Reviewed by Tony Annicone Providence College’s Theatre Department’s closing show of their season at Angell’s Blackfriars Theatre is “The Moors” by Jen Silverman. This dark comedy is a satire and is set in an eerie manor in a bleak, windswept landscape; shadowy corners and surreptitious staircases; secrets, mysteries and melodramatic revelations abound. This is the gothic…
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THE JUNGLE BOOK – Footlights Junior Division
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Footlights Junior Division’s current show is “The Jungle Book”Kids, adapted by from the Disney animated film and the works of Rudyard Kipling. The theatre is turned into an incredible jungle setting with terrific animal costumes by Johnny Cagno. Banished by the ferocious tiger, Shere Khan, a human boy called a man cub, Mowgli…
12 ANGRY JURORS – The Players, Barker Playhouse
by Tony Annicone The fourth show of The Players 109th season is “Twelve Angry Jurors” by Reginald Rose, adapted by Sherman L. Sergel and directed by Patricia Hawkridge. This popular play was adapted from a live 1954 teleplay that debuted on CBS Studios’ series “Studio One in Hollywood.” In 1957, the famous Henry Fonda movie was produced…
“SOCIAL SECURITY” (Pawtucket Community Players)
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Community Players first show of their 98th season is the hilarious comedy “Social Security” by Andrew Bergman. The domestic tranquility of David and Barbara Kahn, a couple of married art dealers is shattered by Barbara’s house wife sister, Trudy and her uptight CPA husband, Martin. They arrive on the scene to leave their…
