how stories change over time and become part of something bigger. Set in a future where
(3.6) Two more performances of “Sans Everything” at Black Box. “Sans Everything” explores a time so far in the future that humans have been replaced by disembodied intelligence. Set aboard a ship that invites the experience of traveling through the human life cycle, one embodied AI gets stuck on “As You Like It.” The resulting
(3.6) Well ‘ello guvnah. Walking Dead’s David Morrissey stars in the Royal Court Theatre production of “Hangmen” to be broadcast live into the Avon Cinema this Sunday. In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry (David Morrissey – The Walking Dead, State of Play) is something of a local celebrity. But