Trinity Rep is currently in its third 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, July's program will be an encore presentation of Americans in Paris: excerpts from The Big Sea by Langston Hughes, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos, Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach and David Sedaris' The City of Light in the Dark, featuring Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne and Joe Wilson, Jr.

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."  

July's installment will be broadcast on WRNI 1290 AM Providence, 1230AM Westerly, and 102.7FM Narragansett on:

Friday, July 3 at 8:00pm
Saturday, July 4 at 1:00pm
Sunday, July 5 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 2008-2009 Season of Trinity Rep Radio Theater is made possible in part by generous support from Carter Family Charitable Trust.  The program is co-produced by Trinity Rep Acting Company member Janice Duclos and Emily Atkinson, Artistic Associate for Communication.

WRNI, broadcasting on 1290AM in Providence and 102.7FM in Southern Rhode Island, is Rhode Island's only independent NPR News station, operated by Rhode Island Public Radio. In addition to providing NPR and BBC programming, the station’s award-winning news team produces local segments including the "Political Roundtable," "This I Believe-Rhode Island," and "Rhode Island Artscape”.  WRNI’s mission is to provide Rhode Islanders with quality journalism and compelling storytelling that informs, enriches, and inspires community. 

Past Shows:

June 2009 - Listen Here
Dorothy Parker Short Stories: Here We Are and You Were Perfectly Fine, a selection of her poems and Mrs. Parker, an elegy by Alexander Woollcott. Featuring Janice Duclos, Phyllis Kay and Fred Sullivan, Jr.

May 2009 - Listen Here
I Thought You Knew What I Wanted: features Hills Like White Elephants, The Dill Pickle, Wants, and A Piece of News. Featuring company members Timothy Crowe, Janice Duclos, Mauro Hantman and Phyllis Kay alongside artistic director Curt Columbus.

April 2009 - Listen Here
Looking Back: features The Cranes; The Richer, the Poorer; Mr. Gallo at 87; and Season of Disbelief. Featuring company members Angela Brazil, Janice Duclos, Anne Scurria and Joe Wilson Jr. alongside artistic director Curt Columbus.

March 2009 - Listen Here
James Thurbers Comedy: features The Catbird's Seat, A Couple of Hamburgers, The Night the Bed Fell, featuring Timothy Crowe, William Damkoehler, Janice Duclos, Barbara Meek, and Rachael Warren

February 2009 - Listen Here
The American Dream: Stories of John Cheever: features The Enormous Radio, The Autobiography of a Drummer, and The Worm in the Apple, featuring Janice Duclos, Fred Sullivan Jr., and Rachael Warren.

January 2009 - Listen Here
An encore presentation of Irish Pleasures (2006). Featuring, The Workhouse Ward by Lady Gregory, The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde, and excerpts from James Joyce's The Dead. Featuring Janice Duclos, Stephen Throne and Rachael Warren.

December 2008 - Listen Here
The Holidays: features The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley, Santa's Children by Italo Calvino, and The Annual Crisis of Love by Loudon Wainwright. Featuring Angela Brazil, William Damkoehler, Janice Duclos and Joe Wilson Jr.

October 2008  - Listen Here
Tales from the Dark Side: features Wet Saturday by John Collier and The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe. featuring Janice Duclos, Mauro Hantman, Fred Sullivan Jr., and Rachael Warren.

September 2008 - Listen here
The Spoils of War: excerpts from Report on the Barnhouse Effect by Kurt Vonnegut; Lafayette, Farewell by Ray Bradbury (Broadcast with the permission of Don Congdon Associates, Inc. Copyright 1998 by Ray Bradbury); and My War, by Diane C. Jaeger, featuring Stephen Berenson, Janice Duclos and Stephen Thorne.

June 2008 - Listen here
Americans in Paris: excerpts from The Big Sea by Langston Hughes, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos, Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach and David Sedaris' The City of Light in the Dark, featuring Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne and Joe Wilson, Jr.

May 2008 - Listen here
The Short Stories of O. Henry: The Ransom of Red Chief and Tobin's Palm, featuring Timothy Crowe, William Damkoehler, Janice Duclos and Mauro Hantman and artistic director Curt Columbus.

April 2008 - Listen here
Dorothy Parker Short Stories: Here We Are and You Were Perfectly Fine, a selection of her poems and Mrs. Parker, an elegy by Alexander Woollcott. Featuring Janice Duclos, Phyllis Kay and Fred Sullivan, Jr.

February 2008 - Listen here
Bad Boys and Wicked Women - Literary Villains:  Excerpts from Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, 1984 by George Orwell, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens with Curt Columbus, Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne and Rachael Warren.

January 2008/encore broadcast August 2008 - Listen here
Mothers and Daughters: The Unnatural Mother by Charlotte Perkins Gillman (1895), The Sempstress by Colette (1922), Girl by Jamaica Kincaid (1978), Mothers and Pain for a Daughter by Anne Sexton (1965) and Where the Water is by Jan Shoemaker (2006) with Janice Duclos, Barbara Meek, and Anne Scurria and artistic director Curt Columbus.

October 2007/encore broadcast July 2008 - Listen here
Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen's The Steadfast Tin Soldier; Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose; The Grimm Brothers' The Clever Farmer's Daughter, King Thrush-Beard and Clever Hans, and the Anne Sexton poem Cinderella. Featuring Curt Columbus and Stephen Berenson, Angela Brazil, and Phyllis Kay.

September 2007/encore broadcast March 2008 - Listen here
Robert Penn Warren's short stories: The Patened Gate and The Mean Hamburger, The Confession of Brother Grimes and A Christian Education, with Stephen Berenson, Angela Brazil, Curt Columbus and Phyllis Kay

May 2007/encore broadcast November 2007 - Listen here
Literary Soulmates: love letters and poetry from Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, and Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper, with Janice Duclos, Barbara Meek and Fred Sullivan, Jr. and artistic director Curt Columbus.

April 2007/encore broadcast August 2007 - Listen here
Forbidden Love: excerpts from Rappaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, with Janice Duclos, Phyllis Kay, and Mauro Hantman and artistic director Curt Columbus.

March 2007/encore broadcast July 2007 - Listen here
Thornton Wilder’s fiction: excerpts from Heaven’s My Destination and Theophilus North, with Angela Brazil, Timothy Crowe and Joe Wilson, Jr. and artistic director Curt Columbus.

December 2006 - Listen here
Irish literature: Lady Gregory’s The Workhouse Ward, Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince, and James Joyce’s The Dead (excerpt), with Janice Duclos, Stephen Thorne and Rachael Warren and artistic director Curt Columbus.

December 2006/encore broadcast December 2007 - Listen here
Charles Dickens’ Christmas:  A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Tree, and The Pickwick Papers (excerpts), with Stephen Berenson, Timothy Crowe, and Janice Duclos and artistic director Curt Columbus.

November 2006 - Listen here
Charles Dickens:  Hard Times, Bleak House, The Pickwick Papers, Our Mutual Friend and American Notes (excerpts), with William Damkoehler, Janice Duclos, Mauro Hantman, and Anne Scurria and artistic director Curt Columbus.

October 2006 - Listen here
Anton Chekhov's short stories: The Huntsman, The Woman Without Prejudice, A Drama and The Little Trick, with Janice Duclos, Phyllis Kay, and Fred Sullivan Jr. and artistic director Curt Columbus.