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  • 1980-1981
    Dark Lady of the Sonnets
    A Doll's House
    Carnival
    The Glass Menagerie
    Rashomon
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    The Cabaret Connection
    (revue)
    Lemonade
    Canadian Gothic
    The Tiny Closet
    The Long Christmas Dinner
    Murder Well Rehearsed
    Visitors from Mamaronech
    Gotta Sing
    (revue)
    Cottage Two
    Frustration
    The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year
    Dogg's Hamlet
    The Paper Dragon
    (Children's Touring Theatre)
    This is the Rill Speaking
    Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn
    Dreams of Glory
    Patio
    Bearing the Cross
    Village Wooing
    The Stronger
    Montage
    (revue)
    Snowangel
    Clevinger’s Trial


    1979-1980
    The Hot L Baltimore
    As You Like It
    Riders to the Sea
    Happy Birthday, Wanda June
    The Birthday Party
    The Madwoman of Chaillot
    The Apple Tree
    The Restaurant
    The Cabaret Connection
    (revue)
    Pullman Car Hiawatha
    Impromptu
    Touch the Bluebird’s Song
    Where Have All the Lightening Bugs Gone?
    Red Carnations
    Decisions
    6 Rms Riv Vu
    Two by Two
    A Little Travelin’ Music
    (revue)
    Constantinople Smith
    Stage Directions
    Quiet Please
    The King of Kazoo
    Home Free
    At a Beetle’s Pace
    Visitors From London
    Turpitudes
    Lunchtime Concert
    Answers
    With a Song in My Heart
    (revue)
    Duck Variations

    1978-1979
    The House of Bernarda Alba
    Cabaret
    How the Other half Loves
    I'm Herbert
    Feiffer’s People
    Broadway is a Widened Cowpath That Runs Diagonally Across Manhattan
    (revue)
    Play
    The Zoo Story
    The Tiger
    The Diary of Adam and Eve
    At Random
    (revue) (benefit)
    The Lover
    The Last of My Solid Gold Watches
    Johnny Seagull
    Whisper Into My Good Ear
    Not Enough Rope
    The Sandbox
    Aria Da Capo
    Overtones
    She Loves Me
    Plaza Suite
    Fireboots and Frozen Tongue
    Sing Happy
    (revue)
    The 75th
    Caught in the Act


    1977-1978
    Little Mary Sunshine
    This is the Rill Speaking
    Coming Through the Rye
    The Public Eye
    Hello Out There
    The Miracle Worker
    Sweet Charity
    The Serpent
    God
    Birdbath
    Under Milk wood
    Suddenly Last Summer
    The Typists
    Shubert's Last Serenade
    Death
    The Point

    Theatrix: A Festival of Theatre: The Bear/The Indian Wants The Bronx/Beginnings and Uglies/The Case of the Crushed Petunias/Waiting for Lefty/Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
    Spoon River Revisited
    The Real Inspector Hound
    Vanities
    I Got Plenty of Gershwin
    (benefit)
    Abortion
    Sorry, Wrong Number
    This Property is Condemned
    Please, No Flowers
    Something Unspoken


    1976-1977
    Bus Stop
    Anything Goes
    A Thurber Carnival
    The Clean-Up
    Sunday Costs Five Pesos
    Bad Bad Jo-Jo
    The Bald Soprano
    The Maids
    Fashion
    The Acting Lesson
    Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
    A Little Dancing
    Babes on Broadway
    Heritage
    Kid Power
    (children’s musical revue)
    On Stage (revue) (benefit)
    Comic Valentines
    The Great Western Melodrama
    Enemies
    Scenes From American Life
    Mrs. Dally Has a Lover
    Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
    (RWC Starlight Dinner Theatre in the Student Center)
    A Musical Potpourri (revue)
    A Musical Revue and All That Jazz (revue)
    The Life and Music of Cole Porter
    Where Were You the Night Oklahoma Opened?
    (revue) (benefit)

