Upcoming “Literary Soulmates” episode to air May 4-6 on 1290 WRNI

Trinity Rep is pleased to announce the newest installment of their radio show

- Trinity Rep Radio Theater, created in partnership with WRNI, Rhode Island’s

NPR News Station. The May edition of the program will air the weekend of May

6-8 and will be the last new program of the season, with encore presentations

set to air during the summer months. Hosted by WRNI’s Morning Edition Host

Bob Seay, the monthly show features performances by Trinity Rep artists,

recorded live at WRNI studios in Providence. The show will broadcast on 1290

WRNI Friday, May 4 at 8:00pm, Saturday, May 5 at 1:00pm and Sunday, May 6 at

11:00am. For more information, and to download a podcast of Trinity Rep Radio

The May episode features the talents of Curt Columbus and company members

Janice Duclos, Barbara Meek, and Fred Sullivan, Jr. The program compliments

Trinity Rep’s current production of Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House, by

featuring performance and discussion of the work and letters of “Literary

Soulmates” Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning and Anton Chekhov & Olga

Knipper. The program is made possible in part by a grant from the ADDD Fund

at The Rhode Island Foundation, and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s

support of Trinity Rep’s resident acting company.

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 52 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 22,000 Rhode Island and

Massachusetts students a year to live theater. For more information, call the

box office at (401) 351-4242 or visit Trinity Rep’s website at

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England as a primary source of thorough, intelligent coverage of local,

national and international news. In 1998, WBUR, Boston’s NPR radio station,

brought public radio news to Rhode Island for the first time by coordinating

the acquisition of WRNI(1290 AM) in Providence. On May 1, 1998, WRNI began

serving eastern Rhode Island and neighboring communities with a full service

of international, national and local news programming. WRNI-AM won the

prestigious regional “News Station of the Year” award from the Associated

Press in 2003 and 2004. Its sister station, WXNI, 1230 AM in Westerly, was

acquired in 1999. Combined, the station serves Greater Providence, Fall

River, Narragansett Bay, southwestern Rhode Island and southeastern

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locally produced programs such as “Here & Now,” “On Point,” “Only a Game,”

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