Context & Conversation: Native Gardens
Radia Herbs Farm 91 Valley View, Cranston, RI, United StatesKaren Zacarías’ play Native Gardens brings big, complicated questions about belonging, biology, and borders to the familiar, homey setting of the back yard - and then makes it the comic battle ground on which her big, complicated characters struggle to resolve them. Join us for Context & Conversation to consider how we struggle with those questions in our […]
Native Gardens Ladies’ Night
Trinity Repertory Company RI, United StatesGather your girlfriends, sisters, mothers, and daughters and make a date for a night at the theater. We're opening the doors early for the smart, timely, and hilarious Native Gardens on Friday, May 4. Starting at 6:30 pm, gather for drinks and snacks in our newly-remodeled lobby. The 90-minute show begins at 7:30 pm and […]
Context & Conversation: Ragtime
Temple Beth El 70 Orchard Avenue, Providence, RI, United StatesThursday, May 10, 7 to 9pm: Context & Conversation: Ragtime This season's final Context & Conversation will look at Ragtime through the lens of the 2017-18 season's theme, "The American Dream, Then and Now," with a panel that includes artists, scholars, and community practitioners from each of our previous C&C conversations, along with Rabbi Howard Voss-Altman of Temple […]
TRAIN’s Jurassic Park(ody)
Bishop Hendricken High School Auditorium 2615 Warwick Ave., Warwick, RI, United StatesWritten and Directed by Jordan Butterfield In partnership with Seven Hills Rhode Island, Trinity Rep’s Active Imagination Network (TRAIN) presents Jurassic Park(ody), a parody! This hilarious, dinosaur-filled show can be seen on June 5, 2018 at 7:00 pm. Tickets are FREE, with a suggested donation to benefit the RI Community Food Bank. The performance will […]
Context & Conversation: Pride and Prejudice
Wage House 500 Mineral Spring Ave, Pawtucket, RI, United StatesKate Hamill's adaptation Pride & Prejudice revels in Jane Austen's brilliant wit, and reveals her talents as an armchair anthropologist, one whose characters deftly and hilariously demonstrate that while sexual attraction and emotional compatibility may be credited with initiating the course of a romance, its success or failure will likely be determined by a combination […]
The 2018 Project Discovery Gala
Trinity Repertory Company 201 Washington St., Providence, RI, United StatesCome to the Cabaret: The 2018 Project Discovery Gala, to celebrate and support education programs at Trinity Rep. Join us for great food and great fun with your favorite Trinity Rep artists. Check out our photos from last year's Project Discovery Gala below!
Context & Conversation: black odyssey / An Illiad
Sophia Academy 582 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI, United StatesDo we make our history, or does our history make us? How do we learn who and where we came from? How do we remember the stories of those who came before us? Who do we tell them to? Who do we keep them from? When do we try to forget them? What happens if we […]
Context & Conversation: Macbeth
Butler Hospital, Ray Conference Center 345 Blackstone Blvd, Providence, RI, United StatesMacbeth's bravery in battle gains him a promotion, for which he's humbly grateful. But when presented with a prophecy of himself as king, he abdicates any duty to earn the crown by valor, instead turning to deceit, betrayal, and murder to immediately gratify the fantasy of himself on the throne. His selfish, violent actions destroy everything he once fought to honor: […]
Context & Conversation: The Song of Summer “Seeing our Shadows”
Zabinski Music Studio 228 Main St, Fl 3, Pawtucket, RI, United StatesContext & Conversation is co-produced and co-presented by Trinity Repertory Company and Providence Public Library along and community partners specially chosen for each production. Most families include ghosts – of those no longer alive, but also of those dreamed of but never born, born but never acknowledged, of those gone one day without explanation. Attitudes […]
Context & Conversation: Little Shop of Horrors
The Herbarium 171 Meeting Street, Providence, RI, United StatesContext & Conversation: Human/Nature, inspired by Little Shop of Horrors Domesticated and disciplined into doing our bidding, the natural world awaits a chance to reassert its power, to overrun the man-made boundaries and borders we arrogantly thought would keep us safe. After decades of relying on antibiotics to wipe out once-fatal diseases, we now know that […]