    1975-1976
    Man of La Mancha
    A Doll's House
    Company
    The Good Doctor
    The Clouds
    The Rimers of Eldritch
    Tin Pan Alley Revue
    This is the Rill Speaking
    Feiffer’s People
    Fortitude
    Impromptu
    Pigeons
    Constantinople Smith
    Plaza Suite
    The New Step
    Live Spelled Backwards
    It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
    In a Glass Darkly
    That’s Entertainment
    (revue) (benefit)
    Free To Be . . . You and Me (Coffeehouse Theatre+Tour)
    Trifles
    Out To Lunch
    Danish Modern
    Box and Cox
    Solitaire
    Lovers and Other Strangers
    Moony’s Kid don’t Cry
    The Zoo Story
    Confessional
    Edgar Allen Poe: The Raven
    (Reader's Theatre)

    1974-1975
    Spoon River Anthology
    Riders To the Sea
    You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
    Celebration
    Deathwatch
    This is the Rill Speaking
    (Theatre Picnic)
    The Case of the Crushed Petunias
    Adaptation
    God Created Heaven and Earth but Man Created Saturday Night
    Curse You, Jack Dalton
    This Property is Condemned
    The Long Christmas Dinner
    The Lottery
    After Magritte
    Death Knocks
    Thirteen Clocks
    Fare Limit
    Passionella
    Regards to Broadway
    (revue)

    1973-1974
    Waiting for Godot
    Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
    The Fantasticks
    A Doctor in Spite of Himself
    The Real Inspector Hound
    Bad Bad Jo-Jo
    I’m Herbert
    Feiffer’s People
    Lemonade
    Séance
    A Murder
    Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn
    Crawling Arnold
    A Christmas Festival

    Revue Sketches by Harold Pinter
    This is the Rill Speaking
    Days Ahead
    Little Murders
    Overtones
    Birdbath
    Purlie Victorious
    Plaza Suite
    Mime
    Cigarettes


    1972-1973
    Guys and Dolls
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    Our Town
    The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
    (Senior Project)
    Lemonade
    The Odd Couple
    Night and Thoughts on the Instant of Meeting a Friend
    The Leader
    The Purification
    Long Voyage Home
    (Drama Club)
    Pintergon (Trouble in the Works/The Black and White/Request Stop/Last To Go/The Applicant)
    RWC Talent Show

    1971-1972
    Arms and the Man
    The Glass Menagerie
    Gulliver's Travels
    How He Lied To Her Husband
    The Agency
    Bringing It All Back Home
    This is the Rill Speaking


    1962-1968, Roger Williams Junior College in Providence (performances took place in the YMCA auditorium)

    Fall 1967
    The Fantastices (Drama Club)

    Spring 1966

    Fall 1965
    One-Acts: The Lottery/A Game of Chess/War

    “Dramatic Fraternity of Roger Williams Junior College has a new advisor: After many successful years Mr. Rizzini has handed the play books over to Mr. Bucci the incoming faculty advisor”—The Quill, 10 Nov. 1965

    Spring 1964
    Little Acorns & Objective Case (Dramatics Club)

    Spring 1963
    If Girls Ask Boys for Dates & Eternal Life (Dramatics Club)

    Spring 1962
    The Many Lives of Dobie Gillis (Dramatics Society)

    On December 13, 1961 a dramatics club was organized and held a meeting.
     
  • The Students' Lounge

     The Barn 

     

    On June 9, 2007, the theatre space was named The William N. Grandgeorge Theatre in honor of the man who founded the Department, the London Program, and is responsible for the Barn being a part of the campus.

    "Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you"

     

     

    Affectionately known as the "Barn," the Performing Arts Center was originally built in the 1890s as a horse barn for use on a Glocester, RI farm. The Barn was given a new lease on life in 1981 when a group of historic preservation students and faculty rescued the deteriorating structure. Piece by piece, the Barn arrived on campus in 1983, ready for its revival. The unique building, which opened in 1986, now houses a theatre, rehearsal studios, and faculty offices.

