The Rhode Island Shakespeare Theater (TRIST) announces its latest venture, “As You Like It,” presented over three weekends of free performances at the Roger Williams National Memorial between North Main and Canal Streets. As usual, TRIST’s take on the play is anything but traditional. Director Bob Colonna — who also plays Jaques, Shakespeare’s version of …
This Sunday is the finale for BarPlays: plays set in bars placed in bars. After that it will be one more cool thing in the long, glorious history of the Providence bar and performance scene. So, if you want to be able to someday tell all the kids and newcomers about this ‘cool thing they …
I’ve been to a lot of live theater in my lifetime, and while I enjoy much of it, I generally prefer opera for the sheer emotive power song brings to a story. With Joe Wilson‘s performance in the Trinity Rep’s production of Raisin in the Sun, I felt uncomfortably close to the emotion of the …
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Promoting women playwrights since 1995, Perishable Theatre has chosen from 190 submissions the winners for the International Women’s Playwriting Festival October 2-November 2. All three groundbreaking playwrights will have their new works produced and fully staged at Perishable Theatre and are presented with performances by other local artists. Each performance will include a post show …