News Analysis: Why Are Rolling Papers Taxed As Cigarettes?
Rhode Island is unusual among the states for a tax policy that treats rolling papers as equivalent to cigarettes, such that a package of 20 sheets of rolling paper is […]
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The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus: More Dinosaur than Elephant
Before the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus shuts down forever after nearly a century, their second-to-last shows will be at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, May 4-7. […]
Cannabis Recipes: Motif’s Greatest Hits
Important: Remember that items made with cannabis may be illegal in your jurisdiction unless you have proper medical certification, and must always be kept strictly away from children and pets. […]
Lend Me a Tenor: La prima donna è mobile
Nominated for nine Tony Awards and winning two, Lend Me a Tenor by playwright Ken Ludwig is an unambitious and ridiculous farce that depends upon numerous perfect coincidences and character […]
Inherit the Wind: Pro Hac Vice
Inherit the Wind is one of the great plays of the past century and Ocean State Theatre Company does it due justice as a masterpiece, originally produced in 1955 at […]
Tom Foolery: Pretty Much What It Says on the Rickety-Tickety-Tin
If you know the music of Tom Lehrer, underground satirist of the 1950s and counter-cultural television star of the 1960s, Tom Foolery is a revue that will trigger waves of […]
Bogart and Bacall – Goodbye and Hurry Back: Missed Opportunity
The latest in a series of biography plays written by Leonard Schwartz, Goodbye and Hurry Back is about the romance between Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall that began in 1944 […]
Government Funding of the Arts Rumored in Peril
Three federal government agencies have been targets in the culture wars for decades: the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Corporation […]
Around the World in 80 Days: If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Woonsocket
Around the World in 80 Days is a stage version of what is very likely the most popular novel by Jules Verne, the prolific 19th century grandfather of technological fiction, by […]
Murder at the Howard Johnson’s: Funny Like Jimmy Carter
Murder at the Howard Johnson’s tries to be a nostalgic look back to the late 1970s when leisure suits, the sexual revolution and proto-New Age gurus were the thing, but as […]