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Just another Night

The songs are the draw in Trinity’s Paris
Paris by Night , the musical play — as opposed to a straight musical, if you’ll pardon the expression — is a pleasant enough excursion.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  May 07, 2008
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Learning curves

  SpeakEasy’s The History Boys; Trinity’s Paris by Night
From Mr. Chips to Miss Jean Brodie, charismatic teachers have been the stuff of drama.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 08, 2008
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Love stories

Columbus gets to the heart of Paris by Night
“Maybe straight America — or American musical theater — is not ready for it yet. But the music rocks.”
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  April 30, 2008
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Ghost story

Trinity’s gleeful Blithe Spirit
Audiences just wanna have fun. Sometimes.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  April 08, 2008
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It's out of this world

The ART hosts Elections & Erections; Trinity does Blithe Spirit
Uys’s new show takes its title from two things that were illegal when the now-63-year-old gay white man was growing up in South Africa: democracy and sex.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 08, 2008
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Bottled-spider web

Trinity’s Richard III; plus Shakespeare’s Actresses in America
Richard III  is a thing of additions and subtractions.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 05, 2008
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The best of times

Local notables share their favorite holiday traditions
Holidays and their attendant celebrations foster memories — of all kinds, to be sure — but it’s the good ones we strive to re-create.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ  |  December 14, 2007
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Clan bake

Trinity looks inside Memory House
Memory Lane is a blocked road for high-school senior Katia, who’s asked to pound on the barricade for a college-application essay that must be postmarked by midnight tonight, New Year’s Eve.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 12, 2007

Heart to heart

Trinity Rep’s hurtful, humorous Memory House
It’s a wonder, Gilmore Girls notwithstanding, that our species keeps producing mothers willing to produce daughters.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  November 27, 2007
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Old meets new

Trinity Rep preps its 31st Christmas Carol
At regional theaters around the country, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol , that cash cow successfully mated with a golden goose, might as well be called Déjà Vu .
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  November 20, 2007

New thoughts

Brown/Trinity Rep's summer fare
It’s summertime and the thoughts of even serious theatergoers turn from Proust to light beach reading.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  July 10, 2007
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The mind’s eye

Trinity gets dramatic on WRNI
Several Trinity Repertory Company actors sit before microphones in a WRNI studio.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  April 03, 2007
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A universal tale

Trinity breathes new life into The Fantasticks
Success has earned The Fantasticks a bad rap.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  March 27, 2007

Bittersweet dreams

Brown’s delightful Merrily We Roll Along
The ironically sunny payoff of youthful optimism that caps Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along makes it the perfect musical for a college show.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  March 14, 2007
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Worthy words

The Rhode Island Writers’ Circle Anthology
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life,” an observant novelist once noted.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  February 20, 2007
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Best on the boards

 Certainly Nicholas Martin will leave the Huntington a livelier place than when he took over.
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 20, 2007
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Home fires

The Cherry Orchard; Brontë; Sailing Down the Amazon and Haiku
There’s not a samovar in sight, and American playwright Richard Nelson has sharpened and pared down the script.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  January 17, 2007
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Encore!

A year in Providence theater
Oh, what a jaded bunch of seat-warmers we can become, those of us who see a lot of theater — good theater, that is. But now and then we encounter a production or a performance that reminds us of what we knew all along.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  December 20, 2006
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Best on the boards

A year in theater
Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin recently announced that he would leave his post in 2008.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 19, 2006
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Regrets/Rockettes

  Dublin Carol ; The Radio City Christmas Spectacular
Scrooge is inclined to blame a mean night before Christmas on a badly digested bit of beef or a blob of mustard.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 12, 2006

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