New installment, Tales from the Dark Side, to air October 3-5

Trinity Rep will continue its third season of Trinity Rep Radio Theater, created in partnership with WRNI, a service of Rhode Island Public Radio. Hosted by WRNI’s Morning Edition Host Bob Seay, the next installment of the show is entitled Tales from the Dark Side, and will air the weekend of October 3-5, 2008.

The October episode features the talents of resident company actors Janice Duclos, Mauro Hantman, Fred Sullivan Jr., and Rachael Warren. The actors will be reading from The Landlady by Roald Dahl (a young man finds a safe place to stay in the big city – or does he?); Wet Saturday by John Collier (Will this English family get away with murder?); and The Tell Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe (murder and madness from the master of the macabre).

WRNI General Manager Joe O’Connor praised Trinity Rep Radio Theater as “a magical hour that feels timeless, with performances that entertain and illuminate.” O’Connor says the show is “a smoothly intertwined mix of conversation and context resulting in remarkable storytelling – as if you had the finest actors and their director around your kitchen table.”

October’s installment of Trinity Rep Radio Theater will broadcast on WRNI 1290AM Providence, 1230AM Westerly, and 102.7FM Narragansett on Friday, October 3 at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, October 4 at 1:00 p.m.; and Sunday, October 5 at 11:00 a.m. Free podcast subscriptions are also available online at www.wrni.org.

Trinity Rep Radio Theater is made possible in part by generous support from the Carter Family Charitable Trust. The program is co-produced by Trinity Rep Acting Company member Janice Duclos and Emily Atkinson, Artistic Associate for Communication.

TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY
Since its founding in 1963, Trinity Repertory Company has been one of the most respected regional theaters in the country. Featuring the last permanent resident acting company in America, Trinity Rep presents a balance of world premiere, contemporary, and classic works for an estimated annual audience of nearly 160,000. In its 44-year history, the theater has produced 54 world premieres, mounted national and international tours, and, through its graduate-level theater arts conservatory, trained hundreds of new actors and directors. This season marks the 42nd year of Project Discovery, Trinity Rep's pioneering educational outreach program. Launched in 1966, the program introduces over 20,000 Rhode Island and Massachusetts students a year to live theater. The Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium offers professional training for actors and directors in a three-year MFA program. Trinity Rep's 45th season presents six subscription productions and an annual production of A Christmas Carol. The 2008-2009 Season includes The Dreams of Antigone by Curt Columbus, The Receptionist by Adam Bock, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, The Secret Rapture by David Hare, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde and Shapeshifter by Laura Schellhardt. For more information, call the box office at (401) 351-4242 or visit Trinity Rep's website at www.trinityrep.com.

ABOUT WRNI
WRNI, broadcasting on 1290AM in Providence and 102.7FM in Southern Rhode Island, is Rhode Island's only NPR News station operated by Rhode Island Public Radio. In addition to providing NPR and BBC programming, WRNI's award-winning news team produces local segments including the "Political Roundtable," "This I Believe-Rhode Island," and "Rhode Island Artscape.

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