    Inside the Barn:
    Department of Performing Arts
    William N. Grandgeorge Theatre
    Dance Studio
    Costume/Scenery Shops
    Dance and Theatre Faculty Offices
    Stage Company Office
    Classrooms
     
     
    Read "Once Upon A Barn," a feature article in EastBayRI.com (Bristol Phoenix) about the 25th anniversary of the Barn and its history.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     Production   Archive

    To see photos of our most recent productions please visit the "Current Season" page.

    2010-2011
    The Glass Menagerie
    Come You Back
    The Beaux’ Stratagem
    Return to the Forbidden Planet
    This is the Rill Speaking
    (Freshman Show)
    Celebrations! A Performing Arts Revue
    One-Act Festival: Pieces of Pinter (Trouble in the Works/Request Stop/Family Voices) & King Arthur’s Socks
    No Exit (Senior Directing Project)
    Endgame (Senior Directing Project)
    Variety Show (Stage Company)

     
    2010-2011
    Iphigenia
    The Good Woman of Setzuan
    Lucky Stiff
    A Patch of Earth
    A Simple Task (Freshman Show)
    Variety Show (Stage Company)
    Not In My Name (w/The Living Theatre)

     

    2009-2010
    The Merchant of Venice
    Machinal
    The Spitfire Grill
    The Male Animal
    This Is A Test (Freshman Show)
    Bad Axe (Senior Acting Project)
    Miss Julie (Senior Directing Project)
    One-Act Festival: Catastrophe/Attuned/The Coors Lights/Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room (Stage Company)
    Variety Show: Happy Hour: Last Call (Stage Company)

     

    2008-2009
    Ghosts
    The Women of Lockerbie
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    Little Shop of Horrors
    Fortress (Freshman Show)
    Baby Grand (Senior Acting Project)
    The Bald Soprano (Senior Directing Project)
    Variety Show: Happy Hour: 3rd Time's The Charm (Stage Company)
    One-Act Festival: The Sandbox/For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls (Stage Company)

     

    2007-2008
    Hay Fever
    The Summoning of Everyman
    The Fantasticks
    Dead Man Walking
    The Fifteen Minute Hamlet/The Problem (Freshman Show)
    First Night (Senior Acting Project)
    Waiting for Godot (Senior Acting Project)
    The Woman in Black (Senior Directing Project)
    Orestes (Stage Company)
    Variety Show: Happy Hour: A Double Shot (Stage Company)

     

    2006-2007
    As You Like It
    The Children's Hour
    An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf
    "And the Tony Goes To . . ."
    Quickies: Kitty the Waitress/The Messiah Box/Playwriting 101: The Rooftop Lesson (Freshman Show)
    A Weekend Near Madison (Senior Acting Project)
    Orange Flower Water (Senior Directing Project)
    Happy Hour: A Variety Show (Stage Company)
    Festival of One-Acts: Retrieving Files/Wish You Were Here/A Big Misunderstanding/Griller's Monthly/The Early Bird (Stage Company)
    NO SIR! (w/The Living Theatre)

     

    2005-2006
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    The Laramie Project
    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
    The Miser
    An Evening of Christopher Durang: Naomi in the Living Room/A Stye of the Eye (Freshman Show)
    Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Senior Acting Project)
    A Piece of My Heart (Senior Directing Project)
    Festival of One-Acts: Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (excerpt)/Hold/The Whole Shebang (Stage Company)
    The Spring One-Act Festival: Date with a Stranger/Aria Da Capo/The Boundary/The Lover (Stage Company)

     

  • 2004-2005
    Lysistrata
    The Shadow Box
    Red, Hot, and Cole
    Love’s Labour’s Lost
    The Death of King Philip
    (Freshman Show)
    The Fox (Senior Project)
    The Lesson (Senior Project)
    Foreplay, or The Art of Fugue/Seven Menus (Stage Company)
    Fall Festival of One-Act Plays: Visitor from Forest Hills/Mushrooms/Women and Wallace/The Proposal (Stage Company)
    Spring Festival of One-Act Plays: The Open Road/The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould/Breaking the Chain/Zipless/For Whom the Southern Bell Tolls (Stage Company)

