BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL ONLINE at Trinity Rep sparkles with spirited innovation
In A CHRISTMAS CAROL ONLINE, Trinity Rep combines invention and tradition in a celebration of innovative spirit and holiday cheer.
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BWW Review: ASSASSINS at The Gamm Theatre Hits the Mark
ASSASSINS, the 1990 Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman show featuring the stories of nine successful and would-be presidential assassins, may seem like an odd choice of subject for a musical, particularly as the first musical in the Gamm Theatre's 35 season history.
BWW Review: HELLO DOLLY Dazzles But Disappoints at PPAC
HELLO DOLLY first landed on Broadway in 1964, and the current (2017) revival, playing at Providence Performing Arts Center through March 8, won the Tony Award for Best Revival and Best Actress for Bette Midler.
BWW Review: Spectacular MARIE ANTOINETTE At Brown/Trinity MFA
Providence theatre-goers have the opportunity to spend considerable time in 18th century France this spring--both at Trinity Rep's A Tale of Two Cities, and now at Brown/Trinity's MFA production of MARIE ANTOINETTE.
Justice Done to Dickens A TALE OF TWO CITIES at Trinity Rep
When you get seated inside the Chace Theater at Trinity Rep, you might think you're in the wrong place.
BWW Review: CALENDAR GIRLS at The Community Players offers spirited comedy
In Tim Firth's Calendar Girls, now being performed by Pawtucket's Community Players, an unlikely group of women bares it all for a charity calendar a?" and learns what each of them is made of in the process.
BWW Review: ANGELIQUE KIDJO at The VETS
Angelique Kidjo shines in Providence, RI.
BWW Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at Providence Performing Arts Center. Don't Miss It!
There are times when being a theater reviewer is a fabulous gig.
BWW Review: Exquisite AGNES OF GOD at Epic Theatre
Despite the fact that Norman Jewison's AGNES OF GOD has existed as both an award-winning play and later film, it doesn't seem to have been produced very often.
Trinity REP Scores a Hole-in-One with August Wilson's RADIO GOLF
Some shows seek to entertain; think the first act of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
BWW Review: EDWARD II Electrifies at Burbage Theater Company
With its stellar performances and resourceful staging, the Burbage Theatre Company's gutsy, vigorous production of Edward II invites audiences to thrill at Edward's brashness even as we cringe at his excess.
BWW Review: Searing ADMISSIONS Shines at The Gamm
Joshua Harmon's ADMISSIONS is a play that wants to challenge well-meaning white people to reconsider how they seek to lift up people of color.
BWW Review: Trinity Rep's FADE Delights and Infuriates in Equal Measure
Tanya Saracho's FADE is a witty and insightful look into work/life power dynamics.
Holiday Perfection at Gamm's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY
Nowadays, it seems that everything old is constantly being rebooted, updated, adapted, reimagined, etc.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Brings Holiday Spirit to Contemporary Theater Company
At its most fundamental, theater is a group of people coming together to tell a story in front of an audience.
BWW Review: YOU GOT OLDER shines at Wilbury Theatre Group
Playwright Clare Barron has a keen eye and a gift for seamlessly blending the mundane and the weird.
BWW Review: Absolutely Fantastic COME FROM AWAY at PPAC
On the morning of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, there were a lot of other planes in the sky that had to be re-routed and emergency landed wherever pilots were able to find a runway.
BWW Review: Excellent Performances Populate DANCE NATION at Wilbury Theatre Group
Friedrich Nietzsche said, 'He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Sings at TRINITY REP
First of all, I am a sucker for Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
BWW Review: Absolutely Magical ALADDIN at the Providence Performing Arts Center
Nearly six years after opening on Broadway and 27 years after appearing as a beloved animated Disney film, the national touring cast of the musical ALADDIN soars into the Providence Performing Arts Center.
BWW Review: JQA at The Gamm Theatre
When it comes to United States history, it can be easy to gloss over the period between the early 1800s to the cusp of the Civil War.
BWW Review: Vivid, powerful HAMLET at Contemporary Theater Company
The Contemporary Theater Company has mounted a dazzling production of Shakespeare's tale of tragic retribution, with an outstanding cast, deft and innovative direction, and a stunning set.
BWW Review: Fantastic WAITING FOR GODOT at The Wilbury Theatre Group
Samuel Beckett's classic play, WAITING FOR GODOT, opens the Wilbury Theatre Group's 2019/2020 Main Series with a production that gets to the heart of the text a?" at equal turns funny, philosophic, and sad.
BWW Review: ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE Offers Splashy, Frothy Fun in Tour Debut at Providence Performing Arts Center
Ignore the New York reviews.
BWW Review: THE PRINCE OF PROVIDENCE at Trinity Rep
Whether you love Buddy, hate Buddy, love to hate Buddy, or hate that you love Buddy; there's plenty to love about The Prince of Providence.
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