Erin Olson News

The show features a new actress, Erin Olson, in the role of “Sister.” She will be performing the comedy through the end of the year.

CATHOLIC SCHOOL GIRLS by Casey Kurtti, the current offering at 2nd Story Theatre in Warren, follows MASS APPEAL and continues the theater's exploration of the Catholic Church in the second half of the late, lamented Twentieth Century. While MASS APPEAL concentrated on the masculine side of the Church (priests and would-be priests), CATHOLIC SCHOOL GIRLS focuses on the distaff side by following the school lives of four grammar school girls and the nuns who teach them at St. George's School in Yonkers. Four actresses play the girls and each takes a turn playing a different nun. Unlike a show like NUNSENSE, which is played for laughs, Kurtti's play explores both the lighter and darker sides of the girls experience; sometimes it's funny, and sometimes it hurts. You don't have to be Catholic, but it helps.

STORY THEATER by Paul Sills is one odd little theatrical experience. It features music by the estimable duo of Atwater and Donnelly and a half-dozen or so actors performing the fables of Aesop and the Brothers Grimm. This piece originally opened on Broadway in 1970 and closed after 243 performances with three Tony nominations, including one for best play. Paul Sills has an outstanding pedigree in improvisation: in the fifties he opened the Compass Players, which was an early platform for the esteemed Mike Nichols and Elaine May; in the sixties, he was a co-founder of Second City improvisational comedy troupe (Gilda Radner, Dan Ackroyd, John Belushi and Stephen Colbert are among the alums). After leaving Second City, Sills ran several schools teaching improvisational techniques around the country.

And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little This is a comedy about family dysfunction, desertion, abandonment and alcoholism; think A Long days Journey into Night meets The Honeymooners.

AND MISS REARDON DRINKS A LITTLE by Paul Zindel runs tomorrow, April 23, through May 17, 2015 at 2nd Story Theatre in Warren, RI. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

We've all heard 'You can't go home again.' Or how about 'Home is where the heart is'? At this time of year, it's 'Home for the Holidays.' The idea of home, what and where it is, is a powerful theme throughout all types of artistic expression, from paintings to books to stage plays. It's a universal theme that anyone can understand and relate to. And it's at the center of 2nd Story Theatre's holiday season production of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful.

On the series premiere of SCOUTED on E! entitled 'Gillian & Jennifer, the girls are being scouted in Dallas. Gillian worries about leaving her dad behind as he battles cancer. Jennifer's overbearing mom-ager may keep her from reaching her modeling dreams.

The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut, & the Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree, A Christmas Entertainment, by William Gibson, will be presented by 2nd Story Theatre November 23 - December 16.

George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara explores themes that are as relevant in 2007 as they were in 1905

Major Barbara Runs Through April 22, 2007 at 2nd Story Theatre in Warren, RI

Inherit The Wind is playing at the Bristol Statehouse in Rhode Island through October 29, 2006