    2003-2004
    The Hot l Baltimore
    Changes of Heart
    South Pacific
    Present Tense
    (Freshman Show)
    Two Rooms (Senior Project)
    Porch (Senior Project)
    Talley’s Folly (Senior Project)
    One-Acts: “What”: If Men Played Cards as Women Do/If Women Worked as Men Do (Stage Company)
    One-Acts: Deggas, C’est Moi/What are You Doing in There?/Flop Cop/The Ugly Duckling/The Tooth Hurts/This Property is Condemned/I Hate Mothers (Stage Company)

    2002-2003
    A Month in the Country
    The Servant of Two Masters
    Godspell
    Blood Wedding
    The American Dream
    (Freshman Show)
    No Exit (Senior Project)
    The Stonewater Rapture (Senior Project)
    The Omelet Murder Case/Merry Regiment of Women (Stage Company)
    Fall Festival of One-Act Plays: Removing the Glove/Words, Words, Words/A Way With Words/Tunnel of Love (Stage Company)
    Spring Festival of One-Act Plays: The Battle of Bull Run Always Makes Me Cry/A Candle on the Table/Bathroom Humor/Sex Lives of Superheroes (Stage Company)

    2001-2002
    The Rimers of Eldritch
    Oklahoma!
    Electra
    Last Train to Nibroc
    (Senior Project)
    Spring Festival of One-Act Plays: The Music Lovers/I Bring You Flowers/Did You Ever Go To PS43?/The Juice Man Cometh/The Doctor Will See You Now/When God comes for Breakfast You Don’t Burn the Toast (Stage Company)

    2000-2001
    The Taming of the Shrew
    She Loves Me
    The Last Flapper

    Festival of One-Act Plays: Daughter of a Traveling Lady/The Midlife Crisis of Dionysus/Necropolis/Freeze Tag (Stage Company)

    1999-2000
    Girls Night Out
    A Place of the Magdalena Flats
    The Goodbye Girl
    Anna Karenina

    Spring Festival of One-Act Plays: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton/Accidental Death of a Salesman/God’s spies/Sorry, Wrong Number (Stage Company)
    Frumpled Fairy Tales (Theatre for Young Audiences)

    1998-1999
    Twelfth Night
    And the World Goes 'Round
    A Little Night Music

    Spring Festival of One-Act Plays: Present Tense/The Chastening/Visitor From Forest Hills (Stage Company)

    1997-1998
    Well of the Saints
    Personals
    Little Red Riding Hood & Painted Rain
    (Stage Company)
    Scene Change (revue) (Stage Company)

    1996-1997
    The Glass Menagerie
    The No-Frills Revue
    All in the Timing
    Anything Goes
    The Physician in Spite of Himself
    Hello From, Bertha
    (Stage Company)
    Dolores (Stage Company)
    The Little Prince (Stage Company)
    Who is Winston Churchill?
    The Little Prince
    Haiku & Universal Language
    (Stage Company)
    No Exit

    1995-1996
    Art Isn't Easy (revue)
    Antigone by Anouilh
    True West
    Vanities
    The Roar of the Grease Paint, The Smell of the Crowd
    Next
    Italian American Reconciliation
    The Philadelphia
    (Stage Company)

    1994-1995
    Top Girls
    Tartuffe
    Spoon River Anthology
    Winners
    (Senior Project)
    The Moonlight Tape (Senior Project)
    Home Free (Stage Company)
    Stuck Inside the Water Tower (Stage Company)
    The Real Wally Warthog (Stage Company)

    1993-1994
    The American Primitive: The Words of John and Abigail Adams
    Company
    The Comedy of Errors
    American Primitive
    Feiffers’s People
    We Didn't Start the Fire
    (revue)
    Trifles (Senior Project)
    Thorn Birds (Studio)
    Visitor From Forest Hills (Stage Company)

