On Wednesday, January 16 The Wilbury Theatre Group announced on social media that in response to the ongoing shutdown of the federal government, the company would be offering FREE ADMISSION to government employees for all performances until the shutdown ends, effective immediately.
The Wilbury Theatre Group kicks off the New Year with the New England premiere of Philip Dawkins' The Burn, presented in conversation with More Weight: A Derivative New Work inspired by Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' by director Logan Serabian. Performances for The Burn and More Weight are scheduled for January 10 - February 3, 2019.
The Wilbury Theatre Group kicks off the New Year with the New England premiere of Philip Dawkins' The Burn, presented in conversation with More Weight: A Derivative New Work inspired by Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' by director Logan Serabian. Performances for The Burn and More Weight are scheduled for January 10 - February 3, 2019.
The Wilbury Theatre Group continues its record-breaking 2018/19 season with the Rhode Island premiere of the avant-americana musical by Cesar Alvarez and The Lisps, Futurity, December 6-23, 2018.
In a ceremony at the Viacom Center in New York, Providence's Wilbury Theatre Group accepted the prestigious 2018 National Theatre Company Award. Wilbury Founder and Artistic Director Josh Short accepted the award from Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, Chairman of the Board of The American Theatre Wing, best known as the creator of the Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards.
In a ceremony at the Viacom Center in New York, NY, Providence's The Wilbury Theatre Group accepted the prestigious 2018 National Theatre Company Award. Wilbury Founder and Artistic Director Josh Short accepted the award from Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, Chairman of the Board of The American Theatre Wing, best known as the creator of the Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards.
The American Theatre Wing recently held its gala honoring the recipients of the 2018 National Theatre Company Grants. Check out the photos below!
The Wilbury Theatre Group continues its 2018/19 season with Idris Goodwin's acclaimed new play Hype Man: a break-beat play, November 1-18, 2018.
The Wilbury Theatre Group is pleased to announce that the American Theatre Wing, best known as the creator of the Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards, has recognized the Company among the winners of a prestigious 2018 National Theatre Company Grant.
The Wilbury Theatre Group continues its 2018/19 season with Idris Goodwin's acclaimed new play Hype Man: a break-beat play, November 1-18, 2018.
The Wilbury Theatre Group's new works development program Studio W presents the world premiere of The Pleiades, by Darcie Dennigan. Presented in a limited run October 10-13, The Pleiades is the tragic, and often hilarious, story of six sisters trying to re-connect after death. Directed by Meredith Healy and Josh Short with music direction by Jason Quinn, Dennigan's writing takes audiences on a fantastical journey from a ramshackle house on the edge of a lake, through Death School, into the afterlife, and beyond.
The Wilbury Theatre Group opens its 2018/19 season with Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece How I Learned to Drive, September 13-30, 2018.
The Wilbury Theatre Group proudly announces the 5th annual Providence Fringe Festival, FRINGEPVD 2018 - to be held July 30 to August 4, 2018. The premiere Fringe Festival in New England, FRINGEPVD has grown rapidly since its inaugural year in 2014.
Due to overwhelming demand, The Wilbury Theatre Group announces additional performances of THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE OR, THE SLAVE OF DUTY; now running through Sunday, June 17. Running to popular acclaim and sold-out houses since previews, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE OR, THE SLAVE OF DUTY is the wild adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan masterpiece by Sean Graney and Kevin O'Donnell from Chicago's famed Hypocrites Theatre.
This subversive, loopy, and fantastically eccentric take-think banjos, beach balls, and guitars-on Gilbert and Sullivan's preposterous musical took audiences in Chicago by storm when presented by rebel theatre-makers The Hipocrites. Frederic was mistakenly apprenticed as a young boy to a band of sentimental pirates. Now 21, he falls head-over-heels for the Major-General's daughter and forswears the buccaneer's life forever, or so he thinks. This buoyant, award-winning Pirates of Penzance by Sean Graney and Kevin O'Donnell and featuring just 12 actors (who also serve as the orchestra) is an irrevent and fresh homage to a world turned upside-down for Gilbert and Sullivan diehard fans and newcomers alike.
The Wilbury Theatre Group closes it's 2017/18 season with a wicked and rambunctious new adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic masterpiece, The Pirates of Penzance (Or, The Slave of Duty) May 17-June 3, 2018.
The Wilbury Theatre Group's Artistic Director Josh Short has announced the Group's 2018/19 Main Series Season. The exciting 6 play season includes plans for revivals of classic plays from the American canon alongside experimental new works by the brightest theatre artists working today, including Paul Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive, Idris Goodwin's hip-hop inspired drama Hype Man: a break beat play, Cesar Alvarez and The Lisps' 2016 avant-Americana musical Futurity, a minimalist interpretation of Arthur Miller's American classic The Crucible, Nick Payne's Constellations, and the 2015 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori's Fun Home, based on the graphic novel by Allison Bechdel.
The Wilbury Theatre Group presents Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Flick Presented in a site-specific production at the Cable Car Cinema, March 8-25, 2018 PROVIDENCE, RI (February 6, 2018) - The Wilbury Theatre Group proudly announces the Rhode Island premiere of Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Flick, directed by Wendy Overly and presented in a site-specific production at the Cable Car Cinema March 8-25.
The Wilbury Theatre Group launches into 2018 with a bold new staging of Thornton Wilder's tragicomic masterpiece The Skin of Our Teeth directed by Wilbury Founder/Artistic Director Josh Short with music direction by Matt Requintina (Spring Awakening), January 18 through February 4 at their new home and performance space at 40 Sonoma Court, Olneyville.
The Wilbury Theatre Group proudly announces themselves as the recipients of a competitive Cultural Facilities Grant in the amount of $75,000. Administered by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, the grant will be used for upgrades to the Wilbury Group's new performance space at 40 Sonoma Court, Providence, including the implementation of improved HVAC, safety, accessibility, and acoustic upgrades.
