| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | Dinner & Comedy with Father MisGivings at Stadium Theatre September 10, 2010 Radio personality Dave Kane plays a quick-witted, Irish Catholic priest in this one man-show that has received great reviews from the Providence Journal. The good father regales the audience with anecdotes, jokes and one-liners on growing up Catholic. They even get to play an actual game of bingo! More laughs than "Late Nite Catechism"! ... Includes buffet dinner | | 09/10/10 | Woonsocket |
Lenny & Friends, The Comedy Event of the YearPresented by Joe Rocco and RocJo Productions at Stadium Theatre September 11, 2010 Joe Rocco and RocJo Productions present Lenny & Friends, The Comedy Event of the Year, with partial proceeds going to the Rhode Island Firefighters Widows and Orphans Fund. Rocco is the same producer who brought the hilarious shows "An Evening with Kevin Meaney" and the "Hitmen of Comedy" to the Stadium Theatre in 2009. Both of these shows ended in a standing ovation!
Lenny Clarke, best known as the outrageous Uncle Teddy in the FX hit series, Rescue Me,... | Joe Rocco and RocJo Productions | 09/11/10 | Woonsocket |
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"Presented by The Wilburys at Perishable Theatre September 2-September 12, 2010 Edward Albee's classic "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at Perishable Theatre.
Directed by James Calitri and featuring Rae Mancini, Jim O'Brien, Josh Short and Bonnie Griffin.
| The Wilburys | 09/02/10- 09/12/10 | Providence |
Edwards TwinsPresented by Stadium Theatre at Stadium Theatre September 18, 2010 The Edwards Twins ... 2 Brothers / 100 Stars ... Now Full Time in Las Vegas with their own show room! ... Now in their 20th Year! ... The Edwards Twins present The Masters of Celebrity Illusions featuring Cher, Elvis Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, Barbra Streisand, Elton John, Bette Midler. and many more!
| Stadium Theatre | 09/18/10 | Woonsocket |
Michael Jackson Tribute ShowPresented by Stadium Theatre at Stadium Theatre September 25, 2010 The Ultimate Michael Jackson experience featuring Joby Rogers (as Michael Jackson)
Joby Rogers is a gifted entertainer whose talents have gained him international recognition. Joby is the only impersonator to appear on the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine, credited. Joby has been personally approved in a signed statement by Michael Jackson as "the best" Michael Jackson impersonator. Joby's national television appearances include MTV, VH1, NBC, CBS, Jimmy Kimmel Live, E!... | Stadium Theatre | 09/25/10 | Woonsocket |
Beyond the SeaPresented by Ocean State Theatre Company September 25, 2010 To celebrate our third full season of successfully re-opening Theatre By The Sea, Ocean State Theatre Co. (OSTC) is thrilled to present our first major fundraising event BEYOND THE SEA on Saturday, September 25, 2010. Our theater and property will be transformed into a stylish evening complete with food, beverages, auctions, and of course, THEATRE! Beyond hip… beyond cool… beyond swingin’… BEYOND THE SEA will be the event of the season! | Ocean State Theatre Company | 09/25/10 | |
Live Bait: True Stories from Real PeoplePresented by Perishable Theatre at Perishable Theatre October 1, 2010 If you have a story that is in any way, shape, or form connected with the monthly theme, please go to www.perishable.org for theme info*, *then come on down to *LIVE BAIT* and tell it. Or just come and watch others share theirs. All you have to do is sign up at the door and if we pick your name out of our hat, come up and tell your story. It’s that easy. No notes, no rants, just tell your story like you’re telling your friends over a couple of drinks. There is a five-six minute... | Perishable Theatre | 10/01/10 | Providence |
Lerner & Loewe’s CamelotPresented by Trinity Repertory Company at Trinity Repertory Company September 10-October 10, 2010 King Arthur has everything – peace, prosperity and a happy marriage… but will the arrival of the handsome Lancelot change Camelot forever? Trinity Rep’s reimagining of this musical masterpiece is a rich tale of love, honor, and the quest to create a legacy. | Trinity Repertory Company | 09/10/10- 10/10/10 | Providence |
Kiss & Tell CabaretPresented by Providence Gay Men's Chorus October 10, 2010 Join the PGMC as we let loose cabaret style for a night of fun, laughs and of course song! Host by the one and only Miss Kitty Litter! Come a little early and enjoy a fabulous dinner at The HiHat before the show! | Providence Gay Men's Chorus | 10/10/10 | |
Trails to TerrorPresented by Highland Farm October 1-October 30, 2010 Trails to Terror consists of two unique expeiences that take place on the grounds of Highland Farm in Wakefield, RI Visitors can take the "Delamorte's Haunted Hayride" that will take them through acres of scary trails that are filled with assorted creatures of the night who appear at every bend. For those that want to walk, there is the "Forest of Fear" that allows visitors to wonder through wooded trails filled with scary scenes made complete with actors in costume. | Highland Farm | 10/01/10- 10/30/10 | |
GallagherPresented by Stadium Theatre at Stadium Theatre November 5, 2010 Gallagher 's humor derives from his keen and original observation of human nature and the American scene. "My humor makes people think," Gallagher says. I want people to look more closely at this country and their lives to see the humor and absurdity in it all...I don't have to make it up, the truth is funny enough."
