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 […]
Blood Drive at Trinity Rep
Trinity Repertory Company RI, United StatesWe know that with "Little Shop of Horrors," things can get, well, a bit bloody. So in order to offset the plant's insatiable hunger for blood - we are going to be hosting a community blood drive with the Rhode Island Blood Center. Check out the details in the image, and get ready to help […]
Write Here! Write Now!
Trinity Repertory Company , United StatesThe festival portion of Write Here! Write Now! strives to honor the student writers' texts while offering the playwrights the chance to see their work alive on stage for the first time. Each year, in an evening performance, the winning scripts receive staged readings on our main stage, directed by Trinity Rep staff and performed […]
Context & Conversation: Marisol
Mathewson St. Church and 134 Collaborative 134 Mathewson Street, Providence, RI, United StatesCivilization is a set of orders that runs so automatically that we don't notice it until it breaks down. Then, we have to acquaint ourselves with the decisions behind the orders, with even the idea that decisions were ever made at all - and who made them? Did God make all this? Might there, in […]
TRAIN’s The BFGs
Trinity Repertory Company , United StatesIn partnership with Seven Hills Rhode Island, Trinity Rep’s Active Imagination Network (TRAIN) presents The BFGs. In partnership with a variety of service organizations throughout Rhode Island, we offer engaging and high-spirited curriculum, which includes acting and improvisation, in order to give children and adults with autism, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities the tools they need to learn, […]
Book Club for “The Prince of Providence”
Symposium Books 240 Westminster Street, Providence, RI, United StatesJoin us September 26, 2019 from 7:00 - 8:00 pm for our first ever Book Club! Held at Symposium Books in downtown Providence, we'll be discussing Mike Stanton's The Prince of Providence. Books are available for purchase at Symposium Books.
Context & Conversation: The Prince of Providence (Co-Presented with Providence Public Library)
Providence City Hall 25 Dorrance Street, Providence, RI, United StatesContext & Conversation: “The Local Story” Community Partner: The City of Providence Inspired by George Brant's The Prince of Providence, based on the book by Mike Stanton You do not need to have seen the play to participate in the event - free and open to the public. Register for this event here. For more information […]
Lunch & Learn with “A Christmas Carol”
Trinity Repertory Company , United StatesBring your lunch behind-the-scenes of Trinity Rep’s beloved annual holiday tradition, A Christmas Carol, on Friday, November 15, 2019, from 12:00 - 1:00 pm in the Chace Theater! We’ll let you in on the secrets of the stage; how the actors, directors, designers, and technicians collaborate to leave the audience wondering, “How did they DO […]