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![[CREDIT: Joe Siegel] From left, Tony Estrealla and Oliver Dow, managing director, in the 1245 Jefferson Blvd. theater space, soon the new home of The Gamm Theater.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Gamm-renovations-stage-2-2018-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
Warwick – The Gamm Theatre is set to open Oct. 11 in its new location at 1245 Jefferson Blvd., formerly Ocean State Theater, bringing five professional productions of plays exploring […]
Editor’s note: Andrew Cohen, a member of the board of directors of Ocean State Theatre, hosted editor and WarwickPost.com owner Rob Borkowski and WarwickPost.com writers at several opening night plays at […]
Ocean State Theatre Company’s financial ills remain a specter for one board member, who warns meager community and state support threaten the Gamm’s future there next season, but the successor theater’s leadership is confident their community following will lead them to success.
Theatre By The Sea (TBTS) is accepting tickets for cancelled Ocean State Theatre Company performances in exchange for seats at select performances of their current production of “The Music Man.”
If you were caught with unused tickets by the sudden shuttering of Ocean State Theatre on Jefferson Boulevard last month, Stadium Theater in Woonsocket has got your back -the northern RI venue will accept tickets for cancelled OSTC performances.
Ocean State Theatre’s inspired ensemble performances, masterful musicals, after-hours shows and summer programs at its Jefferson Boulevard location are no more, the non-profit announced Tuesday night, citing failed efforts to renegotiate their lease.
Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC) continues its Piano Bar Series, which will be held following select Friday and Saturday evening performances of the company’s current production of the charming, provocative, hilarious musical, “Victor/Victoria”, starting May 5.
Ocean State Theater Company closes the season with an entertaining production of the gender-bending musical comedy “Victor/Victoria,” featuring quick pacing and memorable performances.
Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC), presents the provocative, hilarious musical, Victor/Victoria, which will run at the venue from April 26 – May 21.
![[CREDIT: Mark Turek] From left, Tom Gleadow, Mark Cartier and Brandon Whitehead star as Henry Drummond, Judge Merle Coffey and Matthew Harrison Brady in "Inherit the Wind," at Ocean State Theatre in Warwick through April 16.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Inherit-the-Wind-1-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
A quiet, studious audience attended Ocean State Theatre’s April 2 production of “Inherit the Wind,” a fictionalized account of a historic debate between religious fundamentalism and free thought.
Ocean State Theatre’s production of Inherit the Wind, which runs at Ocean State Theatre through April 16, opens tonight, bringing the thrilling courtroom drama fictionalizing the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial,” pitting belief against science, to the Jefferson Boulevard theater.
WARWICK, RI — Ocean State Theatre OSTC’s Little Women The Musical, now playing at Ocean State Theater Company, has more depth than the average musical and also has a lot of heart.
WARWICK, RI – Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC) presents the heartwarming, family-friendly, Little Women: The Musical, starring starting previews today and Thursday, running through March 19.
WARWICK, RI – Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC), has nnounced casting for its production of Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, which will run at Ocean State Theatre from March 29 – April 16.
WARWICK, RI — The theme and story of Ocean State Theatre’s masterfully executed ‘Born Yesterday,’ about an uncouth crook seeking Washington DC influence in the company of an under-estimated showgirl, references contemporary political themes so aptly you might think the 1946 play was penned within the last few months, or adapted for the times with fresh dialogue.
WARWICK, RI — Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC) will present Garson Kanin’s witty political comedy, Born Yesterday, a classic Pygmalion story of a not-so-dumb blonde and a not-so-honest businessman, from Jan. 25 – Feb. 12.
WARWICK, RI – Ocean State Theatre Company’s Producing Artistic Director,Amiee Turner, who won rave reviews for her portrayal of Mama Rose in Gypsy(2015) and last year’s concert event Once in Love, with Amiee, will take the stage in a brand new concert entitled, , on Saturday, February 18 at 7:30 pm.
WARWICK, RI – Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC), continues their post-performance Piano Bar Series, “Tis the Season,” held after select Friday and Saturday evening performances of the company’s current production of “White Christmas”. The theatre’s […]
Before Ocean State Theatre moved to Warwick on Jefferson Boulevard, artistic director Aimee Turner set her sights on “White Christmas,” and vied for rights to the show for four years before landing it for their 36th production — a well-performed dose of holiday cheer and songs marshaled to save a flagging Vermont inn — with a lot of heart, a surprise flip, and a nod to local Rhode Islanders.
