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?”
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.
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.
Wilbury Theatre Group has announced the cast and creative team of the Rhode Island premiere of The Comeuppance by Pulitzer Prize Award Winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Don Mays.
Wilbury Theatre Group has revealed the cast and creative team for the Rhode Island premiere of NOISE, a new musical by César Alvarez, directed by Dante Green. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Wilbury Theatre Group has revealed the cast for upcoming production of Tony Award-winning musical Once. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.
Wilbury Theatre Group presents the professional Rhode Island premiere of 'Hir' by Taylor Mac, directed by Brien Lang.
Wilbury Theatre Group will present the Rhode Island premiere of We're Gonna Die by Young Jean Lee and directed by Marcel A. Mascaro from January 19 - February 12, 2023.
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 presents the Rhode Island premiere of Tony-Award winner for Best Play (2016) The Humans by Stephen Karam, directed by Josh Short.
In continuation of their ongoing efforts to make live theatre accessible to everyone, Wilbury Theatre Group has officially launched a Pay-What-You-Can structure for all performances. Audience members now can set their own ticket price.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Wilbury Theatre Group's new works development program Studio W announces the limited run of a new play by Resident Playwright Darcie Dennigan, RESCUE! Or, The Fish, with performances scheduled for October 30-November 3 at The Wilbury Theatre Group performance space.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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