| Providence Journal |
Jan 05 - The Little Foxes
Nov 04 - Tartuffe
Jul 04 - Picnic
Jun 04 - Morning's at Seven
Feb 04 - Learned Ladies
Nov 03 - Of Mice and Men
Feb 03 - Death of a Salesman
Feb 03 - Where are today's theatrical titans?
Jun 02 - Short Attention Span Theatre
| Providence Phoenix |
Jan 05 - The Little Foxes
Jun 04 - Morning's at Seven
Feb 04 - Learned Ladies
Nov 03 - Of Mice and Men
Feb 03 - Death of a Salesman
Jun 02 - Short Attention Span Theatre
Apr 02 - Short Attention Span Theatre
Mar 02 - Short Attention Span Theatre
Mar 02 - Short Attention Span Theatre
Feb 02 - Short Attention Span Theatre
Nov 01 - Little Eyolf
Jun 01 - Ed Shea returns to 2nd Story Theatre
| East Bay |
Jan 05 - The Little Foxes
Jun 04 - Morning's at Seven
Nov 03 - Of Mice and Men
Feb 03 - Death of a Salesman
Jun 02 - Short Attention Span Theatre
| Newport |
Nov 03 - Of Mice and Men
Feb 02 - Short Attention Span Theatre
| Federal Hill Gazette |
Ed Shea and His 2nd Story Theater
| TheaterNewEngland.com |
Feb 03 - Death of a Salesman
BEST OF RIRI Monthly June 2002
Theater for the rest of us. Ed Shea, the artistic director of Second Story Theatre, likes to say that he has a contract with the audience: get them in and out of the theater in a reasonable amount of time and keep them entertained, engaged and enlightened. It's a tall order, but Shea delivers with his Short Attention Span series. The audience is treated, and we mean treated, to three to five one-act plays in ninety minutes. In the summer, it's all comedy; in the winter he tackles the classics. It's accessible, witty, clever, inexpensive and fun - a much-welcomed respite from the three-and-a-half-hour, two-intermission, two-cups-of-coffee plays that are too often becoming the norm. Ed, we appreciate your thinking of us!
-LisaE. Harrison
more praise for 2nd Story Theatre:
"If there is more gripping, dead-on theatre to be found on a local stage right now, I'd like to know about it."...
- Channing Gray, Providence Journal
"... the success of Ed Shea's "2nd Story Theater." I [always] read article[s] in the Projo about the success and quality of this gem. This place has been having nothing but sellout performances since it started and drawing prominent people from all over the state and even Massachusetts and Connecticut."
- Paula Silva, Letter to the editor of East Bay Newspaper
"These days in Providence the term Renaissance is used to describe new bus stops. Well, guess what folks? The real artistic restoration is occurring in Warren."
- Bill Oakes, Theatre Reviewer, East Bay Window