Just last month Newport’s Island Moving Company presented some fine dancing by choreographers from Italy and Puerto Rico. Now, for the next two weekends, Providence’s Festival Ballet will show works by dance makers from Europe and America. Our performing arts critic Bill Gale caught a rehearsal for The Public’s Radio, and liked what he’s seen.
Bill Gale
Bill Gale has had a widely varied career (including a stint as an air traffic controller) before dedicating himself to The Providence Journal for 35 years — 25 of those as the Journal's theater and dance critic. He is the former executive committee chair of the Foundation of the American Theater Critics Association and currently serves on their board.Gale has received a variety of awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New England Theatre Conference. He has taught at Rhode Island College and Roger Williams University, and is currently an Admiral at Hope High School. He is married to clinical social worker Peggy Gale and is the father of two children. And he loves working in radio.
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Newport’s Island Moving Company Dances From Italy To Puerto Rico
Rhode Island-based Island Moving Company premieres new dances from choreographers in Italy and Newport, plus a new work from Puerto Rico.
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Theatre Review: The Gamm Theater Opens Season With “The Night Of The Iguana”
The Gamm Theatre, now in Warwick, has chosen Tennessee Williams’ final hit show, “The Night of the Iguana” to begin its new season. For The Public’s Radio theater critic Bill Gale says there’s lots to like in a tough-to-do play.
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Theater Review: Trinity Rep’s ‘Pride And Prejudice’ Isn’t Your Grandmother’s Jane Austen
Trinity Rep opens its theater season with a rollicking, all out version of “Pride and Prejudice.” The Public Radio’s Bill Gale says once you get by all the wacko stuff, you just might go for this all-out production.
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Theater Review: 90’s Play ‘How I Learned To Drive’ Reaches Into Current Headlines
Back in the late 1990s Brown University professor Paula Vogel won a Pulitzer Prize for her play “How I Learned to Drive,” a startling work about guilt, need and levels of responsibility. Now Providence’s Wilbury Group has brought the play back. Rhode Island Public Radio’s Bill Gale says its more vibrant, and necessary, than ever.
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Theater Review: 90’s Play ‘How I Learned To Drive’ Reaches Into Current Headlines
Back in the late 1990s Brown University professor Paula Vogel won a Pulitzer Prize for her play “How I Learned to Drive,” a startling work about guilt, need and levels of responsibility. Now Providence’s Wilbury Group has brought the play back. Rhode Island Public Radio’s Bill Gale says its more vibrant, and necessary, than ever.
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Theater Review: ‘Chicago,’ The Longest Running American Musical
Theatre By The Sea in Matunuck is closing its summer theater season with “Chicago,” the longest-running American musical ever to hit Broadway. Rhode…
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Commentary: A Farewell To Warren’s 2nd Story Theatre
Rhode Island Public Radio’s Bill Gale generally goes to see a play in its early days, but this time he’s reviewed the last performance of a show at 2nd…
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Theater Review: Pirates Of Penzance, A New Spin On An Old Warhorse
“The Pirates of Penzance,” that 19th Century view of a Great Britain long gone, is rarely seen these days. But the Wilbury Theater Group has revived it.
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Theater Review: Trinity Rep’s “Ragtime” A Look At America And Its Troubles
Trinity Rep is closing it’s season with the huge musical, “Ragtime,” a story of rising and falling, and rising again. Rhode Island Public Radio’s Bill…