Best known for his Sledge-O-Matic trademark, Gallagher has been entertaining audiences since 1979 with sixteen Showtime Specials and has... | Stadium Theatre | 11/05/10 | Woonsocket |
Live Bait: True Stories from Real PeoplePresented by Perishable Theatre at Perishable Theatre November 5, 2010 If you have a story that is in any way, shape, or form connected with the monthly theme, please go to www.perishable.org for theme info*, *then come on down to *LIVE BAIT* and tell it. Or just come and watch others share theirs. All you have to do is sign up at the door and if we pick your name out of our hat, come up and tell your story. It’s that easy. No notes, no rants, just tell your story like you’re telling your friends over a couple of drinks. There is a five-six minute... | Perishable Theatre | 11/05/10 | Providence |
Loretta LaRochePresented by Stadium Theatre at Stadium Theatre November 12, 2010 Loretta is an international stress management and humor consultant whose wit, and irreverent humor, has, for over 30 years raised the humor potential in all of us. She is on the Mass General advisory council for anxiety and depression and was recently awarded the National Humor Treasure Award. Loretta writes a weekly newspaper column called, 'Get a Life'. | Stadium Theatre | 11/12/10 | Woonsocket |
Absurd Person SingularPresented by Trinity Repertory Company at Trinity Repertory Company October 15-November 21, 2010 It’s a dark and stormy night – perfect for a festive holiday party! This hilarious comedic romp follows three married couples through three disastrous Christmas parties, as they drink, frolic, and fight their way to… holiday cheer? | Trinity Repertory Company | 10/15/10- 11/21/10 | Providence |
Live Bait: True Stories from Real PeoplePresented by Perishable Theatre at Perishable Theatre December 3, 2010 If you have a story that is in any way, shape, or form connected with the monthly theme, please go to www.perishable.org for theme info*, *then come on down to *LIVE BAIT* and tell it. Or just come and watch others share theirs. All you have to do is sign up at the door and if we pick your name out of our hat, come up and tell your story. It’s that easy. No notes, no rants, just tell your story like you’re telling your friends over a couple of drinks. There is a five-six minute... | Perishable Theatre | 12/03/10 | Providence |
A Christmas CarolPresented by The Encore Repertory Company at Stadium Theatre December 3-December 12, 2010 The Encore Repertory Company's production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a timeless holiday tradition for all audiences.
