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 …
Now through February 7 George Brant’s ‘Grizzly Mama’ directed by Rachel Walshe at the Gamm Theatre. Deb is a divorced suburban mom who reimagines herself as a righteous, liberal avenger following the death of her activist mother. Her daughter, Hannah, is a typical texting teenager – at least until she discovers the real reason Mom …
Stella!!! You have all winter to practice your best Kowalski before heading down to the annual “Stella” shouting contest at the Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans. In the meantime check out the Gamm’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” running now through October 25. Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly on the doorstep …
A new production of Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane is running at the Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket now through June 2nd. In a dimly lit kitchen in a shabby cottage in a backwater village in the west of Ireland, selfish, conniving Mag and her embittered 40-year-old virginal daughter, Maureen, stew in mutual loathing. …
Coming up at the Gamm: The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard, directed by Fred Sullivan, Jr. Charlotte (Marianna Bassham), an actress, is appearing in a play about marriage written by her cerebral playwright husband, Henry (Tony Estrella). Max (Tom Gleadow), her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie (Jeanine Kane). Both marriages are …
The U.S. premiere of “Anne Boleyn” starts Thursday, January 17 at the Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket. British playwright Howard Brenton (Paul, Pravda) puts a radically revisionist spin on the life and legacy of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s notorious second wife, in this rollicking, often laugh-out-loud funny drama. Traditionally portrayed as siren pawn or sexual predator, …
That’s from Hamlet. Everything’s from Hamlet. Still plenty of time to catch the latest production at the Gamm Theatre with artistic director Tony Estrella in the title role. From Rhode Island Monthly, He is spellbinding as Hamlet, displaying what appears to be real sweat and tears as his character spirals out of control. You can …
Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them is now playing at The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket. About the play: From the screwball imagination of American playwright Christopher Durang (The Marriage of Bette & Boo, Beyond Therapy), an uproarious new comedy about America’s ongoing “war on terror.” A young woman, Felicity, wakes up to …
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Tickets are available now for the Gamm Theatre’s updated Ibsen. The Gamm launches the new year with a compelling new version of A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen’s landmark play for the ages, directed by Fred Sullivan, Jr. and adapted by Tony Estrella. It’s Christmas Eve 1959 and sweet, cheery Nora Helmer is reveling in her …
The two-week run of Miss Pixie’s Cable Access Holiday Extravaganza previews tonight at the Feinstein-Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket. There is a rather elaborate mythology behind this character, created by School One theater teacher Casey Seymour Kim, so I direct you to today’s write-up in the ProJo. Kim does not recommend the show for children as …