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Books about Dads: Picture Books
Availability: On Our Shelves Now (Subject to Availability) A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo. When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her.
Storystorm 2023 Day 30: Corey Finkle Believes in “Luck”
by Corey Finkle I wrote my first PB manuscript in 1999, and got my first publishing deal a mere twenty years later. I spent those two decades writing, attending critique groups, going to conferences, the whole shebang. And every time I interacted with a published author, I looked on them with a kind of awe. Somehow, these people were able to rise above it all. Were they better than I was, or did they know a secret to getting published that I hadn’t figured out yet?
There’s No Such Thing as Failure by Corey Finkle (plus a giveaway)
by Corey Finkle Last month, I became a published author, a little over 20 years after I wrote my first manuscript.
The Gamm’s JQA Provides Hope in Tumultuous Times
Normand Beauregard as Henry Clay, Jonathan Higginbotham as John Quincy Adams; Photo Credit: Peter Goldberg No matter what side of the political aisle you prefer, I think everyone would agree that we’re living through a truly astonishing moment right now.
Granite’s La Mancha - An Outpouring of Community
Community theater truly is an animal entirely unto itself. Each show is the result of a handful of passionate and dedicated amateurs giving their spare time and energy – over and above the hours they put into work and family – to mount a production for their friends, family and members of their town and surrounding area. For the most part, they don’t do it for money (at least, they didn’t in any production I was ever a part of), but rather for a love of storytelling and performance.
The Players at Barker Have it and Flaunt it with a Pleasing Producers
Cast of The Producers; Photo credit: Samantha Gaus In a note that’s found in the program for The Players’ new production of The Producers, director Christopher Margadonna expresses some hesitation about mounting this production in our current political climate. “Will the jokes land? Will people think this is too offensive?” he wonders. I found myself thinking a similar thing as I took my seat.
Good Game Grill Brings Board Game Fun to the Masses
As much as I love board games, I also appreciate how difficult it can be for someone to get started playing them. There are tens of thousands of titles out there, ranging in price from around $20 all the way up to $100 or more. So with a limited budget and nearly unlimited choice, how is someone supposed to figure out what games they love? Obviously, you can start at a friend’s game night, and some libraries and game stores have tournaments you can attend.
Don’t Hate the Player: Board games to play with the people you love
As an avid gamer, there is nothing I love more than introducing friends to the world of board games. For those of you who can only picture Monopoly or Dungeons and Dragons, there is an entire universe of board games in between those two extremes, with all different themes and requiring all different skill levels, that can take anywhere from five minutes (literally) to several hours to play. I have literally never attended or hosted a game night that wasn’t a success.
Saturday Night Fever at TBTS Discos into Hearts
When it comes to theater, nostalgia is a hit-or-miss proposition. It’s a great way to get people into seats, but once they are there, your challenge is in some ways twice as daunting. Not only do you have to work to put on a great production in its own right, but you also have to compete with the good memories and happy feelings that your audience might have with the source material.
Wilbury Theatre’s Festival of New Works
Rhode Island provides audiences with hundreds of opportunities each year to see live theater being performed. However, it is far rarer to be able to see it being created in front of your eyes. This weekend, The Wilbury Theatre Group is offering just such a glimpse with their annual Festival of New Works. Throughout the year, Wilbury hosts a new works program called Studio W, which produces workshops and staged readings of works in progress.
Trinity's Little Shop of Horrors Offers Fans a Lot of Fun ... and a Few Missteps
Rebecca Gibel as Audrey with Ted Chylack as the plant puppeteer. Photos credit: Mark Turek. For my money, and for as silly and irreverent as it truly is, there is almost no musical more difficult to pull off well than Little Shop of Horrors. Equal parts comedy and tragedy, camp and melodrama, it straddles so many lines that it’s nearly impossible to hit the right balance. Play it too hard for laughs, and it won’t be funny. Work too hard to enhance the horror, and it won’t be fun.
› Providence, Rhode Island › Motif Magazine
When you picture going to the theater, in your mind … what do you see? Some people might imagine a traditional Broadway experience, with huge casts performing on an elevated stage in the front of the room, surrounded by elaborate sets, lights and costumes. Others might picture a more Bohemian scene, with a tiny cast tackling difficult issues in a very theatrical way, in a small black room with a smaller audience and no bells and whistles.
The Mousetrap Is Familiar, but Academy Keeps it Fresh
While watching the Academy Players’ current production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap this week, it occurred to me that one of the starkest ironies in pop culture is that the most famous pieces tend to suffer over time from their own success. When a truly groundbreaking play, movie, TV show or even book gets released, it can set the world on fire and might even transform the medium.
CTC’s Whodunit?: An Experience Like No Other
Jan 29, 2019 › Categories: Theater Photo credit: Seth Jacobson Photography When attending a play, especially one from such a well-defined genre as murder-mystery, there are certain expectations you can reliably count on – well-defined characters, an intricately woven plot, gradually revealed secrets and lies, and a twist ending you never saw coming. You are likely to find none of these things in Contemporary Theater Company’s most recent production of Whodunit? An Improvised Murder Mystery.
Granite’s Annie Adopts Stellar Performers
There’s an old adage in show business that says you should never work with children or animals. That fact alone should strike fear into any theater company attempting to perform Annie, since it heavily features both. So, when a local company like Granite Theatre in Westerly decides to mount it for their holiday show, they get a huge nod of admiration from me, even if the results are somewhat mixed.
Bristol Theatre’s Tommy Is a Champ
As anyone who attends plays regularly knows, community theater is the biggest of crapshoots. Due to the limitations of space, resources, money, manpower and talent base, each production has a host of hurdles to overcome before it gets to opening night. Because of this, I typically expect certain things when I attend community theater: small casts a wide range of experience, traditional sets and basic direction, to name a few.
Universally Acknowledged: Trinity’s multilayered Pride & Prejudice is thought-provoking and delightful
One day in high school, I sat in an assembly where some earnest actors tried to show us how “edgy” Shakespeare was. I remember thinking the whole thing was pointless, since by then, we all knew that Shakespeare was filled with sex, violence and murder. The REAL challenge – or so I thought – would be to find a way to get us to enjoy the more delicate and slower-moving prose of authors like Emily Bronte and Jane Austen.
RISE’s And Then There Were None Is a Thrill-Ride
There is something uniquely demanding in staging a production of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. As one of the most well-known murder mysteries of all time, your production must be clear enough for newcomers to follow, and yet still refreshing to those who know it already. This is the exact challenge undertaken by The RISE Playhouse in Woonsocket with their production of And Then There Were None.
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