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Would you like a reprieve from your mall wandering, your internet shopping, your holiday decorating and your cookie baking? Let me invite you to take a two-hour journey into the amazing, old-world …
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Theatre Review by IDA ZECCO
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12/6/23
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Azia Barnes’ “BLKS” gets its Rhode Island premiere, directed by Catia at Pawtucket’s Burbage Theatre.
The 90 minute, no intermission play is performed in the round using …
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Theatre Review by Don Fowler
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11/29/23
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I have reviewed over 25 productions of Trinity’s “A Christmas Carol.”
Each director has carefully followed the script to the point where I could recite the lines along with the …
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Theatre Review by Don Fowler
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11/22/23
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Gamm’s Artistic Director, Tony Estrella, is the perfect person to direct Martic McDonagh’s black comedy, “Hangmen."
He has seen the play on Broadway and in London, and …
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Theatre Review by Don Fowler
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11/8/23
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He’s coming to steal Christmas.
How do I know?
I had a face-to-face conversation with him last Friday in the PPAC lobby.
He sat on his throne and pontificated to me about why he …
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By Don Fowler
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11/1/23
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In 1997, a Providence public high school teacher Nancy Patiño convened a group of Latino artists in Providence to offer youth afterschool programming where they could explore their own …
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By IDA ZECCO
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10/25/23
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Lamont Jay Whittaker just finished his 330th performance as Mafala Hatimbi Jr., village chief, in the award-winning musical, “The Book of Mormon”.
“We opened a year ago and …
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By Don Fowler
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10/11/23
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Theatre Review by Don Fowler
It is the same bare stage, the same theme and the same town of Salem as “The Good John Proctor.”
Only the time has changed.
We meet Becky …
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Theatre Review by Don Fowler
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10/11/23
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Trinity Rep has chosen has chosen Talene Monahon’s prequel to “The Crucible” to open their 60th Anniversary Season in repertory with Sarah Ruhl’s ”Becky Nurse of …
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Theatre Review by Don Fowler
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9/20/23
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Katerina McCrimmon brought down the house at the Providence Performing Arts Center last week with her magnificent portrayal of Fanny Bryce in the revival of Broadway’s hit show, “Funny …
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Theatre Review by Don Fowler
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9/20/23
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The interesting thing about a Shakespearean play is that theater groups interpret the Bard differently, bringing their own interpretations of his words to the stage.
Burbage Theatre, under …
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Theatre Review by Don Fowler
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9/13/23
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While Artistic Director Tony Estrella is off performing at Massachusetts’s Huntington Theatre, he has brought in two powerful Boston based actors to play the roles of brothers Lincoln and Booth …
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Theatre Review by Don Fowler
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9/13/23
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It is the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons that brings us back to see “Jersey Boys” whenever it is within driving distance.
The story of four guys from Jersey growing up, …
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Theatre Review by Don Fowler
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8/16/23
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“It’s so much more room to breathe,” said Gail Hulbert, the Marketing Director of Gamm Theatre, as she gestured to the black box theater.
Gamm Theatre relocated from Pawtucket …
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By DANA RICHIE
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8/9/23
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It is no coincidence that all four musicals at Bill Hanney’s Theatre-by-the-Sea this summer center around the classic songs of great performers.
Opening with Sinatra’s “My …
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Theatre Review by Don Fowler
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7/26/23
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For 36 years, the Rhode Island Youth Theatre, formerly Fantasy Works, has been a pillar in the state and local community, bringing theater alive to more than 20,000 young people with six ending up at …
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By DANA RICHIE
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7/13/23
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“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” tells the story of one, if not THE best singer/songwriter of our time.
Carole started writing songs while a teenager in the fifties when rock and …
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Review by Don Fowler
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6/21/23
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You only have this weekend to see one of the most powerful performances of the season in the Rhode Island premiere of Lolita Chakrabarti’s equally powerful “Red Velvet”.
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Theatre Review by Don Fowler
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6/14/23
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