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Performance Highlight

Newport Playhouse & Cabaret Restaurant Presents Miracle on South Division Street

NOV . 8 – DEC . 31 : Your matinee or evening performance will begin in the dining room , where guests enjoy the restaurant ’ s cooked-from-scratch buffet . After your meal , enter the intimate theater for the main stage play . Following the play , return to your dining room seat to enjoy dessert and the cabaret – a one-hour musical revue filled with holiday music , skits and fun . The show for the night : Meet the Nowaks of Buffalo , New York . Clara and her three grown kids have always known they were special , ever since the miraculous Christmas Eve in 1942 when the Blessed Mother appeared to Grandpa in his barbershop . The entire family ' s faith is shaken to the very core when a confession causes the family legend to be questioned . Fri .– Sat . 6 p . m ., Sun .– Thur . 11a . m . Newport Playhouse & Cabaret Restaurant , 102 Connell Hwy ., Newport , 848-7529 , newportplayhouse . com

Performance Highlight

Gamm Theatre Presents It ’ s A Wonderful Life : A Live Radio Play

DEC . 9 – 24 : George , Clarence and the entire town of Bedford Falls come to life in Joe Landry ’ s adaptation of It ’ s A Wonderful Life : A Live Radio Play , the staged 1940s radio broadcast of Frank Capra ’ s holiday movie classic . With live sound effects and a handful of actors , the story of beleaguered building and loan owner George Bailey and his affable helper angel , Clarence , unfolds one fateful Christmas Eve as you ’ ve never seen it before . See what happens when the best of theater meets the golden age of radio . Visit the website for times and ticket prices . The Gamm Theatre , 1245 Jefferson Blvd ., Warwick , 723-4266 , gammtheatre . org

PHOTOGRAPHY : ( LEFT ) COURTESY OF NEWPORT PLAYHOUSE ; ( RIGHT ) COURTESY OF SEAN MCCONAGHY .

NOVEMBER 2 - 26

HANGMEN

BY MARTIN MCDONAGH writer / director of THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

“ DELECTABLY DARK !” HOLLYWOOD

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52 RHODE ISLAND MONTHLY l OCTOBER 2023