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DEEP LOVE: A GHOSTLY ROCK OPERA Returns This Halloween Season

 In a tradition spanning more than a decade, the award-winning original production Deep Love: A Ghostly Rock Opera is returning this October for its annual Halloween performances in both Utah and Idaho.
Mixed Magic Theatre Presents WE, THEY, AND THE PEOPLE

Mixed Magic Theatre established its online event series, “Theatre At A Distance,” in May 2020. The online schedule for the series continues to be posted monthly on Mixed Magic Theatre's website. We, They, And The People Part of Series XIX: We Shall Not be Denied: Why it Matters will be broadcast Friday, March 12, 7:30 PM.
Epic Theatre Premieres New Game Show FILL IN THE BLANCK

Epic Theatre Company continues it's a?oeStay Safe, Stay Homea?? series with its biggest digital undertaking yet--an irreverent game show inspired by the television classic Match Game, hosted by Epic's very own Aaron Blanck, and featuring a roster of local talent and iconic celebrities all trying their best to Fill in the Blanck.
BWW Review: Exquisite AGNES OF GOD at Epic Theatre

Despite the fact that Norman Jewison's AGNES OF GOD has existed as both an award-winning play and later film, it doesn't seem to have been produced very often.  That's all the more reason to rush out and see Epic Theatre's well-executed version of a play that is strange, fascinating and heartbreaking. Juxtaposing the mystical with legal is always good fodder for a thorny debate, and this solid cast delivers the layered and complicated humanity needed to make the story resonate.
Epic Theatre Company Will Produce the First Major Local Revival of AGNES OF GOD

Epic Theatre Company is has reunited the team from its smash production of Lauren Gunderson's 'The Revolutionists' to produce the first major local revival of John Pielmeier's 'Agnes of God.' This searing story of a young nun faced with an impossible dilemma is sure to be the most talked about drama of the season.
Photo Flash: First Look At DADA WOOF PAPA HOT At Epic Theatre

Epic Theatre Company is finishing up its record-breaking seventh season with a play about marriage, parenting, and what happens after you get everything you thought you always wanted.  In Peter Parnell's Dada Woof Papa Hot, Alan finds himself struggling in all aspects of his life.  His young daughter prefers her other father, his best friend is having an affair, and a younger gay couple is causing all kinds of unexpected trouble.  He has the life he and so many other gay people fought for, but does that mean it's the life he desired for himself?
Photo Flash: Epic Closes Out Landmark 7th Season With DADA WOOF PAPA HOT

Epic Theatre Company is finishing up its record-breaking seventh season with a play about marriage, parenting, and what happens after you get everything you thought you always wanted.  In Peter Parnell's Dada Woof Papa Hot, Alan finds himself struggling in all aspects of his life.  His young daughter prefers her other father, his best friend is having an affair, and a younger gay couple is causing all kinds of unexpected trouble.  He has the life he and so many other gay people fought for, but does that mean it's the life he desired for himself?
Epic Theatre Presents DADA WOOF PAPA HOT

Epic Theatre Company is finishing up its record-breaking seventh season with a play about marriage, parenting, and what happens after you get everything you thought you always wanted.  In Peter Parnell's Dada Woof Papa Hot, Alan finds himself struggling in all aspects of his life.  His young daughter prefers her other father, his best friend is having an affair, and a younger gay couple is causing all kinds of unexpected trouble.  He has the life he and so many other gay people fought for, but does that mean it's the life he desired for himself?
Epic Brings DEATH AND THE MAIDEN To The Stage

Epic Theatre Company continues its exploration of conviction with a modern masterpiece--Ariel Dorfman's 'Death and the Maiden.'
Photo Flash: WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT Opens Tonight At Epic

After a sold out season of summer programming, Epic Theatre Company is back for its seventh full season at its home in Cranston, Rhode Island.  The theme of the season is Conviction--stories about the truths that drive us and the dangerous balance between belief and reality. The season begins with the Rhode Island Premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury's incredible play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915.
Epic Theatre Company's Season Of 'Conviction' Begins With WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT

After a sold out season of summer programming, Epic Theatre Company is back for its seventh full season at its home in Cranston, Rhode Island. The theme of the season is Conviction--stories about the truths that drive us and the dangerous balance between belief and reality. The season begins with the Rhode Island Premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury's incredible play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915.
Epic Theatre Company's Season Of 'Conviction' Begins With WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT

After a sold out season of summer programming, Epic Theatre Company is back for its seventh full season at its home in Cranston, Rhode Island. The theme of the season is Conviction--stories about the truths that drive us and the dangerous balance between belief and reality. The season begins with the Rhode Island Premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury's incredible play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915.
VIDEO: Watch the Trailer for LITTLE WOMEN: A MODERN RETELLING In Theaters September 28

A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, we follow the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood. Despite harsh times, they cling to optimism, and as they mature, they face blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining their unbreakable bond as sisters. Watch the trailer below! 
Epic Theatre Company Presents COLLECTIVE RAGE: A PLAY IN FIVE BATTLES

For one weekend only, Epic Theatre Company will be presenting the Rhode Island Premiere of one of the wildest shows you'll ever encounter.
Mixed Magic Theatre Produces Controversial Award-Winning Masterpieces In Repertory

Mixed Magic Theatre (MMT) is thrilled to open its season with Amiri Baraka's Dutchman and The Slave, two searing, timeless and timely dramas that will be performed in repertory in the company's two renovated performance spaces Nov 10 -26.
DUTCHMAN & THE SLAVE Set to Run in Repertory at Mixed Magic Theatre

Mixed Magic Theatre (MMT) is thrilled to open its season with Amiri Baraka's Dutchman and The Slave, two searing, timeless and timely dramas that will be performed in repertory in the company's two renovated performance spaces Nov 10 -26.
BWW Review: THE BEST OF EVERYTHING at 2ND STORY THEATRE

Women in business in the 1950's--not the easiest row to hoe.
Photo Flash: 2nd Story Theatre presents THE BEST OF EVERYTHING

Rona Jaffe's mid-century page-turner electrified millions of women who saw their own lives reflected in the experiences of five young employees of a New York publishing house. Julie Kramer's adaptation touchingly and faithfully captures Jaffe's incisive look at the personal and professional struggles these women faced (face?) in their male-dominated world, bringing it to colorful theatrical life with sympathy, wit, intelligence and love.
BWW Guest Blog: OUT Loud Theatre Season 4 - An Exploration of the Public Domain

BroadwayWorld Rhode Island readers nominated four area companies as "Rising Stars/Theaters to Watch" during the 2015 Regional BroadwayWorld Awards. Now, in a four-part series, the artistic directors from each theater will join BWW RI as guest bloggers, sharing their creative vision and inspiration in their own words. First up is Kira Hawkridge, the founding artistic director of OUT LOUD Theatre.
Epic Theatre to Stage Rhode Island Premiere of LET ME DOWN EASY

Epic Theatre Company is kicking off 2016 with the Rhode Island Premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy-the latest work by the acclaimed playwright that explores how we interact with our bodies.

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