{"id":102416,"date":"2025-05-23T16:47:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=102416"},"modified":"2025-05-23T16:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:47:25","slug":"uri-theatre-to-honor-michael-lapointe-with-celebration-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/uri-theatre-to-honor-michael-lapointe-with-celebration-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ Theatre to honor Michael Lapointe with Celebration of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>May 23, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University\u2019s Theatre Department will hold a Celebration of Life to honor the late Michael G. Lapointe, a beloved residence hall director at º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ for 50 years and a longtime member of the Theatre Department, on Sunday, June 1, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Robert E. Will Theatre at the Fine Arts Center, 105 Upper College Road, Kingston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lapointe, who passed away on Feb. 21 at the age of 74, was a proud 1993 graduate of the º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ theatre program, specializing in stage and theater management. After graduation, he continued his career with the º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ Theatre as an instructor of introduction to theater, a season house manager, and a poster\/program designer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read his obituary, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/independentri\/name\/michael-lapointe-obituary?id=57785724\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/independentri\/name\/michael-lapointe-obituary?id=57785724\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 23, 2025 The University\u2019s Theatre Department will hold a Celebration of Life to honor the late Michael G. Lapointe, a beloved residence hall director at º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ for 50 years and a longtime member of the Theatre Department, on Sunday, June 1, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Robert E. Will Theatre at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":102418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1866,1],"tags":[1857,1858,1856],"class_list":["post-102416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-message","category-uncategorized","tag-audience-faculty","tag-audience-staff","tag-audience-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102419,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102416\/revisions\/102419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}