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05/18/2008

Boston theater season includes 2 new plays
Two pre-Broadway premieres — a new musical featuring Gershwin music and starring Harry Connick Jr., and a revival of Brigadoon — headline Broadway Across America-Boston’s 2008-09 lineup.

Young talent takes center stage in Tony nominations
The Tony nominations were announced last week, and it would be difficult to come up with a season that presented a clearer portrait of where Broadway is headed and where it has been.

05/15/2008

Amateur dancers plan to be ‘Inspiration’
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Dance collaboration takes it to the streets in Newport
NEWPORT — History takes the stage. But first, it walks the streets.

In Gamm’s new Shrew everyone gets some taming
There are those who view Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew as a misogynist rant, a tale of a head-strong woman forced to obey her husband’s wishes.

When justice is not perfect
When Bruce Reilly was in prison, serving a dozen years for murder at the Adult Correctional Institutions, he met inmates he believes were innocent. Now that he is free, Reilly hopes to get across his message that the justice system is far from perfect.

05/14/2008

Tonys recognize lively Heights with 13 nominations
NEW YORK — In the Heights, a lively snapshot of Latino life in Upper Manhattan, received 13 Tony Award nominations yesterday, more than any other show.

05/11/2008

Magician David Copperfield appears at PPAC on Tuesday
David Copperfield will appear. That’s not magic, but his show is.

05/09/2008

Bay View thespians heading to Scotland
EAST PROVIDENCE — One week after its massive weekend production that highlighted 25 years of school performances, St. Mary Academy-Bay View was chosen to participate in the renowned International Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland, in August.

05/08/2008

2nd Story Theatre tackles domestic abuse with offbeat Fuddy Meers
Paula Faber might as well be speaking a foreign language. In 2nd Story Theatre’s soon-to-open production of Fuddy Meers, Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire’s offbeat take on domestic abuse, Faber plays a stroke victim suffering from aphasia, a condition that has left her speech garbled.

Drowsy Chaperone: Take all that corn with a grain of salt
It’s pretty campy, but also very clever. The tour of The Drowsy Chaperone that pulled into the Providence Performing Arts Center this week is a fun night of theater.

State Ballet celebrates spring this weekend
May ballet is back. This weekend, for the 48th consecutive year, the State Ballet of Rhode Island presents its “Spring Ballet Celebration.” The company presents a two-part program: dances from the classics, Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky, “Claire de Lune” by Debussy and “Graduation Ball” by Johann Strauss; and the premiere of “Gansel & Hetal: A Sweet Family Fairytale.”

05/04/2008

Former Rhode Island Attorney General and talk show host Arlene Violet turns playwright with a musical satire of the mob, The Altos
There’s this Mafia don, see, who wants his gay opera-singing son to take over the family business. But the kid wants no part of that life.

Theater: Broadway’s hit The Drowsy Chaperone, opening at PPAC on Tuesday, began as a stag-party skit
Talk about humble beginnings. The Drowsy Chaperone, the most celebrated musical of the 2006 Broadway season, began as entertainment for a stag party.

05/02/2008

Theater Review: Trinity Rep musical ‘Paris by Night’ is boy-meets-boy love story
If you like your love stories sweet and simple, then you’ll probably enjoy Paris by Night, Curt Columbus’ homage to the old-fashioned musical that opened this week at Trinity Rep.

05/01/2008

There’s nothing traditional about Sweet Disaster’s personal story
Sweet Disaster, Charlotte Meehan’s kaleidoscopic play about the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the death of her husband from colon cancer, and who knows what else, is both funny and touching — in an absurdist sort of way.

Kathy Griffin, Jay Leno, Brad Garrett and Larry the Cable Guy perform this weekend
The comedians cometh, four of them, all standup kind of guys, and gals, at three venues over three consecutive nights: Kathy Griffin, Jay Leno, Brad Garrett and Larry the Cable Guy.

04/30/2008

State likely to empower Authority to run Vets
Concerned by the lack of use of the Veterans Memorial Auditorium, the state legislature is looking at the Convention Center Authority to take control of the state-owned building.

04/26/2008

Beauty and romance meet effortlessly in Swan Lake
PROVIDENCE

04/25/2008

25 years of cabaret at St. Mary Academy – Bay View
EAST PROVIDENCE

25 years of cabaret at St. Mary Academy – Bay View
EAST PROVIDENCE

04/24/2008

Paris by Night at Trinity
Trinity Rep wraps up its season tomorrow with the world premiere of Paris by Night, a new jazz musical from the theater’s creative head, Curt Columbus. The show, which has been in the works for more than a decade, is an interracial gay love story about an African-American tattoo artist living in Paris who falls for a young soldier named Buck.

Tape is the proof of good theater in Galilee
There’s nothing like being up close and personal when it comes to theater. But Amber Kelly and her Theater of Thought have taken that experience to the extreme with an in-your-face staging of Stephen Belber’s Tape.

On stage at Perishable Theatre: Sweet Disaster: 9/11 was just the beginning
Charlotte Meehan calls her latest play, Sweet Disaster, a form of “fractured realism.” But she might just as well think of it as a surrealist’s snapshot of life as she’s known it.

Festival Ballet’s Swan Lake is a happily-ever-after affair
PROVIDENCE — Mihailo Djuric is not a big fan of death. So the artistic director of Festival Ballet Providence has decided to do without it in this weekend’s production of Swan Lake at Veterans Memorial Auditorium.

RIC shows off student choreography
Students show their moves. Rhode Island College presents its annual Student Choreography Showcase tonight and tomorrow at 8 in the college’s Forman Theatre. The works to be presented were created in dance classes over the course of the year.

04/22/2008

2008-9 season schedule
Bug, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts’ darkly comic thriller about government conspiracy, kicks off the 2008-9 season at Providence Black Rep. The show, which tells the story of loss and anxiety of those struggling in the margins of society, opens in October.

Bird soars at Black Rep
The Etymology of Bird, the latest offering from Providence Black Repertory Company, is all about explosive situations and hot-button issues. Thankfully, playwright Zakiyyah Alexander has dealt with them in a balanced and thoughtful way, as she tells her sweet coming-of-age story about young love and tragedy during a long hot summer in the rough Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.

04/20/2008

Columbus’ voyage of love
Curt Columbus would love to have written his jazz musical, Paris by Night, and been done with it. Just banged it out and turned it over to a director and cast. But that’s not quite how it has worked out.

Puppets on film: First for grown-ups, then for the kids
Presumably FirstWorks, the Providence public-private organization devoted to promoting and celebrating performance art, pulled some strings. All we know is a two-part puppet film festival is coming to Providence.

04/13/2008

Scenery Steals the Show
One of the classiest pieces of real estate in Providence right now is yours for the price of admission to Trinity Repertory Company.

04/10/2008

Producers at PPAC
The Producers, Mel Brooks’ wacky musical about a Broadway get-rich-quick scheme, returns to the Providence Performing Arts Center this weekend for five shows.

Scarecrow probes one man’s eating disorder and recovery
There was a time when Lenny Schwartz began his day at 6:46 a.m. with three-quarters of a bowl of Cocoa Puffs. At 2:47 p.m. he’d consume 16 plain ziti, with no sauce or cheese. And at night, he’d eat the top off a muffin.

Teen tragedy at heart of Etymology of Bird
Playwright Zakiyyah Alexander was thinking about writing a coming-of-age story set in present-day New York when she came across a newspaper account of a 19-year-old high school student shot and killed by a housing cop in the tough Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.