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Capacity
  
137

Type of business
  
Regional theatre

Founded
  
1984


Address
  
172 Exchange St.Pawtucket, Rhode IslandUnited States

Headquarters
  
Rhode Island, United States

Similar
  
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Huntington Theatre Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Blithewold Mansion - Gardens, Zeiterion Theatre

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (aka The Gamm) is a non-profit theater in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It is housed in the Pawtucket Armory Center for the Arts.

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History

The theatre was founded in October 1984 as Alias Stage by seven members of the graduating class of Trinity Rep Conservatory. The group performed at the Riverside Mills in Providence's Olneyville neighborhood, but this space was destroyed by a fire on December 18, 1989. On January 18, 1990, 30 days later exactly, Alias reopend at the Atlantic Mills, which were immediately adjacent to the Riverside Mills, with a production of "The Dragon." In 1994, backed by a newly formed board of directors, Alias moved to a semi-permanent garage space in the Jewelry District of Providence.

In 1998, the theatre staged its last performance as the Alias Stage - a staging of King Lear - before being renamed as the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre due to receiving a donation of about $100,000 from Alan Shawn Feinstein in memory of his sister. The theater remained in the cramped Jewelry District until October 2002, when, in need of a larger space and financial re-organization, the Gamm announced a hiatus following a production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Shortly after hiring Tony Estrella as Artistic Director and Yvonne Seggerman as Managing Director, the Gamm reopened in November 2003, in a new 135-seat stage in an old police garage, part of the Pawtucket Armory Center.

Awards

Elliot Norton Awards

  • 2008- Outstanding New Script (Paul Grellong, Radio Free Emerson)
  • 2009- Outstanding Production by a Small Company (Awake and Sing!)
  • 2010- Special Citation for having "firmly established itself as a theatrical jewel in our region" celebrating its 25th season

    • Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts

  • 2013- Artistic Director Tony Estrella

    • Seasons

    Upcoming 2016-17 Season

  • Arcadia (Tom Stoppard) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.
  • American Buffalo (play) (David Mamet) dir. Tyler Dobrowsky
  • The Children's Hour (Lillian Hellman) dir. Rachel Walshe
  • The Nether (Jennifer Haley) dir. Judith Swift
  • King Elizabeth (Freely adapted from Mary Stuart (play) by Friedrich Schiller) Adapted and Directed by Tony Estrella

    • 2015-16 Season

  • A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams) dir. Tony Estrella
  • The Rant (Andrew Case) dir. Tyler Dobrowski
  • Grizzly Mama (George Brandt) dir. Rachel Walshe
  • A Skull in Connemara (Martin McDonagh) dir. Judith Swift
  • A Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.

    • 30th Anniversary Season (2014-15)

  • Grounded (George Brant) dir. Judith Swift
  • Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen) adpt. and dir. Tony Estrella
  • Morality Play (Tony Estrella, adapted for the stage from the novel by Barry Unsworth, World Premiere) dir. Tyler Dobrowski
  • The House of Blue Leaves (John Guare) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.
  • Marie Antoinette (David Adjmi) dir. Rachel Walshe

    • 2013-14 Season

  • A Number/Far Away (Caryl Churchill) dir. Judith Swift/Tony Estrella
  • Good People (David Lindsay-Abaire) dir. Rachel Walshe
  • The Big Meal (Dan LeFranc) dir. Tyler Dobrowski
  • Macbeth (William Shakespeare) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.
  • Blackbird (David Harrower) dir. Tony Estrella

    • 2012-13 Season

  • After the Revolution (Amy Herzog) dir. Tony Estrella
  • Red (play) (John Logan) dir. Tony Estrella
  • Anne Boleyn (Howard Brenton, US Premiere) dir. Rachel Walshe
  • The Real Thing (Tom Stoppard) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.
  • The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Martin McDonagh) dir. Judith Swift

    • 2011-12 Season

  • Circle Mirror Transformation (Annie Baker) dir. Rachel Walshe
  • Hamlet (William Shakespeare) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.
  • Festen (David Eldridge, based on the Dogme film and screenplay by Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov and Bo hr. Hansenir) dir. Tony Estrella
  • Boom (Peter Sinn Nachtrieb) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.
  • 1984 (George Orwell, adapted by Nick Lane) dir. Tony Estrella

    • 2010-11 Season

  • Glengarry Glen Ross (David Mamet) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.
  • Mauritius (Theresa Rebeck) dir. Rachel Walshe
  • A Child's Christmas in Wales (Dylan Thomas) adpt. and dir. Tony Estrella
  • A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Tony Estrella) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.
  • Paul (Howard Brenton, US Premiere) dir. Tony Estrella
  • Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (Christopher Durang) dir. Tony Estrella

    • 25th anniversary season (2009–10)

  • Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.
  • Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare) dir. Tony Estrella
  • The SantaLand Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted by Joe Mantello
  • 4:48 Psychosis (Sarah Kane) dir. Tony Estrella
  • The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.
  • Rock 'n' Roll (Tom Stoppard) dir. Judith Swift

    • 2008–09 Season

  • Don Carlos (Friedrich Schiller adapted by Tony Estrella) dir. Tony Estrella
  • An Ideal Husband (Oscar Wilde) dir. Judith Swift
  • Awake and Sing! (Clifford Odets) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.
  • Grace (Mick Gordon & A.C. Grayling) dir. Tony Estrella
  • The Scarlet Letter (Phyllis Nagy adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne) dir. Judith Swift

    • 2007–08 Season

  • The Elephant Man (Bernard Pomerance) dir. Tony Estrella
  • Nixon's Nixon (Russell Lees) dir. Judith Swift
  • The Pillowman (Martin McDonagh) dir. Peter Sampieri
  • Boston Marriage (David Mamet) dir. Judith Swift
  • The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare) dir. Peter Sampieri

    • 2006–07 Season

  • Mother Courage and Her Children (Bertolt Brecht) dir. Tony Estrella
  • The SantaLand Diaries and Season’s Greetings (David Sedaris adapted by Joe Mantello) dir. Chris Byrnes and Wendy Overly
  • Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: A Hand Witch of the Second Stage (Peter Barnes) dir. Peter Sampieri, One for the Road, Press Conference (Harold Pinter), Catastrophe (Samuel Beckett) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr
  • Sin: A Cardinal Deposed (Michael Murphy) dir. Judith Swift
  • Radio Free Emerson (Paul Grellong) dir. Peter Sampieri

    • 2005–06 Season

  • Crime and Punishment (Adapted by Marilyn Campbell & Curt Columbus, from the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky) dir. Peter Sampieri
  • Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare) dir. Tony Estrella
  • The Lonesome West (Martin McDonagh) dir. Judith Swift
  • Top Girls (Caryl Churchill) dir. Wendy Overly
  • La Bête (David Hirson) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.

    • 2004–05 Season

  • An Enemy of the People (Henrik Ibsen adapted by Arthur Miller) dir. Tony Estrella
  • The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Jim Cartwright) dir. Judith Swift
  • Red Noses (Peter Barnes) dir. Peter Sampieri
  • Oleanna (David Mamet) dir. Judith Swift
  • The Beard of Avon (Amy Freed) dir. Tony Estrella

    • 2003–04 Season

  • The Crucible (Arthur Miller) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.
  • A Child's Christmas in Wales (Dylan Thomas) dir. Tony Estrella
  • Aunt Dan and Lemon (Wallace Shawn) dir. Tony Estrella
  • Barrymore (William Luce) dir. Fred Sullivan, Jr.
  • Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare) dir. Judith Swift

    • References

    Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre Wikipedia
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