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Trinity Rep’s poignant Clybourne Park

Walking the color line
It would take a mountain of homage to overshadow the immense chutzpah that playwright Bruce Norris required to ride on the shoulders of an American theater classic like Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In the Sun .
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | October 25, 2011

Review: Trinity Rep’s Crucible is potent

Hidden agendas
The Crucible is a profoundly moving story, especially when inhabited by the talents at Trinity Repertory Company. This is the third time the group has taken on Arthur Miller's masterwork of American theater, the last a quarter-century ago.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | February 17, 2011

Review: Trinity Rep gets to the Heart of Scrooge

The inner Ebenezer
The more things stay the same, the more they change; at least that's so regarding Trinity Repertory Company's A Christmas Carol (through December 31). Every year on Washington Street, they task themselves with resurrecting the Charles Dickens tale by breathing new life into it.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | December 01, 2010

Preview: Trinity charts Ebenezer's emotional journey

The Tao of Scrooge
There are more than 30 different productions of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol being performed at hundreds of theaters around the country, usually in clone versions as identical as re-screened films. Familiarity breeds big box office.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | November 30, 2010

Review: Trinity Rep's magical Camelot

An enchanted evening
Camelot is a hard musical not to like, even for those who don’t like to like musicals.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | September 22, 2010

Play by Play: March 5, 2010

Theater listings, March 5, 2010
Boston's weekly theater listings
By JEFFREY GANTZ | March 03, 2010

Play by play, February 26, 2010

Theater listings, week of February 26, 2010
Boston's weekly theater listings
By JEFFREY GANTZ | February 24, 2010

Play by play: February 19, 2010

Theatre listings, week of February 19, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | February 17, 2010

Play by play: February 12, 2010

Theater listings, February 12, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | February 09, 2010

Play by play: February 5, 2010

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater listings
By JEFFREY GANTZ | February 03, 2010

Play by Play: January 29, 2010

Theater listings, January 29, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 27, 2010

Christmas present

Trinity Rep’s Carol delivers the gift of joy
Christmases come and Christmases go, as psychedelic wrapping paper gives way to orderly Republican stripes, as sweet little Jimmy grows into gruff Uncle James.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | December 02, 2009

Berlin calling

A ‘very Trinity’ take on Cabaret
If you ask someone whether they've seen Cabaret , odds are the answer will be yes. Ask Curt Columbus, and the answer is likely to be: Which one? Sitting in the upstairs theater of Trinity Repertory Company, where their production runs through October 11, the artistic director rattled off a chronology as lengthy as a convoluted German sentence.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | September 15, 2009

Play by Play, May 8, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Theater around town
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 07, 2009

Play by Play: May 1, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Theater around town
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 28, 2009

Play by Play: April 24, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Theater around town
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 22, 2009

Trivial pursuit

Trinity Rep's winning Earnest
It's difficult to put on an awful performance of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest .
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | April 22, 2009

Play by play: April 17, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Theater around town
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 14, 2009

Play by Play: April 10, 2009

Plays A to Z
Plays around town
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 08, 2009

Play by play: April 3, 2009

Plays A to Z
Plays around town
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 01, 2009

In the spirit

Trinity Rep's heartening Christmas Carol
Trinity Rep's heartening Christmas Carol
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | December 10, 2008

Fightin' words

Trinity Rep’s thoroughly modern Dreams of Antigone
The trouble with Greek tragedies is that they tend to be Greek to us.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | October 02, 2008

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

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

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

Adaptation

The 39 Steps winks at the Huntington; All the King’s Men thrills at Trinity
If your inner Mr. Memory — not to mention your outer Blockbuster — is operating, you recall The 39 Steps.
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 26, 2007

Stark contrasts

Trinity Rep’s All the King’s Men is a masterpiece
The 20th anniversary production of Trinity Repertory Company’s All the King’s Men is remarkable, not simply a skillful reprise but a re-envisioning.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | September 25, 2007

Free-form fun

The Providence Improv Fest
Amazing, isn’t it? And loads of fun.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | June 19, 2007

September songs

Invincible Summer ; The Fantasticks ; I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda
“Try to remember the kind of September/When life was slow and oh, so mellow,” sings El Gallo at the top of The Fantasticks .
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 10, 2007

Ah, youth!

Trinity Rep’s spirited The Fantasticks
This imaginative and flawlessly performed staging of The Fantasticks sets off every spark in this fireworks celebration of youth.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | April 10, 2007