Trinity Repertory Company

Since its founding in 1964, Trinity Repertory Company (TRC) has been considered one of the most respected regional theaters in the country.

Adrian Hall led the company as Artistic Director until 1989 and transformed it from a small community theater to a nationally prominent resident theater. Now under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Managing Director Edgar Dobie, TRC presents a balance of world premiere, contemporary, and classic works, including seven major productions, an annual production of A Christmas Carol, and Trinity Summer Shakespeare, for a total annual audience of over 200,000.

From the description of Oral History Tapes, 1990-1991. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122639361

Since its founding in 1964, Trinity Repertory Company (TRC) has been considered one of the most respected regional theaters in the country. Adrian Hall led the company as Artistic Director until 1989 and transformed it from a small community theater to a nationally prominent resident theater. Now under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Managing Director Edgar Dobie, TRC presents a balance of world premiere, contemporary, and classic works, including seven major productions, an annual production of A Christmas Carol, and Trinity Summer Shakespeare, for a total annual audience of over 200,000.

Local, national, and international recognition has come to TRC consistently. In 1968, it was the first American theater company to perform at the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland. The company received the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater Company in 1981, produced four television productions for PBS, and toured India and Syria.

TRC has a strong commitment to the development of new works and has presented nearly 50 world premieres. Artistic Director Eustis has a national reputation as both a director and dramaturg; he commissioned Tony Kushner's Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America . Trinity's Providence New Plays Festival has presented some of the theater's newest voices to New England audiences. Summer finds TRC actors gathering with playwrights and directors at the Bread Loaf Writer's Colony in Middlebury, Vermont, to write, rehearse, and present workshops of new plays.

From its roots in Providence's Trinity United Methodist Church, TRC moved in 1973 to its present home, the Lederer Theater Center in downtown Providence. Formerly known as the Majestic Theatre, the historic building houses two performance spaces: the 500-plus seat Elizabeth and Malcolm Chace Theater and the 300-seat Sarah and Joseph Dowling, Jr. Theater, as well as offices, production shops, rehearsal halls, and Conservatory studios.

As Rhode Island's largest arts organization, TRC has a significant impact on the community, and is a linchpin of Providence's arts and entertainment district. With an annual budget of $7 million, the theater employs 130 artistic and administrative staff, and generates more than $24 million in economic activity each year. The theater enjoys support from the region's leading corporations as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, The Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, and the City of Providence. [Cf. http://www.trinityrep.com]

From the guide to the Trinity Repertory Company Oral History Tapes, 1990-1991, (The New York Public Library. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.)