Season will feature ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ two student-directed one-act plays, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ and ‘Ride the Cyclone’

Auditions will take place on Friday, January 24 and Saturday, January 25, 2025 in the URI Fine Arts Center, 105 Upper College Rd. All information about available roles, rehearsals, and criteria also available here.

Audrey Visscher 22′ is a double major in theatre and film/media. She was recently awarded first place at the Showcase of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Works for her presentation on her experience working as the light designer for URI’s play, Silent Sky.

The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department opens an uncertain season next month with a play about a pioneering group of women “computers” who helped scientists map the stars and night sky.

While the pandemic has dropped the curtain on theater productions from Broadway to Kingston, the URI Theatre Department has come up with a creative alternative.

For the 2020 Tony Awards, Andrew Burnap ’13 was nominated for BEST ACTOR in a leading role (play) for his role as Toby Darling in Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance. The Broadway production received 11 nominations in total, including “Best Play.”

New Assistant Professor of Theatre Technology and Design James Horban says he’s always searching for ways to integrate interactive technologies into learning environments so that his students are exposed to the most current production methods.

When our theatre season ended abruptly this semester because of the coronavirus pandemic, so too did Jeremy Chiang’s expected stage swansong. Chiang, who enjoys any excuse to sing, was to play the equally song-obsessed Prince Herbert in the season-ending musical, “Monty Python’s Spamalot.”