    1992-1993 Roger Williams University Theatre
    Pippin
    Jacques and His Master
    Crimes of the Heart
    Jukebox Saturday Night
    (revue)
    Butterflies Are Free (Senior Project)
    Snow Leopards (Senior Acting Project)
    One-Acts: Red Carnations/The Happy Journey to Camden and Trenton (Stage Company)
    One-Act Festival: Sure Thing/Two and Twenty (Stage Company)
    Laundry and Bourbon
    (Stage Company)
    RWU Medallion Donor Appriciation Night Performing Arts Gala (Oct. 24, 1992)

    Roger Williams College Theatre (1971-1992)

    1991-1992
    Medea
    The Drunkard
    The Night of the Iguana/I rise in Flames/Cried the Phoenix/A House Not Meant to Stand
    (Part of "Tennessee Williams: A Celebration of Later Works" by The College Alliance)
    The Diary of Adam and Eve
    Cop Out
    (Stage Company)
    Voices (Stage Company)
    RWC President's Medallion Club Performing Arts Gala (Nov. 2, 1991)

    1990-1991
    Baby: The Musical
    Impromptu
    End of the World With Symposium to Follow
    Across A Crowded Room
    (revue)

    1989-1990
    Arms and the Man
    What I Did For Love
    (revue)
    Sarcophagus
    The Boor
    (Stage Company)
    Sexual Perversity in Chicago

    1988-1989
    The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
    She Stoops to Conquer
    K2
    The Fantasticks
    And the Melody Lingers On!
    (revue)
    An Evening of Tennessee Williams: Talk To Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen/I Can't Imagine Tomorrow (Studio Series)
    Fool For Love
    Passionella
    Act Without Words II
    (Studio Series)
    Bits and Pieces (Studio Series)
    What Did You Say "What" For (Studio Series)
    Say Goodnight, Gracie (Studio Series)
    Spoon River Anthology (Studio Series)
    Anna Christie (Part of "O'Neill's Fog People: A Celebration of Early Works" by The College Alliance)

    1987-1988
    John Gabriel Borkman
    Side by Side by Sondheim
    A Thurber Carnival
    The Tibetan Book of the Dead or How Not to do it Again
    (Senior Project)
    The Old Jew (Senior Project)

    1986-1987 (The Barn Opens)
    Guys and Dolls
    And They Dance Real Slow
    Tom Foolery
    Touch the Bluebird's Song
    (Stage Company)
    Oh, Well! (Stage Company)
    Impromptu (Stage Company)
    Reunion (Stage Company)
    A Marriage Proposal (Stage Company)
    The Lover (Stage Company)
    Salt Water Moon (Senior Acting Project)

    RWC Theatre performances from 1971-1986 took place in the Coffeehouse Theatre

     
    1985-1986
    A Man for all Seasons
    The Shadow Box
    (Stage Company)
    The Rope (Stage Company)
    Forever Single (revue) (Stage Company)
    Where Have the 60’s Gone? (revue) (Stage Company)
    Monday After the Miracle (Senior Project)
    Starting Here, Starting Now (Alumni Weekend)

    1984-1985
    The Runner Stumbles
    Miss Julie
    (Stage Company)
    New York City Rhythym (alumni revue)
    On The Road (revue) (Stage Company)

    June 21, 1984: Gala to benefit RWC Performing Arts Center

    1983-1984
    Getting Out
    Much Ado About Nothing
    Starting Here, Starting Now
    (at Providence Biltmore for New England Theatre Conference)
    Line (Drama Club)
    Bad Habits (Drama Club)
    Victoria Station (Drama Club)

    1982-1983
    Waiting for Godot
    Berlin to Broadway
    (revue)
    The Cabaret Connection (revue)

    1981-1982
    Overtones
    Death Knocks
    At Home
    The Shadow Box
    The Robber Bridegroom
    Doing a Good One for the Red Man
    Stevie's Prime-Time TV Trip
    (Children's Touring Theatre)