Trinity Rep Radio Theater: Live in Providence Encore Broadcast Set

Special taping to air January 1-3

PROVIDENCE, RI: Trinity Rep is pleased to announce the broadcast dates for its special live holiday taping of Trinity Rep Radio Theater: Live in Providence, created in partnership with WRNI, a service of Rhode Island Public Radio. Hosted by WRNI’s Morning Edition Host Bob Seay, the episode features the talents of Trinity Rep resident company actors Stephen Berenson, Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne and Rachael Warren alongside Curt Columbus. The show features “Bless Me, Father, for I Have Sinned” by Ray Bradbury, “Two of A Kind” by Sean O’Faolain, and “The H Street Sledding Record” by Ron Carlson. The show will air on WRNI 1290AM Providence and 102.7FM Narragansett in an encore presentation on Friday, January 1 at 8:00 PM; Saturday, January 2 at 1:00 PM, and Sunday, January 3 at 11:00 AM. Free podcast subscriptions are also available online at www.wrni.org.

The show was taped in front of a live audience in Trinity Rep’s Dowling Theater on November 30.

“The popularity of Trinity Rep Radio Theater is amazing to all of us involved in the show,” stated Artistic Director Curt Columbus.  “After the excitement generated by the live taping of Thornton Wilder's Theophilus North in Newport over the summer, we thought it would be a wonderful holiday gift to our fans to do another live taping – this time of some of our favorite holiday stories.  We brought the taping ‘back home’ this time, to our intimate Dowling Theater, where it warmed the hearts of long-time fans and first-time listeners.”

WRNI General Manager Joe O’Connor said Trinity Rep Radio Theater Live “resurrects radio as a dynamic medium of theatrical performance – placing the listening audience squarely in the intimacy of the moment created by master authors and playwrights.  Artistic Director Curt Columbus and his terrific troupe of actors bring the best of Rhode Island theater to the state’s only NPR station.”

Trinity Rep Radio Theater is co-produced by Trinity Rep Acting Company member Janice Duclos and Emily Atkinson, Artistic Associate for Communication.