Broadway shows return to Providence this fall
The Providence Performing Arts Center will launch its 44th Broadway season with âPretty Woman: The Musical,â followed by a two-week run of âHamiltonâ
By Alexa Gagosz Globe Staff,Updated April 13, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Lynn Singleton, President and CEO of the PPAC, in the theater.Lane Turner/Globe Staff
PROVIDENCE â For more than a year, the velvet curtains inside the Providence Performing Arts Center have not been opened, the doors to the grand lobby have been locked, and the more than 3,000 seats inside have stayed empty. For months, while crowds have flocked to the docks of Newport or shores of South County, much of downtown Providence has been left quiet and bleak.
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The phone in our hallway rang. I heard Sam answer it.
“Yep … OK. When? All right, we can make it happen.” Sam hung up and laughed out loud. “Hey, Kev, check this out.”
I slowly got up from the futon in my room, the only bedroom in the apartment. Sam’s room was the living room and had a hanging sheet demarcating it. I had a hernia and my scheduled repair surgery was a month away. I limped through the cigarette smoke to hear Sam’s news.
Emergency room visits for kids are down during the pandemic. But thatâs not entirely good news
Behind the low numbers of broken bones and bouts of the flu is a darker reality: the profound isolation and inactivity that children have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic
By Brian Amaral Globe Staff,Updated April 9, 2021, 5:48 p.m.
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Dr. Susan Duffy, MD, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Hasbro Children s Hospital, poses for a photo in the hospital s healing garden in Providence, R.I., on April 9, 2021. The hospital has seen a decrease in ER visits during the COVID-19 pandemic.Matthew Healey/Matthew Healey for The Boston Globe