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01/06/2009

Trinity adding cheaper tickets
Trinity Repertory Company is making it easier in these hard economic times for Rhode Islanders to attend their shows. For the rest of the season, the theater will be making available 5,000 more $20 tickets. A limited number of these tickets will be available for every performance of every show, from Lorraine Hansberry’s classic Raisin in the Sun to The Importance of Being Earnest. Ticket prices at Trinity run from $20 to $60 for top-priced seats, and $10 for a back-row bench in the upstairs theater.

01/04/2009

From Brown to ‘Law & Order’ to the New York stage
NEW YORK — “Serial killers are really not that interesting,” Gina Gionfriddo remarked matter-of-factly. She was picking at a salad in the back of a Midtown restaurant about a block from Second Stage Theater, where she had just come from a rehearsal for her new play, Becky Shaw.

01/01/2009

‘Mamma Mia’ at PPAC
PROVIDENCE Camp’s in session; so’s spirited fun.

01/02/2009

Trinity Rep Radio Theater returns Friday, Saturday and Sunday on WRNI
Trinity Rep takes to the air, again. Providence’s venerable theater company continues its third season of Trinity Rep Radio Theater, which is presented in partnership with WRNI, Rhode Island’s NPR station, this weekend.

12/28/2008

Mom in Mamma Mia! no stranger to R.I.
Susie McMonagle likes to joke that selling real estate has become such a dead-end profession of late that she was forced to head out on the road and sing.

12/21/2008

Why Dickens’ ‘Christmas Carol’ has so many theatrical versions
Charles Dickens’ most popular work may be the one he didn’t write.

12/20/2008

Stockard Channing is singing again in an updated ‘Pal Joey’
NEW YORK — If you want Stockard Channing eating out of your hand — and who doesn’t? — just compliment her pipes.

Stockard Channing is singing again in an updated ‘Pal Joey’
NEW YORK — If you want Stockard Channing eating out of your hand — and who doesn’t? — just compliment her pipes.

12/18/2008

University of Rhode Island student’s musical to be performed
A new Christmas musical by URI junior Ben Rose will be performed Saturday and Sunday at the Chariho Middle School Auditorium. Rose wrote the book, lyrics and music for the show, Christmas Eve: A New Beginning.

Theater Review: Green ogre named Shrek moves to Broadway
NEW YORK — As that old Kermit the Frog standard goes, it’s not easy “Bein’ Green,” but the folks at DreamWorks have done their darnedest to make sure we are entertained at Shrek the Musical, the company’s lavish stage adaptation of its hit animated movie.

Heritage Ballet performs The Nutcracker
Crack the shell on a season tradition: The Nutcracker. Heritage Ballet, a dance school based in Lincoln, performs the classic work at Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Square, Woonsocket. Shows are Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

12/17/2008

Providence Black Repertory Theater’s season will resume
The show will go on at Providence Black Repertory Company. After suspending its season last month because of the poor financial climate, Black Rep has been able to raise enough money to put on the two remaining productions of the season, Charles Mulekwa’s A Time of Fire, staged Feb. 5, and August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, set to open April 9.

12/14/2008

Broadway and the Public Theater are friends again
NEW YORK The Public Theater and Broadway have always had a love-hate relationship. Broadway has made millions for the nonprofit Public and helped build it into a cultural powerhouse; it has also lost the Public millions, bringing the theater founded by Joseph Papp and now led by Trinity Rep’s former artistic director Oskar Eustis, to the brink of bankruptcy.

12/13/2008

‘Miss Pixie’s Cable Access Holiday Extravaganza’ at the Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket is a holiday show that’s a little off beat
It has been the fate of many a child star to fade into woodwork, or at least into the self-help book circuit. But Miss Pixie still rules — despite a string of bad marriages and stays at Betty Ford.

12/12/2008

Theater Review: Trinity Rep’s ‘Receptionist’ is half sitcom, half ‘Twilight Zone’
For the longest time Adam Bock’s play, The Receptionist, looks like outtakes from the hit TV series The Office. Beverly Wilkins, the receptionist of the title, presides over an office of indeterminate mission, where she dispenses advice, tries to rescue the love life of coworker Lorraine, and utters the oft-heard phrase, “Can I put you through to his voice mail?”

12/11/2008

‘Nutcracker’ and other holiday dance performances this weekend in Providence
A Christmas tradition makes a triumphant return: The Nutcracker.

‘Miss Pixie’ brings unique humor to Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket for holiday show
After an extended engagement on the West Coast, which is to say a month-long stay at Betty Ford, Miss Pixie is back in Pawtucket to treat her devoted fans to a night of original songs and tales from those golden years when she was the child star of such classic films as Little Miss Mark-Up, Lox, Stox and Bagels and Purim Parade.

Cranston High Schools East and West stage ‘High School Musical’ this weekend
A crew from the Disney Channel will be in Cranston tomorrow, taping a student production of High School Musical. But you can catch the show, which is a joint effort between Cranston’s two high schools, all this weekend.

12/07/2008

State Ballet brings dolls to life
Coppelia comes again. For the 47th consecutive year, the State Ballet of Rhode Island performs the classic and lighthearted ballet.

As Broadway prepares for the holidays, it looks forward to spring
NEW YORK — It’s been a weird, schizophrenic couple of months on Broadway as the theater prepares for the holidays in the middle of an economic downturn and what, in the past, have been some of the most profitable weeks of the season.

12/06/2008

Grease big hit at PPAC, while Broadway’s show nears close
When one door closes another opens. As Grease launched its national tour at the Providence Performing Arts Center this week, producers of the New York production announced the 1950s-era musical will close on Jan. 4, the ninth Broadway show scheduled to fold next month.

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.