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The Black Box Theatre is a community theatre which produces four plays each year. "A Christmas Carol" is our annual winter production, while fall, spring and summer productions vary each season.

The Black Box Players are community actors as well as students who have excelled in the instructional arena and are ready to take the stage.

"The Box" offers an intimate viewing experience, where every seat is a good seat, and the minimalist "black box" approach truly prevails, setting the stage for the art of theatre itself to be explored, pure and unadorned.

The Black Box Theatre is also available for birthday parties, private screenings, as a venue for local filmmakers as well as outside theatre companies looking to produce their own works.

 


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Theater Class 2
A Studious Actor Examines Her Script
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Acting for Musical Theater
 
OPEN SUBMISSIONS
FOR ANNUAL ONE ACT PLAY FESTIVAL

Open Submissions are currently being accepted for the 7th annual Black Box Theatre One Act Play Festival. For consideration, please send submissions of one act plays of all genres to:

Rich Morra
50 Rolfe Square
Cranston, RI 02910

or rich.morra@artists-exchange.org
(Include name and title of play in subject line of email)

The deadline for consideration for the 2012 festival is 5/1/12. Be sure to include a cover page with your name, contact information (phone and email) and synopsis. All entrants will be notified of acceptance or rejection in July 2012. The festival will take place in August 2012.

 
Previous Productions

The Black Box Theatre's 8th annual
A Christmas Carol

December 8th - 23rd

Culminating in special performances at the historic Rhodes on the Pawtuxet!
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The Black Box Theatre's 6th annual
ONE ACT PLAY FESTIVAL


August 5th - 28th
Fridays & Saturdays at 7pm, Sundays at 2pm

Tickets $15/Wave, $25 for Waves I & II

Whittled down from over 100 submissions from all over the country, this year's line-up will showcase 18 plays in a variety of genres. Experience the wonder of brevity!

WAVE I: August 5th - 14th
(All 9 plays below will be performed during each scheduled showcase in Wave I):

Clown Therapy,
Nina Mansfield
Curse the Darkness
, Patrick Gabridge
The Hollow Men
, Greg Davis
Scripted
, Mark Harvey Levine
Singular of Dice
, Ross Tedford Kendall
Cyjoe Barker at the Theatre
, Barbara Schweitzer
Final Descent
, Joanne Fayan
A Winter Place
, Kevin Broccoli
Wet Paper Bag, Alex Dremann

WAVE II: August 19th - 28th
(All 9 plays below will be performed during each scheduled performance in Wave II):

Break
, J. Stephen Brantley
A Couple of Metal Gods
, Trace Crawford
Context
, John C. Davenport
Their Eyes Meet
, John C. Davenport
Man Woman Man
, L. H. Grant
Missing
, Robin Pond
My Name Is Art
, Peter Snoad
Surprise
, Mark Harvey Levine
The Hatchet Job, Jim Sullivan

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PRESS for the 6th annual One Act Play Festival
Feature, Cranston Herald: "One-act plays at the Black Box"

More Teeth's Review: "Plays in a Box"

Ahtspot's Mary DeBerry: "Black Box Presents One Act Play Fest With Great Gusto"

Cranston Patch: "One Act Play Festival At Artists' Exchange Brings Variety to the Stage"

Providence Phoenix: "Review: Black Box' One-Act Play Festival"

Ahtspot's Mary DeBerry: "Second Wave of One-Acts Lands in Cranston"

...stay tuned for updates!


Museum by Tina Howe

A lively satire of modern art, Museum takes place on the closing day of three avant garde exhibits and features 42 colorful characters including museum goers, artists and museum staff as they respond to the art and to one another.

directed by Rich Morra

March 25th - April 10th
Friday & Saturday evenings at 7pm
Sundays at 2pm

Tickets $15. Call 401.490.9475 to reserve.


Click on the image below to see a slideshow
of photos from Museum on Vimeo!
Photos courtesy of Mike Luciano

Press for Museum:


Cranston Patch : "Black Box's Museum Is Out of Box"

Cranston Herald : "Black Box Brings Museum to Life"

Valley Breeze : "Art Snobbery, Humor on Display at Museum"

Associated Content Review : "Site Specific Presentation is New Territory for Performers of the Black Box Theatre"

Motif Magazine Review : "Morra Paints 'Museum' Masterpiece"


At the Black Box Theatre
at Artists' Exchange
Thurs. 12/9 7pm
Fri. 12/10 7pm
Sat. 12/11 7pm
Matinee: Sun. 12/12 2pm
Tickets $15
(call Artists' Exchange at
401.490.9475 to reserve)

At the historic Park Theatre/RICPA: Sat. Dec. 18th  7pm Sun. Dec.19th 3pm
Tickets $18*
(call Park Theatre at
467.7275 to reserve)
*Group rate of $13
for parties of 20 or more.
 

Black Box Theatre Presents
its
4th Annual

One Act Play Festival

Thank you to all the playwrights who entered this year.
The 2010 selections are as follows:

Chuck Exley by Kevin H. Thibault
The Revelation of Jenny to Her Parents by Beth Danesco
Can Can't by Michael Burgan
The Rental by
Mark Harvey Levine
Jeremiah's Choice by Dennis B. Blais
The Lesson by Tom Chace
The Dream Seats by Anthony Martinetti
Superhero by
Mark Harvey Levine
Pain by Barbara Schweitzer
The Son by Pat Hegnauer

Performances

August 12 - 14    7pm
August 15           2pm
August 19 - 21    7pm
August 22           2pm

Artists' Exchange is owned and operated by Gateways to Change, Inc.

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