4th Annual NEURODIVERSITY NEW PLAY FESTIVAL Returns, September 7 - 9
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 2, 2023
Spectrum Theatre Ensemble (STE) in Providence along with the Die-Cast Collective in Philadelphia present the fourth annual Neurodiversity New Play Festival (NNPF) from September 7 - 9, 2023 at various venues in the Jewelry District in Providence.
Judith Lynn Stillman to Join Met Opera Baritone Will Liverman in Rhode Island Debut
by Blair Ingenthron - May 14, 2023
Rhode Island College's Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts will present ART SONG TO ARIA featuring RIC's Artist-in-Residence Judith Lynn Stillman, pianist, with GRAMMY Award-winning, Metropolitan Opera superstar baritone Will Liverman in his first appearance in Rhode Island, on Sunday, June 4th at 3pm.
Winners Announced For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards
by BWW Awards - Jan 27, 2023
The winners have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards, honoring the best in regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022.
Gamm Welcomes New Fellows Cohort
by Stephi Wild - Sep 13, 2022
The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) welcomes a new cohort of emerging artists of color to its Gamm Fellowship Program. As in the program's 2021-22 pilot year, the three fellows are recent graduates of the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI), Rhode Island College (RIC), and the University of Rhode Island (URI).
FAIRVIEW Concludes Trinity Rep's 2021-22 Season Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Apr 22, 2022
Trinity Repertory Company finishes its 2021-22 Season with Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury. Directed by Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company alum Christopher Windom, this show runs May 19 – June 19 with a press opening night on Wednesday, May 25 at 7:30 pm.
Trinity Rep Announces 2022-23 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 14, 2022
The Tony Award- winning Trinity Repertory Company has announced the company’s 59th season. The 2022-23 Season, which includes a five-show subscription series and an annual reimagining of A Christmas Carol, begins in September and concludes in June.
BWW Review: GEM OF THE OCEAN at Trinity Rep
by John McDaid - Mar 4, 2022
Providence's Trinity Rep has come roaring back from a two-year pandemic hiatus with a stunning production of August Wilson's 'Gem of the Ocean.' Compelling performances from a cast that includes some of Rhode Island's finest actors at the top of their form make this the must-see theatrical event of the season.
BWW Review: The Gamm's AN OCTOROON Is Not To Be Missed
by Andria Tieman - Feb 2, 2022
In AN OCTOROON, Jacobs-Jenkins seems to delight in taking audiences on a shock-and-awe tour through America’s history and present. In turns horrifying and hilarious, this work manages to elicit almost every emotion a human being can feel as it burrows into your psyche.
August Wilson's GEM OF THE OCEAN To Run At Trinity Rep Beginning in February
by Stephi Wild - Jan 25, 2022
Trinity Repertory Company's next production in the 2021-22 Season is August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean, the first play chronologically in the iconic playwright's American Century Cycle. Directed by resident company member Jude Sandy, Gem of the Ocean features a multigenerational cast of local artists.
The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre to Present AN OCTOROON
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 3, 2022
The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre will stage Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon, promising audiences an explosive theatrical experience to jump-start the new year. Both old and new, An Octoroon reinterprets a famous Victorian melodrama as an audaciously theatrical and sometimes shocking examination of race and representation in America.
AN OCTOROON to be Presented at The Gamm Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 22, 2021
Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation, Terrebonne, is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful, one-eighth black “octoroon.” But the evil overseer, M’Closky, has other plans for both Terrebonne and Zoe.