The University of Rhode Island is known regionally and worldwide for its innovative, big ideas, adaptive intelligence and breakthrough solutions to today's puzzling problems. URI's pioneering research extends the University's influence well beyond its coastal borders, while its unique interdisciplinary courses provide its 16,637 undergraduate and graduate students with global opportunities in an intimate environment. The University of Rhode Island - a small, beautiful place with some of the biggest thinkers in the world.
(see more)The University of Rhode Island is known regionally and worldwide for its innovative, big ideas, adaptive intelligence and breakthrough solutions to today's puzzling problems. URI's pioneering research extends the University's influence well beyond its coastal borders, while its unique interdisciplinary courses provide its 16,637 undergraduate and graduate students with global opportunities in an intimate environment. The University of Rhode Island - a small, beautiful place with some of the biggest thinkers in the world.
URI students featured in production of "The School for Lies"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department announces the opening of "The School for Lies," by David Ives, adapted from Moliere's "The Misanthrope".
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2017 Feb 16
URI students featured in production of "The Great Gatsby"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department recently performed "The Great Gatsby", its final production of the 2016-2017 academic year.
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2017 May 11
URI students featured in production of "Spring Awakening"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department announces the opening of "Spring Awakening," book and lyrics by Steven Sater, music by Duncan Sheik, based on the play by Frank Wedekind.
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2016 Dec 6
URI Theatre students featured in production of "Good People"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department opened its first production of the year with "Good People" by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire.
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2016 Oct 26
URI Theatre students featured in production of "Legally Blonde"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department announces the opening of "Legally Blonde," a musical production by Heather Hach. Based on the MGM motion picture and novel by Amanda Brown, "Legally Blonde" is perfectly pink and infused with fun and frivolity.
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2016 Apr 26
URI Theatre students featured in production of "columbinus"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department continues its 2015-2016 season with "columbinus" by the United States Theatre Project. Written by Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli, with dramaturgy by Patricia Hersch, "columbinus" examines the realities of adolescent culture by exploring the events surrounding the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.
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2016 Feb 24
URI students featured in production of "In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department brought comedy to stage with its production of Sarah Ruhl's "In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play."
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2015 Nov 24
URI Theater students featured in production of "As You Like It"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department is proud to present William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy, "As You Like It."
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2015 Apr 20
URI Theatre students featured in production of "The Caucasian Chalk Circle"
The University of Rhode Island continues its 2015-2016 season with "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" by Bertolt Brecht, a version by Frank McGuinness.
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2015 Nov 24
URI Theatre students featured in production of "All My Sons"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department continues its 2014-2015 season with the play, "All My Sons," by Arthur Miller.
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2015 Feb 19
URI Theatre students featured in production of "Avenue Q"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department presents the award-winning musical, "Avenue Q." URI performers bring the cast of human and puppet characters to life in a production that's "part flesh, part felt and full of heart."
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2014 Nov 10
URI Theatre students featured in production of "Seminar"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department begins the fall semester with one very funny seminar on stage. In fact, the department will present the fresh comedy, Seminar by Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck.
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2014 Oct 8
URI Theatre students featured in production of "Chicago"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department continues its season with the world-famous musical, "Chicago." Based on the book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Ebb and the play written by Maurine Dallas Watkins, URI Professor and Theatre Department Chair Paula McGlasson will direct dozens of actors as they bring this award-winning stinging satire on corruption, crime and celebrity to the stage in Kingston this month.
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2014 Apr 15
URI Theatre students featured in production of "Crimes of the Heart"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department continues its season with the 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning hit "Crimes of the Heart" by acclaimed playwright Beth Henley. The hilariously funny, yet poignant tale of three sisters living in Mississippi, "Crimes of the Heart" lovingly investigates the sorrows and joys of what it means to leave behind a self-destructive legacy and to truly move on.
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2014 Feb 13
URI Theatre students featured in production of "How the Other Half Loves"
The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department continues its season with the hit British comedy "How the Other Half Loves" by acclaimed international playwright Alan Acykbourn. The play is a farce about the lives and loves of three couples at different stages in their marriages. Adultery, mistaken identity and mounting comic tension come together to create a crowd-pleasing and hysterical evening of top-class theatre.
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2013 Nov 20
URI Theatre students featured in recent production of "Be Aggressive"
University of Rhode Island Theatre Department opened its season with the high-spirited, yet dramatic production of "Be Aggressive" by Annie Weisman. The play tells the story of Laura, a girl whose life is upended when her mother is suddenly killed in a car accident. The tension between the superficial veneer of cheer and Laura's very real struggle to find her true self amidst the chaos of teenage life created a thrilling theatrical experience.
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2013 Oct 18
University of Rhode Island stages Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
URI Theatre students are making a big tadoo about William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. This production features several stellar graduating seniors who have dazzled audiences for most of tenure on the Kingston Campus. In fact, two of URI's top performers, Olivia Khoshatefeh and Andrew Burnap will bring the verbal sparring of the Bard's top characters to stage before they leave for their graduate studies at Brown and Yale universities respectively.
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2013 Apr 11