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.
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.
Ten Chimneys has announced Marsha Mason as the 2025 Master Teacher for the nationally acclaimed Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program at Historic National Landmark, Ten Chimneys.
'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.
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 Repertory Company presents its 47th annual production of A Christmas Carol, adapted from the novella by Charles Dickens, with original music by Richard Cumming.
Trinity Repertory Company opens its 60th Anniversary Season with two plays performed in rotating repertory, both dark dramedies with thematic ties to gender, power, and Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
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.
The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.
The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.
The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.
Trinity Repertory Company returns to live performances with its 46th annual holiday production of A Christmas Carol. Noted for being a new production each year, the 2022 production will be directed by Aileen Wen McGroddy, a recent graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Program in Directing, and features longtime company member Phyllis Kay as Ebenezer Scrooge.
The Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Programs in Acting and Directing present Four in Rep, four plays featuring Brown/Trinity Rep MFA students. From March 3 – 10, Constellations by Nick Payne, directed by Carol Ann Tan, and Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by JaMario Stills, will play in rep.
Trinity Rep continues its 2019-20 Season with Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Sweat by Lynn Nottage. This Broadway hit is the story of the unintended consequences of community without opportunity. It is set during the Great Recession and in the years leading up to it in Reading, Pennsylvania, while friends try to stay afloat as their industrial jobs begin to disappear. This relevant and timely topic shines a light on American workers that are often forgotten.
There's just one final week to submit votes for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Vote today to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!
We're heading into the final week of voting for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Vote today to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!
There's just two weeks left to vote for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! The people have spoken nominations are set, and now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!