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07/08/2008

Theater review: A fine Stratagem for your evening
It’s a little wordy, but The Beaux’ Stratagem also contains some amusing moments, and at 2nd Story Theatre it’s sporting some real talent in the leads.

Graduates provide the scripts for Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep
For four summers now, Lowry Marshall has relied on her “little black book” to come up with talent for the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theater. The annual festival just doesn’t have the staff and the wherewithal to conduct a national search for new plays, said Marshal, the Brown theater professor who oversees the event. So she calls on former students who are now making names for themselves.

07/04/2008

These songs from long ago still stir the patriotic spirit
“You’re a grand old flag, you’re a high-flying flag, and forever in peace may you wave …”

07/03/2008

‘Cirque Dreams’ show comes to Foxwoods
www.foxwoods.com. The casino is off Route 2 in Ledyard, Conn.

06/29/2008

A revival of bare-bones sets
With tough economic times staring him in the face, Ed Shea, creative head of Warren’s 2nd Story Theatre, decided something had to go. So for his summer season, which gets under way Wednesday, he is putting on a couple of plays without sets, using just two intersecting boardwalks to create a stage.

06/26/2008

Forgot your lines? No problem!
Prepare for the unprepared, actors who don’t know their lines.

06/24/2008

Dated George M! creaky, contrived
With July Fourth just around the corner, Theatre by the Sea must have thought this was a good time to once again dust off George M!, the cornball saga of Rhode Island-born song-and-dance man George M. Cohan. While this trite 1960s musical is mostly about Cohan’s 25-year reign over Broadway during the early 1900s, there are a few patriotic tunes apropos of the season, along with some unabashed flag waving.

06/22/2008

Festival schedule
The fifth annual Providence Improv Fest is Wednesday through next Sunday at three downtown venues: Trinity Theatre, 201 Washington St.; Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire St.; and AS220, 115 Empire St.

Improv Fest is back, and no one knows the lines
No one’s truly prepared for this week’s fifth annual Providence Improv Fest.

Tip O’Neill, one-man show
Ken Howard knows playing Tip O’Neill, a god of gods in Boston’s political firmament, carries the risk of doom.

06/19/2008

Theater, music and dance celebrate Juneteenth liberation
The 19th of June has passed, but not its celebration. Tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, Providence celebrates Juneteenth, with theater, poetry, dance and music.

Hide and Seek tackles subject of coming out
Hide and Seek: Coming Out Stories, a docudrama based on interviews with gay Rhode Islanders, premieres at the University of Rhode Island’s Providence campus tonight and tomorrow.

06/14/2008

Tonys show to feature more music
Who cares about the Celtics and Lakers in Game 5 of the National Basketball Association finals tomorrow night? Broadway’s 62nd Annual Tony Awards promises plenty of drama.

And the Tony winners will be . . .
It’s crystal-ball time. I’ve been wrong before — and I will be wrong again — but there is always room for predictions and a wish list of 2008 Tony Award winners.

The Web gets into the act
NEW YORK Can a cherubic 10-year-old pitchman with the unlikely name of Cubby Bernstein help remake the way Tony Award nominees sell themselves to voters — and to paying theatergoers as well?

06/15/2008

Theater by the Sea producer Joel Kipper is tapping his way from backstage to the spotlight as the lead in ‘George M!’
As managing producer of Theatre by the Sea, Joel Kipper has his work cut out for him. He’s in charge of all things technical.

06/05/2008

David Eliet’s new musical has Cossacks, witches, vodka
David Eliet’s new musical, The Tsarina’s Booties, is a Russian tale through and through, a story about a blacksmith who sets out to win the hand of a vain village beauty. It’s got a witch, a devil, crazy Cossacks and no shortage of vodka. The Cossacks, in fact, sing the praises of the drink at one point.

Grease tickets on sale Sunday
www.ppacri.org. Patrons will then be able to purchase tickets by phone, at (401) 421-2787, or at the box office, 220 Weybosset St., Providence, beginning at 10 a.m. Monday.

06/03/2008

Fine Fats Waller by the sea
Don’t go looking for much in the way of a plot when it comes to Ain’t Misbehavin’, the 1970s revue that pays homage to jazz great Fats Waller. It’s more concert with minimal staging than standard musical.

05/31/2008

Trinity gives itself an ovation with Pell Award
This is the first time that Trinity, which awards the prize every year, gave it to an organization.

06/01/2008

Morgan Freeman is tired of playing God
Morgan Freeman has returned to Broadway with one goal in mind: to try to kill the Morgan Freeman you know and love.

05/29/2008

Ain’t Misbehavin’ arrives in Matunuck
Matunuck’s Theatre by the Sea opened its 75th season this week with Ain’t Misbehavin’, the musical revue based on music written and made famous by jazz great Thomas “Fats” Waller, who rose to international fame during the golden age of the Cotton Club and the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s.