Ocean State Theatre Company will present Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, the family-friendly, holiday musical, Nov. 30– Dec. 24, with a cast and crew comprised of new and familiar faces in time for the holidays.
WARWICK, RI – Ocean State Theatre Company’s production of “Doubt: A Parable,” rings familiar for members of the Catholic church, and those following its recent scandals vicariously, but the setting is the […]
Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC) presents the Regional Professional Premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable, pitting a school principal against a charismatic priest suspected of inappropriate behavior.
Ocean State Theatre Company has announced the appearance of the Airborne Jugglers as part of OSTC’s 2016-17 Family Fun Fest, brining their gravity defying and imaginative juggling act to Ocean State Theatre for one performance only on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016 at 11 am.
The kid can dance — with a seventh-grader’s energy harnessed by gymnastic skill and the talent you’d expect from Junior Mr. Dance of California — Matthew Dean deftly dims the full force of his considerable ability under the the cloak of the title role namesake’s ignorance of and inexperience with dancing in Ocean State Theatre’s ‘Billy Elliot’, and the ultimate reveal is well worth the price of admission.
WARWICK, RI – Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC), which recently opened its fifth season in its comfortable stadium-style theatre in Warwick, is proud to announce the kick off of this […]
Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC), opens their fifth season with “Billy Elliot: The Musical,” directed by Producing Artistic Director Amiee Turner, in her 20th production for the company.
Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC), opening its fifth season, later this month, is one of five small businesses to have won Staples’ Make More Happen Contest, securing a 45-second professionally produced spotlight video for the win.
Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC), has announced the schedule for its 2016-17 Cabaret Club, hosted by Rhode Island’s Ida Zecco in the venue’s lobby, featuring live accompaniment and an open mic segment.
A recent college grad moves into a New York apartment way out on “Avenue Q,” discovering the place is no ordinary neighborhood as he and his friends struggle for jobs, dates, and the ever-elusive purpose in life in Ocean State Theatre’s next show, part flesh, part felt, and packed with humor, running Aug. 3 – 21.
Ocean State Theatre is offering the public original pieces of the stage from the Warwick Musical Theatre as well as DVD copies of “The Tent: Life in the Round,” donated by Larry Bonoff , to be used to raise funding for the non-profit.
Ocean State Theatre’s latest ensemble delivered a poignant, wistful tale of escapism versus love on opening night for ‘Damned Yankees’ July 8, shining through a few minor missteps with impressive finesse.
Ocean State Theatre Company (OSTC) is excited to announce a second “Take a Seat Challenge!” once again asking participants to “purchase” the seat of their choice for $500, which will then be matched by an anonymous donor.
Ocean State Theatre Company announces Open Equity and Non-Equity Adult Auditions for its 2015-16 Season at its 1245 Jefferson Boulevard Monday, Aug. 10, Tuesday, Aug. 11 and Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015.
The Tony Award winning musical, Anything Goes, currently on stage at the Ocean State Theatre in Warwick, takes place aboard the SS America, sailing from New York to England in the 1930s, but it’s the audience that’s in for a ride.
“Everything has a name!”
The telling exclamation of Annie Sullivan, played by Boston actress Brittany Rolfs, repeats again and again to young Helen Keller, played by Laurel McMahon, in Ocean State Theatre’s current production, “The Miracle Worker.”
Ocean State Theatre Company will present William Gibson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “The Miracle Worker”, the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, Helen Keller, March 30 – April 17, with a Warwick actress playing Keller’s role.
Ocean State Theatre Company’s latest ensemble will tell the story of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Henry Lee and Thomas Jefferson as they attempt to convince the members of the second Continental Congress to vote for independence by signing the Declaration of Independence.
Warwick, RI — Ocean State Theatre takes a successful, uproarious ‘whack’ at Italian stereotypes and crime family tropes in their production of Tom Dulac’s “Breaking Legs,” about a frustrated playwright […]
Aimee Turner, Ocean State Theater Company’s producing artistic director, takes a musical look at the many parts of the love throughout a lifetime; romantic, thoughtful, uplifting and resourceful, in the Valentines Day concert, ‘Once in Love, with Amiee: Puppy Love, Heartbreak and Ever After’.
Ocean State Theatre Company has expanded to offer February and April school vacation theater camps this year, led by their new educational and outreach director.
