Wendy Overly News

The Wilbury Theatre Group's Founding Artistic Director Josh Short has announced the Group's 2015-16 season, including a new drama from one of New York's most promising young playwrights, the world premiere of a new play by Wilbury playwright-in-residence Ben Jolivet, two of the most acclaimed off-Broadway musicals of the last few years, an irreverent new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, and the New England premiere of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem.

The Wilbury Theatre Group's Founding Artistic Director Josh Short has announced the Group's 2015-16 season, including a new drama from one of New York's most promising young playwrights, the world premiere of a new play by Wilbury playwright-in-residence Ben Jolivet, two of the most acclaimed off-Broadway musicals of the last few years, an irreverent new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, and the New England premiere of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem.

When Pawtucket's Gamm Theatre includes Shakespeare on its season schedule, audiences know the production will meet and exceed all expectations. The company's current offering - MACBETH - is no exception to the rule. This superior staging cuts to the very core of the narrative, delving into characters' motivations and focusing on the import and resonance of Shakespeare's exquisite language.

Under the direction of Tyler Dobrowsky, the Gamm's ensemble company absolutely excels in the creative environment of THE BIG MEAL.

Stories about mothers have been around for as long as...well...mothers. And with Mother's Day coming up this Sunday, it's hard not to reflect and think about our own mothers or the other mothers in our lives. Or to remember some of the stories and memories that the word 'mother' conjures up. With its production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Gamm Theatre offers up an undeniably darker and arguably quite disturbing tale of one mother and how she rules her house and her daughter.

The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, directed by Judith Swift, is now running at the Gamm Theatre, May 2-June 2, 2013. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.

The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, directed by Judith Swift, will run at the Gamm Theatre, tonight, May 2-June 2, 2013.

The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, directed by Judith Swift, will run at the Gamm Theatre, May 2-June 2, 2013.

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) concludes its 29th Season with what promises to be a hilariously comic, aggressively dark and highly entertaining production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh. The Irish-born playwright's multi-award-winning play, called 'Riveting...and cruelly amusing' by The New Yorker, focuses on the suffocating relationship between forty-year-old spinster Maureen (Jeanine Kane) and her aging and increasingly needy mother, Mag (Wendy Overly)--two seriously flawed characters locked in mutual loathing.

Until recently, Wilbury Group was presenting their plays in an old warehouse space, which was both difficult to find and mostly uncomfortable for the audience. The cavernous space was too large, too hard to find and made it too difficult for audiences to enjoy exciting new theater. Now, the company has found new digs, on Broad Street, in the Southside Cultural Center. The space is far smaller, far more comfortable and much more intimate, allowing Wilbury to bring the audience up close and personal with exciting works of drama, from old to new, musical to straight play.

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) will stage The Real Thing, British playwright Tom Stoppard's Tony-award-winning 'best play' about the nature and mystery of love. BroadwayWorld has a first look below.

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) will stage The Real Thing, British playwright Tom Stoppard's Tony-award-winning 'best play' about the nature and mystery of love.

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) will stage The Real Thing, British playwright Tom Stoppard's Tony-award-winning 'best play' about the nature and mystery of love.

Fred Sullivan, Jr. directs this clever little comedy which had its original workshop right here in Rhode Island and plays at the Gamm through April 8, 2012

Annie Baker's Obie-award winning play, directed by Rachel Walshe, runs at The Gamm through October 9, 2011

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) is set to open Season 27 (2011-2012) with Annie Baker's Off-Broadway hit, Circle Mirror Transformation.

Christopher Durang's dark, absurdist, comedy plays at the Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket, RI through June 5, 2011

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) is pleased to stage a brand-new production of Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales, a play with music, adapted and directed by Gamm Artistic Director Tony Estrella.