Trinity Rep is currently in its fourth season of the popular radio show - Trinity Rep Radio Theater, created in partnership with WRNI, Rhode Island's only independent NPR News station. This unique one hour program airs monthly and features performances by Trinity Rep artists, recorded live at WRNI studios in Providence. Hosted by WRNI's Morning Edition Host Bob Seay, August's episode will be an encore presentation of James Thurber's Comedy. Trinity Repertory Company members Timothy Crowe, William Damkoehler, Janice Duclos, Barbara Meek and Rachael Warren along with Curt Columbus and host Bob Seay will read from "The Catbird Seat" (a mild-mannered file clerk pulls off the perfect crime), "A Couple of Hamburgers" (a man and a woman get hungry on the road), and "The Night The Bed Fell" (Thurber's best-known boyhood reminiscence).The episode will air the weekend of August 6-8. 
Pictured: Actors Janice Duclos and Stephen Berenson WRNI General Manager Joe O'Connor praises 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." August's installment will be broadcast on WRNI 1290 AM Providence and 102.7FM Narragansett on:
Friday, August 6at 8:00pm Saturday, August 7 at 1:00pm Sunday, August 8 at 11:00am For more information, or to download a podcast of Trinity Rep Radio Theater, please visit WRNI's website at www.wrni.org. The program is co-produced by Trinity Rep Acting Company member Janice Duclos and Emily Atkinson, Artistic Associate for Communication.
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