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BWW Review: ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST at Contemporary Theatre Company
Experience some of this South Country magic....
BWW Review: Haunting THE YELLOW WALLPAPER at OUT LOUD Theatre
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER, a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was published in 1892. The first-person narrative takes the reader inside the mind of an unnamed woman suffering from postpartum depression, who has been prescribed “The Rest Cure”, which calls for her to be confined to a...
BWW Review: Celebrating Girl Power with BEEHIVE The 60's Musical
BEEHIVE is a musical so jam-packed with hits that it's almost overwhelming. Though this show is not a traditional musical so much as it's a musical revue, there is a nice loose plot running through the whole production that serves to give the songs political and social context and really drive hom...
BWW Review: Thunderous RIVERDANCE at PPAC
RIVERDANCE, the celebration of Irish song and dance phenomenon created by Moya Doherty, composer Bill Whelan and director John McColgan is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an extensive world tour. Though the current iteration is much more stripped down than it was during the glory days, it st...
BWW Review: SOUVENIR at Granite Theatre
It takes a true professional-both musical and comedic- to assault some of opera's most beloved arias and make it entertaining. In the Granite Theatre's production of Souvenir, the story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the joke never gets old....
BWW Review: Magical MATILDA: THE MUSICAL at PPAC
Adapting a beloved children's classic to Broadway is so fraught with landmines that it's a wonder people even attempt it since it seems like there's no way to possibly make something as fantastic as the original. Good thing Denis Kelly (Book) and Tim Minchin (Music & Lyrics) are braver and more cr...
BWW Review: Power to the People of FUENTE OVEJUNA
Like Sheep to Water, or Fuente Ovejuna, by Lope de Vega, was written in the early 1600s, but has been largely unproduced in the United States. Similar to a Shakespearean history, it's based on actual events that occurred in the Castilian region of Spain in 1476. This production was translated ...
BWW Review: Festival Ballet Providence's Magical CINDERELLA Casts a Spell at The Vets
Festival Ballet Providence creates pure magic with its luminous production of Sergei Prokofiev's CINDERELLA. Winthrop Corey choreographed this piece to perfection, melding intricate, classical dancing with wonderful whimsy and humor....
BWW Review: THE BEST OF EVERYTHING at 2ND STORY THEATRE
Women in business in the 1950's--not the easiest row to hoe....
BWW Review: Song, Dance and Cynicism--CHICAGO at Providence Performing Arts Center
They sing, they dance, they have no values....
BWW Review: KING ELIZABETH Rules Triumphant at The Gamm
KING ELIZABETH makes for wonderful theater. The narrative is equally enjoyable and thought-provoking, the cast impeccable -- this production is a crowning achievement for The Gamm....
BWW Review: VICTOR/VICTORIA at Ocean State Theatre Company
Pretty good production of a pretty good Broadway musical. VICTOR/VICTORIA is fun, but lacks a truly memorable song (or two)....
BWW Review: FAITHFUL CHEATERS at Trinity Repertory Company
FAITHFUL CHEATERS is a zany, fast-paced, did I say zany already,well-acted farce. Zany....
BWW Recommends ART: It's Good for Ya!
'ART' has come to Rhode Island in a very entertaing production. Hey, what is art, and why are your friends your friends?...
BWW Review: TAKING SIDES at Granite Theatre
The Granite Theatre in Westerly RI successfully tackles Taking Sides, the thought-provoking drama set in post-war Berlin....
BWW Review: LEND ME A TENOR a Little Off Key at Rhode Island Stage Ensemble
Some good things, some not quite so good things going on in Woonsocket....
BWW Review: Emotionally Raw RENT Is Not To Be Missed at PPAC
It's hard to believe that the musical RENT is 20 year old, but watching it in 2017 it remains shockingly relevant, and strangely stuck in time. The story of the bohemian squatters in New York's Alphabet City seems almost like a museum piece about the horrors of AIDS, but at the same time, consider...
BWW Review: Powerful and Unexpectedly Timely INHERIT THE WIND
Ocean State Theatre Company Artistic Director Amiee Turner introduced Friday night's production of INHERIT THE WIND by saying that she was somewhat surprised and saddened that a play about what's appropriate to teach in public schools, written in 1955 but based on events of the 1920's, is still so t...
BWW Review: SHE WOULD IF SHE COULD at AS220 Black Box
Treat yourself to She Would if She Could, Head Trick Theatre's delicious production of Sir George Etherege's bawdy comedy of manners, this weekend at AS220....
BWW Review: Festival Ballet's Stunning CARMEN, Up Close on Hope
CARMEN is a classic story, and one that Festival Ballet has mounted before with great success due to the talents of resident choreographer Viktor Plotinkov and dancers Jennifer Ricci and Mindaugas Bauzys. This time around, the grand production is shrunk down to fit into the black box theatre on Hop...
BWW Review: Toe-Tapping 42ND STREET Tour Brings Sunny Song and Dance to Providence
When it comes to classic song-and-dance theater, it doesn't get much more "Broadway" than 42ND STREET. The show is breezy and buoyant, a carefree love letter to the Great White Way and to the art of the stage musical....
BWW Review: Surreal MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY
MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY takes place in the near future, and then further into the future, and then way into the future as the world as we knew it becomes increasingly distorted and warped seemingly via a century long game of telephone. It's a play that analyzing will just leave a person mo...
BWW Review: Unsettling THE NETHER at The Gamm
THE NETHER, is a twisted look into a not-so-distant future where the internet becomes an immersive and physical experience. Unexpected reveals keep the plot moving, but the subject matter overall is uncomfortable to say the least. Playwright Jennifer Haley manages to avoid shock for the sake of sh...
BWW Review: Charming LITTLE WOMEN: THE MUSICAL At Ocean State Theatre Company
The story of the March sisters has been charming people since Little Women was first published in 1868. To date there have been six film adaptations, four television series, a full-length stage play as well as a one act, and a stage musical. This production is the Broadway musical version, which w...
BWW Review: Resplendent LION KING Reigns Supreme at Providence Performing Arts Center
The touring production of THE LION KING now playing at the Providence Performing Arts Center is absolutely exceptional. One would be hard-pressed to find a finer or stronger assembly of actors, singers, and dancers than this remarkable company....
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Irving Berlin's White Christmas The Firebarn: Little Theatre of Fall River (12/03-12/13) |
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A Christmas Carol The Arctic Playhouse (12/03-12/20) |
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