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12/05/2008

Trinity Rep offers radio readings for Christmas
Trinity Rep continues its third season of radio shows on WRNI, Rhode Island’s public radio station, today through Sunday with readings of three stories about Christmas.

12/04/2008

Trinity Rep’s A Christmas Carol is a scary affair
At its heart, this year’s take on A Christmas Carol from Trinity Rep is a ghost story, a dark, somewhat macabre telling that’s full of spooky sights and sounds. Ghosts pop from trap doors in swirling clouds of green fog, and Trinity veteran Anne Scurria makes an appearance as the Ghost of Christmas Past by wriggling from a white cocoon that dangles from the underside of Scrooge’s floating bed.

Playwright Bock answers the call with ‘The Receptionist’
Trinity Rep opens its latest offering tomorrow night, a dark comedy with a twist called The Receptionist. And author Adam Bock knows of what he writes when it comes to this subject.

11/30/2008

Grease comes to PPAC Tuesday with a chance to break box-office record
When Legally Blonde The Musical launched its national tour at the Providence Performing Arts Center back in September it grossed just under $1 million during the week it was in town.

Grease comes to PPAC Tuesday with a chance to break box-office record
When Legally Blonde The Musical launched its national tour at the Providence Performing Arts Center back in September it grossed just under $1 million during the week it was in town.

11/27/2008

The holiday starts tomorrow on stage
No question the holiday season is under way. Tomorrow is Black Friday, and if you stop over at Trinity Rep, you can catch the theater’s annual production of A Christmas Carol this weekend. This year the theater has turned the Dickens classic over to director Liesl Tommy, a Trinity Conservatory graduate, who promises lots of flying ghosts and plenty of snow.

11/25/2008

2nd Story Theatre helps us to see anew
The build-up’s long, but the payoff’s great.

11/23/2008

Broadway backers want less risk, more thrills during economic downturn
At the new, high-tech TKTS booth in Manhattan’s Father Duffy Square recently, flashing red LEDs were hawking half-price orchestra seats for Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Phantom of the Opera and 22 other Broadway shows.

New hope for a venerable auditorium
Stephen Habl likes talking to the cabbies parked outside the Renaissance Providence Hotel, the new lodgings carved from the once-derelict Masonic Temple across the street from the State House. Habl is general manager of neighboring Veterans Memorial Auditorium and he likes touting the theater.

Blithe Spirit will rise again on Broadway
NEW YORK (AP) — Casting is nearly complete for the Broadway revival of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, which will bring Angela Lansbury back to Broadway and will also star Christine Ebersole, Jayne Atkinson, Simon Jones and Rupert Everett.

11/20/2008

New director of Trinity’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ promises ‘an explosion of Christmas’
One thing Liesl Tommy recalls from taking part in a Trinity Rep production of A Christmas Carol a decade ago was looking out in the audience and seeing an elderly man dabbing his eyes with a handkerchief as miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge awoke on Christmas morning to realize it was not too late to change his ways.

2nd Story’s Miracle Worker is about the broad ideals of two people
The plot’s not the point. It’s merely the messenger: to enlightenment.

Author Carol de Giere to talk at Providence Place
First-time author Carol de Giere will be at Borders Books in the Providence Place mall tonight to talk about her new book, Defying Gravity, which provides readers with a behind-the-scenes look at the creative life of Stephen Schwartz, composer of such Broadway hits as Godspell and Wicked.

11/18/2008

Trinity offers limited-time discounts
With economic hard times upon us, Trinity Rep is offering discounts on tickets to its two holiday shows, A Christmas Carol and Adam Bock’s dark comedy, The Receptionist. For a limited time, Trinity is offering $10 off tickets as long as they are purchased before Thanksgiving. Also, children under 14 can attend A Christmas Carol for $10 throughout the run.

11/16/2008

Noth surprised to be offered a role on the stage: ‘They really want me?’
NEW YORK Chris Noth’s focus had shifted from career to family when his agent called about a role in the Atlantic Theater Company’s off-Broadway production of a new political drama, Farragut North.

11/14/2008

Dance Review: An evening full of grace from Fusionworks
PROVIDENCE — Grace is good. And that generally characterizes Fusionworks Dance Company’s fall concert, which officially opens tonight at Rhode Island College.

Hard times for All Children’s Theater
The economy continues to cause casualties in the arts in Rhode Island.

11/13/2008

Play offers a different look at Lizzie Borden
Most people think of Fall River’s Lizzie Borden as the woman who hacked her parents to death with an ax, one of the most notorious figures in the annals of crime. But there is more to the story than that, and Jill Dalton would like to tell you about it.

Theater Review: ‘An Ideal Husband’ is an enjoyable romp
PAWTUCKET — There’s no such thing as An Ideal Husband. But there’s a good showing of at the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre.

Trinity offers free Christmas Carol performance for needy
Trinity Rep is giving a communal gift: a free performance of A Christmas Carol. Four hundred seats will be reserved for needy families who may reserve tickets (a maximum of five per family) through local food pantries or through the R.I. Food Bank, (401) 942-6325. The free performance is Monday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m.

Fusionworks opens 22nd season this weekend
Fusionworks Dance Company opens its 22nd season tomorrow and Saturday with a performance at Rhode Island College. The production will involve one piece performed by the junior company Fusionworks II, and five pieces performed by the main company, including two premieres.

11/06/2008

Finding Obama in Wilde’s theme
Judith Swift is a big Obama backer. But now that he has been elected president, she worries that voters will expect too much from him, that they’ll figure he’ll be able to wave a magic wand and fix all our problems.

Best of Momix at PPAC Saturday night
Momix returns, and it brings back its best: Best of Momix.

11/05/2008

Black Repertory Company cuts employees, suspends shows to save money
The ailing economy has taken a toll on Providence Black Repertory Company. In order to balance its budget in this tough economic climate the theater has been forced to lay off five full-time staffers — including associate artistic director Megan Sandberg-Zakian — and to suspend the two remaining plays in the season.

11/02/2008

Momix is like nothing you’ve seen before
Some things are hard to define. Consider a particular performance company from Connecticut.

10/25/2008

Winning plays from women
For most of this month, Perishable Theatre has been devoting weekends to one of the winners of its biennial Women’s Playwriting Festival, staging a one-act play and filling out the rest of the evening with things like hip-hop and Portuguese fado music.