The Community Players to Continue 104th Season With HAROLD AND MAUDE

Rhode Island's oldest community theater, The Community Players, currently celebrating its 104th season, will continue this year's theme “From Screen to Stage” with the dark comedy Harold and Maude, from February 13 – 22, 2026.

Writer Colin Higgins adapted his beloved screenplay into this hit stage play about a lonely 19-year-old boy who finally learns how to truly live when he meets a delightfully wacky octogenarian. Harold is the proverbial poor little rich kid. Alienated and fixated upon death, he repeatedly stages his own suicide in a cry for attention from his self-obsessed mother. While attending a funeral, he encounters Maude, who shares his love for memorial services, but for different reasons. Harold soon develops a peculiar attachment to Maude and her eccentric philosophy, and their quirky relationship deepens, eventually opening a pathway for Harold to embrace life.

Directed by Brad Kirton of North Providence, and starring Noah Martinez of Providence and Mary Paolino of West Warwick as Harold and Maude, the play also features the talents of Dan Curtin of Norton, MA, Karen Gail Kessler of West Warwick, Izzy Labbe and W. Grant Willis of Providence, and Leslie Racine Martin, Ron Martin, and Katie Weeks of Warwick. This cult classic blurs the lines between love, loss, and satire in an exploration of how we interact with the world around us and challenges its audience to look at life from a different perspective.