Faith Healer, a modern masterpiece by the acclaimed Irish author Brian Friel brings together the stories of an erratic, itinerant faith healer with those of his embittered but loving wife and his …
more
1/17/23
|
West Bay Community Theater will hold auditions on Saturday, January 21st (2pm-4pm) and Monday, January 23rd (6:30pm – 8:30pm) for Noel Coward’s comedy of manners, PRIVATE LIVES, directed …
more
1/10/23
|
Something quite different in original Broadway musicals is coming to the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) from Jan. 17 to the 22.
Actor Dillon Klena, who plays the role of Nick Healy, …
more
By Don Fowler
|
1/10/23
|
“We are live in five, four, three, two….”
The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre’s production of “It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” returned to the …
more
By EMMA BARTLETT
|
12/13/22
|
Wilbury Theatre Group announced Thursday the extension of the Rhode Island premiere of Tony-Award winner for Best Play (2016) “The Humans” by Stephen Karam, directed by Josh Short. Now …
more
12/6/22
|
(A note from Don: After over 45 years of theatre reviewing, I hit a brick wall. My hearing aids died, I was in a bad mood, and I just wasn’t into the play I needed to review. Joyce, who has …
more
Theatre Review by Joyce Fowler
|
11/29/22
|
Stephen Karam’s Tony Award winning one-act play, “The Humans,” is given a powerful, emotional presentation by the Wilbury Theatre Group at their Waterplace Center space under the …
more
Theatre Review by Don Fowler
|
11/22/22
|
Rhode Island's oldest community theater, The Community Players, currently celebrating their 101st season, is proud to present Dolly Parton’s smash hit 9 to 5: The Musical from December 2 …
more
11/22/22
|
I woke up the next morning after seeing “Le Miserables” for the fifth time humming “In My Life.”
I couldn’t get the haunting songs out of my head. Every member of the …
more
By DON FOWLER
|
11/16/22
|
We have seen them all.
From the early traditional Dickens classic, to Ann Bogart’s dark and dreary interpretation, to the first Black Scrooge and the first female Scrooge, to this …
more
Theatre Review by Don Fowler
|
11/15/22
|
Lynn Nottage’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize play has made it to the Gamm stage, an accurate recreation of a turn-of-the-century bar in Reading, Pennsylvania, when the city was one of the poorest in the …
more
Theatre Review by Don Fowler
|
11/15/22
|
The Warwick Center for the Arts is teaming up with The Gamm Theatre to share more art opportunities with its members. The WCFA and the Gamm are offering discounted tickets for WCFA members only …
more
10/25/22
|
Part 2 of Trinity’s epic production of “The Inheritance” has now opened and is playing in concert with Part 1.
Those who have seen part 1 are invited back to see what happens …
more
By Don Fowler
|
10/11/22
|
Director Tony Estrella has gathered seven outstanding actors to tell a haunting tale of truth and reality over the course of 90 years of Russian and Polish history.
Rajiv Joseph’s epic …
more
Theatre Review by Don Fowler
|
9/20/22
|
The unique and over-the-top personalities of George (Mark Gallagher) and Charlotte Hay (Camille Terilli) will keep audience members laughing throughout The Community Players’ rendition of …
more
By EMMA BARTLETT
|
9/20/22
|
Matthew Lopez received the coveted Olivier and Tony Awards for this two-part epic play about modern New York City gay men, loosely based on E.M. Forster’s “Howard’s End.”
…
more
Theatre Review by Don Fowler
|
9/13/22
|
Singing star Ann Nesby took time out from her packing to give me a call and tell me about the National Tour of the hit musical “TINA – The Tina Turner Musical” opening its year-long …
more
By Don Fowler
|
9/6/22
|
“I’ve been trying since 2019 to get this play,” Director Jeff Church told the preview audience last week.
The New England premiere and winner of the Kennedy Prize for Drama, …
more
Theatre Review by Don Fowler
|
8/24/22
|
Theatre By The Sea (TBTS) owner and producer Bill Hanney is thrilled to welcome Gerard Alessandrini’s Forbidden Broadway Greatest Hits to Theatre By The Sea on August 29 for one show …
more
8/24/22
|
“Accept someone for who they are!”
That’s the message sent to the audience in this highly entertaining, six-time Tony Award winning musical, with songs by Cyndi Lauper and book …
more
Theatre Review by Don Fowler
|
8/24/22
|