TUNE IN TO THE TRINITY REP RADIO THEATER
New installment of radio show to air November 3rd-5th on 1290 WRNI
Trinity Rep is pleased to announce the November installment of their new
radio show – Trinity Rep Radio Theater, created in partnership with WRNI,
Rhode Island’s NPR News Station. This new one hour program will air monthly
and feature performances by Trinity Rep artists, recorded live at WRNI
studios in Providence. Hosted by WRNI’s Morning Edition Host Bob Seay, the
show will air weekend of November 3rd-5th on 1290 WRNI.
The November episode features the talents of Curt Columbus and company
members William Damkoehler, Janice Duclos, Mauro Hantman and Anne Scurria.
Taking their cue from Trinity Rep’s production of A Christmas Carol, the
program features performance and discussion of the work of Charles Dickens.
The show will feature excerpts from Hard Times, The Pickwick Papers, American
Notes, Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend. November’s installment will
broadcast on 1290 WRNI Friday, November 3rd at 8:00pm, Saturday, November 4th
at 1:00pm and Sunday, November 5th at 11:00am. For more information, and to
download a podcast of Trinity Rep Radio Theater, please visit their website
at http://www.wrni.org/ . Trinity Rep Radio Theater is the brainchild of Trinity Rep Artistic Director
Curt Columbus, who explains “I approached WRNI General Manager Joe O’Connor
almost as soon as he arrived in Providence with this idea of partnering to
create some lively & theatrical new programming for the area. It’s a perfect
combination – the abundance of talented artists that we have at the theater
with the existing quality of this NPR station and its programming – it’s a
marriage made in heaven.”
WRNI GM Joe O’Connor couldn’t agree more: “Trinity Rep Radio Theater
resurrects radio as a dynamic medium for theatrical performance, placing the
listener squarely in the intimacy of the moment. I can’t thank Curt enough
for bringing the best of Rhode Island theater to the state’s only NPR station
and look forward to a long run of monthly installments.”
The planned schedule for December includes holiday-themed stories from
Charles Dickens to air the weekend of December 1-3 and work from Irish
playwrights & poets in December to complement Trinity Rep’s production of
Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson set to air December 29-31.
Since its founding in 1964, Trinity Repertory Company has been one of the
most respected regional theaters in the country. Featuring an acclaimed
resident acting company, Trinity Rep presents a balance of world premiere,
contemporary, and classic works, including six subscription productions, an
annual production of A Christmas Carol, for an estimated annual audience of
nearly 160,000. In its 42-year history, the theater has presented 54 world
premieres, mounted national and international tours, and, through its
graduate-level theater arts conservatory, trained hundreds of new actors and
directors. Project Discovery, Trinity Rep’s pioneering educational outreach
program launched in 1966, introduces over 30,000 Rhode Island and
Massachusetts students a year to live theater. Trinity Rep’s 43rd season
includes Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, translated and directed by Curt
Columbus; A Christmas Carol, by Adrian Hall and Richard Cumming; Dublin Carol
by Conor McPherson; Our Town by Thornton Wilder; A Delicate Balance by Edward
Albee; The Fantasticks with music by Harvey Schmidt, book and lyrics by Tom
Jones and The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl. For more information, call the box
office at (401) 351-4242 or visit Trinity Rep’s website at http://www.trinityrep.com
