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Trinity Repertory Company

Theater Review: “A Tale of Two Cities” — Beware the Revolution!

Given Dickens’ penny-a-word driven verbosity and his fondness for resolving every plot point with a flurry of coincidences, adapter McEleney seems undecided: is this history play a tragedy or a farce?

By: Mary Paula Hunter Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A Tale of Two Cities, Brian McEleney, Mary Paula Hunter, Trinity Repertory Company

Theater Review: August Wilson’s “Radio Golf” — The Culture We Build

The message of August Wilson’s final play: the future rests not on the number of Whole Foods we build but on the culture we value.

By: Mary Paula Hunter Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: August-Wilson, Mary Paula Hunter, Radio-Golf, Trinity Repertory Company

Theater Preview: “Buddy” Cianci’s Ghost Returns to Haunt Providence

We are definitely feeling a sense of Buddy haunting us, to be sure. I mean, this theater is the place he visited. He attended many, if not most, of the shows here.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Preview, Theater Tagged: Buddy Cianci, The Prince of Providence, Trinity Repertory Company

Theater Review: “Fuente Ovejuna” — An Underwhelming Revival

Lope de Vega’s classic story of how the powerless stood up to authority — and won –deserves better treatment than clumsy caricature.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Curt Columbus, Fuente Ovejuna, Like Sheep to Water, Lope De Vega, Mark Valdez, Mary Paula Hunter, Trinity Repertory Company

Theater Review: “Faithful Cheaters” — Delightfully Frenzied Farce

This thoroughly cockamamy world offers the kind of guilty pleasure that you hope never ends.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Deborah Salem Smith, Faithful Cheaters, Mary Paula Hunter, Melia Bensussen, Trinity Repertory Company

Theater Review: “A Lie of the Mind” – Trinity Rep’s Excellent 50th Anniversary Gift

Critic Eric Bentley valued the theater of audacity above all, and that is just what is on glorious display in Trinity Rep’s marvelously nervy A Lie of the Mind.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A Lie of the Mind, Brian Mertes, Eugene Lee, Sam Shepard, Trinity Repertory Company

Theater Review: Chekhov Lite — “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike”

Chekhov’s jokes are the inevitable by-products of his characters confronting life’s absurdities; Christopher Durang is content to wring laughs out of wacky situations and cartoon caricatures.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Christopher Durang, Curt Columbus, Trinity Repertory Company, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Theater Review: Of Race and Real Estate — Clybourne Park

Given his full-throttle depiction of the myopia of middle class mores, Bruce Norris is more in the flamboyant satiric line of Sinclair Lewis, who also trained his sharp ear and eye on the Midwest, the American heartland, jabbing away at American delusions of community, status, and self-satisfaction.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Clybourne Park, Trinity Repertory Company

Coming Attactions in Theater: October 2011

It is encouraging that the list of recommendations for October isn’t filled with musicals. Are straight plays back? I wouldn’t count on it in this economic climate. So let’s bask in the chance to hear words without music.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: A Raisin in the Sun, Actors-From-the-London-Stage, ArtsEmerson, Before I Leave You, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Buddy Cop 2, Cahoot's Macbeth, Clybourne Park, Company One, Dogg's Hamlet, Double, Double Toil and Trouble (A witches' brew of Shakespeare remixed), Gold Dust Orphans, Happy Medium Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington-Theatre-Company, imaginary-beasts, In the Red and Brown Water, Macbett, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Oberon, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Salem Theatre Company, Stoneham Theater, Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Civilians, The Debate Society, The Farm, The Rocky Horror Show, The Tempest, The Woman in Black, Tiny Kushner, Trinity Repertory Company, Water by the Spoonful, Wellesley College, Whistler in the Dark Theatre, William-Shakespeare, You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce, Zeitgeist Stage Company

Coming Attractions in Theater: September 2011

Every September proffers an explosion of productions; as usual, my eclectic picks, driven by my prejudice for the new. There are few world premieres among the openers this season, aside from the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival’s “Once in a Lifetime” and Arts Emerson’s presentation of The Foundry Theatre’s “How Much is Enough.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: All The Journeying Ways, Arts Emerson, Belle Linda Halpern, Bread and Puppet Theater, Candide, Charlestown Working Theater, Claudia Dey, Cravings: Songs of Hunger and Satisfaction, Curt Columbus, Delusion, Exquisite Corps Theatre, Geoffrey Nauffts, His Girl Friday, How Much is Enough: Our Values in Question, Huntington-Theatre-Company, John Malkovich, John-Guare, Kathleen Cahill, Laurie Anderson, Man = Carrot Circus, Mary Zimmerman, Merrimack Repertory Theater, Next Fall, Once in a Lifetime, Portland Stage Company, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, Salem Theater Company, Scott Alarik, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Foundry Theatre, The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer, The Morini Strad, The Odyssey, The Persian Quarter, The-Bacchae, Trinity Repertory Company, Trout Stanley, Whistler in the Dark Theatre, Willy Holtzman

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