Rhode Island Reviewers Favorite Shows of 2025
by Andria Tieman - Dec 19, 2025
Rhode Island theatres continue to produce excellent and thought-provoking work, and it is a privilege for your local reviewers to be trusted with the responsibility of sharing the good, bad and strange! In the spirit of ending the year on an optimistic note, we’re taking a look back at some of the best shows we saw this year–in RI and further afield.
Review: EVERY BRILLIANT THING at Burbage Theatre Company
by Christopher Verleger - Sep 18, 2025
Burbage Theatre Company begins its new season on the highest of notes with a tender, heartwarming, profound production of “Every Brilliant Thing” by Duncan MacMillan (with Jonny Donahoe), an engaging, uplifting one-person memoir-like play that reminds audiences of life’s concurrent simplicity and complexity.
Review: MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON - APT. 2B at Trinity Repertory Company
by Christopher Verleger - Oct 14, 2024
'Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – APT. 2B,' Kate Hamill’s fun, remarkably clever comic murder mystery, now at Trinity Rep, reimagines Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary literary sleuths as two contemporary women who join forces by happenstance to investigate and solve crimes in post-pandemic London. See what our critic had to say.
TRUE WEST and ONE FLEA SPARE Come to Brown/Trinity Rep
by Stephi Wild - Oct 26, 2023
The Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company MFA Programs in Acting and Directing presents Two in Rep: two fall productions playing in rotating repertory featuring the programs' students.
Trinity Rep Announces Lineup For 60th Anniversary Season
by A.A. Cristi - May 25, 2023
Trinity Repertory Company, Rhode Island’s Tony Award-winning theater, under the leadership of Artistic Director Curt Columbus and Executive Director Kate Liberman, announces its milestone 60th Anniversary Season.