'Nurse!' A closer look into Romeo and Juliet’s love story – three shows only at the Players’ Ring Theatre
PORTSMOUTH – NURSE! was inspired by actress/Brooklyn Theater fire survivor Kate Claxton’s historic lecture tour. Deprived of her sole source of income, Juliet’s Nurse must travel to any venue that will have her, to share her eyewitness account of events familiar from Shakespeare’s tragedy, and in so doing, correct the record regarding “the greatest love story ever told.” Written and performed by Ayun Halliday and directed by Spencer Kayden, NURSE! is delivered in a bawdy mix of modern English and
‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ opens the 2024-25 season of the Players’ Ring Theatre
PORTSMOUTH – “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” a Tony award winning, deliriously funny comedy, begins the 2024-25 season of the Players’ Ring Theatre. Written by the late Christopher Durang and directed by Matthew Parent, the play opens Sept. 6 and runs through Sept. 22. Middle-aged siblings Vanya (played by Christopher Savage) and Sonia (Whitney Smith) share a home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where they bicker and complain about the circumstances of their lives. Suddenly, their movie-star