When the greedy Ebenezer Scrooge learns the haunting secrets of the life he leads, he changes his selfish ways and discovers it’s not too late to love the world around him and enjoy the Christmas season. Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his deceased partner, Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet-to-Come. Ebenezer... | The Encore Repertory Company | 12/03/10- 12/12/10 | Woonsocket |
Breathing TubePresented by Perishable Theatre at Perishable Theatre December 17, 2010 *Breathing Tube*, a night of short plays for radio from some of the areas most creative writers. The show offers traditional radio theatre as well as plays that explore the boundaries of the genre. | Perishable Theatre | 12/17/10 | Providence |
A Child's Christmas in WalesPresented by Gamm Theatre at Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre December 9-December 26, 2010 “I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.” – A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Celebrate the season with this brand-new adaptation of legendary Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’ classic holiday story. Travelling seamlessly between wistful man and wide-eyed boy, the author himself takes you on a journey back in time, where mirthful aunts and... | Gamm Theatre | 12/09/10- 12/26/10 | Pawtucket |
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play Presented by Trinity Repertory Company at Trinity Repertory Company December 3, 2010-January 2, 2011 Trinity Rep launches a new tradition, one to complement our annual holiday gem, A Christmas Carol. Six actors create more than fifty memorable characters to bring to life Frank Capra’s beloved film. This unique stage adaptation is performed as a radio play, broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1946. Everyman George Bailey gets the chance to see what the world would be like if he’d never been born. | Trinity Repertory Company | 12/03/10- 01/02/11 | Providence |
Live Bait: True Stories from Real PeoplePresented by Perishable Theatre at Perishable Theatre January 7, 2011 If you have a story that is in any way, shape, or form connected with the monthly theme, please go to www.perishable.org for theme info*, *then come on down to *LIVE BAIT* and tell it. Or just come and watch others share theirs. All you have to do is sign up at the door and if we pick your name out of our hat, come up and tell your story. It’s that easy. No notes, no rants, just tell your story like you’re telling your friends over a couple of drinks. There is a five-six minute... | Perishable Theatre | 01/07/11 | Providence |
"1964" The TributePresented by Stadium Theatre at Stadium Theatre January 21-January 22, 2011 The rekindling of the Beatles popularity, crossing all age barriers has prompted the Stadium Theatre Performing Arts Centre to present the #1 Beatles Show in the World, "1964", on the newly restored Stadium Theatre stage. Take a musical journey to an era in rock history that will live in your hearts forever. The energetic Tribute show includes classic songs such as "A Hard Days Night", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Twist and Shout", and "Yellow... | Stadium Theatre | 01/21/11- 01/22/11 | Woonsocket |
Live Bait: True Stories from Real PeoplePresented by Perishable Theatre at Perishable Theatre February 4, 2011 If you have a story that is in any way, shape, or form connected with the monthly theme, please go to www.perishable.org for theme info*, *then come on down to *LIVE BAIT* and tell it. Or just come and watch others share theirs. All you have to do is sign up at the door and if we pick your name out of our hat, come up and tell your story. It’s that easy. No notes, no rants, just tell your story like you’re telling your friends over a couple of drinks. There is a five-six minute... | Perishable Theatre | 02/04/11 | Providence |
Breathing TubePresented by Perishable Theatre at Perishable Theatre February 18, 2011 *Breathing Tube*, a night of short plays for radio from some of the areas most creative writers. The show offers traditional radio theatre as well as plays that explore the boundaries of the genre. December 17, 10pm February 18, 10pm June 17, 10pm tickets $5 Sold at the door For details go to www.perishable.org | Perishable Theatre | 02/18/11 | Providence |
A Doll's HousePresented by Gamm Theatre January 20-February 20, 2011 by Henrik Ibsen
January 20 - February 20, 2011
It’s Christmas Eve and sweet, cheery Nora Helmer, arms brimming with gifts, is reveling in her role as wife and mother …until a knock at the door threatens to destroy her doll house of a world forever. Blackmailed for a forgery she committed years ago to save her husband’s life, Nora schemes to squelch her secret and the consequences of its revelation to her husband’s burgeoning career. As matters spin out... | Gamm Theatre | 01/20/11- 02/20/11 | |
The CruciblePresented by Trinity Repertory Company at Trinity Repertory Company February 4-March 3, 2011 Fear stalks the people of Salem, Massachusetts. Is it the work of the devil? Or has hysteria, malice, and one young woman’s lust started a chain of events that will undo a whole community? Trinity boldly re-imagines this American classic. | Trinity Repertory Company | 02/04/11- 03/03/11 | Providence |
Live Bait: True Stories from Real PeoplePresented by Perishable Theatre at Perishable Theatre March 4, 2011 If you have a story that is in any way, shape, or form connected with the monthly theme, please go to www.perishable.org for theme info*, *then come on down to *LIVE BAIT* and tell it. Or just come and watch others share theirs. All you have to do is sign up at the door and if we pick your name out of our hat, come up and tell your story. It’s that easy. No notes, no rants, just tell your story like you’re telling your friends over a couple of drinks. There is a five-six minute... | Perishable Theatre | 03/04/11 | Providence |
Live Bait: True Stories from Real PeoplePresented by Perishable Theatre at Perishable Theatre April 1, 2011 If you have a story that is in any way, shape, or form connected with the monthly theme, please go to www.perishable.org for theme info*, *then come on down to *LIVE BAIT* and tell it. Or just come and watch others share theirs. All you have to do is sign up at the door and if we pick your name out of our hat, come up and tell your story. It’s that easy. No notes, no rants, just tell your story like you’re telling your friends over a couple of drinks. There is a five-six minute... | Perishable Theatre | 04/01/11 | Providence |
YellowmanPresented by Trinity Repertory Company at Trinity Repertory Company February 25-April 3, 2011 Growing up in a small South Carolina town, Eugene and Alma find friendship, solace, and even love in each other. But he is light-skinned, and she is dark. Can their love survive the weight of the world? | Trinity Repertory Company | 02/25/11- 04/03/11 | Providence |
PaulPresented by Gamm Theatre March 17-April 17, 2011 by Howard Brenton
North American Premiere
March 17 - April 17, 2011
Arab: Forgive me, brother, let’s keep our relationship strictly commercial. I hear people get killed in Judea because of religious arguments. All I want is a tent, not a new god.
