2024-2025 Season
Fall 2024 Productions
Machinal
By Sophie Treadwell
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October 10-12 & 17-19, 2024, at 7:30pm
October 13 & 20, 2024, at 2pm
J- Studio, URI Fine Arts Center
Machinal is a 1928 play by American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell. The play is inspired by the real-life case of convicted and executed murderer, Ruth Snyder. Its Broadway premiere, directed by Arthur Hopkins, is considered one of the high points of Expressionist theatre in the history of the American stage.
Peter and the Starcatcher
By Rick Elice
Based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Music by Wayne Barker
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November 21 – 23 & December 5 – 7, 2024, at 7:30pm
November 24 & December 8, 2024, at 2pm
J Studio, URI Fine Arts Center
Peter And The Starcatcher is the Tony Award-winning play with music upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan became Peter Pan. Adapted from the novels by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, playwright Rick Elice playfully delivers marauding pirates, jungle tyrants, and unlikely heroes and comrades. In the end, Peter comes to understand the important and lasting bonds of friendship, duty, and love.
Spring 2025 Productions
Bakkhai
By Euripides
Translated by Anne Carson
February 27 – March 1, 2025, at 7:30pm
March 2, 2025, at 2pm
J Studio, URI Fine Arts Center
A stunning, new translation of Euripides’ play by poet and classicist Anne Carson. Carson writes, “Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended convention and outraged conservative critics. Bakkhai is his most subversive play, telling the story of a man who cannot admit he would rather live in the skin of a woman, and a god who seems to combine all sexualities into a single ruinous demand for adoration.”
Guys and Dolls
Music & Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Book by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling
April 17-19 and 23-26, 2025, at 7:30pm
April 27, 2025, at 2pm
Robert E. Will Theatre, URI Fine Arts Center
Hailed as the perfect musical comedy, this award-winning classic gambles with luck and love under the bright lights of Broadway. “Count me squarely in the Guys and Dolls camp. If there’s a flaw to be found in the 1950 ‘musical fable of Broadway,’ based on characters created by journalist/short story writer Damon Runyon, it’s not in Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows’ drum-tight book. And it’s certainly not in Frank Loesser’s honey of a score.” – New York Stage Review
Past Productions
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