Review: THE COMEUPPANCE at Wilbury Theatre Group
by Christopher Verleger - Apr 1, 2026
In the 1983 film, 'The Big Chill,' starring Glenn Close and Kevin Kline, a group of middle-aged, lifelong friends are reunited at a funeral after a member of their college clique commits suicide. The character Chloe, played by Meg Tilly, asks, “I haven’t met that many happy people in my life. How do they act?”
Photos: THE COMEUPPANCE At Wilbury Theatre Group
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 25, 2026
Wilbury Theatre Group has released production photos of the Rhode Island premiere of The Comeuppance by Pulitzer Prize-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Don Mays.
Photos: In Rehearsal For THE COMEUPPANCE at Wilbury Theatre Group
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 16, 2026
Wilbury Theatre Group will present the Rhode Island premiere of THE COMEUPPANCE by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Check out photos of the production! Francesca Hansen DiBello, Marcel Mascaró, Jenna Lee Scott, Christine Treglia, and Rodney Witherspoon star in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play.
Cast Announced For THE HUMANS At Wilbury Theatre Group
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 24, 2022
Wilbury Theatre Group presents the Rhode Island premiere of Tony-Award winner for Best Play (2016) The Humans by Stephen Karam, directed by Josh Short. Running November 17 – December 11, the production features Jim O'Brien, Jeanine Kane, Rachel Dulude, Jessie March, Dave Rabinow, & Carol Varden.
Wilbury Theatre Group to Present LIFTED by Charlie Thurston
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 23, 2021
Wilbury Theatre Group will present Charlie Thurston's Lifted, a modern meditation on the Icarus myth, directed by Josh Short outdoors at WaterFire Arts Center, October 21 through November 13. The production features Daraja Hinds, Victor Neto and Jim O'Brien.
Wilbury Theatre Group Announces KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 29, 2021
The Wilbury Theatre Group has announced a limited run of Krapp's Last Tape – Samuel Beckett's lauded one-act play about the effects of time and loneliness, and the longing for past glories. Performances run for limited audiences in the Main Hall at the WaterFire Arts Center April 9-25, 2021.
Photo Flash: Rhode Island Premiere Of MISS YOU LIKE HELL At The Wilbury Group
by Stephi Wild - Mar 5, 2020
The Wilbury Theatre Group continues its 2019/20 Main Series season with the Rhode Island premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes' newest musical, Miss You Like Hell, March 5-29, 2020. Hudes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Lin-Manuel Miranda's collaborator on the book and film of In The Heights, wrote the book and shares credit for the lyrics with folk-rock star Erin McKeown who also wrote the music.
Wilbury Group Presents Rhode Island Premiere Of MISS YOU LIKE HELL
by Stephi Wild - Feb 13, 2020
The Wilbury Theatre Group continues its 2019/20 Main Series season with the Rhode Island premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes' newest musical, Miss You Like Hell, March 5-29, 2020. Hudes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Lin-Manuel Miranda's collaborator on the book and film of In The Heights, wrote the book and shares credit for the lyrics with folk-rock star Erin McKeown who also wrote the music.
BWW Review: FUTURITY offers 'singular' experience at The Wilbury Theatre Group
by John McDaid - Dec 11, 2018
If you took two plutonium hemispheres labeled 'American folk tradition' and 'cerebral poetry' and smashed them together in a critical mass, the musical 'Futurity' would be the resulting atomic explosion. The Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence has captured the chaotic energy of this show in a production that is uplifting, thought-provoking, and totally enjoyable.
Photo Flash: Young Jean Lee's CHURCH At The Wilbury Group
by Stephi Wild - Dec 11, 2017
In CHURCH, 'the best playwright of her generation' (The New York Times) Young Jean Lee transforms her life-long struggle with Christianity into an exuberant church service. This church of celebration is designed to test the expectations of religious and non-religious alike. Never content with simple parody, Lee aims to give herself and her audiences a true religious experience.
Wilbury Group Announces the 2017 Fringe Schedule
by BWW News Desk - Jul 13, 2017
More than 300 artists from around the country perform in more than 100 shows at the WaterFire Arts Center, The Steel Yard, AS220, and RISD's Point Street Pop-Up.
BWW Review: 10,000 THINGS Doesn't Add Up to Much at Wilbury Group
by Robert Barossi - Oct 24, 2016
There is certainly something worthwhile about theater that pushes boundaries, tries new things, experiments and offers unique way to tell a story. The art form, in general, benefit from that kind of work. It benefits from work that expands the minds of an audience and tells them a story in a way that challenges them. On the other hand, Wilbury Group's second show of the year, 10,000 Things by Erik Ehn, proves how this kind of theater can instead leave an audience bored, confused or both.