The road to Damascus, A.D. 34. Saul of Tarsus has built a fierce reputation snuffing out the followers of a growing religious cult. So when its recently crucified leader, Yeshua (Jesus), appears to him in a flash of... | Gamm Theatre | 03/17/11- 04/17/11 | |
Live Bait: True Stories from Real PeoplePresented by Perishable Theatre at Perishable Theatre May 6, 2011 If you have a story that is in any way, shape, or form connected with the monthly theme, please go to www.perishable.org for theme info*, *then come on down to *LIVE BAIT* and tell it. Or just come and watch others share theirs. All you have to do is sign up at the door and if we pick your name out of our hat, come up and tell your story. It’s that easy. No notes, no rants, just tell your story like you’re telling your friends over a couple of drinks. There is a five-six minute... | Perishable Theatre | 05/06/11 | Providence |
Steel MagnoliasPresented by Trinity Repertory Company at Trinity Repertory Company April 15-May 15, 2011 On her wedding day, Shelby is a vision in pink – two lovely shades! Her mother and friends gather at Truvy’s Beauty Salon to prepare for the big day. Still, beauty, hairspray, and all the pink in the world can’t protect this young woman from what lies ahead. A classic American comedy. | Trinity Repertory Company | 04/15/11- 05/15/11 | Providence |
Blood from a TurnipPresented by Perishable Theatre at Perishable Theatre September 17, 2010-May 20, 2011 Perishable Theatre presents Blood From a Turnip Rhode Island’s oldest late night puppet salon. Every performance features soaring, inspirational, paradigm-shifting expressions of puppetry! | Perishable Theatre | 09/17/10- 05/20/11 | Providence |
Live Bait: True Stories from Real PeoplePresented by Perishable Theatre at Perishable Theatre June 3, 2011 If you have a story that is in any way, shape, or form connected with the monthly theme, please go to www.perishable.org for theme info*, *then come on down to *LIVE BAIT* and tell it. Or just come and watch others share theirs. All you have to do is sign up at the door and if we pick your name out of our hat, come up and tell your story. It’s that easy. No notes, no rants, just tell your story like you’re telling your friends over a couple of drinks. There is a five-six minute... | Perishable Theatre | 06/03/11 | Providence |
Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love ThemPresented by Gamm Theatre May 5-June 5, 2011 by Christopher Durang
New England Premiere
May 5 - June 5, 2011
FELICITY: I have a funny feeling about him. I’m afraid he might be a terrorist. Or maybe he’s in the Mafia. Or maybe he’s bipolar. Or maybe he’s a serial killer. Or maybe he’s just a drug addict and alcoholic and out of prison on parole.
MOTHER: Who are you talking about, dear?
FELICITY: My husband, my husband, my husband!
From the screwball imagination of... | Gamm Theatre | 05/05/11- 06/05/11 | |
The Completely Fictional - Utterly True - Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan PoePresented by Trinity Repertory Company at Trinity Repertory Company May 6-June 5, 2011 A world premiere work by company member Stephen Thorne, written for Trinity Rep’s nationally renowned resident acting company. Edgar Allan Poe has been missing for seven days. And that’s just the beginning of a journey that leads him to the bizarre, the macabre, and the sublime. | Trinity Repertory Company | 05/06/11- 06/05/11 | Providence |
Breathing TubePresented by Perishable Theatre at Perishable Theatre June 17, 2011 *Breathing Tube*, a night of short plays for radio from some of the areas most creative writers. The show offers traditional radio theatre as well as plays that explore the boundaries of the genre. December 17, 10pm February 18, 10pm June 17, 10pm tickets $5 Sold at the door For details go to www.perishable.org | Perishable Theatre | 06/17/11 | Providence |