![]() Later productions include a new adaptation of “A Tale of Two Cities,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Sweat” by Lynn Nottage, Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” and the perennial “A Christmas Carol. Brant has had other plays produced by Trinity, and Magar graduated from the Brown/Trinity MFA program.Īfter the six-week run of “The Prince of Providence,” the theater company will mount a production of “Fade,” a two-character play set in the offices of a Hollywood television studio, and “Radio Golf,” the final play in award-winning playwright August Wilson’s cycle of the African-American experience in each decade of the 20th century, where a real estate developer hoping to be Pittsburgh’s first black mayor must contend with history behind the city’s growth. Playwright George Brant adapted Stanton’s book, and Obie Award-winning director Taibi Magar will direct, with casting to be announced this summer. “His visionary leadership during more than two decades of growth and rebirth is inseparably linked with removal from office, assault charges, and a corruption conviction,” a news release from Trinity said Tuesday. He was the enigmatic former mayor of Providence, who died Thursday morning at the age of 74. The adaptation of former Providence Journal reporter Mike Stanton’s best-selling book, “The Prince of Providence,” outlining the two-time Providence mayor’s lengthy life in local politics and media – and the renaissance of the city during his tour of duty – will lead off Trinity’s 2019-2020 season. The Buddy Cianci Show podcast on demand - Listen to free internet radio, news, sports, music, audiobooks, and podcasts. Buddy also shared his insights and unparalleled witty analysis of city, state and national issues as the chief political commentator for ABC6, WNAC-TV in Providence. ![]() (WPRI) - The first play to take the stage at Providence’s Trinity Repertory Company for the coming theater season will be the world premiere of a definitive biography of a landmark character in Rhode Island history: Buddy Cianci. In 2007, Buddy was again released upon Providence, promptly taking to the airwaves on his own primetime political radio program, The Buddy Cianci Show. He hosted The Buddy Cianci Show on 630 WPRO and 99.7 FM. WGBH News Morning Edition host Bob Seay chatted with Vincent 'Buddy' Cianci the former and longest-running mayor of Providence, who is now a radio talk-show host and TV commentator about a recent Gallup poll showing that more than any other Americans, Rhode Islanders are the most. ![]()
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